“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
—Isabella, in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
– William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men
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To be rich and independent is very nearly an impossibility if you include electricity, roads, air traffic control, the internet, healthcare, schools, manufactured products, etc., etc.
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This.
Most people who have never known anything but wealth do not realize this. If anything, they are more dependent, because they don’t know what to do when anything goes wrong and money doesn’t immediately solve the issue.
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Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. Hildegard Von Bingen
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I wouldn’t have seen it, if I didn’t believe it.
– Marshall McLuhan
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“I am glad I visited it, partly because it was well worth it, and chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.”
– Twain, on climbing to the rim of Vesuvius while on the Grand Tour, Innocents Abroad
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Even as a kid, Twain’s observations about travel (and travelers) really resonated with me. It made me prefer that book to his novels and other works. You’ve inspired me to read it again before my next trip!
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A mural at the Cass Ave entrance of the Detroit Public Library Main Branch
ETA
Location correction (band name?)
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It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
–George Carlin
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