Orts #859

Death is what happens to everyone else…. If I truly believed that being a corpse was not only a possible future but my only guaranteed future — I’d do all kinds of things differently.
     — Zadie Smith (1975-  )   quoted in a N.Y.Times essay,  http://nyti.ms/2zSfjoc


Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know.
     — Tao Te Ching, chapter 56


No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs; we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
     — P. J. O'Rourke (1947- )


By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
     — George Carlin (1937-2008)
 

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