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***** "The nice thing about family is that you get to spend time with people who might not otherwise let you into their living rooms to play with their children." -Cary Tennis ***** "And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil." -Shakespeare, Richard III ***** "I will happily pay taxes for public education, for school-lunch programs and after-school programs, for Head Start and improved child healthcare, for vocational training and for special-needs programs. But whenever people insist that the content of books or movies meant for adults should be altered to 'protect children,' then all adults should rise up and say, 'You made the choice to have kids. Raising them is your business.' Adults have to start guarding the culture that is meant for us with the same protectiveness parents show toward their children." -Charles Taylor ***** "No wonder the Nazis' rejoicing verged on the ecstatic. Serenity vanished; all rational thinking, all inner restraint, were abandoned. In the end there remained nothing but black and white, good and evil; the whole world was divided into rascals and heroes, the past and the eternal, centuries of ignorance and a thousand years of salvation. Everything ran to superlatives." -Hans B. Gisevius, anti-Nazi resistance leader ***** "Many of the writers who worship at the shrine of the free market would be lost if any of them were ever forced to earn their living working for it." -Richard Mellon Scaife ***** "Tragically, in the industrialized world there is a terrible absence of understanding or concern about those who are enduring lives of despair and hopelessness. We have not yet made the commitment to share with others an appreciable part of our excessive wealth. This is a potentially rewarding burden that we should all be willing to assume." -Jimmy Carter ***** "The war against terrorism, if it is a war at all, is not World War II or the Cold War, and it is grasping at empty patriotism to claim that it is." -National security expert William M. Arkin ***** "[Shows like The O'Reilly Factor] are little more than a form of professional wrestling aimed at the parents of the kids who watch actual professional wrestling." -Charles P. Pierce ***** "instead of flying flags on your SUV's you should be buying energy efficient cars that would lessen our dependence on Middle East oil." -Bill Maher ***** "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'." -??? ***** "Debating her on her 'ideas' does about as much good as kicking a retarded puppy." -Salon.com writer Charles Taylor on Ann Coulter ***** "This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put." -Winston Churchill ***** "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies- in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." -Eisenhower ***** "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too." -Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference ***** "Today I think there is broad recognition that no business concerned with its brand name can afford to be indifferent to human rights and social issues." -Kenneth Roth ***** "One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it." -David Hilbert Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid." -Dave Barry ***** "To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the "scientific" establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail. Thus, the vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it." -Isaac Asimov ***** "Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." -??? ***** "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." -??? ***** "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this, ever in flesh and blood, walked upon this earth." -Albert Einstein on Gandhi ***** "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." -Albert Einstein ***** "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." -Albert Einstein ***** "In small proportions we just beauties see, and in short measures life may perfect be." -Ben Jonson ***** "A great flame follows a little spark." -Dante Alighieri ***** "The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people." -Christopher Morley ***** "All the arts and sciences have their roots in the struggle against death." -Saint Gregory of Nyssa ***** "Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were." -??? ***** "Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." -Albert Einstein ***** "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones." -Albert Einstein ***** "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -Albert Einstein ***** "The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this." -Ernesto "Che" Guevara Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man." -Ernesto "Che" Guevara ***** "In the pursuit of nonconformity, we become the ultimate conformist. Van Gogh was a true nonconformist." -John M. Shanahan ***** "To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize." -Blaise Pascal ***** "I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep." -Charles Maurice ***** "We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove." -Émile Auguste Chartier ***** "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton ***** "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." -Bertrand Russell ***** "Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines." -Edward Young ***** "Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads." -Benjamin Frankin ***** "Those not present are always wrong." -Phillipe Destouches ***** "Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room." -William Hazlitt ***** "Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go." -Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield ***** "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." -A. H. Weiler ***** "Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings." -Horace ***** "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." -Oscar Wilde ***** "On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation." -Dr. Samuel Johnson ***** "There is no need to show your ability before everyone." -Baltasar Gracian ***** "The greatest pleasure I have known is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." -Charles Lamb ***** "It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." -Howard Ruff ***** "Man, being responsible, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication." -George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron ***** "Say not that you know another entirely, until you have divided an inheritance with him." -Johann Kasper Lavater ***** "There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." -Oscar Wilde ***** "Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior." -Logan Pearsall Smith ***** "You cannot have power for good without having power for evil, too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "If you can't bite, don't show your teeth." -Yiddish proverb ***** "Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ***** "Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." -Dr. Samuel Johnson ***** "Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself." -Georg Groddeck ***** "All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They." -Rudyard Kipling ***** "I present myself in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you." -Luigi Pirandello ***** "The miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise." -Dante Alighieri Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?" -Robert Mallett ***** "Moderation is the last refuse for the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde ***** "A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say." -Michael Winner ***** "Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request." -Sir Arthur Helps ***** "Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen." -George Savile, Marquess de Halifax ***** "The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever." -Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues ***** "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." -Russell Baker ***** "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." -George S. Patton, Jr. ***** "He that lives upon hope will die fasting." -Benjamin Franklin ***** "The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -Robert Louis Stevenson ***** "If you don't have something nice to say about someone, you're probably not trying hard enough." -Bazooka Joe ***** "Two monologues do not make a dialogue." -Jeff Daly ***** "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." -George Burns ***** "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt ***** "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -Picasso ***** "What I fear the most about stress is not that it kills, but that it prevents one from savoring life." -Jean-Louis Seven-Schreiber Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot ***** "If you want to be happy, be." -Leo Tolstoy ***** "A bend in the road is not the end of the road...Unless you fail to make the turn." -??? ***** "Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself." -??? ***** "I wanna sleep beneath peaceful skies In my lover's bed With this wide open country in my heart And these romantic dreams in my head" -Bruce Springsteen ***** "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word." -William Makespeare Thackeray ***** "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." -Marlene Dietrich ***** "All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing." -Moliere ***** "Dance is the only art form where the artist is also the medium of expression." -??? ***** "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." -Jim Rohn ***** "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." -Edmund Burke ***** "The right wing's attempts to say that merely admitting that gay people exist is 'promoting' homosexuality...is like saying that putting left-handed desks in a classroom is 'promoting' lefthandedness." -Janis Maria C. C. Cortese ***** "Sometimes the depths of cyberspace get disturbed, strange creatures float up from the nameless voids of bit buckets and snatch the innocent surfers with their cruel tentacles." -Peter Vorobieff ***** "I reached the conclusion that the statue of Buddha was not demolished by anybody; it crumbled out of shame. Out of shame for the world's ignorance towards Afghanistan. It broke down knowing its greatness didn't do any good." -Mohsen Makhmalbaf ***** "Telopolies running the Internet would be almost exactly like foxes guarding the henhouse, except that foxes are smart and agile." -Bob Metcalfe ***** "Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable." -John F. Kennedy Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Microsoft makes junk. This junk runs the world and is responsible for billions of dollars in profits annually, but it is still junk." -David Edgar ***** "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke ***** "Everyone is subject to the laws of Darwinism whether or not they believe in them, agree with them, or accept them. There is no trial, no jury, no argument, and no appeal." -??? ***** "Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?" -Jean-Baptiste Say ***** "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -Adam Smith ***** "Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated." -Dinesh D'Souza ***** "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." -F. A. Hayek ***** "Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites." -Lao-Tzu ***** "Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?" -Walt Whitman ***** "He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us." -Samuel Butler ***** "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." -Homer ***** "Now I'm the last guy on earth who looks like this." -Howard Stern, on the death of Joey Ramone ***** "You can get credit for something or get it done, but not both." -Dr. Richard L. Garwin ***** "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." -Joseph Weizenbaum ***** "Illegitimis non carborundum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down)" -Gen. Joseph Stilwell ***** "Virtue herself is her own fairest reward." -Silius Italicus Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is." -Geoffrey Cottrell ***** "The real world is a special case." -??? ***** "We are the people our parents warned us about." -Jimmy Buffett ***** "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence." -Elizabeth Wurtzel ***** "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure." -John D. Rockefeller ***** "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." -Oscar Wilde ***** "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." -Ray Kroc ***** "In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." -??? ***** "My work is a game, a very serious game." -M. C. Escher ***** "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards themselves?)" -Juvenal ***** "Whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of men, in my attendance on the sick or even apart therefrom, which ought not be noised about, I will keep silence thereon, counting such things to be as sacred secrets." -From the Hippocratic Oath ***** "Electricity lets us heat our homes, cook our food, and enjoy security and entertainment. It also can kill you if you're not careful." -"Energy Notes", San Diego Gas & Electric Co. ***** "Being a reject is fun. If you are what's 'cool', what fun is that? You gotta sit there and be all self concious about what you look like. Meanwhile us 'rejects' don't care about what people think, making our lives better and a lot more fun." -FlowerChild1984 ***** "Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things. One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, dirty thing on the face of the earth and you should save it for someone you love." -Butch Hancock ***** "I think consumers want that right. We all want that, c'mon it's fun." -Music agent John Parres, on the right to electronically transmit MP3s Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "There ought to be limits to freedom." -George W. Bush, commenting on an anti-Bush website ***** "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." -Nietzsche ***** "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." -Robert Frost ***** "I am responsible only to God and history." -Francisco Franco ***** "It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper." -Errol Flynn ***** "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large." -Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby ***** "Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure." -Michael Levine ***** "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there." -Clare Boothe Luce ***** "An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it." -Don Marquis ***** "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." -Henry Ward Beecher ***** "You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." -Charles Bukowski ***** "is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit." -Alexander Pope ***** "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." -Tom Bodett ***** "Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" -William Shakespeare Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites." -Lao-Tzu ***** "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." -Mahatma Gandhi ***** "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." -Peter Drucker ***** "Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?" -Jane Austen ***** "A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?" -Confuciu ***** "Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln ***** "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." -George Lichtenberg ***** "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for." -Homer ***** "It is no victory unless the vanquished foe admits your mastery." -Claudian ***** "We will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate among us anyone who does." -Military Honor Code ***** "I hate and love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me." -Catullus ***** "Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?" -??? ***** "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." -??? ***** "After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in?" -??? ***** "Consciousness -- that annoying time between naps." -??? ***** "Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence." -??? Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "When a habit begins to cost money it is called a hobby." -??? ***** "Sleazy entertainment and dirty jokes will never be as popular as sobriety and self-denial." -Marge Simpson ***** "When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist." -Dom Helder Camara ***** "Nationalism is an infantile disease." -Albert Einstein ***** "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service." -Albert Einstein ***** "The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -James B. Cabell ***** "The world is full of wonders, riches, powers, puzzles. What it holds can make us horrified, sorrowful, amazed, confused, joyful. But nothing in it can make us bored. Boredom is the result of some pinch in ourselves, not of some lack in the world." -Toni Flores ***** "You aren't going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world." -The Tick (cartoon character) ***** "When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." -Matt Groening ***** "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour." -Stephen Butler Leacock ***** "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another." -James Matthew Barrie ***** "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." -Jean de La Bruyère ***** "Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." -Fulton J. Sheen ***** "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." -William Osler ***** "Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." -Herbert Spencer ***** "All's fair in love and war." -Francis Edward Smedley Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Sometimes laughter is the only weapon we have." -Roger Rabbit ***** "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." -Charles Darwin ***** "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." -John Stuart Mill ***** "What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it." -Johann Gottlieb Fichte ***** "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke ***** "The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay." -Adam Smith ***** "That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers." -Francis Hutcheson ***** "Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have." -René Descartes ***** "They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses." -Galileo Galilei ***** "Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon ***** "So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim." -Aristotle ***** "For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives." -Plato ***** "Nothing, and no one, should be placed beyond the bounds of rational criticism." -Graham Priest ***** "Philosophy should be founded on detailed, positive knowledge of actual processes in the world and not on abstract assessments of human capacities." -Nancy Cartwright ***** "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." -Albert Camus ***** "We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express." -A. J. Ayer Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong." -Hermann Weyl ***** "We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components." -Otto Neurath ***** "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein ***** "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -Alfred North Whitehead ***** "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." -Bertrand Russell ***** "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." -Bertrand Russell ***** "Good generally conquers evil. Unless, of course, good is stupid." -??? ***** "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." -William Gibson ***** "A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen." -Edward de Bono ***** "You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance." -W. Somerset Maugham ***** "It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." -Jim Bishop ***** "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." -Henry Louis Mencken ***** "Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people." -Paul Duncun ***** "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller ***** "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." -Winston Churchill ***** "I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***** "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." -John Kenneth Galbraith ***** "A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." -Samuel Grafton ***** "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare ***** "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine ***** "Conservation is humanity caring for the future." -Nancy Newhall ***** "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -Franklin D. Roosevelt ***** "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." -G. C. Lichtenberg ***** "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." -Shakespeare ***** "This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." -Baruch Spinoza ***** "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -Harry S Truman ***** "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." -Alan Paton ***** "Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." -Flower A. Newhouse ***** "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." -Napoleon ***** "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." -Hannah More Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." -Thomas Fuller ***** "There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing." -Lord Chesterfield ***** "Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future." -Ayn Rand ***** "Good questions outrank easy answers." -Paul A. Samuelson ***** "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt." -Helen Keller ***** "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce ***** "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." -??? ***** "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner ***** "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." -Marshall McLuhan ***** "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ***** "If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old." -Ed Howe ***** "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Martin Luther King, Jr. ***** "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." -Mark Twain ***** "The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt ***** "Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay." -Millard Fuller Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." -Laurens Van der Post ***** "A moment's thinking is an hour in words." -Thomas Hood ***** "A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." -Jawaharlal Nehru ***** "A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." -Buddha ***** "I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there." -Richard Feynman ***** "It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." -Edgar Allen Poe ***** "The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good." -John Locke ***** "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." -Ray Kroc ***** "I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play." -Albert Einstein, referring to America ***** "The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers." -James Baldwin ***** "The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered." -Andre Gide ***** "Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous." -Thornton Wilder ***** "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." -Buckminster Fuller ***** "My views and feelings [are] in favor of the abolition of war -- and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair." -Thomas Jefferson ***** "It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good." -T. S. Eliot ***** "We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." -Anne Swetchine Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process." -Arnold Horshak ***** "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." -Denis Diderot ***** "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress." -Mahatma Gandhi ***** "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning." -Christopher Morley ***** "To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it." -Benjamin Franklin ***** "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." -H. G. Wells ***** "It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible." -Carl Jung ***** "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." -Ronald Reagan ***** "Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." -Thomas Jefferson ***** "The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Philpotts ***** "We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes." -Mickey Rivers ***** "Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." -Miyamoto Musashi ***** "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." -Mark Twain ***** "Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ***** "There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other." -Eric Hoffer Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***** "All perfect republics are perfect nonsense. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?" -John Fowles ***** "Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***** "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." -William Butler Yeats ***** "Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us." -Loren Eiseley ***** "It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself." -Loren Eiseley ***** "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." -Mark Twain ***** "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." -Mark Twain ***** "Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -Mark Twain, Huckelberry Finn ***** "Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing, with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place." -Robert Heinlein ***** "How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" -Katherine Mansfield ***** "It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude." -Ruth Bernhard ***** "Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice." -Mark Twain ***** "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." -John Hughes Holmes ***** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -H. P. Lovecraft ***** "Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself." -Henri Bergson Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -Edgard Varese ***** "Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature." -Suzanne Langer ***** "See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about." -Keith Haring ***** "Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day." -D. H. Lawrence ***** "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." -Pablo Picasso ***** "The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person." -Frank Barron ***** "No great genius is without an admixture of madness." -Aristotle ***** "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." -Jean-Luc Godard ***** "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." -Paul Valery ***** "As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child." -Charles Burchfield ***** "Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable." -Jamake Highwater ***** "'How often conscience had to bite in times gone by! What good teeth it must have had! And today, what is amiss?' -a dentist's question." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "Contentment preserves one even from catching cold. Has a woman o knew that she was well-dressed ever caught cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag to her back." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)" -Friedrich Nietzsche Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Posthumous men, like myself, are not so well understood as men who reflect their age, but they are heard with more respect. In plain English: we are never understood--hence our authority." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "Aristotle says that in order to live alone, a man must be either an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking: a man must be both--a philosopher." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows." -Friedrich Nietzsche ***** "Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood." -Loren Eiseley ***** "We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all." -William Hazlitt ***** "Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays." -Aldous Huxley ***** "What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" -Theodore Roethke ***** "You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will die with the rest of your body." -John Fowles ***** "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others." -Marcus Aurelius ***** "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." -Demosthenes ***** "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." -William Shakespeare ***** "Only the shallow know themselves." -Oscar Wilde ***** "One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star." -G. K. Chesterton ***** "An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." -Edwin Land ***** "If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult." -Heraclitus Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development." -Alfred North Whitehead ***** "Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the lonliness of the process." -Loren Eiseley ***** "Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***** "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere." -Charles Kettering ***** "Seek simplicity, and distrust it." -Alfred North Whitehead ***** "It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." -William of Occam ***** "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein ***** "Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail." -Henry David Thoreau ***** "We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." -Robert Frost ***** "One lives but once in the world." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***** "Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again." -Robert Heinlein ***** "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was." -William Shakespeare ***** "Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou." -Chaung Tzu ***** "Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present." -Loren Eiseley ***** "I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." -Javan ***** "All a man can betray is his conscience." -Joseph Conrad Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." -Woody Allen, on the KKK ***** "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh ***** "I am become death, shatterer of worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion ***** "...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone." -Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane ***** "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." -Isaac Newton ***** "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." -Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ***** "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves." -E. M. Forster ***** "I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them." -Samuel Beckett ***** "In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Martin Niemoeller ***** "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." -Ayn Rand ***** "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." -Bertrand Russell ***** "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -Bertrand Russell ***** "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus ***** "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -William Shakespeare ***** "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -Albert Einstein ***** "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" -Albert Einstein Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry." -Mark Twain ***** "It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces." -Mark Twain ***** "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." -Henry David Thoreau ***** "The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them." -Henry David Thoreau ***** "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." -Henry David Thoreau ***** "In a mad world, only the mad are sane." -Akiro Kurosawa ***** "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Leo Tolstoy, opening line of Anna Karenina ***** "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -Mary Shafer ***** "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." -Joseph Heller ***** "People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles." -Frank Herbert ***** "I think; therefore I am." -Rene Descartes ***** "People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence." -Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence ***** "To err is human, to forgive divine." -Alexander Pope ***** "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P.Lovecraft ***** "Fear me not for my insanity, but for the mind which it protects." -??? ***** "this is my 'depressed stance.' When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this." -Charlie Brown Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds." -??? ***** "I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ***** "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." -??? ***** "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." -??? ***** "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." -Abraham Lincoln ***** "It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others." -Joseph Addison ***** "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads." -Erica Jong ***** "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." -Mark Twain ***** "It is no longer a question of where civilization began, but if it ever did!" -Alfred E. Newman ***** "If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it." -Leo Rosten ***** "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse." -Jules Renard ***** "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." -General George S. Patton ***** "If ignorance is bilss, then knock this smile off my face." -Zach De La Rocha ***** "Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man." -J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein ***** "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -Oscar Wilde ***** "I can resist everything except temptation." -Oscar Wilde Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde ***** "Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered." -Oscar Wilde ***** "I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices." -Oscar Wilde ***** "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ***** "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken ***** "Don't overestimate the decency of the human race." -Henry Louis Mencken ***** "A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark." -Henry Louis Mencken ***** "I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ***** "The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or fiend, by prayer or by wine." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which he is totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." -Albert Einstein Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'." -Dan Quayle ***** "If you can't convince them, confuse them." -Harry Truman ***** "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." -Margaret Thatcher ***** "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." -Abraham Lincoln ***** "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill ***** "If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious." -A. B. Zu Tavern ***** "It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." -Silvan Engel ***** "What luck for rulers, that men do not think." -Adolph Hitler ***** "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." -Booker T. Washington ***** "When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." -Henry David Thoreau ***** "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are." -Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek ***** "It is my observation that too many of us are spending money we haven't earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like." -H. Jackson Brown's mom ***** "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." -Albert Einstein ***** "How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?" -Nigel Rees ***** "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage ***** "There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" -Dick Cavett Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." -Mitch Ratliffe ***** "Perfection is our goal. Excellence will be tolerated." -TQM Motto from the International Association of Business Communication ***** "The clinching proof of my reasoning is that I will cut anyone who argues further into dogmeat." -Sir Geoffery de Tourneville ***** "The careful application of terror is also a form of communication." -??? ***** "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." -Lily Tomlin ***** "Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." -Philip K. Dick ***** "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." -Bishop Desmond Tutu ***** "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill ***** "If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting." -Stephen Covey ***** "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." -William Hazlitt 426 quotes in this category Return to The Quotation Station main page. |