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You got me wanting more when less is what I need.

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Quote of the Week 40 “ You got me wanting more when less is what I need. ” ―  Richard Macintyre, SIIGA , "The LCD" - Song Lyrics       Interpretation by ChatGPT:   SIIGA’s “The LCD,”  is  a song about   digital overstimulation and the strange emptiness it creates . At its core, it is about a person caught in a feedback loop: screen → stimulation → desire → more consumption → less satisfaction → more stimulation. The lyrics repeatedly juxtapose   wanting   and   needing . The speaker wants   more , but senses that what they actually need is   less . That makes the song less a straightforward anti-technology statement than a portrait of   addiction to excess —more content, more attention, more connection, more distraction. The   “LCD”   itself works nicely on two levels: LCD = Liquid Crystal Display   — the screen through which this world is experienced. LCD = Lowest Common Denominator   — potentiall...

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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2nd Quote of the Week 39 “ A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. ” ― Bob Dylan     h/t Jacka  

Doing is like wanting, but bolder.

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Quote of the Week 39 “ Doing is like wanting, but bolder. ” ― Alan Bipe (free translation of a German  Sponti saying )      

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

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Quote of the Week 38 “ If you want a new idea, read an old book. ” ― attributed to   Ivan Pavlov

There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection.

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Quote of the Week 37 “ There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection. ” ―  John Andrew Hull , Manchester Orchestra , “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )     Triggered by my switch back to Spotify from Apple Music — with all my old playlists intact. Related: Quote of the Week 3/2021 " You can go anywhere but you are where you came from. " ―  John Andrew Hull, Manchester Orchestra, “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )