As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.


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The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of s...
PETER J. CARROLL
(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, disciplin...
PETER J. CARROLL
There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ...
PETER J. CARROLL
Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL
And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, whe...
PETER J. TANOUS
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE
As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE
When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE
Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE
These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE
He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE
Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON
Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE
'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE
I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE
When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE
Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE