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"If Obama is rejected on November 4th for another authoritarian conservative like McCain, I must ask if Americans are sufficiently intelligent to competently govern themselves." - John Dean, "The Evidence Establishes, Without Question, that Republican Rule is Dangerous" 10/31/08 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/31-5 |
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008) |
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way." Rollo May |
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. Unknown Author |
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893) |
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon makes it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garllic makes it good. Alice May Brock, author (b. 1941) |
| I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. -Mario Cuomo, 52nd Governor of New York (b. 1932) |
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H.L. Mencken, born September 9, 1880 |
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia:
you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the urge passes. Robert Maynard Hutchins, January 17, 1899. From Dr. Mardy
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. - Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. - Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988) The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves nd to one another. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) | HAPPINESS
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." Chuang-Tzu
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." Eric Hoffer
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." Bertrand Russell
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." William Saroyan
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." Edith Wharton |
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