John Hilliard

I am a programmer, movie watcher, photographer, runner, but above all... a man... hopelessly inquisitive man. You can find me on: - Twitter - Facebook - GitHub

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln

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Donald Trump’s chilling scene in Stephen King’s IT (1986)

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Each political leader has the choice between making the assessment which requires the least effort or making an assessment which requires more effort. If he makes the assessment that requires least effort, then as time goes on it may turn out that he was wrong and then he will have to pay a heavy price. If he acts on the basis of a guess, he will never be able to prove that his effort was necessary, but he may save himself a great deal of grief later on. . . . If he acts early, he cannot know whether it was necessary. If he waits, he may be lucky or he may be unlucky.

Henry Kissinger

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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

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There weren't no way for them things to go but for how God made 'em to go, for everything God made, all His things, all His treasures, all the things heaven sent ain't meant to be enjoyed in this world.

The Good Lord Bird

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Probably for this reason, the property of being unobservant seems to be the characteristic feature of machines, to most people. EGB

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Indeed, venture is one of the most human businesses going. Only human beings could have created such a supercollider of contradictions: a font of innovation that pools around conformity; a freedom train that speeds toward monopoly; a promoter of transparency that shrouds its own dealings; a guild that’s dedicated to flattening hierarchies, and that rewards its leaders with imperial power.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man

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I look to see if someone has a marine strategy, for taking the beach; an army strategy, for taking the country; and a police strategy, for governing the country afterward.

Reid Hoffman

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That's how it starts. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel.

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A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

George Orwell

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We’re talking about the big game here so I’m gonna use big terms. You’re circling failure in a rapidly decaying orbit. That’s the reality we’re talking now. But you can change that. It’s in your power to change that. Yes, you’ll have to work hard, you’ll have to do things you haven’t done before – and still, your chances are very slim. But you could change it.

Louie

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And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living,--not sordid money-getting, not apples of gold.  The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.  And all this is gained only by human strife and longing; by ceaseless training and education

W.E.B. Du Bois

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I live for myself and I answer to nobody.

Steve McQueen

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I ain't one for lookin' back. Eyes ahead.

Freddie

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Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.

Aldous Huxley

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Aldous Huxley

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The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, the twilight of his own habitual stupor.

Aldous Huxley