The great irony of 'essential workers' is that they have typically been underpaid, under-recognized, and under-valued in our economy, even after being told they are essential

'You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain'
- The Dark Knight

'There was one thing more than any other that turned this . . . student away from modern liberalism: Its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil'
- Dennis Prager

... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: Bread and Circuses

In many ways, its a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But thats one of the things I like about Python.
- Tim Peters

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first drives mad

'To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.'
- Jordan Peterson

'Order is not enough. You can't just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much.'
- Jordan Peterson

scuttle: n
- a hole/hatch in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel

scuttle: v
- to deliberatly sink of ones own ship

...
But me, I'm still on the road
A-heading for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point, of view
Tangled up in blue

...
All I ask for when I pray
A steady rollin' woman won't come my way
Need a woman gonna hold my hand
Tell me no lies, make me a happy man
...

...
It's been a long time since the Book of Love
I can't count the tears of a life with no love
...

...
I hear the Horses Thunder
Down in the Valley Below
Im waiting for the Angels of Avalon
Waiting for the Eastern glow
...

...
There's a Feeling I get, when I look to the West
And my Spirit is Crying for Leaving
In my thoughts, I have seen, Rings of Smoke through the trees
And the Voices of those who stand looking
...

...
Craze, baby, the rainbow's end, mmm, baby, it's just a den
For those who hide, who hide their love to depths of life
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, babe
...

'...
So I've decided what I'm gonna do now
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
Where the spirits go now
Over the hills where the spirits fly
...'

'We the Platform, in Order to form a more tractable Union, delimit Justice, insure domestic Conformity, prevent all the common defence, rely on general Welfare, and hence, secure the Blessings of Eqity for ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the new Wide Woke West'

'O my love, my wife, Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty'
- Romeo and Juliet (Act 5, scene 3)

'Hornets attacking the Duke Energy Building for the Energy needed to survive and thrive'

'Hornets attacking the Wells Fargo Bank Building for the Capital needed to obtain a nest'

'A solitary being sits apart from the people, containing knowledge that they either dont have, or cannot comprehend, and we are privy to the expression, if not the actual thoughts of the man who knows its all bound to end, and no way to commicate that fact to the group.'

Fred Haise (LMP):Okay, Houston —
Jack Swigert (CMP): I believe we've had a problem here.
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): This is Houston. Say again, please.
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, we've had a problem.. We've had a MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT.
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. MAIN B UNDERVOLT. Okay, stand by, 13. We're looking at it.

'Lucas Moura with the Last Kick of the game! The Ajax players collapse to the ground! Tottenham Hotspur are heading to the Champions Leauge Final!! With a goal that we just couldnt believe!!' -

'A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.'
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

'There's nothing in this universe that can't be explained... Eventually.'
- House M.D.

'Insanity is just a state of mind.'
- Alan Alda

“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.”
- Richard Lamm

“The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man.”
- Harry Walter Tyler

“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”
- Albert Einstein