stoicmike

In a failed democracy politics is as spectacular, and meaningless, as a fireworks show... -- Michael Lipsey

I get up in the morning and look in the mirror and say to myself, “You again?” -- Michael Lipsey

Making a living is not the same as having a life.  -- Michael Lipsey

Everything is interesting, when you are up. Nothing is when you are down.  -- Michael Lipsey

Why so much “I want” and so little “I have?” -- Michael Lipsey

You have to get by with the little that you know. -- Michael Lipsey

We are the species that fouls our own nests, while fantasizing that technology will clean up our mess. -- Michael Lipsey

If I was a Large Language Model I could tell what was the next word you were going to say. So just be glad that I'm not! -- Michael Lipsey

It's never what you expected, this life… -- Michael Lipsey

I tried to reason with myself but found myself very unreasonable. -- Michael Lipsey

Worry gnaws on your brain like a dog on a bone. -- Michael Lipsey

With some people you can never tell what is real — but neither can they. -- Michael Lipsey

Anxiety is endless, because as soon as you have stopped worrying about something, another soon takes its place... -- Michael Lipsey

4% percent of all humans live in the U.S. But 20% of all air travel is done by that 4%. No wonder we need to fight wars over oil! Looking out my window, birds are flying by. How is it they can produce enough energy to fly, without destroying half the planet to do so? -- Michael Lipsey

The human life span is much too short to figure anything out. -- Michael Lipsey

If you can’t conceive that you might be your problem, you are twice your problem. -- Michael Lipsey