Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca

"...he knew that despite his infidel ways, the remnants of tattered faith still had power over his mind." - William Kennedy

"You can't make a lousy charity good by having a low overhead." - Will MacAskill

"Not all confidence is created equally. Sometimes, it comes from a track of applying deep knowledge successfully, and other times it comes from the shallowness of reading an article. It's amazing how often the ego turns unearned knowledge into reckless confidence." - Shane Parrish

Quotes for Today

Here are some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

"You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger." - the Buddha

"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself." - Peter Thiel

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Jean-Paul Sarte

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Anger is temporary madness: The Stoics knew how to curb it. "...other vices affect our judgment, anger affects our sanity."

- Google wants the Supreme Court to ignore copyright law. I'm going to have to go back and read that first link again because companies and people that keep thinking and acting as if the law doesn't apply to them makes me angry. And I'm not alone in that.

- 12 Fucking Rules for Success

- I'm an awful person for laughing at this - a woman passes out after having 12 Heinekens (I hope she's OK)

- This is a pretty damning stat.

- Why LBJ's Great Society failed and what it means for the 2020 election.

Anger

"Anger is an acid that does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." - Mark Twain

So true!