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The Flower Girl:
You?
The Tramp:
(He nods in assent and smiles shyly,
and then points to his eyes)
You can see now?
The Flower Girl:
(She nods and her smile widens)
Yes, I can see now.
We have developed speed
but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance
has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
more than machinery
we need humanity;
more than cleverness
we need kindness and gentleness.
Morar em Nova Iorque é bom,
mas é uma merda.
Morar no Rio é uma merda,
mas é bom.
Tom Jobim
Eles tinham a Bíblia e nós tínhamos a terra.
E eles nos disseram: fechem os olhos e rezem.
E quando abrimos os olhos,
eles tinham a terra e nós tínhamos a Bíblia.
Eduardo Galeano
Convictions are more dangerous
enemies of truth than lies.
F.Nieztsche
Not the intensity but the duration
of high feelings makes high men.
F.Nieztsche
Plato saw Diogenes the Cynic washing lettuces,
came up to him and quietly said:
- Had you paid court to Dionysius, you wouldn’t now be washing lettuces.
With equal calmness Diogenes answered:
- If you had washed lettuces, you wouldn’t have paid court to Dionysius.
Diogenes Laertius, around 300BC
Choose not to be harmed
and you won’t feel harmed.
Don’t feel harmed
and you haven’t been.
Marcus Aurelius
It is a ridiculous thing
for a man not to fly from his own badness,
which is indeed possible,
but to fly from other men's badness,
which is impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
It is within our power
not to make a judgement about something,
and so not disturb our minds;
for nothing in itself possesses the power
to form our judgements.
Marcus Aurelius
No one loses any other life
than the one he now lives,
nor does one live any other life
than that which he will lose.
Marcus Aurelius
We are more often frightened than hurt;
and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
It is not the accident that distresses this man
- because it does not distress another man -
but the judgement he makes about it.
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.
It is won by disregarding things
that lie beyond our control.
Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortune
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself
shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man
adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends
on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Ao que não sabe, qualquer um engana.
Ao que não tem, qualquer um compra.
Simón Rodríguez, 1826
They first came for the communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me.
And by that time no one was left to speak up.
Martin Niemoeller
Arguing that
you don't care about the right to privacy
because you have nothing to hide
is no different than saying
you don't care about free speech
because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden
All of us have heard this term 'preventive war'
since the earliest days of Hitler.
I don't believe there is such a thing;
and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously
that came in and talked about such a thing.
Dwight Eisenhower, 1953
We bomb your country,
creating a humanitarian nightmare,
then lock you inside.
That's a horror movie,
not a foreign policy.
Sen. Chris Murphy, 2017
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
It is not the false what limits the true,
but the insignificant.
René Thom
Take care, theologians, that in wishing to make matters of faith of the
propositions attendant on the motion and stillness of the Sun and the Earth, in
time you probably risk the danger of condemning for heresy those who assert the
Earth stands firm and the Sun moves; in time, I say, when sensately or
necessarily it will be demonstrated that the Earth moves and the Sun stands
still.
Galileo Galilei
Cuanto más inútiles son los profesores,
tanto más elevados son sus salarios.
Galileo Galilei
To call on them to give up
their illusions about their condition
is to call on them to give up
a condition that requires illusions.
Karl Marx
Those are my principles,
and if you don't like them...
well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
Of course, there are many mathematicians
who are more or less honest.
But almost all of them are conformists.
They are more or less honest,
but they tolerate those who are not honest.
Gregory Perelman
After a few years under the spotlights,
renowned and famous artists and scientists
should be compelled to change their names
to see whether they are still any good.