Rruge Quotes & Sayings

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. — Karen Russell

Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise. — William Shakespeare

Let us ask ... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc ... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects. — Michel Foucault

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction. — Terry Winograd

Punishment symptoms Many of the other types of programming produce psychiatric symptoms, usually administered as punishments by insiders who are trained to administer them, if the survivor has breached security or disobeyed the abusers' instructions in other ways. These symptoms serve a variety of purposes, such as disrupting therapy, getting the survivor into hospital, or getting the survivor to return to the perpetrators to have the programming reinforced.
p126 — Alison Miller

Death was no less a miracle than birth. — Stephen King

There is a phrase used commonly in medicine: "true, true, and unrelated." It is meant to remind physicians not to confuse coincidence with cause. That kind of skepticism, while a fundamental tenet of scientific research, is less easily understood by laymen. — Michael Specter

Regret-free living isn't found by continuing to do flawed things, then simply "working through" the regret they cause and moving on. — Stephen Arterburn