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- Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
-Albert Schweitzer
- Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish
through eternal peace.
-Adolf Hitler
- Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it
die for it, anything but live for it.
-Charles Caleb Colton
- Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends
are ultimately answered.
-Daniel Webster
- Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with
death as his greatest source of anxiety.
-John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Age of Uncertainity"
- Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
-Francis Bacon, "Essays"
- Money is like the sixth sense without which you cannot make a
complete use of the other five.
-W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
- Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-Henry David Thoreau
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- Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
- Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
-Juvenal
- No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.
-Jewel "Life Uncommon"
- No man or woman who pursues an ideal in his or own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
- Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know
that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Albert Einstein
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- Older men declare war, But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth
who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that
are the aftermath of war.
-Herbert Hoover, speech 1944
- One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller
- One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
-Francoise Sagan
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that "man" should be happy
is not included in the plan of "Creation"...We are so made that we can derive
intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
-Sigmund Freud, Civilation and its Discontents
- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extra ordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
- Only a peace between equals can last
-Woodrow Wilson
- Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T.S. Elliot
- Our greatest glory is not in nvever failing but in rising each time we fail.
-Confucius
- Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoueau
- Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.
-Albert Einstein
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- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
-George Jean Nathan
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-Samuel Johnson
- Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
-Maria Schell
- People are as free as they want to be.
-James Baldwin
- People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
-Robert Half
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs
which properly concern them.
-Paul Valery
- Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
-Mao Tse-tung
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- Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls
in with our instinctual desires.
-Sigmund Freud
- Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
-Mark Twain
- Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
Who finds himself, loses his misery!
-Matthew Arnold, "Self Dependence"
- Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.
-Thomas Edison
- Results! Why, man, I gave gotten a lot of results.
I know several thousand things that won't work.
-Thomas Edison
- Revolutions are not about trifles but they spring from trifles.
-Aristotle, "Politics"
- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
-Nikita Khrushchev
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- Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because in the last
analysis we are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Max Plank
- Science has nothing to be ashamed of, even in the ruins of Nagasaki.
-Jacob Bronowski
- Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
-Dr. Joel Goodman
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as
wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
- So man, who here seems principal alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown,
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
-Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man"
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
-Seneca
- Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
-T.S. Elliot
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- Technology made large populations possible; large populations no make technology indispensible.
Joseph Wood Krutch
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
-Thomas Jefferson
- The basis of effective government is public confidence.
- John F. Kennedy
- The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born,
and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
-William Shakespeare
- The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person's determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
- The evolutionary process has a tendency toward higher consciousness and
freedom through more complex or synergistic order, a tendency that is
operative in us and can be acessed spiritually, socially, and scientifically.
-Barbara Marx Hubbard, "Conscious Evolution"
- The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-Publilius Syrus
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
-William Shakespeare
- The general ORDER, since the whole began,
Is kept in Nature, and is kept in man.
-Alexander Pope"Essay on Man"
- The human mind, once stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its
orignal dimensions.
-Oliver Wendal Holmes
- The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself.
-Thomas Carlyle
- The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
-Malcom de Chazel
- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet.
Are of imagination all compact.
-William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
-Pierre Corneille, "Le Menteur"
- The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as the future.
-Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
- The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he know not discreetly how to use it.
- Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"
- The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere
and the circumference is nowhwere
-Empedocles
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
-Marshall Mcluhan
- The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell
them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or
Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence,
Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception,
Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance,
Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany,
Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral,
Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy,
Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist"
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The only place that success comes before work is in
the dictionary.
-Vidal Sassoon
- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life
even in order to keep it.
-G. K. Chesterton
- The path that leads from moral standards to political activity is
strewn with our dead selves
-Andre Malraux
- The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them
make them.
-George Bernard Shaw
- The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion
to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
-Vincent Lombardi
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
- The religions we call false were once true.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
-Baron de Montesquieu.
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the with
the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
- The universe operates through dynamic exchange...giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe.
And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
-Deepak Chopra, "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success"
- The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
-Sigmund Freud
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- George Santayana
- There are two times in a man's life when he shoud not speculate: when he can't afford it,
and when he can.
Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"
- There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
-Andrew Jackson
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are
under the influence of imagination.
-Edmund Burke
- There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three sided.
-Baron de Montesquieu
- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Bible, I John 4:18
- There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
-Sun-tzu, "The Art of War"
- There is not so contemptible plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
-John Locke
- There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.
The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion,
to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
-Robert Oppenheimer
- There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
- There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.
Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
-Michael Lews
- They can transport my BODY to school, but they can't chain my SPIRIT!
My spirit roams free! Walls can't confine it! Laws can't restrain it!
Authority has no power over it!
-Bill Watterson - Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes
- Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them...there is nothing.
-Sarte
- This above all; to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-Shakespeare Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78-80
- Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men,
undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
-Thomas Paine
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy
- Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
-Socrates
- Time discovers truth.
-Seneca
- Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
-Austin Dobson, "The Paradox of Time"
- Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we
change and are no longer the same persons.
-Blaise Pascal
- To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
-Bernard de Fontenelle
- To die is to go into the Collective Unconsciousness, to lose oneself inorder to be
transformed into form, pure form.
-Hermann Hesse
- To fill the hour, - that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no
crevice for a repentance or an approval.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-Robert L. Stevenson
- Typically we accept the consensual worldview withour even noticing it.
-Barbara Marx Hubbard, "Conscious Evolution"
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- Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
-Carl Sagan
- Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
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- War is fear cloaked in courage.
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
- War is nothing but the continutaion of politics with the admixture of other means.
-Karl von Clausewitz
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need
to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-Charles Kingsley
- We all live under the same sky, but we don't all
have the same horizon.
-Konrad Adenauer
- We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"
- We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.
-Plotinus
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of
that divine idea which each of us represents.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never
voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
- We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens
as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
-Stephen Jay Gould
- Weep not that the world changes - did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed
to weep.
-William Cullen Bryant, "Mutation"
- What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
-Joseph Conrad
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case I
definately overpaid for my carpet.
-Woody Allen
- What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
William Blake
- What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bet at night
and in between does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-Goethe
- When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect.
-Blaine Lee
- When the cries and pleas of young people to change the world are not heard
and never heeded; when they see that their cause is lost - that you will have it your way no matter what - young
people, who are not stupid, will do the next best thing.
If they can't beat you, they will join you.
-"God" in "Conversations with God"
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
-Mark Twain
- While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
- Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
-Socrates
- Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
-Kahlil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"
- With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium:
that rare weakness we call imagination.
-Oriana Fallaci
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- You are never given a wish without also being given
the power to make it true.
Richard Bach
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.
-W. Somerset Maugham
- You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-Naguib, Mahfouz
- You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
-Arlo Guthrie
- You find the key to success under the alarm clock.
-Benjamin Franklin
- You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
-Ethel Barrymore
- You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-Buddha
- Youth is easily decieved because it is quick to hope.
-Aristotle, Rhetoric
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