There is no reasonable, well, certainly at least no rational reason, why machines would build ginormous facilities to “extract electricity” from the corpses they manufacture. I mean, basic thermodynamics. –Exactly. You explain it well. And that’s why in the real world The Matrix isn’t ...
It is easier to swallow angry words than to have to eat them. Steel loses much of its value when it loses its temper. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. A fellow with a bad temp...
It is easier to swallow angry words than to have to eat them. Steel loses much of its value when it loses its temper. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. A fellow with a bad temper ...
"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer "We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "People don't get along be...
When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be without them, it becomes easier to see someone who's poor and sick and say ""that could be me."" This is empathy; it tears down barriers and opens up new frontiers for optimism."” — Melinda Gates, Text of th...
1. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” 2. “We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.” 3. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ...
It is easier to stay out than get out. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. ...
If we are to find true peace and happiness, it is absolutely essential that we achieve inner spiritual progress. In order to do so, we need to study the Buddhadharma, follow its advice and put it into action in our daily life. It is my belief that the basic principles of the world’...
When it is longer term and greater than that and aimed at complete liberation from the whole of cyclic existence it is called middle scope motivation. When your motivation is even greater than that and aimed at benefiting every single sentient being and if, in order to do that, you are ...
It’s easy to think that life is easier with friends, even if they don’t truly support you for who you are. After all, most believe being alone is the hardest thing in the world. However, this is not necessarily true—especially if all you have arefake friends. When you don’t hav...