#han

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. ↗

#clock #contingency #determinism #having #machine

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#civilization #female #grass #had #hands

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#album #am #artist #be true #change

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#decision #important #important decision #life #marry

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change #choose #every #everything #find

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#give #give me #intellectualism #me #mechanism

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. ↗