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"We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?"

~ John Stott

"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."

~ Marcus Aurelius

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

~ Ella Fitzgerald

"The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade."

~ Anthony Trollope

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

~ James Anthony Froude

So I had second thoughts about posting this, because it ties back to stuff under another username. But, as they say, fuck it we ball.

Believe it or not, I wrote this several months ago, the first reference is this tweet from August. But current events *did* inspire me to go forward with posting it, since there are not enough sexytimes for it to end up with the rest of its brethren and sistren. Mostly sistren, come to think of it. That doesn't mean the people are real, though. And for the record, *this* Paige has had her name for nigh on 13 years.

Nobody is panicking about the pandemic because this is set in 2018 or 2019.

( So someone on Twitter called Paige Dawson a whore. )

"Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind."

~ Immanuel Kant

"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."

~ Charlotte Bronte

"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration."

~ Bram Stoker (Dracula)

"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."

~ Lord Byron

"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."

~ Richard Harding Davis

"Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery."

~ William Gilmore Simms

"The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant."

~ Charlie Chaplin

"Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else."

~ Leonardo da Vinci

"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."

~ B. R. Ambedkar