Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ~ James Thurber

[Turtle]

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. ~Samuel Butler

[Michaelangelica]

# Stephen Hawking:

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

 

# Stephen Hawking:

Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

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[Turtle]

B) Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ~ Turkish Proverb

[Boerseun]

"Being a Man is not having the ability to create a child, but having the courage to raise one." - Dr. Helmut Schumann

[Turtle]

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[Michaelangelica]

:) Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ~ Turkish Proverb

 

 

[Turtle]

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. ~ Matt Lauer

[InfiniteNow]

"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

 

The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization... he does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated — if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention. This demand for total triumph leads to the formulation of hopelessly unrealistic goals, and since these goals are not even remotely attainable, failure constantly heightens the paranoid’s sense of frustration. Even partial success leaves him with the same feeling of powerlessness with which he began, and this in turn only strengthens his awareness of the vast and terrifying quality of the enemy he opposes."

~Richard Hofstadter

[Turtle]

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~ John Muir

[Turtle]

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

~ Buddha ~

[InfiniteNow]

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, and as-yet unsolved problems.

 

- RBF

[Turtle]

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~ Walter Lippmann

[InfiniteNow]

"In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it."

 

~Joseph Badaracco

[Turtle]

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ~ Voltaire

[Turtle]

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ~ Allan Bloom

[Turtle]

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. ~ George Bernard Shaw