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"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
-E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More

fides quaerens intellectum

I WILL PERSIST
 
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd, I am a lion and I refuse to walk, to talk, to sleep with the sheep.
I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed.
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey not near the beginning, and it is not given unto me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal.
Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road.
Never will I know how close it lies unless I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another and yet another.
In truth one step at a time is not that difficult.
                                                                                             -Og Mandino


To thou who thinkest to seek Me, know that thy seeking and
yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the Mystery.
If that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee,
thou wilt never find it without.


- from Doreen Valiente's "Charge of the Goddess"


Veni Vidi Vici

I think this is appropriate to the people who inhabit this little community in cyberspace.


It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses; to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which you would be strongly tempted to worship... or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations.

There are no ordinary people. You have never walked with or talked to a mere mortal...

It is immortals with whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, or exploit.

-C.S.Lewis


MEOW

I've put this one under fave quote in my personal details, but ever since I heard it I can't get it out of my head. I'ts kind of become my theme in life:

For that one fraction of a second you were open to options you had never considered.
That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars or studying nebulae, but charting the unlimited possibilities of existence.

- Q to Capt Picard in the final episode of Star Trek Next Gen.

James S
(Fate amenable to change)

"I don't believe it.", Luke.
"That is why you failed." Yoda.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, After Yoda moves the X-wing out of the water.

"I think there for I am.....Unusual."

"That's not a knife..."

"Yes, that was the truth.....From a certain point of view."  Obi One to Luke, The Empire strikes back.

David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

"Flow like water..." (daoistic)

"Every man and every womaman is a star" (crowley)




-- Love is the Law - Love under Will --

I love William Blake, so here it is!:
Quotations of William Blake
(1757-1827)

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from Annotations to Lavater, 1788 (age 31)
Damn sneerers!
True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.
Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

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from Annotations to Swedenborg, 1788
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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from There Is No Natural Religion, 1788
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

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from All Religions are One, 1788
The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-93
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, / Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
He who has suffer'd you to impose on him, knows you.
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Damn braces: Bless relaxes.
Exuberance is Beauty.
Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

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from the Notebook, 1793
The Question Answer'd
What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. / What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
Lacedemonian Instruction
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' / 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

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from Songs of Experience, 1789-94
Children of the future Age / Reading this indignant page, / Know that in a former time / Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.

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from Annotations to Watson, 1798
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self evident thing is a Knave.

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from the Notebook, 1800-03
When a Man has Married a Wife he finds out whether / Her Knees & elbows are only glued together

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fides quaerens intellectum

From Terry Pratchett (for a comedic author a frightnengly intelligent knowledgable and insightful person) -

Seeing things that are really there is much harder than seeing things that aren't, everyone does that.

Chaos is found in abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organised.

James S
(Fate amenable to change)

"One shouldn't attempt to understand another person's beleifs until he understands his own, but should still respect them."-ME(Andrew)2002

"b0b says hi!"  -me

"tuesday"  -my friend

"Meaningless! Meaningless!
Utterly Meaningless.
Everything is Meaningless says the Teacher" (or something like that) -Solomon

"BAKA-BATTOU!"  -me again  :)

~kakkarot

Secret of Secrets

"The greatest hinderance to all physical action is the contiousness of self."  Bruce Lee

David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

Once I wept for I had no shoes
Then I came across a man who had no feet
So I stole his shoes
I mean its not like he is going to need them...right?

I dont remember whos work Im steeling here

Veni Vidi Vici

C.S. Lewis Quote Page



"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..."

--Mere Christianity

"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in
consummation."

--The Weight of Glory

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."

--The Weight of Glory

"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."

--The Weight of Glory

"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."

--The Weight of Glory

"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then
they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."

--The Weight of Glory

"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is
idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."

--The Weight of Glory

"No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"

--The Weight of Glory

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

--The Weight of Glory

"To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends."

--The Weight of Glory

"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."

--The Weight of Glory

"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude...that you have a taste for middle-aged
moralizing."

--The Weight of Glory

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on
this a moment later."

--The Case for Christianity

"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect
from other people."

--The Case for Christianity

"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."

--The Case for Christianity

"Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other."

--The Case for Christianity

"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion
you couldn't have guessed."

--The Case for Christianity

"Badness is only spoiled goodness."

--The Case for Christianity

"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by
Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."

--The Case for Christianity

"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it
or leave it."

--The Case for Christianity

"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its
appointed consummation."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--"

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say
whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting
than his own prestige."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting."

--The Allegory of Love

"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

--The Abolition of Man

"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."

--The Abolition of Man

"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."

--The Abolition of Man

"As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'"

--The Abolition of Man

"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be
immune from the debunking process."

--The Abolition of Man

"The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are
given by Instinct."

--The Abolition of Man

"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from
them."

--The Abolition of Man

"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of
Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy."

--The Abolition of Man

"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay
on it, we have taken the wrong position."

--The Abolition of Man

"If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity..."

--The Abolition of Man

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its
instrument."

--The Abolition of Man

"Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man."

--The Abolition of Man

"No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power."

--The Abolition of Man

"You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there."

--from a letter "To A Lady"

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done..."

--from a letter "To Mrs. L." (50)

"...art can teach without at all ceasing to be art."

--from a letter to "I.O. Evans"

"If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?"

--The Problem of Pain

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

--The Problem of Pain

"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."

--The Problem of Pain

"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

--The Problem of Pain

"When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of
supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary."

--The Problem of Pain

"If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally."

--The Problem of Pain

"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."

--The Problem of Pain

"Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true
one..."

--The Problem of Pain

"The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness."

--The Problem of Pain

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."

--The Problem of Pain

"It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork."

--The Problem of Pain

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf
world."

--The Problem of Pain

"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."

--The Problem of Pain

"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."

--The Problem of Pain

"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."

--The Problem of Pain

"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."

--The Problem of Pain

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."

--The Problem of Pain

"If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?"

--The Problem of Pain

"Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."

--The Problem of Pain

"Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,
for all mankind except the poor."

--The Problem of Pain

"Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of
time."

--The Problem of Pain

"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."

--The Problem of Pain

"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you."

--The Problem of Pain

"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."

--The Problem of Pain

"No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath."

--Surprised by Joy

"To be discontinuous from God as I am discontinuous from you would be annihilation."

--Letters to Malcolm

"'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest
beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'"

--Prince Caspian

"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."

--The World's Last Night

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

--Mere Christianity

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

--Till We Have Faces

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for
another world."

--Mere Christianity

"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"

--Encounter with Light

"It now seemed that...the deepest thirst within him was not adapted to the deepest nature of the world."

--The Pilgrim's Regress

"Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a
thing exists and that some men will."

--Transposition and Other addresses

"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness..."

--Transposition and Other addresses

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where
all the beauty came from."

--Till We Have Faces

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

--The Last Battle

"The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."

--Surprised by Joy

"All joy...emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings."

--from an unknown letter

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

--Letters to Malcolm

"'You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,'" said the Lion."

--The Silver Chair

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles
laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

--Surprised by Joy

"Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices."

--Perelandra

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you
have excluded life itself."

--The Problem of Pain

"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying."

--Mere Christianity

"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."

--Mere Christianity

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."

--On Three Ways of Writing for Children

"The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which
we have to handle."

--On Three Ways of Writing for Children (100)

"Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also."

--The Allegory of Love

"If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all."

--The Abolition of Man

"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in
the spectrum..."

--Christian Reflections

"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to
the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish."

--Christian Reflections

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no
meaning..."

--Mere Christianity

"If we retain only what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at he bar of enlightened common sense, then
we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion."

--'Notes on the Way', Time and Tide

"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."

--Mere Christianity

"If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat."

--A Christian Reply to Professor Price

"Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe."

--Christian Reflections

"A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid..."

--Christian Reflections

"The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time."

--Christian Reflections

"Morality or duty...never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others."

--English Literature in the 16th Century

"You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the
house."

--Mere Christianity

"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."

--Mere Christianity

"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."

--The Problem of Pain

"All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt."

--The Problem of Pain

"[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation."

--The Problem of Pain

"The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."

--The Problem of Pain

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."

--The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."

--The Great Divorce

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any
Narnia."

--The Silver Chair

"Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all."

--Letters to Malcolm

"[One] can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity."

--The Problem of Pain

"Human intellect is incurably abstract."

--Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

"The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think."

--Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

"You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of
humour while roaring with laughter."

--Myth Became Fact, World Dominion

"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction."

--Surprised by Joy

"History is a story written by the finger of God."

--Christian Reflections

"This moment contains all moments."

--The Great Divorce

"Where, except in the present, can the Eternal be met?"

--Christian Reflections

"So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate."

--Letters

"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious."

--An Experiment in Criticism

"If there is equality it is in His love, not in us."

--Transposition and Other Addresses

"Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."

--Transposition and Other Addresses

"Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many..."

--'Notes on the Way' Time and Tide

"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are
big themselves."

--'Notes on the Way' Time and Tide

"The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."

--The Screwtape Letters

"They do not get their qualities from a class: they belong to that class because they have those qualities."

--'Delinquents in the Snow' Time and Tide

"He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar
that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself..."

--Transposition and Other Addresses

"The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end."

--The World's Last Night

"The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."

--Surprised by Joy

"We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."

--'Hedonics' Time and Tide

"Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them."

--Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

"Conquest is an evil productive of almost every other evil both to those who commit and to those who suffer it."

--Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

"The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it."

--Surprised by Joy

"Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory
notions."

--A Grief Observed

"The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the
defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense."

--Encounter With Light

"Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I
had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."

--Mere Christianity

"Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will
find Shakespeare as one of the characters..."

--'The Seeing Eye', Christian Reflections (150)

"Books on psychology or economics or politics are as continuously metaphorical as books of poetry or devotion."

--Miracles

"Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour'
and that decreasingly."

--They Asked for a Paper

"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated."

--Letters (25 May 1962)

"Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of
psychoanalysis."

--Book Review, Review of English Studies

"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."

--Reflections on the Psalms

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."

--Letters to Malcolm

"The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for
Him infinite."

--Letters (1 August 1949)

"Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most
suited to achieve it."

--The Problem of Pain

"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning
God made Heaven and Earth'."

--Miracles

"Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality."

--Letters to Malcolm

"Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful."

--The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

"Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its
expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity."

--Perelandra

"God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."

--The Problem of Pain

"'Yes,' said Queen Lucy. 'In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.'"

--The Last Battle

"'How can I step out of [God's] will save into something that cannot be wished?'"

--Perelandra

"'Don't you mind him,' said Puddleglum. 'There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan.'"

--The Silver Chair

"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"

--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"'Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and the fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory
and gathered themselves up and disappeared.'"

--The Horse and His Boy

"Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death."

--Letters (c. September 1940)

"Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?"

--Letters to Malcolm

"'When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and Death itself
would start working backwards.'"

--The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which
had got out of the Author's control."

--Miracles

"The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,
not a generalization from experience."

--The World's Last Night

"To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

--The World's Last Night

"'Something of God...flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or
hot, and even from sleep itself.'"

--'Scraps', St. James' Magazine

"'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before
things become too swift for us.'"

--Out of the Silent Planet

"These things are not strange, Small One, though they are beyond our senses."

--Out of the Silent Planet

"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It
is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."

--A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side."

--Surprised by Joy

"You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'."

--Surprised by Joy

"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us..."

--Letters to Malcolm

"We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin,
whatever else it is, is sacrilege."

--Letters to Malcolm

"...of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad
things before they are yet, individually, very bad men."

--That Hideous Strength

"And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far
stronger."

--The Last Battle

"To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and
propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."

--A Preface to 'Paradise Lost'

"The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence."

--Perelandra

"Hatred obscures all distinctions."

--'On Science Fiction', Of Other Worlds

"Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."

--The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'

"The gravitation away from God, 'the journey homeward to habitual self', must, we think, be a product of the Fall."

--The Problem of Pain

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible
story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

--Mere Christianity

"Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat."

--Foreword to Joy Davidman's Smoke on the Mountain

"The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of
other lives, to exploit the whole universe."

--Mere Christianity

"[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is
ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."

--Mere Christianity

"This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin
that can be conceived as the Fall."

--The Problem of Pain

"The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends..."

--A Christian Reply to Professor Price' Phoenix Quarterly

"From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or
self for the centre is opened to it."

--The Problem of Pain

"At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it."

--The Problem of Pain

"The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more
leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success."

--The Problem of Pain

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,
the self-righteous, are in that danger."


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"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ."

--Mere Christianity

"'Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.'"

--The Great Divorce

"A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely
uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun."

--The Problem of Pain

"For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being."

--The Problem of Pain

"What is outside the system of self-giving is no earth, nor nature, nor 'ordinary life', but simply and solely Hell. Yet even Hell
derives from this law such reality as it has."

--The Problem of Pain

"That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality..."

--The Problem of Pain

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

--Answers to Questions on Christianity

"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending
our own competitive particularity."

--An Experiment in Criticism

"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."


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Greetings

     [To enjoy the beauty of the rainbow, there must be rain]

Regards steve

"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die"
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."
-- Al Capone

"The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer."
-- H.P. Blavatsky

"When travelling the Path, do not slow - there is always another step in front of you. But do not rush - there is only ever one step in front of you."

Homer (Answering the phone): "You'll have to speak up; I'm wearing a towel."

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
A J Muste

The essence of greatness is that virtue is enough.
R W Emerson

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psalms 126:5

No-one can make you feel inferior, without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F Kennedy

Look at things... as they can be.
David J Schwartz

Beauty's attractive, and we dont want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World




The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

- C.S. lewis




To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

- Edward Hopper




There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

- Francis Bacon




Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

- Jim Morrison


We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

- William Blake, In Imagination



The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

- William Blake, In Happiness



If the doors of perception were to be cleansed man would see everything as it truly is... Infinite.

- William Blake, In Philosophy

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

- Aldous Huxley




WE [MOI], AS A GROUP, DO NOT RECOMMEND... VERILY, WE REPUDIATE ANY ANIMAL/MINERAL /VEGETABLE/SYNTHETIC SUBSTANCE, VEHICLE and/or PROCEDURE WHICH MIGHT TEND TO REDUCE THE BODY, MIND OR SPIRIT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL (any true individual) TO A STATE OF SUB-AWARNESS OR INSENSITIVITY ... that is to say WE ARE HERE TO TURN YOU LOOSE NOT TURN YOU ON

- Frank Zappa




My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that i have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

- Franz Kafka




You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye

- Hunter S. Thompson




There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge

- Hunter S. Thompson




I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

- Maynard James Keenan




I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

- Salvador Dali




Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

- Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods




If it keeps you awake, it's art; if it puts you to sleep, it's a drug.

- Unknown




Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

- William A. Turnbow


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Weird
even samurai have teddy bears and even the teddy bears get drunk

- ?




I am pork boy, the breakfast monkey.

- All That




Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children

- Classified Ad




"Some people may think you're cute, Babe. But to me you're one very large baked potato!" -- Sylvester Stallone in Death Race 2000

- Death Race 2000




you did your math strategies wrong. there is no missing dollar. the men started out with thirty, 25 of that is with the manager, 2 of it is with the bellhop and they each have one dollar.

- Emily




Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

- Eric Cartman, "Southpark"




I shot an elephant in my pants. How he got there I'll never know.

- Groucho Marx




rabbits clinkity, clinkity, clink. Hello Mr. Zebra can i have your sweater cause its cold cold cold in my hole hole hole.

- Guess Who




I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shoc k whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

- Jack Handey




If you ever drop your keys into a pool of lava, forget about them, cuz man, they're gone

- Jack Handey




I've been talking to dead rabbits and feeding bloody walls. I've done horrifying things with salad tongs. It's really eaten into my social life.

- Jhonen Vasquez




If purple monkeys weren't meant to fly then why do i only see them when I'm high?

- Joe




You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to lay down on his back and float in it, then you have something.

- Joe E. Brown




What I want to know is where the hell can you get a hotel room for $25.00?

- Larry




"You know I always thought unicorns were fabulous creatures too, although I never saw one alive before." "Well, now that we have met," said the unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."

- Lewis Carrol, "Throught The Looking Glass"




"If Pete fails the test, he'll look like a sucker and end up waxing floors like Cecil Tucker"

- Pete And Pete




I didn't expect her to counter my plan with nakedness.

- Riff (Of Pete Abrams' Sluggy Freelance)




A man walks up to a strange beast in the dessert, after many days of walking. He is at the point of exhaustion when he sees that the beast is eating its own heart. He says, "Why are you eating your heart?" And the beast replies, "I eat it because i like its bitter taste, and because it is my heart."

- Stephen Crane




You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

- Terry Pratchett




The leading thief glared at the solid stone that had swallowed Mort, and then threw down his knife. 'Well, ----me,' he said. 'A ----ing wizard. I HATE ----ing wizards!' 'You shouldn't ---- them, then,' muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.

- Terry Pratchett, "Mort: A Discworld Novel"




" you know what happens to popular people...They get fat"

- Unknown



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They say your eyes are the secound thing that goes when you get old......I can't remember what the first one is.


Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.


I was born at night but it wasn't last night.


If tin wistles are made of tin then what's fog horn made of?


What behind the rabbit?  No it is the rabbit!  It's got teeth like this!


Bring out the Holy Hand Grenade.



David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

I dont know with what weapons World War III will be fought,
But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein.


Its what you learn after you know it all that counts.

- Mark Twain?


- Ashfo

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"You are First Cause. You are a portion of the great energy. And you, yourselves are thought manifestations of what you think you are."
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And in the end he won the war after losing every battle -B Dylan



Robin
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2c2fq/index2.htm

Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?


"Oh, I'm sorry! Did I say that out loud?"


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

Quotes

Authors cited

"Of the estimated 500 million species of plants
and animals that have existed since life began on earth,
only about 2 million are here today.
This means that about 99.5 percent of
all species have become extinct."

Extinct and Vanishing Species
V. Ziswiler


"Humanity must stop behaving like a Gengis Khan
of the solar system and think of itself... as nature's co-pilot."

Edgar Morin,
French Sociologist


"We have for a long time being breaking little laws,
and the big laws are beginning to catch up with us."

A.F. Coventry


"We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land.
In our passion to control nature,
things have gone out of control.
Progress from now on has to mean something different.
We're running out of resources and
we are running out of time".

Robert Redford,
American Actor


"Mankind is part of nature and life depends on
the uninterrupted functioning of natural systems."

World Charter for Nature - Adapted by the
General Assembly of the United Nations, 1982


"The most important cause of extermination and the greatest threat
to wildlife is the destruction or alteration of habitat."

Breaking the Web
Utelz & Johnson


"The more devices we infent for dominating nature,
the more we must serve them if we are to survive."

The Revolt of Nature


"Without habitat, there is no wildlife.
It's that simple."

Wildlife Habitat Canada


 
"On a practical level conservation has been sustained
by an interplay between professionals and radical amateurs.
Professionals keep the movement organized. Amateurs keep it honest.
The ghosts of Muir and Pinchot still wrestle for control -
in a fractious but symbiotic embrace."

Stephen Fox -
John Muir & his Legacy


"What has gone wrong, probably, is that we have failed
to see ourselves as part of a large and indivisable whole.
For too long, we have based our lives on a primitive feeling
that our "God-given" role was to have "dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."  
We have failed to understand that the
earth does not belong to us, but we do the earth."

Rolf Edberg


"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?
The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air
and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
We are part of the Earth, and it is part of us...
We know the white man does not understand our ways.
One portion of land is the same to him as the next -
for he is a stranger who comes in the night
and takes from the land whatever he needs."

Chief Seattle, 1854


"If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?
Cut and move on and take out the trees
take out wildlife at a rate of a species every single day
take out people who lived with this for 100,000 years -
inject a billion burgers of beef -
grain eaters - methane dispensers -
Through thinning ozone,
waves fall on wrinkled earth -
gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars,
speak of a drowning -
but this, this is something other,
busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
where wild things have to go to disappear forever...
If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?

Bruce Cockburn,
Canadian singer


"There is but one earth, one biota, and our actions
in the developed and developing world alike are destroying
that which is irreplaceable. There are no quick solutions...
nor is there a second chance."

US National Science Board 1989


"We known ourselves to be made from this earth.
We know this earth is made from our bodies.
For we see ourselves.
And we are nature.
We are nature seeing nature.
We are nature with a concept of nature.
Nature weeping.
Nature speaking of nature to nature."

Susan Griffin
Woman and Nature


"After all, we cannot expect nature's foregiveness forever".

Monte Hummel
World Wildlife Fund Canada


"I am pessimistic about the human race
Because it is too ingenious for its own good.
Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission.
We would stand a better chance of survival if
We accommodated ourselves to this planet
And viewed it appreciatively instead of
Skeptically and dictatorially".

E.B. White


What is the use of a house if you don't have
a decent planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau


"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children
the very prosperity which we ought by right to
hand down to them amplified..."

Theodore Roosevelt,
former American President


"Alone in space, alone in its life-supporting systems,
powered by inconceivable energies, mediating
them to us through the most delicate adjustments,
wayward, unlikely, unpredictable, but nourishing,
enlivening, and enriching to the largest degree -
is this not a precious home for all of us earthlings?
Is it not worth our love?
Does it not deserve all the inventiveness and courage
and generosity of which we are capable to preserve it
from degradation and destruction and, by doing so,
to secure our own survival?

Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos
Only One EARTH


"The human brain now holds the key to our future.
We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space:
a single entity in which air, water, and continents
are interconnected. That is our home."

David T. Suzuki,
Canadian Geneticist, Journalist and Environmentalist


"So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a
ravenous self-destroying horde of rats.
I am glad there is no God. If there were,
I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and
insatiably self-centred creatures should
be allowed to survive a single day more".

John Fowles,
British Author


"We've got to save the world
Someone's children, they may need it.
So far we've seen
The big business of extinction bleed it.
We've got to save the world.
We're at the mercy of the few,
With evil hearts determined to
Reduce this planet to hell,
Then find a buyer and make a quick sale.
We've got to save the world
Someone else may want to use it.
It's time you knew
How close we've come.
We've gonna lose it - we gotta save,
we gotta save, we gotta save the world".

George Harrison,  
Beatles singer - "Save the World"


"Putting ecological politics into actions means approaching life
with imagination and intelligence, knowledge and emotion,
responsibility and culture. It fights against bureaucracy
and ideology, uniformity, authoritarianism, and any attempt
to eliminate diversity and autonomy. And to everyone
it offers a new friend: the Earth'.

Mario Signorino, President and Founder
Amici della Terra Italia
(Friends of the Earth, Italy)


"We haven't just inherited the earth from our forefathers,
our society continues to borrow its endowments from our children."

Lois James,
Rouge Park Champion


"Most people are on the world, not in it - have
no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them -
undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone
like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate...
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast
has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places
standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize
that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots
and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room -
the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the
celestial spaces without leaving any track..."

John Muir, 1888
American Author and Naturalist


"Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees".

Revelation 7:3


"Now that green has become the fashionable prestige color,
we should be careful not to be diverted or misled by products,
projects, technologies, or institutions that may proclaim
themselves 'green' but in reality use this as a cover to continue
exploit both nature and people. Our fear is that the
rhetoric of ecology will be used by the power structures
to confuse and mislead. Policies that are designed
by corporate interests or on their behalf are being drawn up in
nice-sounding ecological terms such as 'sustainable development'
and 'forestry action plans'. Environmentalists therefore have to
continue to give deep interpretations and clear analysis of the
ecological crisis, and to have critiques of the false solutions."

S.M. Mohd. Idris,
Friends of the Earth, Malaysia


"If the environment can't support beavers, ducks or moose,
how long will it be able to support people?

Commemorative Stamp Bulletin
Canada Post Corporation


"We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life
through the destruction of our ecology, and yet each
one of us, in our own little comfortable ways,
contributes daily to that destruction.
It's time now to awaken in each one of us the
respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves."

Ed Asner,
American actor


"The multiple threats to the Earth are so complex
that in most cases they seem beyond the reach of an
average citizen's influence. Yet we can all launch a
personal campaign to reduce consumption - though perhaps
only after a change of mind-set, to overcome the fear of
seeming poor, parsimonious or eccentric.
This does not mean being deprived or uncomfortable.
It simply means stopping to think, before each purchase,
'Do I really need this?' For years a small minority has been living
and thinking thus. If a large majority did lilkewise -
if frugality and shabbiness could become trendy - then the Earth,
though not saved, would be measurably less endangered."

Dervla Murphy,
Irish Author


"If we love our children, we must love our earth
with tender care and pass it on, diverse and beautiful,
so that on a warm spring day 10,000 years hence
they can feel peace in a sea of grass,
can watch a bee visit a flower,
can hear a sandpiper call in the sky,
and can find joy in being alive".

Hugh H. Iltis


"The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort,
are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief,
for when the light comes,
the heart of the people is always right."

John Muir


"Our cities must be decentralized into communities, or
ecocommunnities, exquisitely and artfully tailored to
the carrying capacity of the ecosystems in which they are located.
Our technologies must be readapted and advanced into ecotechnologies,
exquisitely and artfully adapted to make use of local energy sources
and materials, with minimal or no pollution of the environment.
We must recover a new sense of our needs -
needs that foster a healthful life and express our individual
proclivities, not "needs" dictated by the mass media.
We must restore the human scale in our environment
and in our social relations..."

Ecology Action East Manifesto, 1969

FROM:http://www.blackhole.on.ca/quotes.html

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I saw a really good bumber sticker the other day at Autozone.  It applies very well to some of us here who are having difficulties.


"My reality check bounced!"


I nearly died laughing.


David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.

Something friends get tired of hearing me say -

Destroy the ego - Truth is truth, it's not what you want it to be.

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings (1894-1962)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)


"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)


"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra


"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup


"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos


"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)


"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)


"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song


"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)


"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)


"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown


"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)


"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)


"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)


"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)


"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"


"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)


"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)


"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
- Frederick (II) the Great


"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)


"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)


"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)


"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright


"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)


"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)


"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi


"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell


"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)


"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)


"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)


"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)


"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco


"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante


"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)


"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953


"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)


"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)


"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa


"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery


"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov


"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan


"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin


"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)


"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

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"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)


"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
- Richard Bach


"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)


"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant


"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)


"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti


"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)


"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon


"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)


"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)


"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)


"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
- Bumper Sticker


"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker


"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life


"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


"Luck is the residue of design."
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team


"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)


"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)


"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)


"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)


"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare


"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy


"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst


"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)


"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)


"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)


"Logic is in the eye of the logician."
- Gloria Steinem

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)


"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)


"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Goethe (1749-1832)

"In the end, everything is a gag."
- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi Berra

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
- Katherine Cebrian

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."
- Steven Wright

"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

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"I have read your book and much like it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

"No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

"Vote early and vote often."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)

"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."
- Gloria Leonard

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins

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"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"I don't feel good."
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant."
- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
- Gore Vidal

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
- Charles William Stubbs

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
- Tom Stoppard

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
- William Congreve (1670-1729)

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
- Perelman

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal."
- Sigfried Hulzer

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Yogi Berra

"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."
- Bill Wulf

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)


"Love is friendship set on fire."
- Jeremy Taylor


"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair


"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."
- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was


"Woman was God's second mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper


"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)


"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)


"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)


"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.


"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)


"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)


"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb


"I worship the quicksand he walks in."
- Art Buchwald


"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)


"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)


"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing


"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.


"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)



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"All men by nature desire to know."
-- Aristotle

-- Muzza

FUNNY QUOTES

I like to wake up each morning felling a new man. -
Author: Jean Harlow

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Author: Douglas Adams

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Author: Walt Disney

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
Author: Barbara Bush

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Author: Groucho Marx

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Author: Rudyard Kipling

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -
Author: Marie Corelli

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Author: Emo Philips

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet
Author: Henry Youngman

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Author: Jack Handey

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Author: John Wayne

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.
- Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Author: Jack Handey

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Author: willy Cavett

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Author: Emo Philips

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Author: Yakov Smirnoff

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
Author: Mark Twain



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Some of my favourites:

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on: Nor all thy peity nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy Tears wash out a word of it"

and from "Bless This Child"  - C.C. Spellman :

"Anything dirty or decayed attracts negative energy line a magnet. The person needing protection must not provide the astral attacker with anything containing his or her personal essense.  Everone has heard of Voodoo doctors using hair or nail parings when they make their dolls.  This is done because the debris of our bodies contains enough of our individual essense to make an energy link.  This link forms a sort of etheric device the attacker can use to tap into its victim's energy source.

Don't be afraid to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for. - Henry S. Haskins

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Ghobi desert.  He will not be striving for it as a goal itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day - W. Beran Wolfe

The differemce betweem perseverance and obstinancy is, that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.  - Henry Ward Beecher

Don't let life discourge you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.  Richard I. Evans

I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.  Winston Churchill

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.  - John Barrymore

..."Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are,without regard to place or person;my country is the world,and my religion is to do good"...

..."I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion,however different that opinion might be to mine.He who denies to another this right,makes a slave of himself to his present opinion,because he precludes himself the right of changing it.The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.I have never used any other,and I trust I never shall."  THOMAS PAINE

   the above quotes are from the book "THE AGE OF REASON" ,one of the most influential books I have ever read!!!!
    A MUST READ for every FREETHINKING citizen!!!!!!

starider8/5/02

..."It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave,so keep on thinking free"...

"Take your light to the dark places for it is there that it shines the brightest"

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jouni

jilola that is a cool quote...where did you get that from?

-- Muzza

you have nothing to fear but fear itself

the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom

may the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends below never fall out

but my favourite is from charlie and the chocolate factory :
" But don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted....."
"what ?"
" he became the happiest man in the world."

Muzza:I made it up based on a line that captured my ideas at the time. It's from Terry Pratchetts book "Carpe Jugulum."  In the Book of Om there is line ' ... And Brutha said to Simony, "Where there is darkness we will make a great light..." '
Nice to hear you liked it

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jouni

I like to wake up each morning felling a new man. -
Author: Jean Harlow

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Author: Douglas Adams

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Author: Walt Disney

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
Author: Barbara Bush

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Author: Groucho Marx

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Author: Rudyard Kipling

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -
Author: Marie Corelli

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Author: Emo Philips

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet
Author: Henry Youngman

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Author: Jack Handey

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Author: John Wayne

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.
- Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Author: Jack Handey

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Author: willy Cavett

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Author: Emo Philips

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Author: Yakov Smirnoff

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
Author: Mark Twain


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I like to wake up each morning felling a new man. -
Author: Jean Harlow

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Author: Douglas Adams

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Author: Walt Disney

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
Author: Barbara Bush

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Author: Groucho Marx

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Author: Rudyard Kipling

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -
Author: Marie Corelli

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Author: Emo Philips

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet
Author: Henry Youngman

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Author: Jack Handey

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Author: John Wayne

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.
- Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Author: Jack Handey

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Author: willy Cavett

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Author: Emo Philips

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Author: Yakov Smirnoff

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
Author: Mark Twain


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I like to wake up each morning felling a new man. -
Author: Jean Harlow

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Author: Douglas Adams

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Author: Walt Disney

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
Author: Barbara Bush

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Author: Groucho Marx

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Author: Rudyard Kipling

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -
Author: Marie Corelli

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Author: Emo Philips

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet
Author: Henry Youngman

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Author: Jack Handey

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Author: John Wayne

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.
- Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Author: Jack Handey

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Author: willy Cavett

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Author: Emo Philips

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Author: Yakov Smirnoff

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
Author: Mark Twain


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I noticed a quote from Star Wars earlier and here's another quote:

"You must feel the energy around you; it binds us and makes us whole."


This is a quote that I like:

"You are the dreamer; I am the dream."

Tracy

"Grab your magic wings and fly!"

Does anyone know any good quotes from Robert Bruce himself?

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"The beer is in the fridge!"

More a statement than a little snippet of wisdom but still a good one!


-- Muzza

anything from the big lebowski

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."
- Braveheart

or

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
-George S. Patton





"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." St. Thomas Aquinas

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Ghandi

"The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds" - Mark twain

"The truth is dangerous and honesty can get you in trouble" - Me!

"Hey thats crazy enough it might just work!!" - from Family Guy,

and damn! dan, that is a LOT of quotes! But I am suprised at you reading Jhonen Vasquez comincs rolf I wouldn't have guessed or thought you would go near them! JTHM bought just the other day, sick sick sick and wrong!!! But amusing, in a very skillfully sick and twisted way....

peace
Rob

other random thoughts and nice sounding ideas hehe:

How do you define yourself in reality? Dont!!! You will only become limited by that definition!

Let your mind journey into the void and see what it cannot....

An opportunity is always a test or else it is a gift.

Those who are rejected or left out of society often have a distinct advantage

.....and I'm spent!!!!!

Here's a rather crude one that plonked into my head:

Oops, I've crapped on my fan.

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jouni

Has anyone ever read Douglas Adams's book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" There are a lot of good quotes in that series. There are 5 books in the series. My signature quote below is from that book. Also check out the Tao of Pooh.

Arthur Dent sat in a chair that appeared to be made out of the skeleton of a stegosaurus. Slartibartfast turned to him and said, "that chair was made out of the skeleton of a stegosaurus."

"Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all."

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

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"Do you understand the actual problem, or are you guessing?"
- Marc Macyoung
"Taking it to the Street: making your martial art street effective"

"All you have to do is decided what to do with the time given to you" - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)

-- Muzza

"Master the perception principle.  Learn to know yourself.  Know the real person deep within you."

"An effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practice of silence.  Begin to listen for the deeper sounds of harmony and beauty that are to be found in the essence of silence."

Quotes by Norman Peale

Your Focus Determines Your Reality

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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." Abraham Lincoln

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby

Wisdom comes privately from God as a by-product of right decisions, godly reactions and the application of scriptural principles to daily circumstances. - Charles Swindoll

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Fedex Corp.)

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't even got through college yet.'"

--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his

and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -Winston Churchill

At a speech at the American Sports Awards Banquet Jim Valvono, the former North Carolina State Basketball coach and NCAA champion became aware of the flashing light signaling that he only had 30 seconds to close his remarks. He looked up and laughed and said, "I've got tumors all over my body and I'm going to worry about some guy flashing a message that I've only got 30 seconds?"

"One of the signs of impending mental breakdown is the belief that your work is terribly important."

The major challenges of our times are increasing tolerance to individual differences without damaging the values that have built this nation and preserving respect for the God-given power of authority without infringing upon the rights of the individual. - RCB

A lie is not the truth, but the truth can be made up, if you know how - Lily Tomlin

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories. Bail Organa (Princess Leia's father in Star Wars) words by author Michael Kube-McDowell

On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK"

Lederer in Time to Heal states that physicians are a product of the society that we live in. We live in a society of instant gratification. Few if any want to accept responsibility for their actions. Good patient care demands constant vigilance on the part of patient and physician. Often, in the process of good care, doctors and patients will be at odds with one another. I like what Lee Golusinski, MD had to say:

"When patients get upset and say I am being parental and coercive by doing this, I remind them that there are three names on each bottle of medication: the patient's, mine, and the pharmacist. We all have responsibilities on this team, and if one of us is not meeting those responsibilities (such as monitoring INRs for patients on coumadin), I will not take on the risk they bring by not meeting their responsibilities."

"Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker." Amarillo Slim



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I love Thoreau!  Here are some quotes I think some of you will appreciate:

Thoreau Quotes
from the random Thoreau quote generator at
http://www.psymon.com/walden/


Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Ron Koster



As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Kirk McElhearn



If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Matt Ames



Though I am old enough to have discovered that
the dreams of youth are not to be realized in this state of existence
yet I think it would be the next greatest happiness always to be allowed
to look under the eyelids of time and contemplate the perfect steadily
with the clear understanding that I do not attain to it.
from the Journal (October 24, 1843)

contributed by Kirk McElhearn



I had three pieces of limestone on my desk,
but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily,
when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still,
and threw them out the window in disgust.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Ken Winchenbach Walden



To be awake is to be alive.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Ann Woodlief



Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing
along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever.
The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God,
and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
from a letter to Lucy Brown dated March 2, 1842,
following the death of Thoreau's brother

contributed by Sue Petrovski



My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,
which, however, I did not promise to do.
Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition
shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, "Think of it!
He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,
and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers."
from the Journal (March 28, 1853)

contributed by Gary Robertson



I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Austin Meredith



If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Austin Meredith



Some circumstantial evidence is very strong,
as when you find a trout in the milk.
from the Journal (c. November 11-14, 1850)

contributed by Bob Lucas



The frontiers are not east or west, north or south,
but wherever a man "fronts" a fact.
from the chapter "Thursday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Gary Robertson



Live free, child of the mist,
-- and with respect to knowledge we are all
children of the mist.
From the essay Walking

contributed by Gary Robertson



In any weather, at any hour of the day or night,
I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too;
to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future,
which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
from the chapter "Economy"
in Walden

contributed by Ron Koster



As surely as the sunset in my latest November
shall translate me to the ethereal world,
and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth;
as surely as the last strain of music which falls on my decaying ear
shall make age to be forgotten,
or, in short, the manifold influences of nature
survive during the term of our natural life,
so surely my Friend shall forever be my Friend,
and reflect a ray of God to me,
and time shall foster and adorn and consecrate our Friendship,
no less than the ruins of temples.
from the chapter "Wednesday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Ron Koster



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Josh Randall



The fact which the politician faces is merely that
there is less honor among thieves than was supposed,
and not the fact that they are thieves.
from Slavery in Massachusetts

contributed by Richard Lenat



Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves,
dispel the clouds which hang over our brows,
and take up a little life into our pores.
Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor,
but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by John Dempsey



I have a great deal of company in my house;
especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
from the chapter "Solitude" in Walden

contributed by Christopher Ryan Murphy



In the streets and in society I am almost invariably
cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.
No amount of gold or respectability would in the least
redeem it,-- dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!!
But alone in the distant woods or fields,
in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,
even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,
when a villager would be thinking of his inn,
I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,
and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.
I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent
to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.
I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,
grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day
about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it.
I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America,
out of my head and be sane a part of every day.
from the Journal (January 7, 1857)

contributed by Sonya Welter



A man is rich in proportion tothe number of things
which he can afford to let alone.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Tony Carleo



I should not talk so much about myself
if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Casey Shane Sowers



I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger
who approached his master's premises with clothes on,
but was easily quieted by a naked thief.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Nathan Wagner



A writer who does not speak out of a full experience
uses torpid words, wooden or lifeless words, such words as "humanitary,"
which have a paralysis in their tails.
from the Journal (July 14, 1852)

contributed by Richard Dillman



I have always been regretting that I was not as wise
as the day I was born.
from the chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden

contributed by Gail Valker



However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Sydney Rosen



An efficient and valuable man does what he can,
whether the community pay him for it or not.
The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder,
and are forever expecting to be put in office.
from Life without Principle

contributed by Mark Heiden



The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground,
a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.
It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land
are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar.
Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam,
it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.
from the chapter "The Sea And The Desert" in Cape Cod

contributed by Robert Vasselli



To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts,
nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live
according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and trust.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Richard Dean Banton



The physiologist says it [ripening of fruit] is "due to an increased absorption of oxygen."
That is the scientific account of the matter, -- only a reassertion of the fact.
But I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know
what particular diet the maiden fed on.
from Chapter 1 of Autumnal Tints

contributed by Bill Hanna



I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture,
but I had not made it worth anyone's while to buy them.
Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them,
and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets,
I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Alfred La Pointe



Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty,
as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
from the Journal (June 20, 1840)

contributed by Patricia Anne Kuniega



Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields,
not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
From the essay Walking

contributed by Randy Porter



The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad,
and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Richard Lenat



A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures
the depth of his own nature.
from the chapter "The Ponds" in Walden

contributed by Eric Brown



In the days before his death,
his Aunt Louisa asked him if he had made his peace with God.
His answer was "I did not know we had ever quarrelled, Aunt."
from the Harding and Richardson biographies

contributed by Paul Edward Draper



We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood,
and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.
from the chapter "Friday"
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributed by Kenneth Bass



I will send the light-colored trout and the pickerel with the longer snout,
which is our large one, when I meet with them. I have set a price upon the heads
of snapping turtles, though it is late in the season to get them.
To Elliot Cabot, 1 June 1847, in Correspondence

contributed by Wallace Kaufman



Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
Any truth is better than make-believe.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by Christopher David Greiner



It is a rare qualification to be ale to state a fact simply and adequately.
To digest some experience cleanly.
To say yes and no with authority--To make a square edge.
To conceive & suffer the truth to pass through us living & and intact....
Say it and have done with it. Express it without expressing ourself.
See not with the eye of science -- which is barren --
nor of youthful poetry which is impotent.
from the Journal (November 1, 1851)

contributed by Wallace Kaufman



As in old times they who dwelt on the heath
remote from towns were backward to adopt the doctrines
which prevailed there, and were therefore called heathen
in a bad sense, so we dwellers in the huckleberry pastures,
which are our heath lands, are slow to adopt the notions
of large towns and cities and may perchance be
nicknamed huckleberry people.
from the Journal (December 30, 1860)

contributed by Gary Robertson



Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought
from the "Conclusion" to Walden

contributed by John Butkis



You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods
that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
from the chapter "Brute Neighbors" in Walden

contributed by Kevin Patrick Connor



I should not talk so much about myself
if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness
of my experience.
from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

contributed by Ron Faraday





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The Top 10 Movie Quotes
How Many Do You Know?
(According to The Guinness Book of Film)

1. "...Bond. James Bond."

2. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

3. "Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."

4. "I'll be back."

5. "Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"

6. "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."

7. "I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home."

8. "Frankly, my dear. I don't give a damn."

9. "You talkin' to me?"

10. "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side...and don't be stingy, baby."

The most common line in all movies, surveying all Hollywood films from the late 30s to the mid 70s was: "Let's get out of here!"

"Let your service to others be secret and automatic" -Unknown

"The problem with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat" -Unknown

"Society is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorned by little statesmen, philosophers, and divine." -R.W. Emerson

"The meaning of life is live, but the meaning of live is more complex."
-My kung fu teacher

"Attack with spoons."
-Mata's magic eight-ball (www.matazone.co.uk)

"Try applying a stout stick."
-Mata's magic eight-ball (www.matazone.co.uk)

"Shackles of gold are still shackles."
-Unknown

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
-William Allen White

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Elliot

"'How do you milk a venemous two foot lizard?' he wondered. 'Why?'"
-The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

"Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?"
-The Fires of Heaven also by Robert Jordan

"You may laugh because I'm different, but I laugh because you're all the same."
-Unknown

"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got..."
-Soak Up the Sun, sung by Sheryl Crow

"To save us both time, assume I know everything."
-Keychain

Hitchhiker is the BEST source for really funny quotes when taken out of context. Or when in context. [:D]

The following was taken from the 12 Monkeys film script.  Jeffrey is Brad Pitt's character and Cole is Bruce Willis.  THose of you who have seen this might get a laugh out of the following, if not, oh well, at least I did  (by the way, if you haven't seen this film, check it out, it's great!)

JEFFREY
Why don't I escape, that's what you
were going to ask me, right?  'Cause
I'd be crazy to escape!  I'm all taken
care of, see?  I've sent out word.
COLE
What's that mean?

JEFFREY
I've managed to contact certain underlings,
evil spirits, secretaries of secretaries, and
assorted minions, who will contact my father.
When he learns I'm in this kind of place,
classy joints where they treat you...properly.

LIKE A GUEST!  LIKE A PERSON!  SHEETS!
TOWELS!  LIKE A BIG HOTEL WITH GREAT DRUGS
FOR THE NUT CASE LUNATIC MANIAC DEVILS...

Audi, R. 1992. Objective/Subjective. A Companion to Epistemology. J. Dancy and E. Sosa. Oxford, Blackwell: 309-310.

"The contrast between the subjective and the objective is made in both the epistemic and the ontological domains. In the former it is often identified with the distinction between the *intra*personal and the *inter*personal, or with that between matters whose resolution depends on the psychology of the person in question and those not thus dependent, or, sometimes, with the distinction between the biased and the impartial. Thus an objective question might be one answerable by a method usable by any competent investigator, while a subjective question would be answerable only from the questioner's point of view. In the ontological domain, the subjective-objective contrast is often between what is and what is not mind-dependent; secondary qualities, e.g., colours, have been thought subjective owing to their apparent variability with observation conditions. The truth of a proposition, for instance (apart from certain propositions about oneself), would be objective if it is independent of the perspective, especially the beliefs of those judging it. Truth would be subjective if it lacks such independence, say because it is a construct from justified beliefs, e.g. those well-confirmed by observations."

Chew on dat!

"Try Beliveing me"
-Duo

"If it still hurts that means you alive"
-unknown

"have you ever been sniped by a rocket?"
-me

Hmm, I can't remember if this is right or not, but here goes:
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.  He won by making other poor bastards die for their countries."
-George Patton (once again, I think)

And, of course, I have to put in some Homer qutoes [:P]:
"I'm tired of being a wannabe league bowler.  I wanna be a league bowler!"

"Homer no function beer well without."

"You can hit a man, you can punch a man, but for some reason, you just can't slap him."

-The Simpsons

Hi

Actually Enderwiggin, I kind of like the quotes in your signature file:

quote:

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Originally posted by EnderWiggin

If you're going through Hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill

The soul of any plant or creature is not something to disregard or disrespect.

"I live by the adage 'know thy enemy;' that is why I have so painstakingly analyzed who I am."

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Here are a few I've either collected or otherwise have on hand:


The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear.
--Gandhi

Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self requires enlightenment.
--Lao Tzu

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
--Henry David Thoreau

I've lived through many terrible things in my life,
some of which have actually happened.
--Mark Twain

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
--William Blake

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
--Joseph Campbell

If at first you don't succeed; try, try again. Then quit.  No use being a fool about it."
--W. C. Fields

There are three kinds of men: The one's that learn by reading, the few
who learn by observation...the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
--Will Rogers

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.
The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.    
--Samuel Johnson

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
--Saul Bellow

Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from wise men.
--Marcus Porcius Cato

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Douglas Adams Book Quotes:

"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"

"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'"

"`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"

"`In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.'"

"`My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'"

"He believed in a door. He must find that door. The door was the way to... to...
The Door was The Way.
Good.
Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to."

"Fear, its like this fire, burning inside of you. If you control it, it will make you HOT! But if you let it control you, it will burn you up." - Rocky IV

"I was suppose to be going to the shop to get bread for my family,
but on my way to the shop, it started raining and I discovered the
love of playing in the rain. Not until the wind blew away the rain
clouds, and the sun came out was it that I realised, I couldn't spend all my time playing in the rain when there was bread to get, so I resumed going to the shop. When the rain clouds come back, I will be able to play in the rain again, but I won't be able to stop and play in the rain, I can only play in the rain, on my way."

"Love is a companion"

Oliver [:)]

I love little snippets of wisdom, love and humor.  I thought it would be interesting and fun to start a collection of our quotes and ideas.  Please share with everyone those quotes, stories, phrases, etc. that you hold dear.
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     Ralph Waldo Emerson

                           "None of us will ever
                           accomplish anything excellent
                           or commanding except when
                           he listens to this whisper which
                           is heard by him alone."
                           -- "Greatness," Letters and Social
                           Aims, 1835 ]

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