Profile for mirfak
Member since March 26, 2006
US
1971
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master – that's all.'"
"The more self-satisfied virtuous delight you take in extending membership to everybody, the more emotionally necessary it becomes to identify some outsiders somewhere."
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance: contempt prior to investigation." Spencer
"If actions taken with respect to meeting a stated goal seem disproportionate and nonsensical, consider that they may be essential and coherent with respect to meeting one unstated." Wells
"Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train. Imaginal hygiene is defending the imagination, and cultivating it." Xen
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master – that's all.'"
"The more self-satisfied virtuous delight you take in extending membership to everybody, the more emotionally necessary it becomes to identify some outsiders somewhere."
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance: contempt prior to investigation." Spencer
"If actions taken with respect to meeting a stated goal seem disproportionate and nonsensical, consider that they may be essential and coherent with respect to meeting one unstated." Wells
"Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train. Imaginal hygiene is defending the imagination, and cultivating it." Xen