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"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of my mind"
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The Tempest"While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyd Conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber, and beware. Awake, awake!"
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a storm, the rest of the play is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a magician, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spir
"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of my mind"
"What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
"My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My fathers loss, the weakness which I feel, The wreck of all my friends, nor this mans threats, To whom I am subdud, are but light to me, Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid. All corners else o th earth Let liberty make use of; space enough Have I in such a prison."
"Trinculo: Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool — Stephano: There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss."
"A pox o your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"
"Ferdinand: Wherefore weep you? Miranda: At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."