After-Orts #80
While cruelty is in power, do what Mozart did. Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things. Wolfgang stayed clear of emperors and did his work and he lives on today and the emperors are just moldy names on marble slabs covered with pigeon droppings. If you can’t write The Marriage of Figaro, write your own marriage and make it a work of art.
— Garrison Keillor:
https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/she-and-i-and-you-and-us-all-watching
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Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
-- George Carlin (1937-2008)
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more news from all over:
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Wind Turbine Blades Could Be Recycled Into Gummy Bears Someday
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