Majicman Notes

We need to keep paying attention to politics however much we would prefer to be doing something else. Vigilance is the price we pay for our freedom. Benjamin Constant Read more

Agatha Christie warned us that our quiet domesticity can be interrupted at any time, but she also held out hope that it might return, perhaps in the epilogue. By Jamie Fisher The New York Times… Read more

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera Read more

A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally important, what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit — to cut… Read more

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt Read more

May God bless you and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And… Read more

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky Read more

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer Read more

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough. Mario Andretti One of the most successful drivers in the history of motorsport. Read more

What is it about walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to thinking and writing? The answer begins with changes to our chemistry. When we go for a walk, the heart pumps faster, circulating… Read more