We have come
to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controled and dominated Governments in the civilized world--No
longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority,
but a government of a small group of dominent men--President
Woodrow Wilson
Patriotism
means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the
president or any other public official, save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic
to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It
is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency
or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In
either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether
about the president or anyone else.
T Roosevelt
In their
propaganda today's dictators rely for the
most part on repetition, suppression and
rationalization---the repetition of catchwords which
they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of
facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and
rationalization of passions which may be used in the
interests of the Party of the State. As the art and
science of manipulation come to be better understood,
the dictators of the future will doubtlessly learn to
combine these techniques with the non-stop
distractions which, in the West, are now threatening
to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational
propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual
liberty and the survival of democratic institutions-G. Orwell
The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them-Rush Limbaugh
A lie which is half truth is the blackest of lies--Tennyson
He has all
the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
--Sir Winston Churchill
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame--Benjamin Franklin
Knowing
others is intelligence; knowing yourself
is true wisdom. Mastering
others is strength;
mastering yourself is true
power. If you
realize you have enough, you
are truly rich.
If you stay in the
center and embrace death with your
whole heart, you will endure
forever--TaoTeChing
Colors blind
the eye, sounds deafen the ear, flavors
numb the taste, thoughts weaken the mind, desires wither
the heart. The master observes the world but trusts his
inner vision. He allows things
to come and go.
His heart is as open as the sky--TaoTeChing
When the great Dao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear.
When the body's intelligence
declines, cleverness and
knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family,
filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born--TaoTeChing
The effect of
life in society is to complicate and confuse
our existence, making us forget
who we really are
by causing us to become
obsessed with what we are
not--Chuang
Tzu
Yet each man
kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss,
the brave man a
sword --Oscar Willed
Peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations..
entangling alliances with none
Thomas Jefferson
Any person
that would trade freedom for
security does not deserve to
have either one--Thomas Jefferson
He who knows does not speak,
he who speaks does not know--TaoTeChing
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices,
so much error, so much nausea,
disillusionment and sorrow,
just in order to become a child
again and begin
anew--Herman Hesse Siddhartha
If the
only tool you have in life is a hammer,
you tend to treat everything as
if it were a
nail--Abraham Maslow
I am
convinced that each human being is unique
and that he has a right to be
his own
separate self--Aaron Ungersma
Strange how
much you have to know before
you know how little you know--Anonymous
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one--Albert Einstein
Reality and
Fiction are different in that fiction has to
make sense--Ray Bradbury
All education is self-discovery--Ray Bradbury
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the
limits of the world
--Arthur Schopenhaur
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time--Abraham Lincoln
The more
extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done,
the greater will be his power
of knowing what to do--Benjamin Disraeli
What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are
hungry or n
--Jallaludin Rumi
The Agnostic's Prayer "Oh god, if there is a god, save my
soul, if I have a soul"
--Ernst Renan
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them--David
Hume
All that is comes from the mind--Dhammapada
Moderation in the protection of Liberty is no virtue; extremism
in the defense
of freedom is no vice-- Barry
Goldwater
I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority
as opposed to
the unquestioning majority--Sigmund
Freud
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as
of the greatest
virtues--Rene Descartes
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing--Thomas Jefferson
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way--Goldberg
If I didn't kick Bill Clinton's ass every day, he wouldn't be
worth anything
--Hillary Clinton, 1980
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't--Anonymous
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle em' with BS--Anonymous
There's a sucker born every minute--PT Barnum
A little inaccuracy contains a world of explanation--Aryes
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions--Robert Humphrey
Myths are true legends about actual events that never occurred--Brett Hobde
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten
the meanings,
you can forget the words--Chuang
Tzu
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness--Anonymous
Sanity is a madness put to good uses-- George Santayana
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future--Oscar Wilde
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle--Will Durant
With your hands carve out your own destiny--Guru Nanak
Captain Pike has his illusions, and you Captain Kirk, have your
realities.
May you find your way as
pleasant--Star Trek
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects-- Will Rogers
"But the
Emperor has nothing on at all!" cried a little child
--Hans Christen Andersen The
Emperors New Clothes
Age is deformed, youth unkind, we scorn their bodies, they our
mind
--Thomas Bastard
The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and
its sold out for all
performances--Henry
Winkler
The Future is not what it used to be--Arthur C. Clark
I know that you believe you understand what I think you said, but
I am not sure you
realize that what you heard is not what I meant--Anonymous
I do desire that we may be better strangers--Shakespeare
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted on man have
come through
people feeling quite certain about something which, infact, was
completely false
--Bertrand Russell
That
hatred springs more from self-contempt than from a
legitimate grievance is seen in
the intimate connection between hatred
and a guilty conscience--Eric
Hoffer
I will not
let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere,
emotionally tied-up or
constricted, or artificially
nice and social, if I can help it--Eugene Gendlin
An
intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in
the world
--Ashley Montague
This alone I know, that I know nothing--Socrates
Above all have respect for yourself--Pythagorus
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so--Shakespeare
The nature of man is not what he is born as but what he is born for--Aristotle
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to
change their minds, not kill them for
weaknesses we all possess--Gandhi
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind--Gandhi
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own heart--Gandhi
To endure
life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living
being
Illusion can have no value if
it makes this more difficult for us--Sigmund Freud
In wilderness is the preservation of the world--Henry David Thoreau
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a
human being, enjoy taxes,
canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb--G. H. R. von
Koenigswald
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook--William James
Occam's Razor-Do not create more hypotheses than necessary OR The
simplest
explanation that will fit the facts is probably the best--William
of Occam
To pretend to
satisfy one's desires by possessions
is like putting out a fire with
straw--Chinese Proverb
Contentment, even in poverty, brings happiness;discontent
is poverty even in riches--Chinese
Proverb
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own
stories
--Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongueis the
only
edged tool that grows keener
with constant use--Washington Irving
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty,
you should lay it on with a
trowel--Benjamin Disraeli
True and
False are attributes of speech, not of things. And
where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood--Thomas
Hobbes
In ignorance
of the whole truth, each person maintains
his own arrogant point of view--Buddha
We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be
ready tommorrow to call it
falsehood--William James
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it--Ludwig Wittgenstein
I do not understand my own actions--St. Paul
I may not
agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say
it--?
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it--George Santayana
No Person shall be be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use,
without just compensation--5th
Amendtment
A lie which is half truth is the blackest of lies--Tennyson
Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for--Frank Mendoza
The
object of war is not to die for your country but to make the
other
bastard die
for his--General George Patton
Force and Fraud in war are the cardinal virtues--Thomas Hobbes
We only think when confronted with a problem--John Dewey
He has
all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
--Sir Winston Churchill
I know what I know, I know what you know and thats all I need to
know
--James F. Morgan Jr.
If I
were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
--Abraham Lincoln
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame--Benjamin Franklin
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
--Will Rogers
The cynics
are right nine times out of ten
--Henry Louis Mencken
Happiness is good health and a bad memory
--Ingrid Bergman
In the
end, everything is a gag--Charlie Chaplin
BIORYTHMS:
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Religious
Quotations-Scripture
So then my
beloved bretheren, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath;
for the wrath of man does not
produce the righteousness of
god--James 1:19,20
A soft answer turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up
anger-- Proverbs 15:1
But I say to you, love your
enemies, bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you,
and pray for those
who spitefully use you
and persecute you--Matthew 5:44
Trust in the
LORD with all your heart, and lean not
on your own understanding. In
all your ways
acknowledge him, and he shall
direct your paths--Proverbs 3:5,6
Vindicate me
O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity.
I have also trusted in the Lord;
I shall not slip--Psalms 26:1
For God has
not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and love and of a
sound mind-- 2 Timothy 1:7
Repay no one
evil for evil. Have regard for good things
in the sight of all men.
If possible, as much as depends on you,
live peaceably with all men--Romans
12:17,18
Fear not, for
I am with you; be not dismayed,
for I am your god. I will
strengthen you, yes,
I will help you, I will uphold
you with my righteous hand
--Isaiah 41:10
Therefore
whoever humbles himself as this little
child is the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven--Mathew 18:4
A good man
deals graciously and lends;
he will guide his affairs with
discretion--Psalm 112:5
Redeem me from the oppression of man--Psalm 119:134a
Therefore,
putting away lying, "Let each of you speak truth
with his neighbor," for we
are members of one another
--Ephesians 4:25
The truthful
lip shall be established forever, but
a lying tongue is but for a
moment--Proverbs 12:19
You are of
God, little children, and have overcome them,
because He who is in you is
greater than he
who is in the world--1 John 4:4
All that the
Father gives Me will come to Me,
and the one who comes to me
will by no means be cast out.
For I have come down from
heaven, not to do My own will,
but the will of him who sent Me.
This is the will of the
Father who sent Me, that of all
He has given me I should
lose nothing, but should raise
it up at the last day.
--John 6:37-39
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