Blue Heron Blast: Ry Cooder

Quotes

The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Achille Mbembe - Necropolitics - 2003

The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Donald Trump

Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought. Theodore Sturgeon

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Neal Stephenson

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham Maslow

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. Robert A. Heinlein

Blue Heron Blast

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Friday, January 19, 2018

Ry Cooder

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