✨ Quote of the Day ✨

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seem like discrimination.”- Thomas Sowell

"[W]ishing rather to persuade by the force of my arguments, than dazzle by the elegance of my language ... I shall try to avoid that flowery diction which has slided from essays into novels, and from novels into familiar letters and conversation.

"These pretty nothings, these caricatures of the real beauty of sensibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste, and create a kind of sickly delicacy that turns away from simple unadorned truth."

—Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

"We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

—former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
-Laurence Elliott

"I think all Beauty Contests are fixed... otherwise why is Miss Universe always won by someone from Earth?
-Gerald Hone

"Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. Its just a matter of paying attention to this miracle"
Paulo Coelho

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
-H.L. Mencken

“Even if it takes years to create your own wave, that’s still better than riding someone elses” -unknown

Big mood today

I'll get back to messages soon I promise. Ugh