Velcro = Velvet and Crochet

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.” (Eric Bently)

"The Almighty has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which having continued through His appointed time He now wills to remove and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said: 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" (Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1864)

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” (Irene Peter)

"If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong." (Naval Ravikant)

“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.” (Cicero)

“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” (John D. Rockefeller)

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled." (Robert Burton)

"The sleep of the laboring person is sweet..." (Ecclesiastes 5:12)

One million seconds is fewer than twelve days; one billion seconds is over 32 years.

“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

“Net—the biggest word in the language of business.” (Herbert Casson)

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." (Seneca)

"To live outside the law, you must be honest." (Bob Dylan, "Absolutely Sweet Marie")

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)

The best players look the worst in practice.