“I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.’ ‘Goodness,’ I babbled, ‘but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you’re not going to feel any better all day.” FeelsMeanMorningKnowingImagineDrinkGoodnessDrinkingAlcoholSensesAwfulBlunt Book:Don't Point that Thing at Me Source: Don't Point that Thing at Me
“There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.” MeanLittlesPleasureWorryTastePureDestructionDrinkingSensualityPermanentSeductiveSerpentGamingStratagem Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.” PeopleThinkingMeanPersonsWarHelpingMightWaterPerspectiveCleanDrinkingSomedayFrustratedEditsDrinking WaterClean Drinking Water Author:Jimmy Wales