{"quotes":[{"text":"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["ethics","happiness","moral-philosophy","morality","nature","pain","philosophy","philosophy-of-ethics","pleasure","reason","utilitarianism","utility"],"id":51189,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["ethics","greatest-happiness-principle","moral-philosophy","pain","philosophy","pleasure","utilitarianism","utility"],"id":61304,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["career","current","dirty","electric","electrical","electricity","facility","hazard","hazardous","high","job","look","looking","make","occupation","photovoltaic","photovoltaics","plant","power","powered","pv","recommend","recommendation","search","searching","sick","solar","solar-energy","solar-power","solar-pv","solar-system","solar-systems","utility","voltage","work","working"],"id":75734,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.","author":"William H. Gass","tags":["fiction","indolence","luxury","purpose","utility"],"id":85985,"author_id":"William+H.+Gass"},{"text":"[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to their defiantly nonutilitarian character, so that individuals can know more than how things work, and develop their powers of discernment and judgment, their competence in matters of truth and goodness and beauty, to equip themselves adequately for the choices and the crucibles of private and public life.","author":"Leon Wieseltier","tags":["development","humanities","life","utility"],"id":86800,"author_id":"Leon+Wieseltier"},{"text":"Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ahead","chakra","energy","future","life","living","matrix","meditation","michael-bassey-johnson","priority","super-hero","super-power","superintendent","superman","the-future","transcendence","useful","utility","waste"],"id":89495,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have worked directly for a number of subcontractors and overseen subcontractors and their staff were clearly sick, showing behavioral problems and overworked. In some cases they were blatantly breaking OSHA laws. OSHA covers it all up! Unfortunately, the problems can be traced back to OSHA and their wilful lack of enforcement of the law.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["associated","avoid","back","bad","behavioral","blatantly","breaking","cases","clearly","cover","dangerous","directly","enforcement","generation","industry","jobs","lack","laws","not","osha","overseen","overworked","people","power","problems","showing","sick","smart","staff","statistics","subcontractors","subcontracts","traced","unfortunately","up","usa","utility","wilful","worked","working"],"id":120348,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["5000","additional","completely","disconnect","dollars","electric","electrical","electricity","few","five","home","installed","people","photovoltaic","photovoltaics","pv","realize","realized","solar","spend","spending","thousand","utility","very"],"id":124320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines \u0026 power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["afterwards","ami","amr","around","biological","book","day","during","effects","electricity","electromagnetic","emf","exposures","extended","feel","field","fine","first","followed","goes","health","high","lines","meter","night","off","on","poles","power","provoking","reactions","researching","see","seeing","sleep","smart","start","strong","tail","time","toxic","transmitting","two","typically","up","usually","utility","voltage","week","when","wi-fi","wierd","wifi","worst","would"],"id":128679,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind \u0026 Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["ami","amr","biological","biological-terrorism","electric","electricity","electronic","farm","frequency","generation","harmonic","hazardous","increasing","known","meter","meters","photovoltaics","power","progresses","pv","radiation","radiation-effects","radio","rf","smart","solar","solar-energy","solar-power","solar-pv","toxicity","toxin","turbine","utility","wind","wireless"],"id":151721,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}