#cop

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winnable, or winnable at a price we're willing to pay. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#war #art

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. ↗

— Brad Leithauser

#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. ↗

— Alain Robert

#doing #feeling #great #great feeling #know

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain #brain cells #cells #enables #end

Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing big an illusion.  So when the moment comes, and everything you depend upon changes, or perhaps someone you love disappears, or no longer loves you, must disaster follow? Or will you-somehow-adapt? ↗

— Margaret Overton

#divorce #insight #peace #change

If we are to be the people who embody in this world and give people the message that God loves them, well, how do you do that apart from helping them? ↗

— The Rt. Rev. Bishop Scott Hiyashi

#episcopal-church #episcopalians #love

When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. ↗

— Reed Farrel Coleman

#lawyers #love

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another. ↗

— Don Polson

#helping #life #living #loving #love

Do you like being a cop?" "I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir. ↗

— Edward Conlon

#police #the-job #love