Good Quotes
Mood:
silly
Politics:"Oh bother," said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh." - unknown
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
--Robert Heinlein
"For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade." -- Noam Chomsky
'The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.' (H.L. Mencken,Smart Set magazine,December 1919)
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -Ambrose Bierce
"For a commercial company trying to make investments, you need a stable environment; dictatorships can give you that." Memo written by a spokesperson for Shell Nigeria (from The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
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To live by:"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
-Kierkegaard
"If a person doesn't have bitter regrets by the time he's thirty, what's life about, anyway? Everybody has to have a big flowering crabapple tree in their backyard turn crimson and maroon in October, to
remind them of some great, glorious, miserable, terrific mistake that they made in the past." - Garrison Keillor
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" (I found it) but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' -- Douglas Adams
"What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?" from a bumper sticker
"You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. For both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human." --Eric Hoffer
'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.' -Philip K. Dick
"The thing most alien to the true idea of humanity, is the notion that our well-being lies in surpassing our fellows. We have to rise above ourselves, not above our neighbours; to take all the good 'of' them, not 'from,' and give them all our good in return. That which cannot be freely shared, can never be possessed. . ." - excerpt from: ''There and Back' by George MacDonald
"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who
perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual
is crazy."
-Dave Barry
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Religion:"I swear to you, then," said MacIan. . . "I swear it by the god you have denied, by the Blessed Lady you have blasphemed; I swear it by the seven swords in her heart. I swear it by the Holy Island where my fathers are, by the honour of my mother, by the secret of my people, and by the chalice of the Blood of God." The Atheist drew up his head. "And I," he said, "give my word." _The Ball and the Cross_, G.K. Chesterton
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Thoughts:Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. - Florence King
'If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.' -- Dave Barry
A quote from an 19th century spoilsport -
1868 Northern Vindicator (Estherville, Iowa) 30 Dec., "The lascivious lolly-gagging lumps of licentiousness who disgrace the common decencies of life by their love-sick fawnings at our public dances."
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Travel:"May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view......where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than you deepest dreams waits for you." - Edward Abbey
'The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.'
- From The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien-
Posted by rachela
at 2:25 PM MST
Updated: Sunday, 7 December 2003 8:44 AM MST
