Mackenzie's Site (https://www.tobymackenzie.com/quotes.txt) Quotes ========== Some quotes that I like or find interesting: > To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone > I absolutely believe that people are more good on balance than bad. All the wars and all of the cruelty and all of the violence. I'm not looking away from any of that, and I still think there's something beautiful about being what we are. History is soaked in blood. The future probably will be too. But for every atrocity, there's a thousand small kindnesses that no one noticed. A hundred people who spent their lives loving and caring for each other. A few moments of real grace. Maybe it's only a little more good than bad in us, but… - Jame's Holden, *Leviathan Falls* James Corey > If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of god's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell. - Marin Luther King, Jr. > Maybe there is a beast.… What I mean is…maybe it's only us." - Simon, *The Lord of the Flies* > Humans can be better than they are, so let's do that - *Caliban's War* James Corey Personal Sovereignty ✊🏻 > Be excellent to each other - Abraham Lincoln & Ted "Theodore" Logan, *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure* > Love thy neighbor > All are thy neighbors > Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. - [Romans 12:17](https://biblehub.com/romans/12-17.htm) > A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger. - [Proverbs 15:1](https://biblehub.com/proverbs/15-1.htm) > Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer - [1 John 3:15](https://biblehub.com/kjv/1_john/3-15.htm) Слава Україні (Slava Ukraini) ✊🏻 🇺🇦 > It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life. - Captain Picard, Star Trek > Beltalowda ✊🏻 - The Expanse > Will the highways to the internet become more few? - George W. Bush > But now, at some point TDB, all of the problems will be in the past. - Michael Scott, The Office > In my career I've found few people are truly evil, most are just too far disconnected from the effects of their actions. Until someone reconnects them. - Marcus Hutchins [via Wired interview](https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/) > vague but exciting - Mike Sendell, on the proposal that became the Web > And if there is a way to find you I will find you But will you find me if Neil makes me a tree - Tori Amos > Take my love, take my land take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me - Firefly > Having something requires giving something else up. > I **will** make my stop. > Every debt comes due at some point. > If I can't be my own > I'd feel better dead > I'm here to tell you now each and every mother's son you'd better learn it fast you'd better learn it young 'cause someday never comes > The sleeper must awaken. - Dune (film) > Buck up little camper. We'll beat that slope… together. > I wanted to be so perfect, you see I wanted to be so perfect Like dying in the sun > If you a champion, show me you a champion > 'cause real champions move like champions > and real champions prove that they're champions - [the Roots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g7YD1AiQ8) > I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty proud of it. - Gilbert, [*Revenge of the Nerds*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/) > … artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up. - Evey, [*V for Vendetta*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/) > We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Howard W. Campbell Jr, *Mother Night* by Kurt Vonnegut > Too many motha 'uckas 'uckin' with my shi' There's too many motha 'uckas 'uckin' with my shi' ('uckin' with my shi') Too many motha 'uckas 'uckin' with my shi' (with my shi') How many motha 'uckas? Too many to count, motha 'ucka - Flight of the Conchords > I try to be right in whatever I say Deeper feelings recur again and again and again and again A complex spiral leads me to spin I want to live To see the earth turn one more time I want to live To feel a hand that isn't mine - Talking Heads