The best way out is usually through the door, but not many people realize that ~ Confucius

so I am out the door once more for a few days . Then things this side of the US should
settle down for awhile

 

"There is no institution so pure and excellent, which the corruption and folly of man will not, in time, alter for the worse, and load with additions foreign to its nature and original design." - Johann Lorenz Mosheim

 

Isn't it what we could call "anthropy"...?

Mess as an inevitable side effect of human activities ?

That word doesn't exist, I just invented it whilst thinking about "entropy" :

5. Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.
4. a state of disorder, as in a social system, or a hypothetical tendency toward such a state.
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"The word that you hold back between your lips is your slave. The one that you pronounce is your master."

Arab proverb
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Kierkegaard

 

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

 

The race for perfection has no finish line.
Therefore, it's more like a death march.

 

Team work !

 

Utuna,

Nice illustration - way cool.


belongingtojah

 

Glad that you like it, my dear brother. At times, the deepest ideas are expressed through simple ways... A great man named Jesus Christ taught it a few years ago...

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"Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must."

Agora (film)

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The best way for a man to test whether he is ready to meet the wide diversity shared among mankind would be for him to make his way down a chimney into a house chosen at random, and later on try to get along the best possible with the people inside of the house. And that is essentially that which each and everyone of us does at birth.

 

"Between a simple lie and a truth complicated to demonstrate, the liar always has the upper hand."

Sylvestre Huet, reporter​

 

I like your quote very much. I must have missed it when you posted it. What it says is so true !

 

"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain

 

The corruption of the best engenders the worst

Medieval proverb
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"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
― Henry Ford

 

Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

 

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents." - John J Plomp

 

"Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program."
― Adam Gopnik

 

"Truth was a mirror in the hands of God
It fell, and broke into pieces
Everybody took a piece of it
And they looked at it and thought they had the truth."

Rumi, Persian poet
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