"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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No need for witnesses
“Eilidh Cairns was death number 2009/2, in the eyes of Police and Transport Authorities, an inevitable accident that happens to people who walk or cycle.
Tha National Audit Office has laid bare what we have been saying for years: British authorities are the most callous and devious in Europe: they emphasise the low overall death rate on the roads and disregard the scandalous butchery of vulnerable road users: the ratio of pedestrian deaths/total road deaths is the highest in the continent.
Kate, Eilidh’s sister is calling for witnesses of the crash, ‘For me, I need to know why. I need to know the chain of events that occurred that today leaves me with a big gaping and aching hole.’
We wholly sympathise with Kate’s feelings. However from a policy point of view, we don’t need witnesses. The system needs to change: if you kill someone while in charge of a vehicle, you are automatically sent to jail and you will never be able to drive again, unless you can prove that the victim was commiting suicide. For crashes of lesser impact, the penalty would be commeasurably smaller.
Whenever such a change is proposed in this country, the Daily Mail and other Middle England idiots, rage that it is unfair.
Let me spell out the logic:
Under the present system, the cost of an error by a pedestrian or a cyclist is death. The cost of an error by a driver is a small fine.
Under the proposed system, the cost of an error by a pedestrian or a cyclist is still death, so there will be no behavioural change: people will still walk and cycle with care. The cost to the driver however is much higher, no matter the cause: this will produce behavioural changes: drivers will look and stop before turning left, will not drive so close to cyclists and will slow down. This will greatly diminish the number of crashes caused by drivers, which constitutes the large majority of crashes which involve vulnerable road users. A few people will lose their licence because of someone else’s error, a lot more people will not lose their life because of someone else’s error.
What is unfair about that?
Top picture: Cycle Chic Racing Style, originally uploaded by Mikael Colville.”
(Via velorution No need for witnesses: .)
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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