Hidden bonus

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

        Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground

 

 

 

 

 

Digging for common ground

There’s common ground in most conflict,
though it may take a little digging to unearth it beneath all the bullshit.

    Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

 

 

 

 

In order

First delight, then instruct.

    Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Gustav Friedrich Waagen
    On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Convenient belief

It is convenient that there be gods,
and, as it is convenient,
let us believe that there are.

        Ovid, Ars Amatoria

 

 

 

Poem: Dislocation

I envy those who envy me for traveling.
Sometimes I sit on a foreign street in a busy cafe,
imagining you wishing you were here,
feeling for the first time the thrilling flush
of wanting to be elsewhere,
the frisson of happiness that wishes bring.
And so I sit quietly knowing that now
it’s time to figure out just what it is
I meant to do here.

        Simon Constam

 

 

 

 

Get your story straight

A story that supports the status quo
is generally considered to be neutral
and is not questioned in terms of its objectivity
while one that challenges the status quo
tends to be perceived as having a ‘point of view’ and therefore biased.

    Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism

 

 

 

Different things

What people say,
what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead, Teaching Music Through Performance In Band (attributed)