OMG! What’s happening to time? It must be speeding up as we’re almost a quarter of the way through this year! But that means it’s time for our monthly collection of recently encountered, interesting and/or amusing quotes.

Treat yourself the way you would treat a small child. Feed yourself healthy food. Make sure you spend time outside. Put yourself to bed early. Let yourself take naps. Don’t say mean things to yourself. Don’t put yourself in danger.
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Being good enough doesn’t just apply to our individual lives. It also can inform how we think about our institutions … Good-enough workplaces would give employees a decent wage, relatively interesting work and opportunities to develop. But they wouldn’t make outlandish promises about being everything for staff, nor would they make outlandish demands on them … Good-enough healthcare would provide the support we need when we are ill, but it doesn’t constantly intrude into people’s life to ensure they are well.
[André Spicer; Guardian; 28/02/2019; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/28/excellent-overrated-good-enough-modern-quest-damaging]

Don’t let them tell you you’re annoying, unlikeable, difficult, problematic, or stepping out of your place. They’re just afraid of you. You scare them because they are weak. Because they are afraid of your truth.
[Jameela Jamil]

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism.
[Robert AF Thurman]

My timeline is currently populated by people who believe that God is Flat, that Darwin supported brexit and that Jesus is not a greenhouse gas. Or something like that.
[Brian Cox on Twitter]

Science has always worked to convert invisible information into the range we can perceive. This is what microscopes and telescopes do: changing the very small or very distant into a form we can digest with our eyes.
[David Eagleman; neuroscientist; Stanford University; quoted at https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/nanotech-injections-give-mice-infrared-vision/583768/]

We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation – to make a point – than to further the cause of truth.
[Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget]

In life, there’s always a solution to a problem. Not taking control of the situation and doing nothing will only make your problems worse.
[Professor Cary Cooper; University of Lancaster]

It will be exceedingly hard, but that is significantly better than impossible.
[Troels Schönfeldt at https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/nuclear-goes-retro-much-greener-outlook]

The whole Brexit process was bound to be difficult despite the claims of Brexiteers that all would be easy and that beneficial trade deals would rain down. It is hard to think of any modern parallel for such avoidable chaos … We are witnessing a golden age of political blundering and it is far from clear what will emerge over the remaining 24 days.
[Law & Lawyers Weblog; 05/03/2019; http://obiterj.blogspot.com/2019/03/24-days-to-brexit-brief-roundup.html]

They’ve shown precisely no ability to manage this process in an adult way. They’ve shown no understanding of the systems they’re discussing. They’ve shown no ability to consider the interests of the country over their own spaffed-out ideological wet dreams.
[Ian Dunt on Twitter about the government and Brexit]

Even when forced to accept that calling for a People’s Vote must be adopted as Labour Party policy, as it was after last night’s vote against adopting Labour’s plan for Brexit, Corbyn does so with congenital truculence. As the BBC’s John Pienaar put it, adopting the policy with all the enthusiasm of a schoolboy staring at a large plate of Brussels sprouts.
[Peter Walmsley on Facebook; 28/02/2019]

From Questions to the Attorney General (Geoffrey Cox QC MP), House of Commons, 7 March 2019:
Helen Goodman MP: … is it still Government policy to seek a reopening of the withdrawal agreement?
Geoffrey Cox: It is Government policy to achieve the necessary change in the backstop that will cause me to review and change my advice. That is Government policy; that is the subject of the discussions that we are having. I would say that it has come to be called “Cox’s codpiece”. What I am concerned to ensure is that what is inside the codpiece is in full working order.
Mr Speaker: Well! I hope everybody heard that. In the interests of the accessibility of our proceedings – in case anybody did not hear it – the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred to Cox’s codpiece. I have repeated it so that the alliterative quality is clear to all observers.
[Hansard; https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-03-07/debates/4ACABC6F-EE41-4F99-90DA-2BA5235AF58A/EUWithdrawalAgreementNorthernIreland]