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-- Mencius
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
-- Aurthur C Clarke
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
--Kierkegaard
Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
-- Yolanda Thomas
A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turnaround and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow--motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports, The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.
-- Audobon Society Magazine
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.
-- Brendan Behan
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.
-- Laurie Anderson
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
-- J. P. McEvoy
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
-- W. C. Fields
Too much of a good thing is Wonderful.
-- Mae West
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
--W. C. Fields
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
--Arthur P. Stanley
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
-- Samuel Johnson
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
-- Peter Marshall
When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
-- Owen Wister
Real life is, to most men, a long second--best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
-- Bertrand Russell
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
-- Oscar Wilde
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
-- Carl Schurz
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
-- Aristotle
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-- John Ruskin
How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a light bulb"
Two. One to change it and one not to change it.
-- Unknown
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
--Margaret Bonnano
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
--Albert Schweitzer
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
--John Lennon
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
--Eldridge Cleaver
In order to compose [music]. all you need to do is remember a tune nobody else has thought of.
--Robert Schumann
As we live, we are transmitters of life. And when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow through us. But giving is not so easy. It doesn't mean handing life out to some mean fool, or letting the living dead eat you up. It means kindling the life quality where it was not.
--D.H. Lawrence
A new koan:
If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.
If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you.
It is an ice cream koan.
-- Anonymous
He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-- Jules de Gaultier
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
-- Rainer Rilke
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick
Eternity is just time on an ego trip.
-- Lily Tomlin
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-- Ingrid Bergman
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
--John Wooden
Carperpetuation: (kar' pur pet u a' shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
-- Unknown
Ufluation: (yu flu ay' shun) n. The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized there.
--unknown
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!"
But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet, in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the miracle worker, come to save us all!" And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more miracle worker than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.
But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all the while clinging to the rocks, making legends of a Saviour.
--Unknown