 |
this is just a collection of quotes that i thought were worthwhile. credit is given wherever possible. expect this to grow very fast, i love quotes.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
-- Daniel Hudson Burnham
Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
-- Jeannette Rankin
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
-- W.C. Fields
A conclusion is where you got tired of thinking.
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
-- Holmes
They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
-- Alexie Sayle
Work fascinates me. I could sit & watch it for hours!
If I kiss you, that is a psychological interaction. On the other hand, if I hit you over the head with a brick, that is also a psychological interaction. The difference is that one is friendly and the other is not so friendly. The crucial point is if you can tell which is which.
I'll tell you one thing that really clips my begonias ... Coffee Tables! Is every beverage in the world going to want its own table now? Oh here's the coffee table, here's the tea table, oh watch out! Here's the lemon-flavored seltzer water table. Where's it all going to end? I drink both root beer and diet root beer. There'll be no place in my house for my shoes!!! And another thing, if they can put a man on the moon, why can't they leave him there?"
-- The Ranting Swede, Sheep in the Big City, "A Star Is Shorn"
Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Goethe
Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than where they are.
The problem with this country is that there is no death penalty for incompetence.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-- Ingrid Bergman
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Remember, Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not Love; Love is not Music; Music is the best.
-- Frank Zappa
theory, n.:
System of ideas meant to explain something, chosen with a view to originality, controversialism, incomprehensibility, and how good it will look in print.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find my own way.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem
Do you expect mere proof to sway my opinion!?
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
-- Ransom K. Ferm
Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible?
Cohn's Law:
The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time reporting on the nothing you are doing.
If your hands are clean and your cause is just and your demands are reasonable, at least it's a start.
You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I am having FUN... I wonder if it's NET FUN or GROSS FUN?
Intelligence is limited, but stupidity knows no bounds.
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
-- John Lilly
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded responsible thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
-- Valerie Solanas
Owe no man any thing...
-- Romans 13:8
He flung himself on his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Alfred Adler
My darling wife was always glum.
I drowned her in a cask of rum,
And so made sure that she would stay
In better spirits night and day.
Thinking hard can lead to social problems, such as chess.
-- Dogbert
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
statistics, n.:
A system for expressing your political prejudices in convincing scientific guise.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
-- Raymond Chandler
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
-- Ingmar Bergman
Anyone who has attended a USENIX conference in a fancy hotel can tell you that a sentence like "You're one of those computer people, aren't you?" is roughly equivalent to "Look, another amazingly mobile form of slime mold!" in the mouth of a hotel cocktail waitress.
-- Elizabeth Zwicky
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire
A middle way? Hah! That is the obsession of the English. Compromise is its other name. I hate it! The middle way between light and darkness is gloom; between enmity and friendship is treachery; between rebellion and servitude is hypocrisy! I despise all three!
-- Mohammed Babar, "Jungle Jest" by Talbot Mundy
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
While riding in a train between London and Birmingham, a woman inquired of Oscar Wilde, "You don't mind if I smoke, do you?" Wilde gave her a sidelong glance and replied, "I don't mind if you burn, madam."
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
-- Ashley Montagu
The internet is like crack for smart people
-- Arsenio Hall
We're all looking for a woman who can sit in a mini-skirt and talk philosophy, executing both with confidence and style.
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
-- François De La Rochefoucauld
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Winston Churchill
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Beware of the fury of a patient man.
-- John Dryden
Here is another man with whom I cannot get angry, because I despise him.
-- Benito Mussolini
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. He leaves that to the popular novelist.
-- Oscar Wilde
The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
If I knew what I was going to do, I might argue with myself, and that would be fatal. If you knew, you might try to educate me, and that is much worse
-- Chullunder Ghose, "C.I.D." by Talbot Mundy
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
He scorns the history books as poisonous fiction, the Bible as Hebrew politics mixed up with plagiarized mid-Asian ethics, and modern civilization as a shoddy re-hash of the worst of Rome, Egypt, Babylon, and Greece; pasted and held together by matter-worship, which is another name--so he says--for modern science.
-- description of Cotswold Ommony, "Jungle Jest" by Talbot Mundy
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term, convertible only through the use of weird and unnatural conversion factors. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word "National."
-- George Will
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley
Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
-- Nelson Algren, "What Every Young Man Should Know"
I can mend the break of day, heal a broken heart, and provide temporary relief to nymphomaniacs.
-- Larry Lee
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
-- William Orton
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
-- George Bernard Shaw
It was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
-- Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
-- Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
-- Oscar Wilde
Sin is the result of conceit; it has no other basis. To discuss it is to argue about nothing, with vain words, in a void created by imagination.
-- Mu-ni Gam-po, "Old Ugly-Face" by Talbot Mundy
Nothing's fair. Nobody is. We're all liabilities, some of us doing our best, which isn't much. This world is the only hell we'll ever know. We've got to take it and make the best of it, because we can't leave it. It isn't a case of devil take the hindmost. The devil gets the front men first as the general rule, and gets all of us sooner or later.
-- Andrew Gunning, "Old Ugly-Face" by Talbot Mundy
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
-- Isaac Asimov
When someone's rooster kills one of my roosters, we have a drink afterward and we celebrate our friendship. But inside I'm thinking: 'I need to raise another rooster to kill his rooster'"
-- Carmelo Baena, a 53-year-old dentist in Columbia
I know you think you thought you knew what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you understood what you thought I meant.
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
-- Rita Mae Brown
You know that feeling when you're leaning back on a stool and it starts to tip over? Well, that's how I feel all the time.
-- Steven Wright
The only thoroughly consistent people are the dead ones. Let them bury their own dead. Our business is living, and life is a perpetual ascent from peak to higher peak of comprehension.
-- Talbot Mundy
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
-- Chuang Tzu
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
When all else fails, pour a pint of Guinness in the gas tank, advance the spark 20 degrees, cry "God Save the Queen!", and pull the starter knob.
-- MG "Series MGA" Workshop Manual
Facts! What skittles facts are! Icicles that melt the moment truth appears!
-- Elsa Grayne, "Old Ugly-Face" by Talbot Mundy
Sure. Go ahead. But you'll have to do more than explain if you want me to more than believe. I'd like to *know*. I'm fed up with believing.
-- Andrew Gunning, "Old Ugly-Face" by Talbot Mundy
I did not know there were so many people in the western hemisphere not only willing but apparently quite eager to accept an explanation of life's handicap based solely on what Asia calls the Ancient Wisdom. I am almost tempted to believe -- perhaps to hope -- that prejudice and dogma are not after all so firmly seated on the throne of Christianity as the professional religionists would have us think.
-- Talbot Mundy
When we behold art, do we stultify our own intelligence by arguing that the artist knew no more than we? Or, because we have never seen the artist, do we deny that art exists? Or, because we see fraudulent copies of art, do we deny that there are many artists whose integrity is above dispute?
-- Talbot Mundy
We are still, like the fabled ostrich with its head stuck in the sand, absurd conservatives, for we conserve not much else than our own opinion of ourselves -- no pleasant one, at that, maintaining as it generally does that we were born in sin.
-- Talbot Mundy
The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only a page.
-- St. Augustine
Every last [politician], in every country in the world, is a professional liar, thief, hypocrite, charlatan, crook, doublecrosser--in plain words, a phony. An honest man couldn't last a week in any important political job. If he were even half honest, he wouldn't accept the job in the first place.
-- Andrew Gunning, "Old Ugly-Face" by Talbot Mundy
In Vietnam, a 19-year-old Viet Cong soldier screams that Americans should leave his country as he is shot by a government firing squad. His American counterpart meanwhile is staying up nights thinking of ways to deceptively destroy his health, mind or virility to escape two years in a relatively comfortable army. Free enterprise strikes again.
-- Phil Ochs
Belief is quite another thing from knowledge, as the writers of the New Testament strove so diligently to make clear by the discriminating use of words that their translators subsequently bungled. Accident may cause belief to stumble on the right Path, but nothing less than Knowledge holds us there; it is belief -- blind faith -- that seizes on the letter of the law; the spirit of the law is only grasped by understanding, leading on to Knowledge.
-- Talbot Mundy
When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it.
On a tous un peu peur de l'amour, mais on a surtout peur de souffrir ou de faire souffrir. [One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.]
Truth is King, and is never in the least concerned about the passions of the moment. With all eternity ahead and to look back upon, serenely autocratic in an everlasting Now, Truth rules impartially all the universe including this temporary world of ours.
-- Talbot Mundy
There are a great many grades of ignorance, some wilful, some inherited, some due to sheer stupidity, and some that are the consequence of evil habits which have so corrupted thought that even temporary good intentions fail to disperse the mists of prejudice. The effect of ignorance is inevitably disastrous, unless knowledge can by some means be brought to the rescue.
-- Talbot Mundy
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-- Francis Bacon
If you think progress is inevitable, why bring it about? If you think all change is for the better, why put it to the test? If you think the good things come to those who wait, where on earth would you be today? There are many accidents in life, evolution isn't one of them.
Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
-- Spock
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating up on to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born.
-- Nikola Tesla
There are people who do not dare to write anything of their own. Eager to write, they become interpreters of the works of others. Like those who have no notion of architecture, they make it their profession to whitewash walls.
-- Petrarch
Education can not be substituted for intelligence.
And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an instant transport us into the most distant regions of the universe; or even beyond the universe, into the unbounded chaos, where nature is supposed to lie in total confusion.
-- David Hume
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. It is just as necessary to make our concepts sensible, that is, to add the object to them in intuition, as to make our intuitions intelligible, that is, to bring them under concepts.
-- Immanuel Kant
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
-- Karl Marx
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
-- Gautama Buddha
I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli-gence?" I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on. And then I say it would be astonishing to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as yet no compelling evidence for it. And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do you really think?" I say, "I just told you what I really think." "Yeah, but what's your gut feeling?" But I try not to think with my gut. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
-- Carl Sagan
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.
-- Stephen King
Catastrophes come suddenly like tidal waves and leave us wondering what happened and how we survived. Presently we begin to invent an explanation, and before long we have convinced ourselves.
-- Major Crosby, "Jimgrim" by Talbot Mundy
The human brain is genetically disposed toward organization, yet if not tightly controlled, will link one imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest of pretense and in the most freewheeeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regard for logic or chronological sequence.
-- Switters, "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable.
-- H. L. Mencken
Even more never than already.
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognise -- and to live with the recognition -- that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashoning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
-- Nietzsche
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
-- Vanbrugh
Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is doing it.
The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics, culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation of events. Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined.
-- John K. Naland, "The First Easter", Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
-- A.E. Houseman
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
The sky was gray but not depressingly so, as if even the sun just didn't feel like making the effort today and the clouds had taken over more or less by default, but wanted it perfectly clear that they had no intention of going to the trouble of raining, either.
-- JSP
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Didrikisms: bizarre sharp-angled rants about the universe and any of it's inhabitants.
-- Cat
Meditation hasn't got a damn thing to do with anything, 'cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It's then and exactly then that you're sensing the true nature of the universe, you're linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you're content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there's the only place to be.
-- Bobby Case, "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.
The secret of life, you ask? That's easy -- It's faster cars, younger women, older whiskey and more money.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
-- Niels Bohr
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
-- Joseph Brodsky
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-- Mike Romanoff
Art is a jealous mistress.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.
-- Samual Johnson
Work without a vision is slavery. Vision without work is a pipe dream. But vision with work is the hope of the world.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
-- Carl Sagan
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
-- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
"Hello," he lied.
I have never been one to sacrifice my appetite on the altar of appearance.
-- A.M. Readyhough
It's like running in a hail storm so that no matter what direction you run the hail is always hitting you in the face, so you stop.
-- Carl E. Wieman on creating Bose-Einstein Condensates
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
-- Noam Chomsky
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-- Oscar Wilde
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly.
-- Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
-- Fidel Castro
From what, then, are all men free? And to what are they equal? The great nations -- great, that is, in wealth and armaments -- exclude the weaker nations from an equal voice in international affairs; big business crowds smaller business out of existence; big political organizations suppress individual liberties; men with big brains and no squeamishness mock law by its manipulation for their private profit. Are men or women free from tyranny, robbery, blackmail, prejudice, oppression, violence, libel, slander? And if not, why?
-- Talbot Mundy, "The Theosophical Path"
The more I study religion, the more I become convinced that man has never worshiped anything except himself.
-- Sir Richard Burton
Animals lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousnes that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being... The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dreams and even the most sun-filled days -- that's something else.
-- Ernest Becker
Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- Baruch's Observation
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support
rather than illumination.
Some Rules For Grammar:
(1) Don't use no double negatives.
(2) Make each pronoun agree with their antecedents.
(3) Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
(4) About them sentence fragments.
(5) When dangling, watch your participles.
(6) Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
(7) Just between you and i, case is important.
(8) Don't write run-on sentences when they are hard to read.
(9) Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
(10) Try to not ever split infinitives.
(11) It is important to use your apostrophe's correctly.
(12) Proofread your writing to see if you any words out.
(13) Correct speling is essential.
(14) A preposition is something you never end a sentence with.
(15) While a transcendant vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconsed in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-- Robert Heinlein
'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.
-- Siddartha, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
-- The Architect to Neo in the movie "The Matrix: Reloaded"
I have conversed with many priests; and some were honest men, and some were not, but three things none of them could answer: if their God is all-wise, what does it matter if men are foolish? And if they can imagine and define their God, must he not be smaller than their own imaginations? Furthermore, if their God is omnipotent, why does he need priests and ritual?
-- From the Book of the sayings of Tsiang Samdup
And I have asked this of the priests, but though they answered with a multitude of words, their words were emptiness: If it is true that a priest can pacify and coax God, or by meditation can relieve another from the consequences of his own sin, why should anyone be troubled and why do the priests not put an end for ever to all sin and suffering? If they can, and do not, they are criminals. If they cannot, but pretend that they can, they are liars. Nevertheless, there is a middle judgement, and it seems to me that some of them may be mistaken.
-- From the Book of the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup
In the broad and final sense all institutions are educational in the sense that they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality...Whether this educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic way of life.
-- John Dewey (1859-1953)
I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
-- Alan Greenspan
You hid from armageddon?
--Blackice on #alt.uk
With a dozen courses open to them, any one of which might have saved the situation, they deliberately chose a thirteenth--two-forked toboggan-slide into destruction.
--Talbot Mundy, "Rung Ho!"
[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
--from "Catch 22", by Joseph Heller
Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
-- Werner Erhard
Be prepared for anything at any time from anybody and don't take no shit and stand your ground. People wanna come up to me and run they mouth I'll throw 'em through a fucking window -- I wont think a think of it.
Calm down, have some dip.
Oh...and balance the stupid fucking budget!
-- George Carlin
Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions
seldom black or white. Beware of the solution that requires one side to be
totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner. The reason
there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side has all
the facts. Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is
not acting from political motivation. Rather, he is acting from a deep
sense of respect for the whole truth.
-- Stephen R. Schwambach
|
|
stuff other people have said, that was worthwhile...
|
|
|
|