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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[โ€“] codenamekino@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow" - Horace

"Seize the day and throttle it." - Calvin and Hobbes

[โ€“] JoeClu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself

[โ€“] Kotking@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@zinklog "History loves repeat itself" With Covid , Wars and even daily life you see this so so many times. On big or little scales but this is a almost mantra to me " History is spiral it always comes back to point x" Sometimes it's scary because you know exactly what happened and what happening now can happen again...

[โ€“] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im not wild about this because to often I see folks use something like it to imply something we face now is no big deal due to a false analogy. Like covid with spanish flu. I.E. - I don't need to mask or vaccinate because we got through the spanish flu. Not taking into account its not as bad because of vaccines but without them it is actually a worse disease and that pictures clearly show folks used masks for the spanish flu. Its not just that but with climate change implying it just seems like the end like the cold war but they are completely different issues with different possibilities for solutions.

[โ€“] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see it the other way, as a warning and an opportunity to do better.

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