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 July 03,2022 @ 08:57 : permalink

"Were I not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes" -- Alexander the Great

"Were I not Diogenes, I should wish to be Diogenes" -- Diogenes' reply to Alexander

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 June 21,2022 @ 19:45 : permalink

"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down." -- Paul Erdos

&math &senility
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 May 10,2022 @ 07:37 : permalink

"If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill

&adversity
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 April 02,2022 @ 16:05 : permalink

I had a job interview scheduled yesterday and the manager/interviewer wasn't there. A sign on their door said they were closing early at 7:00pm due to staff shortages.

&jobs &work
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 December 10,2021 @ 01:53 : permalink

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -- Mark Twain

edit: Actual quote is "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born–a hundred million years–and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together." Found here
&death
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 December 07,2021 @ 06:14 : permalink

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

Charles Bukowski, Factotum

&antiwork
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 December 03,2021 @ 00:00 : permalink

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."

Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king."

&minimalism
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 November 21,2021 @ 09:35 : permalink

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." -- Marcus Aurelius

&stoicism