Life, what's it all about then? What indeed. A Guide, by Arthur Riding

Life, what's it all about then?

What indeed.

Himalayan Mountain Range, with Mount Everest towards the top left

A Guide

by Arthur Riding A philosophy through quotations FREE

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Life, what's it all about then?

What Indeed A Guide by Arthur Riding A philosophy through quotations Copyright Information This book is first published in April 2010. Arthur Riding asserts the moral right to be identified as the compiler of this book of quotations and as the author of his own text and personal quotations used in this book.

It is believed that all material in this book is in the public domain. Nearly all the quotes have been obtained from the internet, and in the vast majority of cases, they are available from dozens, often hundreds, of different web sites. It is thus impossible to name every single provider of these quotations as they are so varied and plentiful, but special thanks need to go to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org) and Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org), who have provided the largest number of quotes, and data, used in this book.

All quotes and data are provided for the purposes of research, criticism and discussion purposes in my efforts to advance the understanding of political, social, economic, scientific and humanist issues.

I believe that all the contents of this book are covered by the 'fair use' doctrine in US Copyright Law, in particular Section 17 U.S.C. ยง 107. In addition, I believe the contents of this book are covered by fair dealing laws in the UK and other countries around the world.

Much effort has been made to ensure that the quotes are ascribed to the correct people. However, sometimes it is not actually clear exactly who originally said a particular quote. Sometimes I show the quote under 2 authors, or under 'no author' in the Proverbs section, though usually I just allocate it to who seems the most likely author. If I have made any mistakes in the authors under whom the quotes are shown, please accept my apologies and rest assured there has been no intention to mislead or to mis-attribute.

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Thanks to NASA http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/index.html for their photos, used on the covers of this book. a) The amazing shot of the Himalayan Mountain Range, taken from the Space Shuttle, on the front cover b) The 'map' of the most densely populated region on Earth, the Tokyo Metropolitan area, on the back cover c) A view of the Earth from space at night-time showing the major population areas, also on the back cover

Dedication This book is dedicated to my wonderful wife, Toy, for her loving forbearance and, particularly during the past year or two while I have been putting together the main part of this book, having to put up with monosyllabic grunts from me, in answer to most of her questions.

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So, why this book?

'I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own.'

Montaigne 'Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson No doubt there will be many readers who say why should I quote other people when I could very well just put down my own thoughts instead. Well, yes, there is some truth in that, I could have done it that way and it would probably have required less effort as well compared to preparing a collection of quotations. However, a) apart from family (some of them only!) and friends (even fewer!) who would be prepared to read a book of my thoughts, hardly anyone else would, especially from a completely unknown author called Arthur Riding.

Using the words of other people who are (mainly) already slightly, or very, famous, makes my thoughts, but in other people's words, much more easily disseminated and acceptable, b) the authors quoted here tend to be much better writers than I am, and have a considerably better turn of phrase than I do. That makes their thoughts (and indirectly mine) much more accessible, and shorter. I have a tendency to use ten words where one will do and also like to explain my reasoning in fine detail (see this Introduction) which would make any book written by me far too long winded. Some would regard this as a failing of mine, but I would also regard it as an asset in terms of precision and I much prefer too much to too little information So, my thoughts using other people's quotations is a far better way of getting my views read. c) using quotations makes the thoughts expressed far more credible. Many of the people quoted here are some of the greatest minds that have ever existed on Earth. Their views matter, even if you do not agree with all, or indeed any, of their views. They cannot be dismissed as just some nonentity. d) finally, I am not trying to write a 'complete' philosophy or meaning of life and/or humanity, that is not possible, or tenable, in my view, sorry Plato et al. Human beings are just too diverse, with completely different motivations, sorry Freud, and ideas to make any single or 'complete' analysis of humanity anything but futile.

What one can do, which is what I have done, is to assemble a collection of ideas and concepts, which together act as the foundation of my belief system and personal morality. Some people prefer to get this 'off the shelf' such as from the Bible, or Koran, or Karl Marx, or wherever, and good luck to them. I prefer to look at some of the best thoughts in the world and pick what for me, is applicable and 'real' and 'true'. Hence, this book.

Although the words of wisdom in this collection of quotations are not mine (apart from a few, somewhat controversial, statements further along) they do fully reflect my deeply held views on the nature of mankind and the nature of society and humanity. This collection is my view of truth and reality and reflects my hopes for the future and where we seem to be getting things right, and fears of where we, as humans, seem so desperately to be going wrong. At present, far from getting better, our world seems to be slipping, bit by bit, into a new dark age. We see a tremendous rise in that greatest of all evils, intolerance, the evil from which all other evils descend. It is not only the intolerance of the fundamentalists - from the Christian right in the USA, to the Moslem fundamentalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the Jewish extremists in Israel and the USA, to the Hindu bigotry in India - but also the increasing intolerance of the general population for anything which is 'different'. Whether enough of humanity 'wakes up' in time to reverse this trend remains to be seen.

Not that my ideas and views are in any way original. Indeed, it is rare to find a truly original idea anymore, nearly everything has either been thought of, or said, at some stage over the past few thousand years of the history of mankind. Most of the people quoted are from the 20th & 21st Centuries. However many are also from earlier times, some even going back over two and a half thousand years. It is instructive to note how many concepts that we regard as 'modern' were actually already around with the ancient Chinese, Indians and Greeks.

Of course, that doesn't stop people today trying to re-package the ideas as something new and exciting. Well, that's up to them. Good luck to them if what they are trying to do is to make a positive contribution to society. I am more than happy though to acknowledge the source & inspiration of much of my thinking, though of course many of the people quoted here did, in turn, get their ideas too from others before them, often unacknowledged!

There will no doubt be some, the professional critics and cynics amongst us, who will decry many of these quotations as being 'na誰ve', or 'irrelevant to the modern world', or even that they are 'merely common sense', or 'unrealistic', or some other weasely words. Well, I am afraid that these types of people are all over the world and maybe even more nowadays than ever before. They are the sort of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The point is, why are hardly any of these concepts and ideas being followed in this day and age? They are not 'na誰ve'. The reality is, much of mankind seems to have lost the ability to think & have become

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so bound up with the 'I want now' and 'follow the leader' mentality that a lot of the ideas in this collection will definitely seem foolish & out-dated to them. People seem to have largely forgotten or ignored these fundamental truths in favour of what I see as a more shallow, negative & couldn't care less attitude towards life & humanity.

In my view, all the words and ideas expressed in this collection are all absolutely true, though, like everything in life, they are not necessarily true in all possible circumstances. There are exceptions to everything. However, that fact does not make them any less 'true' or lessen their significance or importance. To me, these ideas are absolutely basic and fundamental for any human being. I do not expect anyone to agree with every single quotation that I have included. After all, this is my collection of thoughts, not yours, or any other single person.

Indeed it would be an impossibility for anyone to agree with everything here for as just as no two snowflakes are the same (allegedly), so no two individual people are exactly the same. We might share some concepts and views with another person but each adult in this world has had a different upbringing and different experiences, which will mean that each of us, & our ideas, will always be at least slightly different from every other human being, sometimes of course very different. That is good, there is most definitely no absolute truth or absolute reality and even similar ideas will have different meanings for each of us. What matters is that we understand exactly why we believe something and have minds which are open to alternatives and different viewpoints.

I have avoided taking party political sides throughout as every party has its stupidities and no party is, or was, a custodian of the truth, they all have good points and bad points. However I have included some criticism of political parties, especially where they show complete contempt for humanity, such as the antics of the modern US Republican Party, once having some honour, but now hijacked by the vile fanatical ideology of the 'neo conservatives' and Christian fundamentalists, as big a threat to both American and to World freedoms as any Moslem fundamentalist.

You might notice that some of these quotations cover the same idea or principle. Certainly it is true that there is some duplication. However, just because more than one person has the same idea doesn't lessen its validity or accuracy. If anything, the opposite, it strengths the concept. I don't include every person that I come across who covers the same ground in their quotations but if two or more people, maybe centuries apart, say the same thing, but in different and interesting ways, then fine, I have included them both – and more. Conversely, whilst all the ideas within this collection are fundamentally true, in my opinion, it might sometimes seem as if some of them are contradictory. Sometimes it might be that you need to think a bit harder and more deeply about what is actually being said, not just superficially read what is being said. At other times though the ideas really are contradictory. The contradiction though is usually because they reflect the difference between what really is, and what we (I) think life or humanity should be like.

Not all these quotations reflect on the important things in life. Some refer to what might seem to be fairly trivial points. However, lots of small things add up to a big thing and often we need to start with the small things in order to accomplish the big things. Some of the quotations though are not even trivial points and they could only be said to be 'true' if one is looking at a very narrow picture indeed. But they made me smile, and that's important, it's good to smile and laugh and a world without humour would be a very sorry world indeed. So, they stayed in the collection. Anyway, as Wittgenstein said 'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes' I do not just quote from the really famous or popular people as everyone and anyone can have something useful or profound to say – though usually only those with some degree of achievement have their thoughts readily accessible. Nor do I quote from just a few people, there are just over 10,500 quotes from just over 1,500 people represented in this collection. Those people I admire or respect greatly do tend to have a lot more of their quotations included in this collection than other people, though not all their thoughts wholesale, as I never agree with everything people have said or done, nor are all their thoughts relevant. They have their views of reality, I have mine – relationships of ideas are essentially like a series of Venn diagrams, and some people have a better fit with oneself than others. Indeed, even some people one dislikes intently, eg Adolf Hitler, have some of their quotations included, as even people like him have interesting things to say on the human condition, which are no less valid just because they are said by an evil person.

These quotes mainly cover experiences of life in Europe and North America. I wish there could be a wider coverage, but apart from a few people whose works have been translated into English, it is not to be. I have no doubt whatsoever that great truths and words of wisdom can be found from people all around the world, but English is my primary tongue, as indeed it is likely to be for most of my readers, so I have stuck to authors whose works are readily available in English. In addition, in other languages, one then has the added difficulty of exactly what is meant by particular words as meaning is very much dependent upon culture, history, point of

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view and so on. It is bad enough in just English as the same word or words can have quite different meanings to different people even when English is the primary tongue of all the readers. Maybe Wittgenstein (again) was right to view philosophy as being dependent essentially just on language for meaning - though whilst I think there is a great deal of truth in that view, in practice it is much more complex than that.

Nor have I included anything directly from Shakespeare, and similar classics, as most of his output was verse rather than prose. Although I have included a very small number of verse quotations in my collection, for preference the vast majority are in prose. I have also not included any quotations from the holy books of most of the major world religions as much of the content is claimed to be either the direct words of God or indirectly from God - which obviously makes the author of the words suspect or unclear. I have though included some of the words from religions such as Buddhism as Buddha has never claimed to be either a God or relaying the words of a God and therefore his words are from a credible source.

I read an article a few years ago in which a bishop was complaining about people picking up bits and pieces from the teachings of a number of different religions as the basis of their belief systems. He said that religion is not a buffet. Well, sorry to say bishop, but religion most definitely is a buffet. Every great religion has been built up over time and is full of contradictions as well as conflicting opinions of the 'truth' of one aspect or another, plus further developed by various 'interpretations' - as well as sometimes held orally for decades, even centuries, before being written down. The result is that every single major religion is really nothing less than a vast buffet of different choices. Incidentally, this makes the attitude of those who believe the Bible or the Koran, or whatever, to be the 'literal' truth to be completely bizarre, even if one excludes the differences brought in by what are sometimes thousands of changes introduced through the various text translations at different times.

Now, the historic and current 'attitude' by the leaders of both the established and 'new' religions is that they are the ones who should decide for you what aspect of the religious teachings you will believe in and which not.

That of course is designed to cement their personal position in society as well as to keep the money rolling in to the coffers of the churches, mosques, temples etc. That is why they don't want the 'mere' members of the public making their own choices. You might be at a buffet restaurant but you get waiter service to choose and bring the food. So, what I say is, cut out the middleman, decide what you think is good from the various buffet choices (even from a number of different buffets) and make your own meal/faith. It will undoubtedly be far more satisfying, be just as 'true' as the choices decided for you by the religious leaders, and you can even still believe that Jesus is the Son of God, or whatever, if that is what you want to believe.

You could say that, for me, this collection of quotations is my 'Bible' or other religious book, but I prefer to call it my Guide. It is ongoing in the sense that there are plenty of other quotes I could have also included in this book but this is enough for the present. Apart from some 1to1 relationships, for which there are already many thousands of books available, guidance for nearly every sort of life situation can be found within these pages. In my view, these quotations are really all that you need to know about life, it's pitfalls and opportunities and how to tell the difference between what is really right and really wrong - not easy nowadays when the media and power elites are so intent on getting us to reverse right and wrong. There are already plenty of 'religions' around but in practice the teachings are far more honoured in the breach than the observance – and that applies to every religion in the world, even Communism, or celebrity or sports worship etc, which are really just other modern semi-religions. The point is, subconsciously, humans in general will 'bend' religious or society 'teachings' to their own requirements and at the same time perform amazing mental gymnastics to justify to themselves that they are following the 'teachings', even though to any neutral observer it is perfectly obvious that they definitely are not. So, to my mind, better to be honest - a Guide makes much more sense, a Guide is useful as it doesn't tell you what to do but gives you advice and you then make your own decisions. A far better fit to the independent human mind that the alternatives Most people though are so used to the traditional way of thinking that they must have instructions from a 'book', or society, that they cannot even conceive of alternatives. Well, for those who prefer to keep their mental chains, fine, but, for the rest of us, this Guide shows one way of breaking free, yet still keeping a clear sense of moral purpose and integrity. The important thing in life is not to follow prescriptions or what other people say you should do, but make your own analysis and then make your own decisions as to what is the right thing to do. Throw off your mental chains, make your own choices, go for it!

FORMAT The quotations are in rough alphabetical order of author, based on first names given at birth, not the more conventional surnames. Partly this is just to be contrary, but mainly it is to encourage people to read all of this collection rather then just looking only at what has been said by their favourite authors – interesting how many authors seem to have changed part or all of their names since birth. One shouldn't read the entire collection at once of course as that would be too much to stomach but maybe a page or two a day, whatever you would be

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comfortable with. In the vast majority of instances, I have provided brief biographical details for each author including i) Full original name at birth followed by maiden surname and/or other names, if applicable, ii) For European authors, any national titles awarded, iii) Years of birth & death, iv) Nationality, v) Occupation/s plus, if space permits, main work speciality and/or media or publication/s, vi) Any top international awards or prizes.

I am sure there will be some who will complain that the quotations are not divided by 'subject' or any such rather senseless division - as that is a complaint that I have often seen online. I have deliberately not divided up the quotations, except by author, as life is just not like that, there are no easy divisions, everything is connected to something else so to try to fit things into narrow, neatly labelled boxes is not only futile but an insult to our intelligence. Division by author makes sense, division by anything else does not. I am sorry, but I am not a parent having to cut up the food for their young children. I expect my audience to be largely adults, whether young or old, who are able to think for themselves and not be spoon-fed all the time. The media of course do their best to ensure that as a people we are regressing from adulthood back to childhood but it is time to fight back. We need to use our own brains again and make our own decisions, not have them made for us by others.

Please note that some words have American spelling and some British spelling and sometimes Old English spelling, even sometimes Australian or other variants. Rather than standardise on one or the other I have kept the original spellings used, or original translation. I have corrected a few very obvious transcription errors but definitely not anything else, even what might seem to be 'invented' words or poor grammar etc. Mind you, unless you are the employer or the parent (much the same thing anyway), in this day and age it ill behoves any of us to correct the spelling or grammar of others. There are also a few (very few) instances of what some might consider 'bad language'. However, having come across these people before, I know that it is not designed to offend, it is just part of their normal speech. Hence I have no problem in including their words, their language in no way detracts from what they are trying to say. Language is after all a constantly evolving item and the elders of every single generation, probably since the dawn of time, have complained about the way that youth have 'corrupted' the language. Well, fine, but a static language is a dead language and the purpose of a language is to enable people to communicate and understand each other so even if it is spelt or spoken 'wrongly', so what!

Certainly, I have no problem understanding what any of the authors included here are saying. As Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the USA said 'It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.' - and who am I to disagree with him.

So, I hope that at least some of this will prove interesting, and maybe even inspiring, to you. Maybe you will even be inspired to prepare a collection, maybe smaller, of quotes of your own – that would be wonderful. But above all, when reading not only this collection, but always in life, try remembering what is possibly my favourite quotation of all. It comes from Buddha and although we are only reading this in translation and some of the original meaning and nuances are likely to have got lost, what he said was; “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured 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.�

Arthur Riding - April 2010

Further Reading If you are interested in finding out further information about why people behave they way that they do and why some seemingly rational and intelligent people can still hold totally bizarre and absurd views (and I am sure that we all know plenty of those people), then may I recommend to you two absolutely brilliant books. The first was written in 2005 by an Australian based psychologist, Cordelia Fine, and is called 'A Mind of its own'. She has a very witty style and her book is a perfect science book for the non-scientist. In it she basically explains how the brain works in practice and how we so easily mislead and fool ourselves. One of those books which is so much fun to read as well as being so informative and virtually 100% spot on in her analysis. Wonderful.

The second book is somewhat drier, but still very readable and is by an English psychologist, Stuart Sutherland, called simply 'Irrationality'. It was written nearly 20 years ago, but is still in print, and although some of the examples are a bit dated, the book is just as valid today as it was in 1992, maybe even more so. It is different to the Cordelia Fine book in that it concentrates more on the situational pressures that work on us which so often result in totally irrational and bizarre decisions and actions. Also a quite fascinating read. If you have any interest at all in how and why you, and other human beings, think and act in the way that you/they do, in my view you can't do any better than to start by reading these 2 books. Happy exploring!

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Arthur's Guide - The world in a quote N.B. * Apologies, but please note that in order to avoid the book getting too big, author biographies are limited to one line and thus, due to the space restrictions, words are often run together in the biographies - as in my view the additional information this enables is more important and useful than trying to stay within conventional presentation guidelines. The same thought also applies to the extensive use of abbreviations in the author biographies. Most abbreviations should be self-evident but if not, a list is shown below * The term 'writer' below means non-fiction author as opposed to short story writer or novelist for fictional writing. In addition, as most of the authors are writers, the occupational description 'writer' is sometimes omitted in the biography line if space is too short.

Key abbreviations used in some author biographies: abol=abolitionist (usually slavery), Acad=Academy, act=activist, adm=administrator/administration, adv=advertising/er, aka=also known as, All=Alliance, Am=American, Amb=Ambassador, anth=anthropology, Assoc=Association, astro=astronaut/ics, att=attorney, Bapt=Baptist, bio=biography, biol=biologist, bro=brotherhood, broadc=broadcaster, C-in-C=Commander-inChief, Cal=California, cand=candidate, Card=Cardinal, Cath=Cathedral, Cent=Century/Centre, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, Cham=Chamber, Chan=Chancellor, chem=chemist, co=company, col=columnist, coll=college, Com=Commission, comm=communications, commr=commerce, Comn=Communist, comp=computer, Con=Conservative, Conf=Conference, Cong=Congressman or Congresswoman, Conn=Connecticut, cons=consultant, Conv=Convention, corp=corporate, crit=critic, dec=declaration, Dem=Democrat, Dept=Department, des=design/designer, dev=developed/er, dip=diplomat, Dir=Director, disc=discovered, doc=doctor, econ=economics/ist, Edin=Edinburgh, edu=education/alist/tor, elec=electric, emp=employee, empl=employment, eng=engineer, engl=english, ent=entrepreneur or businessman/woman, env=environmental, esp=especially, essay=essayist, evo=evolutionary/ist, exp=experiment/al, Fath=Father, Fed=Federation, Fin=Finance, Found=Founded/Foundation, Gen=General, geo=geologist, Gov=Governor, govn=government, hist=history/historian/historical, hyd=hydrogen, illust=illustrator, inc=including, ind=independence, indus=industry, inf=information, int=international, intel=intelligence, inter=interior, inv=inventor, journ=journalist, Just=Justice, Lab=Labour, lb=liberty, lect=lecturer, lib=liberal, lit=literary, mag=magazine, maj=majority, Mass=Massachusetts, math=mathematician/ics, mech=mechanics, med=medicine, Mem=Member, mgr=manager/management, Min=Minister, Minn=Minnesota, Miss=Mississippi, mod=modern, Mon=Montana, Move=Movement, MP=Member of Parliament, nat=nation/al, natur=natural/ist, Neb=Nebula, NJ=New Jersey, nov=novelist, NY=New York, opp=opportunities, org=organisation/al, Parl=Parliament/ary, phil=philosophy/er, Phila=Philadelphia, philanth=philanthropist, physic=physicist, physio=physiologist, play=playwright, PM=Prime Minister, pol=politician/political, Pres=President, Presb=Presbyterian, prob=probability, prod=producer/production, Prof=Professor, Pros=Prosecutor, psych=psychology, pub=publisher, Ques=Questions, rec=receptionist, rel=relations, relg=religion/ous, Ren=Renaissance, Rep=Republican, rev=revolution/ary, SC=South Carolina, sci=science/tist, screen=screenwriter, Sec=Secretary, Sen=Senator, SF=science fiction, Soc=Society/social/sociological, song=songwriter, stat=statistician, Sup=Supreme, theo=theologian, trans=translator, Univ=University, Zoo=Zoology/ist etc

A Aaron Burr – 1756-1836:American, lawyer, Dem-Rep politician, New York US Senator, 3rd US Vice-Pres ¬;Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done Abbott Joseph 'Joe' Liebling–1904-1963:American, journ esp NewYorkerMag, writer inc RoadBackParis ¬;Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. ¬;News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers. ¬;People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ¬;The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Abd-ar-Rahman III – 891-961:Moorish Spanish, Emir & Caliph Córdoba 912-961, known for tolerance ¬;I have now reigned about 50 years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.

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Abraham 'Abe' H.Weiler–1909-2002RussianbornAmerican, journ, writer, film critic, editor esp NYTimes ¬;Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Abraham Harold Maslow – 1908-1970:American, psychologist inc Hierarchy of Needs, Psychology Prof ¬;If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ¬;Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. ¬;The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. ¬;You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety Abraham Lincoln – 1809-1865:American, lawyer, Whig & Rep pol, Civil War Union leader, 16thUS Pres ¬;Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ¬;And in the end its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. ¬;Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ¬;Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. ¬;Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ¬;Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ¬;Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side. ¬;Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived. ¬;Freedom is not the right to do what we want but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ¬;He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ¬;Human action can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed. ¬;I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. ¬;I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong. ¬;I am not concerned that you have fallen, I am concerned that you arise. ¬;I care not much for a mans religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ¬;I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. ¬;I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ¬;I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. ¬;I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ¬;I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the moneypower of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. ¬;If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. ¬;If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. ¬;If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. ¬;In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. ¬;It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ¬;It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ¬;It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ¬;Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ¬;My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ¬;Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ¬;No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ¬;No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ¬;No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ¬;People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ¬;Prohibition will great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a

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crime out of things that are not crimes. ¬;Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ¬;The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. ¬;The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. ¬;The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ¬;The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act... Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty ¬;The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty and the American people just now are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other mens labor. Here are two not only different but incompatible things called by the same name liberty.

And it follows that each of the things is by the respective parties called by two different and incompatible names liberty and tyranny. ¬;The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. ¬;There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. ¬;Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ¬;Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ¬;We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. ... It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. ¬;When I'm getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say. ¬;When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. ¬;When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run. ¬;Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ¬;With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ¬;You can not fail... unless you quit. ¬;You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Abū-MuḥammadMuṣliḥ binAbdallāhShīrāzī akaSa'diOfShiraz–1184-1283:Persian,poet,scholar,preacher ¬;A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation. ¬;He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed. ¬;Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. ¬;Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. ¬;Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself. ¬;To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. ¬;Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Adam Clayton Powell – 1908-1972:American, Baptist pastor, Dem pol, NY US Cong, civil rights leader ¬;A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ¬;Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

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Adam Cooper & Bill Collage – 19??- : American, screenwriters esp Where's Waldo series & Accepted ¬;You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Smith – 1723-1790:Scottish, moral philosopher, political economist, writer esp Wealth Of Nations ¬;All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. ¬;But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. ¬;Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. ¬;Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. ¬;In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate. ¬;It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interests has been so carefully attended to; and among this later class our merchants and manufactures have been by far the principal architects. In the mercantile regulations, which have been taken notice of in this chapter, the interest of our manufacturers has been most peculiarly attended to;and the interest, not so much of the consumers, as that of some other sets of producers, has been sacrificed to it. ¬;It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. ¬;It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will. ¬;Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. ¬;Oatmeal in England makes for great horses, in Scotland Great Men ¬;Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people. ¬;People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ¬;The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be.... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough ¬;The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. ¬;Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workman, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters. ¬;Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Adele Brookman – 195?- :American, private psychotherapist esp Psychercise & nurturing self-care ¬;Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adeline Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen – 1882-1941:English, novelist, essay, lit critic, pub, feminist activist ¬;Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ¬;I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. ¬;If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ¬;Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ¬;Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. ¬;Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or

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importance to anybody. ¬;The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II – 1900-1965:American, journalist, lawyer, Dem pol, Illinois Gov, US Pres cand ¬;All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ¬;I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ¬;If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. ¬;It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them. ¬;Its not enough to have every intelligent person in the country voting for me – I need a majority. ¬;Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. ¬;Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ¬;My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ¬;Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. ¬;The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ¬;The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ¬;When you sling mud, you lose ground. ¬;Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Adolf Hitler – 1889-1945:Austrian born German, artist, National Socialist (Nazi) pol, German Fuhrer ¬;Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it. ¬;The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. ¬;What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adrienne E. Gusoff – 195?- :American, writer, motivational speaker, col, humourist, greeting-card des ¬;Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. ¬;The world is round; it has no point.

Aeschylus – c.525-c.456 BC:Eleusis Athens born Greek, play inc Agamemnon, aka the Father of Tragedy ¬;In war, truth is the first casualty. ¬;It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Aesop – c. 620-560 B.C.:of Eastern Mediterranean origin, probably a freed slave, writer esp fables ¬;Appearances often are deceiving. ¬;Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ¬;Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ¬;Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. ¬;Familiarity breeds contempt. ¬;It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ¬;It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. ¬;The gods help them that help themselves. ¬;The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. ¬;We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller aka Agatha Christie–1890-1976:English, short story & novel esp crime, play ¬;An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her ¬;Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ¬;I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. ¬;I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. ¬;If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ¬;One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ¬;People are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock ... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth their true self reasserts itself. ¬;The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. ¬;Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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Agnes George deMille–1905-1993:American, dancer, choreographer esp USrealism, found HeritageDance ¬;Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. ¬;No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes Repplier – 1858-1950:American, essayist inc Books & Men, writer esp bio inc Junipero Serra, wit ¬;Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ¬;We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Ahmed Salman Rushdie – 1947- :Indian born British, essayist, novelist inc Satanic Verses, screenwriter ¬;A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ¬;But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ¬;Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. ¬;I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. ¬;I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something. ¬;If we allow ourselves to be terrorized by fear of the terrorists, then they have won. ¬;Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because of our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death. ¬;The ability to be frivolous in a serious time is not to be underestimated. ¬;The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes. ¬;The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. ¬;What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ¬;What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?

Akio Morita – 1921-1999:Japanese, ent, founded Sony, Sony Chairman, writer inc Gakureki Muyō Ron ¬;Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Al McGuire – 1928-2001:American, NBA basketball player, basketball coach esp Marquette Univ, broadc ¬;I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Alain de Lille aka Alanus ab Insulis – c.1128-1202:French, theologian, lecturer, poet, mystic, writer ¬;Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Alan Alexander Milne – 1882-1956:English, novelist esp children inc ChrisRobin, play, poet, writer, editor ¬;A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. ¬;It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" ¬;No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature ¬;One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries ¬;People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake. ¬;The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. ¬;To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ¬;When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. ¬;You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Alan Coren – 1938-2007:English, writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, col, broadc, TV panellist, editor ¬;Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ¬;I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. ¬;The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Alan Curtis Kay – 1940- :American, comp sci, Comp Sci Prof, company researcher, created OOP&GUI ¬;A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. ¬;By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of

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view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. ¬;Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ¬;Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. ¬;Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. ¬;The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ¬;The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad de facto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas.

Alan Dean Foster – 1946- :American, novelist esp fantasy & science fiction, writer, screen inc Star Trek ¬;Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan John Percivale Taylor – 1906-1990:English, historian esp Central Europe, Prof of History, writer, col ¬;History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. ¬;No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. ¬;The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Alan Mathison Turing – 1912-1954:English, math, cryptanalyst, comp scientist inc artificial intelligence ¬;I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, "And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day" (Joshua x. 13) and "He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time" (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory. ¬;No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ¬;We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Alan Patrick Herbert – 1890-1971:English, novelist, writer, columnist , MP, liberal divorce law activist ¬;A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. ¬;It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is. ¬;Justice should be cheap but judges expensive. ¬;The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ¬;The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.

Alan Stewart Paton – 1903-1988:SouthAfrican, teacher, pol act, novel inc CryTheBelovedCountry, writer ¬;To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ¬;When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Alan Stuart 'Al' Franken – 1951- :American, comedian, actor, screen, Dem politician, Minnesota US Sen ¬;I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president. ¬;If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. ¬;Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ¬;Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation. ¬;The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. ¬;There's no liberal echo chamber in this country. There's a right-wing echo chamber. I want to create a countervailing echo chamber. ¬;What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujutsu. ¬;When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ¬;Whining is just anger coming out of a very small opening.

Alan Wilson Watts – 1915-1973:English, writer, philosopher, theo, speaker, interpreter of Asian religions ¬;Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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Alan Whitney Brown – 1952- :American, writer, comedian esp stand up inc Sat Night Live, radio broadc ¬;Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait ¬;That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Alara Rogers – 197?- : American, writer, novelist, short-story writer esp SF, Aleph Press contributor ¬;First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Alban Goodier – 1869-1939:English, Jesuit priest, writer esp religious biography, Archbishop of Bombay ¬;Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Albert Camus – 1913-1960:Algerian born French, writer, novel, journ, phil esp absurdism, won Nobel Lit ¬;Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ¬; walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. ¬;I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. ¬;It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ¬;The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ¬;The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ¬;Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ¬;We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves. ¬;What is a rebel? A man who says no. ¬;When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. ¬;You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Einstein–1879-1955:GermanbornAmerican, theoretical physic, phil, Prof, writer, wonNobelPhysics ¬;A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. ¬;All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ¬; man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ¬;As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ¬;Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. ¬;Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. ¬;Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ¬;Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. ¬;Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. ¬;Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. ¬;Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ¬;Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ¬;Force always attracts men of low morality. ¬;Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. ¬;Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfils the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. ¬;Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism

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-- how passionately I hate them! ¬;He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ¬;I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ¬;I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity ¬;I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ¬;I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ¬;If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ¬;If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ¬;If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism. ¬;If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ¬;Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. ¬;Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ¬;In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ¬;Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? ¬;It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel". ¬;It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. ¬;It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ¬;It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expressions and knowledge. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ¬;It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer. ¬;It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ¬;Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ¬;Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. ¬;Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ¬;My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ¬;Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ¬;Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ¬;Never underestimate your own ignorance. ¬;No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ¬;Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ¬;Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. ¬; you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. ¬;One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.

The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. ¬;Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ¬;Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ¬;Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ¬;The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ¬;The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. ¬;The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

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¬;The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. ¬;The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ¬;The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ¬;The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ¬;The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. ¬;The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves. ¬;The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live. ¬;The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self. ¬;The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ¬;Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. ¬;Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ¬;We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ¬;When all think alike, no one thinks very much. ¬;When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ¬;Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. ¬;Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. ¬;You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Joseph Guerard – 1914-2000:American, novelist inc Night Journey, lit critic, essayist, English Prof ¬;Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. ¬;We have Caspar Weinberger and others suggesting that we can 'prevail' in a protracted war in spite of 50 or 100 million Americans dead. At an intellectual level, this suggests a failure to consult history, and the lesson that governments do not survive catastrophic defeat, which nuclear war would do to both sides. At a visual level, it is a failure to see what 50 or 100 million deaths 'look like.'

Albert Guinon – 1863-1923:French, play esp comedic & war themes inc Remarques Autour de la Guerre ¬;There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. ¬;When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Albert Jay Nock–1873-1945:American, Episcopalian priest, journalist, editor, essayist, philosopher, writer ¬;Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told. ¬;Get up in one of our industrial centres today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in. Then what choice have you, save to degenerate either into a fool or into a hypocrite? And who wants to live in a land of fools and hypocrites? ¬;I could see how "democracy" might do very well in a society of saints and sages led by an Alfred or an Antoninus Pius. Short of that, I was unable to see how it could come to anything but an ad-hocracy of mass-men led by a sagacious knave. ¬;I had a desultory talk with one devotee of expediency not long ago, a good friend and a thoroughly excellent man. He was all worked up over the activities of Communists and what he called pink Socialists, especially in the colleges and churches. He said they were corrupting the youth, and he was strong for having them coerced into silence. I could not see it that way. I told him it seemed pretty clear that Mr. Jefferson was right when he said that the effect of coercion was "to make one half the people fools and the other half hypocrites, and to support roguery and error all over the earth"; look at Germany and Italy! I thought our youth could manage to bear up under a little corrupting — they always have — and if they were corrupted by Communism, they stood a first-rate chance to get over it, whereas if they grew up fools or hypocrites, they would never get over it. I added that Mr. Jefferson was right when he said that "it is error alone which needs the support of government; truth can stand by itself." One glance at governments anywhere in the world proves that. Well, then, the surest way to make our youth suspect that there may be something in Communism would be for the government to outlaw it. ¬;In general I wish we were in the habit of conveying our meanings in plain explicit terms rather than by

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indirection and by euphemism, as we so regularly do. My point is that habitual indirection in speech supports and stimulates a habit of indirection in thought; and this habit, if not pretty closely watched, runs off into intellectual dishonesty ...the upshot of our willingness to accept a reality, provided we do not hear it named, or provided we ourselves are not obliged to name it, leads us to accept many realities that we ought not to accept. It leads to many and serious moral misjudgments of both facts and persons; in other words, it leads straight into a profound intellectual dishonesty. ¬;It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please. ¬;Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no worse than mischief, and it turned out to be a crime. The judge said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seemed the wrong thing to do; but the law left him no option. I was struck by this. The judge, then, was doing something as an official that he would not dream of doing as a man; and he could do it without any sense of responsibility, or discomfort, simply because he was acting as an official and not as a man.

On this principle of action, it seemed to me that one could commit almost any kind of crime without getting into trouble with one's conscience. Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it — the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers — felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials. Clearly, too, the public did not regard them as criminals, but rather as upright and conscientious men. The idea came to me then, vaguely but unmistakably, that if the primary intention of government was not to abolish crime but merely to monopolize crime, no better device could be found for doing it than the inculcation of precisely this frame of mind in the officials and in the public; for the effect of this was to exempt both from any allegiance to those sanctions of humanity or decency which anyone of either class, acting as an individual, would have felt himself bound to respect — nay, would have wished to respect. ¬;The differentiation of conservatism rests on the estimate of necessity in any given case. Thus conservatism is purely an ad hoc affair; its findings vary with conditions, and are good for this day and train only. Conservatism is not a body of opinion, it has no set platform or creed, and hence, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a hundred-per-cent conservative group or party … Nor is conservatism an attitude of sentiment. Dickens's fine old unintelligent characters who "kept up the barrier, sir, against modern innovations" were not conservatives. They were sentimental obstructionists, probably also obscurantists, but not conservatives. ¬;The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. ¬;The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive state known to history originated in any other manner. Oppenheimer defines the State as an institution forced on a defeated group by a conquering group to systematize the domination. This domination had no other final purpose than the economic exploitation. ¬;The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. ¬;The State...both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing. ¬;The State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation—that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a property-less dependent class — that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient. ¬;Wherever economic exploitation has been for any reason either impracticable or unprofitable, the State has never come into existence; government has existed, but the State, never.

Albert Schweitzer – 1875-1965:German born French, phil, theo, musician, physician, won Nobel Peace ¬;A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. ¬;An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . .

The truly wise person is colour-blind. ¬;Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

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¬;Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling. ¬;Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. ¬;Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. ¬;Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith. ¬;Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. ¬;In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ¬;It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. ¬;Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ¬;Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings. ¬;Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth ¬;The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. ¬;The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed ... Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit ... heads for disaster. ¬;The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives — only that ethic can be founded in thought. ... The ethic of Reverence for Life, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be described as love, devotion, and sympathy whether in suffering, joy, or effort. ¬;The restoration of our world-view can come only as a result of inexorably truth-loving and recklessly courageous thought. Such thinking alone is mature enough to learn by experience how the rational, when it thinks itself out to a conclusion, passes necessarily over into the non-rational. World- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational. They are not justified by any corresponding knowledge of the nature of the world, but are the disposition in which, through the inner compulsion of our will-to-live, we determine our relation to the world. ¬;The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking. ¬;The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies. ¬;The tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives. ¬;To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. ¬;Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ¬;Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. ¬;We have learned to tolerate the facts of war: that men are killed en masse — some twenty million in the Second World War — that whole cities and their inhabitants are annihilated by the atomic bomb, that men are turned into living torches by incendiary bombs. We learn of these things from the radio or newspapers and we judge them according to whether they signify success for the group of peoples to which we belong, or for our enemies. When we do admit to ourselves that such acts are the results of inhuman conduct, our admission is accompanied by the thought that the very fact of war itself leaves us no option but to accept them. In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity. ¬;You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. ¬;You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

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Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt–1893-1986:Hungarian, physio, disc VitC, pol, won Nobel Physiology ¬;A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ¬;Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ¬;Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

Albie Sachs – 1935- :South African, lawyer, writer, ANC NationalExecutive, SAConstitutionalCourt judge ¬;Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Alcuin of York – 735-804:Northumbrian English, theo, scholar, poet, architect of Carolingian Renaissance ¬;And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Aldous Leonard Huxley–1894-1963:English, writer, novel, essay, editor, poet, phil, humanist, anti-war act ¬;A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. ¬;An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ¬;At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas. ¬;Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement. Attention and allegiance came to be paid, not to Eternity, but to the Utopian future. External circumstances came to be regarded as more important than states of mind about external circumstances, and the end of human life was held to be action, with contemplation as a means to that end. These false and historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life. And so effective has been the propaganda that even professing Christians accept the heresy unquestioningly and are quite unconscious of its complete incompatibility with their own or anybody else’s religion. ¬;Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ¬;Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ¬;Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ¬;Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ¬;Experience teaches only the teachable. ¬;Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ¬;For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. ¬;From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ¬;Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ¬;Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ¬;It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.' ¬;It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. ... Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. ¬;Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government. ¬;Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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¬;Most ignorance is invincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know ¬;Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in. ¬;One Folk, One Realm, One Leader. Union with the unity of an insect swarm. Knowledge-less understanding of nonsense and diabolism. And then the newsreel camera had cut back to the serried ranks, the swastikas, the brass bands, the yelling hypnotist on the rostrum. And here once again, in the glare of his inner light, was the brown insect-like column, marching endlessly to the tunes of this rococo horror-music. Onward Nazi soldiers, onward Christian soldiers, onward Marxists and Muslims, onward every chosen People, every Crusader and Holy War-maker. Onward into misery, into all wickedness, into death! ¬;People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. ¬;So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. ¬;That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. ¬;That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ¬;The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ¬;The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ¬;The silent bear no witness against themselves. ¬;There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. ¬;Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them. ¬;To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ¬;To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ¬;To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. ¬;Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death. ¬; we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia. You pays your money and you takes your choice. ¬;We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. ¬;What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ¬;When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. ¬;Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. ¬;Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you angry. ¬;You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aleck William 'Alec' Bourne–1886-1974:English, gynaecologist, Pres RSM-Gynaecological section, writer ¬;It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn – 1918-2008:Russian, historian, novelist, teacher, won Nobel Lit Prize ¬;A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ¬;Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ¬;Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? ¬;Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. ¬;If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were

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necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ¬;It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones. ¬;Our envy of others devours us most of all. ¬;Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. ¬;The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. ¬;The lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ¬;Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ¬;You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Alexander Graham Bell – 1847-1922:American, sci, engineer, inventor, Professor of Vocal Physiology ¬;Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. ¬;When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Hamilton–1755-1804:Nevis born American, econ, phil, 1stUS TreasurySec, US Founding Father ¬;Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals?

The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed into improprieties and excesses, for which they would blush in a private capacity. ¬;In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ¬;Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. ¬;The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. ¬;Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott – 1887-1943:American, drama & social critic, columnist, radio broadc ¬;A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go. ¬;All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. ¬;Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. ¬;The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. ¬;The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Alexander Pope – 1688-1744:English, poet, journ, satirist, trans esp Homer, essay inc Essay on Criticism ¬;A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ¬;A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ¬;And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ¬;Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ¬;Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ¬;He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. ¬;It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. ¬;O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name. ¬;One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ¬;The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of wilful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. ¬;To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander III aka the Great – 356-323 B.C.:Macedonian Greek, King of Macedon etc, Gen, strategist, dip ¬;I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ¬;Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin – 1807-1874:French, lawyer, writer, founded Réforme newspaper, pol, Pres cand ¬;I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville–1805-1859:French, writer, pol, historian esp American studies ¬;All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ¬;As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? ¬;Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ¬;Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ¬;Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. ¬;History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies ¬;I have come across men of letters who have written history without taking part in public affairs, and politicians who have concerned themselves with producing events without thinking about them. I have observed that the first are always inclined to find general causes whereas the second, living in the midst of disconnected daily facts, are prone to imagine that everything is attributable to particular incidents, and that the wires they pull are the same as those that move the world. It is to be presumed that both are equally deceived. ¬;I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ¬;In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ¬;It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. ¬;The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. ¬;The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. ¬;The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the crowd who dictates the language, and the crowd relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned. ¬;The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ¬;The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age. ¬;There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alfred A. Knopf – 1892-1984:American, publisher, found Alfred Knopf Inc esp for European lit, writer ¬;An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Alfred Adler – 1870-1937:Austrian, physician, psych, found individual psych, Medicine Professor, writer ¬;Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. ¬;It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ¬;Man knows much more than he understands. ¬;The chief danger in life is taking too many precautions. ¬;To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. ¬;Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor (and) national security. ¬;War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

AlfredCharlesKinsey – 1894-1956:American, biol, sexologist esp humansexuality, Entomology&Zoo Prof ¬;Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. ¬;The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the

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current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. ¬;The impression that infra-human mammals more or less confine themselves to heterosexual activities is a distortion of the fact which appears to have originated in a man-made philosophy, rather than in specific observations of mammalian behavior. Biologists and psychologists who have accepted the doctrine that the only natural function of sex is reproduction, have simply ignored the existence of sexual activity which is not reproductive. They have assumed that heterosexual responses are a part of an animal's innate, "instinctive" equipment, and that all other types of sexual activity represent "perversions" of the "normal instincts". Such interpretations are, however, mystical. They do not originate in our knowledge of the physiology of sexual response (Chapter 15), and can be maintained only if one assumes that sexual function is in some fashion divorced from the physiologic processes which control other functions of the animal body. ¬;The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. ¬;Theories of childhood attachments to one or the other parent, theories of fixation at some infantile level of sexual development, interpretations of homosexuality as neurotic or psychopathic behavior or moral degeneracy, and other philosophic interpretations are not supported by scientific research, and are contrary to the specific data on our series of female and male histories.

Alfred Edward Wiggam – 18??-19??:American, journalist, col, writer eugenics-racial Darwinism activist ¬;A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock – 1899-1980:English & American, title designer, screen, dir inc thrillers, prod ¬;Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. ¬;I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle. ¬;In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. ¬;Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ¬;Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ¬;We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. ¬;When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski–1879-1950:Polish born American, phil esp gen semantics, math, eng ¬;There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred North Whitehead – 1861-1947:English, writer, essay, mathematician, phil esp process phil, lecturer ¬;All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. ¬;Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. ¬;Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. ¬;Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. ¬;I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. ¬;It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ¬;Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. ¬;Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. ¬;Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude. ¬;The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, "Seek simplicity and distrust it." ¬;The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order ¬;The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

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¬;The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. ¬;The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ¬;The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends. ¬;There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. ¬;Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use saying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity.

You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. ¬;We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ¬;What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ¬;You can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred Tennyson, 1stBaron – 1809-1892:English, writer, play, poet esp classic mythology, UKPoet Laureate ¬;I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ¬;Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ¬;The greater man the greater courtesy. ¬;The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ¬;There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ¬;To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alice Childress – 1920-1994:American, actress, playwright inc Florence, writer, screen, social activist ¬;A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

Alice Malsenior Walker – 1944- :American, writer, novel inc Color Purple, feminist activist, won Pulitzer ¬;Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ¬;I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.

Alicia Christian 'Jodie' Foster – 1962- :American, actress inc Silence of theLambs, director, won 2 Oscars ¬;Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum aka Ayn Rand – 1905-1982:Russian born American, play, novelist, phil ¬;Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ¬;Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ¬;Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. ¬;Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. ¬;Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. ¬;Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. ¬;Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. ¬;The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. ¬;The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. ¬;The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them. ¬;The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Allan Copelon aka Allan Sherman – 1924-1973:American, musician, song, broadcaster, producer, satirist ¬;A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

Allard KennethLowenstein–1929-1980:American, writer, Dem pol, NY USCong, civil rights&anti-war act ¬;The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

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Allen Stewart Konigsberg aka Woody Allen – 1935- :American, actor, writer, screen, dir, won 3 Oscars ¬;A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no." ¬;After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about. ¬;As a film-maker, I'm not interested in 9/11 ...it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again. ¬;Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ¬;Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown. ¬;Don't knock masturbation — it's sex with someone I love. ¬;How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find. ¬;Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. ¬;I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. ¬;I feel sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. ¬;I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot. ¬;I think Mr. Mellish is a traitor to this country because his views are different from the views of the president and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated, but not when they're too different. Then he becomes a subversive mother. ¬;I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. ¬;I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If he was a carpenter, I wondered what he charged for bookshelves. ¬;I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead. ¬;I worked with Freud in Vienna. We broke over the concept of penis envy. He thought it should be limited to women. ¬;I'm not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers. ¬;If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ¬;If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ¬;Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. ¬;It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. ¬;It [sex] was the most fun I ever had without laughing. ¬;Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. ¬;More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ¬;My brain: it's my second favorite organ. ¬;My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. ¬;No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you. ¬;Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. ¬;Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. Not just because he was a great thinker, because I have been known to have some reasonably profound insights myself, although mine invariably revolve around a Swedish airline stewardess and some handcuffs. ¬;Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service. ¬;On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ¬;Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. ¬;The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. ¬;This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out! ¬;To a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat — especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

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¬;To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. ¬;What a wonderful thing, to be conscious! I wonder what the people in New Jersey do. ¬;When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be. ¬;You are a great lover! - I practice a lot when I'm alone. ¬;You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Alvin Toffler – 1928- :American, sci, journ, writer inc Future Shock, editor, international futurist thinker ¬;Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ¬;Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats. ¬;The future always arrives too fast, and in the wrong order. ¬;The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ¬;You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness aka George Sand – 1804-1876:French, novelist, essayist, play ¬;Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ¬;The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes, is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ¬;Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Amber Deckers – 197?- :South African born English, advert exec, journ esp fashion, novelist esp children ¬;Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human. ¬;Never regret something that once made you smile.

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry – 1871-1945:French, poet, philosopher, essayist, writer, polymath ¬;God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ¬;Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ¬;That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. ¬;The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ¬;The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ¬;You have neither the patience that weaves long lines nor a feeling for the irregular, nor a sense of the fittest place for a thing ... For you intelligence is not one thing among many. You ... worship it as if it were an omnipotent beast ... a man intoxicated on it believes his own thoughts are legal decision, or facts themselves born of the crowd and time. He confuses his quick changes of heart with the imperceptible variation of real forms and enduring Beings .... You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.

Ambrose GwinnettBierce–1842-1914:American, journ, soc critic, satirist, col, writer inc Devil'sDictionary ¬;Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. ¬;Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ¬;Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ¬;All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher. ¬;Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ¬;Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ¬;Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ¬;Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) ¬;Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. ¬;Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. ¬;Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ¬;HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ¬;In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. ¬;Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. ¬;Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private

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advantage. ¬;The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ¬;To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ¬;To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. ¬;We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Amos Bronson Alcott – 1799-1888:American, teacher, education act, writer, phil esp Transcendentalism ¬;The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Anaxagoras – c.500-c.428 BC:Clazomenae(Asia Minor) Greek, phil esp sci inquiry inc concept of 'mind' ¬;Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Andre Paul Guillaume Gide – 1869-1951:French, writer, novelist, editor, pub, won Nobel Literature Prize ¬;Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ¬;One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ¬;Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andrew 'Andy' Aitkin Rooney – 1919- :American, journalist, writer, screenwriter, TV essay, social critic ¬;Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. ¬;Over the past few years, more money has been spent on breast implants and Viagra than is spent on Alzheimer's Disease research, it is believed that by the year 2030 there will be a large number of people wandering around with huge breasts and erections - who can't remember what to do with them. ¬;The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Andrew Hargreaves – 1951- :English, Prof of Educ Leadership, writer inc Teaching In Knowledge Soc ¬;What we want for our children...we should want for their teachers; that schools be places of learning for both of them, and that such learning be suffused with excitement, engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and joy.

Andrew 'Andy' Roy Gibb–1958-1988:English born Australian, singer-not in Bee Gees, song, musical actor ¬;Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

Andrew 'Andy' Stuart Tanenbaum – 1944- :American, computer scientist, Professor of Comp Sci, writer ¬;However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. ¬;If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system (MS-DOS) that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it. ¬;The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Andrew Jackson – 1767-1845:American, lawyer, army Gen, frontiersman, planter, Dem pol, 7th US Pres ¬;All bigotries hang to one another ¬;I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank.

You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, I will rout you out. ¬;It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. ¬;It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. ¬;Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority ¬;Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ¬;The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law. ¬;The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the truths that favour the

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Andrew Warhola aka Andy Warhol–1928-1987:American, painter inc PopArt, printmaker, photographer ¬;I am a deeply superficial person. ¬;It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."

Angela Anaïs Juana AntolinaRosaEdelmira Nin y Culmell aka Anais Nin–1903-1973:French, writer, novel ¬;And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ¬;Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ¬;How wrong is it for women to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself. ¬;Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. ¬;We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Angela Marie 'Ani' Difranco – 1970- :American, singer, song, musician esp folkrock, prod, won Grammy ¬;When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear.

They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.

Angelina Jolie Voight–1975- :American, actress inc LaraCroft, UNHCRGoodwillAmbassador, won Oscar ¬;If being sane is thinking there’s something wrong with being different, I’d rather be completely fucking mental.

Ann Boothe aka Clare Boothe Luce–1903-1987:American, play, editor, journ, dip, Rep pol, ConnUSCong ¬;Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

AnnaEleanorRoosevelt–1884-1962:American, writer, civilrights act, USFirstLady, ChairUNHumanRights ¬;All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. ¬;At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. ¬;Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't'. ¬;During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law...Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people ¬;Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. ¬;Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. ¬;I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. ¬;I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. ¬;I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ¬;If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. For people to have more time to read, to take part in their civic obligations, to know more about how their government functions and who their officials are might mean in a democracy a great improvement in the democratic processes. Let's begin, then, to think how we can prepare old and young for these new opportunities.

Let's not wait until they come upon us suddenly and we have a crisis that we will be ill prepared to meet. ¬;If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. ¬;It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ¬;It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. ¬;Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ¬;Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ¬;Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ¬;Never be bored, and you will never be boring. ¬;No man is defeated without until he is defeated within. ¬;No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ¬;One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted ¬;One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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¬;The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ¬;Understanding is a two-way street. ¬;We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. ¬;We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are. ... In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly. ¬;What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion. I have been one of those who have carried the fight for complete freedom of information in the United Nations.

And while accepting the fact that some of our press, our radio commentators, our prominent citizens and our movies may at times be blamed legitimately for things they have said and done, still I feel that the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do. In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA ¬;When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ¬;Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. ¬;Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? ¬;You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Anna Freud – 1895-1982:Austrian, psychoanalyst esp ego, found psychoanalytic child psychology, writer ¬;I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Marie Quindlen – 1952- :American, journalist, col inc New York Times, novelist, won Pulitzer Prize ¬;A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. ¬;Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. ¬;I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ¬;If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this socalled modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the travelling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary?

It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans. ¬;If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too. ¬;Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? ¬;People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ¬;Some of my best friends are men. It is simply that I think women are superior to men. There, I've said it. It's my dirty little secret....The other day, a very wise friend of mine asked "Have you ever noticed that what passes as a terrific man would only be an adequate woman?" A Roman candle went off in my head; she was absolutely right. What I expect from my male friends is that there are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone. ¬;The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ¬;The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. ¬;There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book.

The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear:

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No one read the book; we just read the reviews. ¬;Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together. ¬;You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Anthony Charles Lynton 'Tony' Blair – 1953- :Scottish, lawyer, writer, Lab pol, MP, UK Prime Minister ¬;He wants a Bill of Rights for Britain drafted by a Committee of Lawyers. Have you ever tried drafting anything with a Committee of Lawyers? ¬;I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves. ¬;Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. ¬;Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. ¬;The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ¬;The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out. ¬;This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation. ¬;We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform. ¬;We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

Anthony McLeod Kennedy – 1936- :American, lawyer, Constitutional Law Prof, US Supreme Court Just ¬;At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life…. People have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail…. We conclude the line should be drawn at viability, so that, before that time, the woman has a right to choose to terminate her pregnancy…. There is no line other than viability which is more workable. To be sure, as we have said, there may be some medical developments that affect the precise point of viability, but this is an imprecision within tolerable limits.... A husband has no enforceable right to require a wife to advise him before she exercises her personal choices. ¬;Indifference to personal liberty is but the precursor of the state's hostility to it. ¬;Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times.

And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort. ¬;The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ¬;We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. ¬;Why should world opinion care that the American Administration wants to bring freedom to oppressed peoples? Is that not because there’s some underlying common mutual interest, some underlying common shared idea, some underlying common shared aspiration, underlying unified concept of what human dignity means? I think that’s what we’re trying to tell the rest of the world, anyway Anthony NeilWedgwood'Tony'Benn–1925- :English, Lab pol, MP, SecOf StateForIndustry, writer, pol act ¬;Faith is what you die for, doctrine is what you kill for ¬;I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them. ¬;If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people. ¬;The way change occurs to begin with, if you come up with a good idea, like healthcare, you're ignored. If you go on you must be mad, absolutely stark-staring bonkers. If you go on after that you're dangerous. Then, if the pressure keeps up there's a pause. And then you can't find anyone at the top who doesn't claim to have thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made. ¬;There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. ¬;What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.

Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry–1900-1944:French, commercial pilot, writer, novel ¬;A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ¬;I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. ¬;If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine ¬;If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. ¬;If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ¬;Language is the source of misunderstandings.

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¬;Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ¬;One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. ¬;That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. ¬;War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ¬;What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – 1860-1904:Russian, physician, play inc Cherry Orchard, short story writer ¬;Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ¬;Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. ¬;If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ¬;Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ¬;The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Anwarshah Anwary – 195?- :Afghan, Government official in Herat, writer esp autobio, emigrated to US ¬;When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing.

Arcesilaus – c.316-c.241 BC:Aeolis Greek, phil esp skepticism, founder & Head Second&Middle Academy ¬;Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

Aristotle – 384-322 BC:Chalcidice Greek, phil, writer, tutor inc Alexander, aka founder of Western phil ¬;A friend to all is a friend to none. ¬;A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ¬;Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ¬;Change in all things is sweet. ¬;Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ¬;He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. ¬;He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ¬;I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ¬;It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ¬;It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ¬;It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ¬;It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. ¬;Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ¬;Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. ¬;Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ¬;My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ¬;No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ¬;Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ¬;Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ¬;The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ¬;The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ¬;The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ¬;Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ¬;Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ¬;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ¬;Well begun is half done.

Arnold Daniel Palmer – 1929- :American, professional golfer - 94 pro wins inc 7 Majors, aka The King ¬;Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

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Arnold EricSevareid–1912-1992:American, writer, journ esp CBS, Head CBSWashingtonBureau, TVhost ¬;The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness Arnold Joseph Toynbee – 1889-1975:English, hist esp comparative inc Study of Hist, Hist Prof, editor, dip ¬;Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ¬;Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ¬;Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ¬;It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ¬;The 'shepherds of men' are always economically - and usually politically - superfluous and therefore parasitic.

From the economic standpoint they have become a non-productive ruling class maintained by the labour of a productive population which would be better off economically if they were not there. ¬;The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. ¬;We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arthur 'Art' Melvin Spander – 194?- : American, journalist esp sports inc radio, columnist, writer ¬;The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Arthur Chapman – 1873-1935:American, journalist, columnist, editor, poet especially cowboy poetry ¬;Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Arthur Charles Clarke – 1917-2008:English, novel esp Science Fiction, writer, futurist, broadc, inventor ¬;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ¬;Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! ¬;As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ¬;CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ¬;For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. ¬;How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ¬;I am aware that peace cannot just be wished; it involves hard work, courage and persistence. ¬;I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ¬;I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.. ¬;I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. ¬;If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ¬;Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. ¬;It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ¬;It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ¬;New ideas pass through three periods: - It can't be done. - It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. - I knew it was a good idea all along! ¬;One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Twothirds of 2001 is realistic — hardware and technology — to establish background for the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later. ¬;Perhaps the adjective "elderly" requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! ¬;Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. ¬;The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ¬;The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime. ¬;The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ¬;The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of

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these. ¬;The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ¬;The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods. ¬;There is the possibility that humankind can outgrown its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions — each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others — how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that's insane. ...Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I'm afraid. ¬;This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ¬;We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. ¬;When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh – 1903-1966:English, writer esp travel & bio, novel esp humour & satire ¬;It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ¬;Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable ¬;The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish Arthur Findlay – 1883-1964:British, accountant, stockbroker, magistrate, writer esp Spiritualist ¬;Dogmas separate but ethics unite the human race. This means that religion (and any other belief) based on dogma is unethical. ¬;Fraud, forgery, intrigue, terror, persecution, imprisonment and wholesale murder combined to produce the Christian Church, which set itself up and the protector of Eucharist, a pagan ceremony to which it attached the name of Christ. Likewise, it adopted the Pagan form of infant baptism and abolished the Jesuian form of adult baptism. From the pagans it acquired the form of Church service, their marriage and other ceremonies, their ritual, their holy days and vestments, in fact the entire Apostolic outlook was changed to conform to pagan customs and beliefs. Even the name it gave to Jesus came from paganism, as the Egyptian god Osiris was known as Chrest, and to the Greeks as Chrestos. Like the dictators of our own times, the Church secured great power and wealth by every evil device ¬;God has always been a god of battles to the scoundrels who make their god in their own image. ¬;In 1881 a new translation of the Bible was made which revealed 36,191 mistakes in the version of 1611, still looked upon by many Christians as infallible and the Word of God. ¬;Murders were common in the Lateran Palace, and much blood reddened the streets of Rome, especially during episcopal elections. Anathemas were scattered far and wide. 42 of the 85 popes who ruled from 600 to 1050 had each a reign of less than two years, quite a number suffering violent deaths because of their outrages. Thousands of victims languished in the papal dungeons, without trial or reason, and many ended their days there.

Ecclesiastical offices were sold to the highest bidder, no matter who he was. There was no ethical standard in the Church, which was a money-making affair that could only prosper by keeping the people ignorant. ¬;People who disliked work became soldiers, and lived their lives killing their neighbours across arbitrary frontiers, and looting their property. They were members of a robber gang, led by a master robber, who, if he plundered successfully, became a historical character. The people over whom these criminals ruled, supported them in the hope that their masters would have some scraps left over for them to enjoy, but these plunderers never increased the prosperity of the great majority. ¬;Pope John XII was one of the greatest scoundrels in history. There was no crime that he did not commit. The palaces of Nero or Caligula , two of the worst Roman emperors, never witnessed more wanton scenes than took place at the Lateran Palace, the Pope's residence in Rome. Amongst his many misdeeds were murder, perjury, adultery, incest with his two sisters, rape and sacrilege. He turned his palace into a brothel, cut out the eyes, or castrated those who criticised him, and raped girls and women who came to pray at St. Peter's. He gambled, cursed and drank to the devil. ¬;Religion has been taught by a specially privileged class in every country, from the point of view favoured by that class. It was, and is still, in the interests of this class to propagate certain religious beliefs without any regard as to whether they are true or not. Political education is likewise bound up by similar restrictions. ¬;Religious organizations always came into being as the result of an action of a ruler or a noble. King Asoka of India established the Buddhist Church; Vistaspa, the wealthy Persian nobleman the Zoroastrian Church of Persia

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and Constantine established the Christian Church, shortly after he murdered Licinius, his brother-in-law. To Henry VIII falls the credit of founding the Episcopalian Church of England. ¬;The summary of 700 years of Christian expansionism in northern Europe is that the work was mainly done by the sword, in the interests of kings and tyrants, who supported it, as against the resistance of their subjects, who saw in the Church an instrument for their subjection. Christianity, in short, was as truly a religion of the sword, as Islam. The heathen, broadly speaking, were never persuaded, never convinced, never won by the appeal of the new doctrine; they were either transferred by their kings to the Church like so many cattle, or beaten down into submission after generations of resistance and massacre.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger – 1891-1968:American, journalist, expansionist publisher esp New York Times ¬;I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg–1884-1951:American, lawyer, journ, editor, pub, Rep pol, Michigan USSen ¬;It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle – 1859-1930:Scottish, physician, play, poet, novelist inc Sherlock Holmes ¬;I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ¬;It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ¬;Often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ¬;You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer – 1874-1950:Canadian, poet inc Old Woman Remembers, novel, screen ¬;Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Joseph Goldberg–1908-1990:American, lawyer, Dem pol, US SecOfLabor, US SupremeCourt Just ¬;If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Arthur Riding–1955- :Malaysian born British, restaurateur, business counsellor, analyst, social&pol critic ¬;A totally unacceptable way in which society distorts truth & values is over sex & violence. Violence is always obscene and although can be justified for 'real' self-defence only (not the standard aggression disguised as self defence), it has been glorified and hyped by the media into something 'wonderful' & exciting. Just look at all the films, games etc.- even toy guns for children, disgusting. This negative side of the human psyche is now seen as positive. Yet, a positive side of human psyche, sex, is shown as terrible & 'sinful'. Yes, that is mainly the fault of most religions (with a few honourable exceptions, mainly long disappeared) who have an evident self interest in portraying sex as 'sinful', as people who are enjoying life & 'suffering' less, are far less likely to come to church, mosque, etc. Religion has a lot to answer for in portraying good, ie sex, as evil, but even the 'non religious', with the media's help, are easily suckered into the same deception. Little wonder society has such depraved attitudes. ¬;Although one is perfectly entitled to an opinion on other people, one needs to constantly beware that this does not develop into that greatest of all evils, intolerance. Actions might start with something simple like trying to ban a film that one dislikes, or more seriously, protesting in order to ban gay or lesbian marriages, up to that greatest of all intolerances, torture combined with murder. Whilst not many people think they would take intolerance to its greatest extremes, the reality is, plenty do - just look at the German people under the Nazi regime, the KKK in the southern USA, the street gangs of LA, the Hutus of Rwanda, or the Cambodian cadres under Pol Pot, to name but a tiny few. What starts as simple intolerance can easily degenerate into the worst forms of intolerance, it is all part of the same continuum. Intolerance lies at the root of nearly all the other evils of this world, so learn to control intolerance at all levels in oneself and in those one can influence, and root out that awful cancer which lies within the human psyche. Be tolerant of everything except intolerance itself. ¬;Despite all its faults, the advent and spread of the modern computer systems have had two wonderful results which has already started to liberate mankind in many ways and will become even more important as the world becomes increasingly networked. This is the liberation from two tyrannies. a) The 1st is the tyranny of the local so-called 'expert' or 'specialist'. For centuries, our lives have been dominated by a range of people in our locality who say they know far more than the rest of us mere mortals & we should always do as they say & defer to their expertise. These are 'experts' such as politicians, priests, journalists, doctors, lawyers, architects, gardeners, designers, travel agents, the list is endless. Sometimes their expertise is truly great but in the majority of cases these 'experts' are not necessarily any more 'expert' for our particular circumstances than you or I. Now, with the aid of new technologies, if one wishes, one can fairly readily find out answers for oneself from expertise all over the world and make up one's own mind as to what is true, useful and/or relevant for one's own circumstances. b) The 2nd is the tyranny of the personal motor vehicle. Although 20th Century mankind saw the motor vehicle as liberating people from one's place, the personal motor vehicle has become more of a monster, causing death, suffering, aggravation, road rage & environmental damage. In countries where new technologies have spread more rapidly, including good home delivery systems, it is no longer necessary to be reliant on a car. For the first time ever, it is becoming truly possible to speak to the world, hear the world, see the world, and beyond, in all its glories, and conversely, let the world come to you, all from the comfort of one's armchair. Truly liberating! ¬;Exercise, yet another area where modern society has its priorities about face. The Media & organisations are

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always exhorting people to take physical exercise (whilst also encouraging bad food choices!). Whilst a little physical exercise is useful, we hear virtually nothing about the most important exercise of all, mental exercise.

Where are all the clubs & encouragement to exercise one's mind–indeed, more common is an attitude in Society of suspicion of intelligence. Disgraceful. One's purpose in life should be to improve one's mind, not one's body, which is but a vehicle for the mind-and no, a healthy body does NOT mean a healthy mind, usually the opposite. ¬;It has always seemed to me to be quite bizarre the way so many people in the West worship anything old as wonderful and anything new as bad. In many parts of the world such as Asia or Africa, you often see the opposite where people seem to worship the new product and hate the old. Both views are equally absurd - worth and pleasure should be derived from the object itself, whether a building, furniture, jewellery, a painting or whatever, it's age should be irrelevant. Also, even if the 'real' work is of fairly poor quality, because it is old and/or by someone famous, people will buy it for lots and lots of money. Indeed, we now have a situation where a 'named' painting can be worth thousands of times more than a brilliant copy which even 'experts' have difficulty distinguishing from the real thing! We also have speculators earning vast sums from someone else's work. It would not be too bad if the artist themselves received the often vast sums people pay for their works, but, with very few exceptions, the vast sums are only paid once the artist is dead and the artist is likely to have only received a pittance for their work. So, don't be intellectually lazy and be part of the madness, make your own decisions on the quality of the workmanship, the style, the designs, or whatever. Ignore the voices of the 'experts' who say 'this is 200 years old' or is 'by a famous artist', so you will have to pay 10 times as much for it.

This could result in legions of art critics and antique shop owners losing their jobs but is that such a bad thing? ¬;It is high time that many more people around the world started thinking for themselves rather than merely regurgitating the myths and rubbish that are fed to us by our modern masters, the combined power centres of the Media, Government (whichever political party is theoretically in power), and especially Big Business, supported

by Organised Religion (always an integral supporter of the State, whatever it might say in a constitution or national law). They are kept in power through a combination of a) education systems designed not to produce adults who think but adults who can conform & follow the orders of 'society', b) 'bread and circuses' - cheap food readily available plus a media diet of games, shows, dramas, sit-coms, soaps and sports, available 24 hours.

That should keep most people uninterested in politics or challenging the current power structure but in case anyone still wants to challenge the status quo, then of course the classic response of any group wanting to maintain power is to manufacture an external threat. The 'Cold War' served that purpose for many years, for both sides, now of course, very conveniently, we have the 'war on terror'. Whilst 9/11 was absolutely horrific, there were nearly 3,000 deaths in that incident, yet in most years since the 1970's and even before, there has been at least around 40,000 road deaths per year (plus many more thousands injured) in the USA alone, 42,196 in 2001, the year of 9/11. So, who's got a distorted sense of values? If the American Government had been truly concerned about the deaths of Americans, it would have declared war on General Motors, Toyota, Ford & all the other vehicle companies for not making their cars safer. But no, that would have damaged the profits of Big Business. Instead, the 'war on terror' has proved enormously profitable for American & multi-national Big Business. Furthermore, the 'war on terror' and all the 'wars' that are going to occur in the future, provide good excuses to restrict internal freedoms and prevent any widespread discontent with the political status quo. People shouldn't be 'unpatriotic' should they? People around the world have become much more like 'Stepford Wives' rather than the free thinking, rational, objective human beings that we like to think we are. And that applies not just to the USA but to nearly all industrialised countries, and indeed many developing countries too. Sometimes the players are different, sometimes, especially big multi-national businesses and media, they are the same. The only saving grace is that there is not just one power bloc, but a number, fighting for control, sometimes literally.

As the African proverb roughly goes, 'when elephants fight, all the grass gets trampled'. Not everyone is taken in by the propaganda, and there are rational people of honour & independence of thought in all countries, but they tend to be ridiculed and abused, not just by the power structures but by the unthinking masses who do as they are told by their masters, via the media. It is up to all of us to maybe continue to enjoy the bread & circuses we are offered but at the same time, wherever possible, also give encouragement and real support to all those of a more independent & humane mind who are trying to create a better world for all, even for the mindless majority. ¬;It is my contention that, unless there is some brain damage, every baby at birth has the potential to be another Plato, Einstein, etc. What stops them are nearly always their parents, teachers, or society attitudes, or more usually, a combination of all three. So, now we know the problem, maybe we can see about sorting it out? ¬;One of the more stupid of most cultural traditions is that a wife takes the husband's surname upon marriage.

This is slowly changing but far too slowly. It is stupid because, historically, it denoted that on marriage the woman has become the 'property' of the man, a clear impossibility as no adult can ever, ever, 'own' another adult, even if they are actually called slave, wife, or whatever. Far, far, better for the wife and husband to both keep their own surname and only decide at the time of birth which surname they want their children to use, without ANY social pressure to choose one or the other. Marriage is only a real marriage if it is a partnership of completely equal persons, if not, it is either a sham marriage or a form of slavery. ¬;The common belief and misconception that sex can only be associated with marriage or a long term

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partnership has been bedevilling the world for thousands of years, especially since 'politics' & 'religion' united.

Some societies have been more sensible on this issue, but for most, it has caused tremendous anguish and more perhaps than any other single factor, has led to generations who regard lying and deceit as a perfectly acceptable & normal form of personal behaviour, to keep their 'secrets'. The reality is that sex is but one of many bodily functions and in no way, shape, or form, needs to be, or should be, associated purely with marriage or a long term relationship – for example, the fact that one goes out to eat in a restaurant with a different person to one's partner does not mean one loves or respects one's partner any less. To believe that one's partner must always only have sex with oneself is nothing more than treating one's partner as property, not as a living, independent, human being. What makes a marriage or a partnership is having a loving relationship, of treating one's partner as someone unique. Therefore, having a mistress, or a long term lover, is the real infidelity as that is having a loving relationship with someone else - although often it is nothing to do with love, more with power games.

Having sex with someone else though, just for fun, not as part of a relationship, and being open about it, is totally acceptable in any real marriage based on true love and respect for one another and trust in one another. ¬;There are numerous badly applied 'proverbs' & 'sayings' in today's ill informed world. In my view the 3 worst of the 'popular' ones are i) 'no pain, no gain' applied by many, including doctors who should know better, to issues such as lack of exercise. 'Hard work' might be OK to use instead of the word 'pain', but pain is the body's warning that one has gone too far and one should either ease back or stop, so it is patently absurd that the 'no pain, no gain' comment is always being trotted out. More truthful would be 'no pain, contented life'! ii) 'there's no smoke without fire', often applied by people to try and excuse the absurdities and lies of the media. Lies and mis-information are of course the foundations of modern journalism in the Western World, so there is frequently smoke without any fire at all. A less catchy but more accurate proverb would be 'no smoke without an electric, totally fireless, artificial smoke generator'. iii) Less is More – really, less is just less, nothing else. Of course, this thinking of 'less is more' is one of the foundations of that design scourge of the modern world, 'Minimalism' whereby architects and interior designers can get away with charging vast sums for virtually no work. In my view, particularly in design, a better phrase would be 'empty rooms, for empty people, with empty minds'. ¬;Try, whatever you do, never, ever, apply 'labels' to another individual human being. All that does is to dehumanise that person, and at the same time de-humanises yourself - and you start thinking always of 'us' and 'them'. We are all 'us' and 'them' at the same time, so treat people according to what they actually say and do themselves, not by their 'label' or whatever group you think they belong to. The Media and the rest of the power elites love it when you apply labels as that makes their efforts to indoctrinate you so much easier but, if you are a real human being, resist! However, applying labels to 'groups' of people is less of an issue as human beings in groups tend to loose their humanity pretty quickly anyway and certainly the actions of 'mobs' or 'groups' are frequently totally obnoxious. But don't confuse individuals with groups and we all need to act as real human beings to one another, not act as a common mindless foot soldier doing the bidding of the power elites. ¬;Whilst laws & Government have some role to play in the protection of children and on what can be displayed or seen in public places, in line with the social norms of the day, laws & Government have no role whatsoever in what fully consenting adults do in private or what they see in books, the internet or any other medium. It is totally immoral of any Government to try and control adult individual, consensual, actions in private - yet more and more Governments seem to want to try to impose these controls based on some sort of trumped up spurious excuse of one type or another, usually protection of the 'innocent', when of course it is really nothing of the sort.

It is all to do with Governments and the power elites trying to obtain as much control as they can over any new medium by which information of any sort can or may be distributed, in order to prevent access to independent & free information. Censorship of adults is invariably evil, never beneficial to any except to those of a vile mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer – 1788-1860:German, phil esp reason&will, writer inc World-Will&Representation ¬;All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ¬;Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ¬;Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. ¬;Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ¬;Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see ¬;The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. ¬;There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ¬;We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Stanley Eddington–1882-1944:British, astrophysicist esp dev TheoryOfRelativity, Astronomy Prof ¬;I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all. ¬;Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it

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reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. In applying this analogy, the catch stands for the body of knowledge which constitutes physical science, and the net for the sensory and intellectual equipment which we use in obtaining it. The casting of the net corresponds to observation; for knowledge which has not been or could not be obtained by observation is not admitted into physical science. An onlooker may object that the first generalisation is wrong. "There are plenty of sea-creatures under two inches long, only your net is not adapted to catch them." The icthyologist dismisses this objection contemptuously. "Anything uncatchable by my net is ipso facto outside the scope of icthyological knowledge. In short, "what my net can't catch isn't fish." Or—to translate the analogy—"If you are not simply guessing, you are claiming a knowledge of the physical universe discovered in some other way than by the methods of physical science, & admittedly unverifiable by such methods. You are a metaphysician. Bah!" ¬;Never mind what two tons refers to. What is it? ¬;Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. ¬;The man in the street is always making this demand for concrete explanation of the things referred to in science; but of necessity he must be disappointed. It is like our experience in learning to read. That which is written in a book is symbolic of a story in real life. The whole intention of the book is that ultimately a reader will identify some symbol, say BREAD, with one of the conceptions of familiar life. But it is mischievous to attempt such identifications prematurely, before the letters are strung into words and the words into sentences. ¬;The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions...The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances. ¬;We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke – 1769-1852:Irish born British, army officer, FieldMarshall, Tory pol, UK PM ¬;The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won.

Artur 'Arthur' Rubinstein – 1887-1982 : Polish born American, international musician esp piano, teacher ¬;I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Artur 'Arthur' Schnabel – 1882-1951:Austrian born American, composer, musician esp piano, teacher ¬;When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."

Artúr Kösztler aka Arthur Koestler – 1905-1983:Hungarian born British, writer inc travel, journ, novel ¬;Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ¬;Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. ¬;Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ¬;If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ¬;Man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination. ¬;The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their selftranscending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. ¬;The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass -- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught -- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries. ¬;The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ¬;The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. ¬;The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. ¬;War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. ¬;We are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.

AsherZviHirschGinsberg akaAhadHa-Am–1856-1927:Ukrainian bornRussian, phil esp rational, Zion act ¬;The less their ability, the more their conceit.

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Aubrey SolomonMeir'Abba' Eban–1915-2002:SouthAfrican born Israeli, pol, dip, ForeignMin, UN VPres ¬;A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. ¬;History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ¬;It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Augustine 'Og' Mandino – 1923-1996:American, writer inc Greatest Salesman, motivational speaker ¬;Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. ¬;Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. ¬;Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. ¬;I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. ¬;I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ¬;I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. ¬;I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. ¬;Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. ¬;The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ¬;The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. ¬;Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Aung San Suu Kyi–1945- :Burmese, NationalLeagueDemocracy pol, Burmese PM elect, won Nobel Peace ¬;The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Austin O'Malley – 1858-1932:American, physician, writer inc KeystoneForThought&ThoughtsOfRecluse ¬;A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. ¬;Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. ¬;Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. ¬;If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell. ¬;It is a foolish man that hears all he hears. ¬;Often a convert is zealous not through piety, but because of the novelty of his experience. ¬;Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ¬;Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year ¬;Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it ¬;Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh ¬;The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the boss. ¬;The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. ¬;The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them. ¬;The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ¬;Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. ¬;Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ¬;We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought. ¬;When the heart is crowded, it has most room; when empty, it can find place for no new guest.

Avram Noam Chomsky – 1928- :American, writer, lecturer, phil, cognitive sci, Linguistics Prof, pol act N.B. Some of Noam Chomsky quotes are taken directly from David Cogswell's book 'Chomsky for Beginners' ¬;A lot of the people who call themselves Left I would regard as proto-fascists. ¬;Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. ¬;After September 11th I had tons of interviews everywhere, except the United States of course, and often it was national radio and TV. A couple of times it turned out to be Irish television and BBC back to back, and the difference in reaction was startling. If I said this much on Irish TV, OK, discussion over, everyone understands what I'm talking about. You try to say it on BBC, you have to go on for like about an hour to explain to them what you mean. The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years. ¬;All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

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¬;Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. ¬;Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. So I think if you look at, at least the history that I know, it’s usually the civilian leadership who is pushing the military to do something. It was the case in the early days of the Vietnam War. ¬;As a number the specialists have pointed out, Bush is Osama bin Laden's best ally... [9/11] was bitterly condemned by the jihadi movement around the world. The leading figures, the radical clerics and others, were denouncing it. Well, there was an opportunity to make some moves towards the Muslim world, and in fact even the radical Islamic extremist elements of the Muslim world, and undermine support for Al-Qaeda. What Bush did was the opposite: resorted to violence, particularly in Iraq, which simply mobilized support for Osama bin Laden. That's the way to deal with terrorism if you want to escalate it. ¬;As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will. It also threatens sanctions against countries that do not abide by its conveniently flexible notions of "free trade." ¬;Board of Directors have to make certain kinds of decisions, and those decisions are pretty narrowly constrained. They have to be committed to increasing profit share and market share. That means they're going to be forced to try to limit wages, to limit quality, to use advertising in a way that sells goods even if the product is lousy. Who tells them to do this? Nobody. But if they stopped doing it, they'd be out of business. Similarly, if an editorial writer for the New York Times were to start, say, telling the truth about the Panama invasion -- which is almost inconceivable, because to become an editorial writer you'd already have gone through a filtering process which would weed out the non-conformists -- well, the first thing that would happen is you'd start getting a lot of angry phone calls from investors, owners, and other sectors of power. That would probably suffice. If it didn't, you'd simply see the stock start falling. And if they continued with it systematically, the New York Times would be replaced by some other organ. After all, what is the New York Times? It's just a corporation. If investors and advertisers don't want to support it, and the government doesn't want to give it the special privileges and advantages that make it a "newspaper of record," it's out of business. ¬;Capitalism is basically a system where everything is for sale, and the more money you have, the more you can get. And, in particular, that's true of freedom. Freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it. It shows up in all sorts of ways. It shows up if you get in trouble with the law, let's say, or in any aspect of life it shows up. And for that reason it makes a lot of sense, if you accept capitalist system, to try to accumulate property, not just because you want material welfare, but because that guarantees your freedom, it makes it possible for you to amass that commodity. [...] what you're going to find is that the defense of free institutions will largely be in the hands of those who benefit from them, namely the wealthy, and the powerful. They can purchase that commodity and, therefore, they want those institutions to exist, like free press, and all that. ¬;Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs. ¬;Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils. And in fact I think you'd find it hard to discover a mass murderer in history who didn't think that¬;Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted. ¬;Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. ¬;For example, take Suharto's Indonesia, which is a brutal, murderous state. I think Canada was supporting it all the way through, because it was making money out of the situation. And we can go around the world. Canada strongly supported the US invasion of South Vietnam, the whole of Indochina. In fact Canada became the per capita largest war exporter, trying to make as much money as it could from the murder of people in Indochina.

In fact, I'd suggest that you look back at the comment by a well known and respected Canadian diplomat, I think his name was John Hughes, some years ago, who defined what he called the Canadian idea, namely "we uphold our principles but we find a way around them". Well, that's pretty accurate. And Canada is not unique in this respect, maybe a little more hypocritical. ¬;For many years, elections here, election campaigns, have been run by the public relations industry and each time it's with increasing sophistication. And quite naturally, the industry uses the same technique to sell candidates that it uses to sell toothpaste or lifestyle drugs. The point is to undermine markets by projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information, and similarly, to undermine democracy by same method, projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information. The candidates are trained, carefully trained, to project a certain image. Intellectuals like to make fun of George Bush's use of phrases like “misunderestimate,” and so on, but my strong suspicion is that he's trained to do that. He's carefully trained to efface the fact that he's a spoiled frat boy from Yale, and to look like a Texas roughneck kind of ordinary guy just like you, just waiting to get back to the ranch that they created for him

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¬;I compared some passages of articles of [Robert McNamara] in the late 1960s, speeches, on management and the necessity of management, how a well-managed society controlled from above was the ultimate in freedom.

The reason is if you have really good management and everything's under control and people are told what to do, under those conditions, he said, man can maximize his potential. I just compared that with standard Leninist views on vanguard parties, which are about the same. About the only difference is that McNamara brought God in, and I suppose Lenin didn't bring God in. He brought Marx in. ¬;I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions. At the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama said, 'only in this country, only in America, could someone like me appear here.' Well, in some other countries, people much poorer than him would not only talk at the convention - they'd be elected president. Take Lula. The president of Brazil is a guy with a peasant background, a union organizer, never went to school, he's the president of the second-biggest country in the hemisphere. Only in America? I mean, there they actually have elections where you can choose somebody from your own ranks. With different policies. That's inconceivable in the United States. ¬;I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled. ¬;If, say, you say that Iran is a terrorist state, you don't need evidence. If you say that the US is a terrorist state, you need plenty. Here, that is. In Iran it's reversed. ¬;If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ¬;If there was anyone who actually fit the category of conservative, if there was such a category of people, they would have a very easy way to deal with the fact that 60% of the children under 2 [in Nicaragua] are suffering probable brain damage. Namely, by paying their debts. Simple conservative principle. But that's beyond unthinkable. Compassionate conservatives might want to go beyond that, if they existed. But they're much more interested in making political capital over the fact that a woman in a vegetative state shouldn't be allowed to die in dignity. ¬;If we do not believe in freedom of expression for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. ¬;If we were to withdraw our own beating people over the heads with clubs, would it necessarily follow that somebody else would take that role, or are there other alternatives? Well yeah, there are other alternatives. For example, the alternatives that are favored by the overwhelming majority of the population of the United States. I mentioned one piece of it: let the UN function. The UN isn't perfect, a lot of things wrong with it, just like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn't perfect... But one step would be to pay some respect to the "decent opinion of mankind", to quote the famous author, and let international institutions function so as to reduce the likelihood that anybody will use force ¬;I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their selfconfidence in discussing it with "experts." While driving, I sometimes turn on radio talk shows on sports, and am always struck by this. People calling in have no hesitation in criticizing the coaches, the judgments of the people running the shows, etc. In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives -- their own and others -- people tend to defer to "experts," though for the most part the expert knowledge is no more beyond them than how the local professional sports team should play their next game. That's where the indoctrination comes in: in the intensive training that brings people to feel that they must defer to alleged "experts" on matters of very direct concern to them, far more so than sports. ¬;In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. In the 1984 election, for example, there was actually an issue, which often there isn't. The issue was Keynesian growth versus fiscal conservatism. The Republicans were the party of Keynesian growth: big spending, deficits, and so on. The Democrats were the party of fiscal conservatism: watch the money supply, worry about the deficits, et etcetera. Now, I didn't see a single comment pointing out that the two parties had completely reversed their traditional positions.

Traditionally, the Democrats are the party of Keynesian growth, and the Republicans the party of fiscal conservatism. So doesn't it strike you that something must have happened? Well, actually, it makes sense. Both parties are essentially the same party. The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum. ¬;Independent nationalism is unacceptable to the West, no matter where it is, and it has to be driven back into subordination. In the case of Grenada, you can do it in a weekend; in the case of the Soviet Union it may take 70 years. But these are matters of scale, the logic is essentially the same. ¬;It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. ¬;Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. ¬;Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was

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its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call "education," they're going to take control -- "they" being what Alexander Hamilton called the "great beast," namely the people. The anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious. And for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. ¬;Most people, we all know from our own personal experiences, if not from reading history, know that it's very easy to construct a pattern of justification for just about anything you choose to do. I mean none of us are so saintly that we haven't done ugly and unpleasant things in our lives, like maybe you took a toy from your five year old brother when you were a kid or something. Just ask yourself, anybody can ask themselves, how often did I say to myself, 'Boy I'm really rotten, but this is what I feel like doing'. Very rarely, Usually you set up a pattern of justification that makes it exactly the right thing to do. That's the way beliefs are formed. Motivations are kind of hidden. If you are honest, maybe you could dig out and find them, but it's awfully easy and a common experience to construct a pattern of justification for things you do out of some kind of self interest.

And that's done in statecraft all the time. ¬;No individual gets up and says, I'm going to take this because I want it. He'd say, I'm going to take it because it really belongs to me and it would be better for everyone if I had it. It's true of children fighting over toys. And it's true of governments going to war. Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides. ¬;Nobody doubts that the Russians committed aggression, that Saddam Hussein committed aggression. We attribute to them rational goals, maybe they wanted to control the energy of the Middle East or something. With regard to ourselves, it's impossible... We just cannot adopt towards ourselves the same sane attitudes that we adopt easily, in fact reflexively, when others commit crimes... And if anyone says it, educated people, liberal intellectuals, are infuriated. Because it suggests that we could do something that's not noble. We can make mistakes, that's easy. You can criticize mistakes. You can criticize low-level crimes, like Abu-Ghraib, you can criticize that. You can criticize My Lai. But not the educated, civilized people, the kind of people we have dinner with, see at concerts, sitting in air-conditioned offices planning mass-murder. So that's beyond criticism.

On the other hand, if it's half-crazed G.I.s in the field, uneducated, don't know who's gonna shot at 'em next, you can blame them, you can say how awful they are. You can criticize Lynndie England, disadvantaged young woman, very different from us. But how about the guys who organized and planned it? No. ¬;Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an "innocent victim" only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret. ¬;Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: what kind of peace? ¬;One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story. ¬;People have to be trained for creativity and disobedience - because there is no other way you can do science.

But in the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on... people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much. ¬;Remember that the media have two basic functions. One is to indoctrinate the elites, to make sure they have the right ideas and know how to serve power. In fact, typically the elites are the most indoctrinated segment of a society, because they are the ones who are exposed to the most propaganda and actually take part in the decision-making process. For them you have the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and so on. But there’s also a mass media, whose main function is just to get rid of the rest of the population -- to marginalize and eliminate them, so they don’t interfere with decision-making. And the press that’s designed for that purpose isn’t the New York Times and the Washington Post, it’s sitcoms on television, and the National Enquirer, and sex and violence, and babies with three heads, and football, all that kind of stuff. ¬;Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. The people, so-called, do exercise an occasional choice among those who Marx once called "the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling class. ¬;Sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable -- if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it. ¬;September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for

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discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. It is also the merest sanity, if we hope to reduce the likelihood of future atrocities. It may be comforting to pretend that our enemies "hate our freedoms," as President Bush stated, but it is hardly wise to ignore the real world, which conveys different lessons. The president is not the first to ask: "Why do they hate us?" In a staff discussion 44 years ago, President Eisenhower described "the campaign of hatred against us [in the Arab world], not by the governments but by the people".

His National Security Council outlined the basic reasons: the US supports corrupt and oppressive governments and is "opposing political or economic progress" because of its interest in controlling the oil resources of the region. ¬;Somebody's paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. They're getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. ¬;That's not acting like a decent person. You can walk down the street and be hungry. You see a kid eating an ice cream cone and you notice there's no cop around and you can take the ice cream cone from him because you're bigger and walk away. You can do that. Probably there are people who do. We call them "pathological." On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures we call them "normal." But it's just as pathological. It's just the pathology of the general society. ¬;The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening. ¬;The Cold War ideology and the international communist conspiracy function in an important way as essentially a propaganda device to mobilize support at a particular historical moment for this long-time imperial enterprise. In fact, I believe that this is probably the main function of the Cold War: it serves as a useful device for the managers of American society and their counterparts in the Soviet Union to control their own populations and their own respective imperial systems. ¬;The free market is socialism for the rich. ¬;The list of the states that have joined the coalition against terror is quite impressive. They have a characteristic in common. They are certainly among the leading terrorist states in the world. And they happen to be led by the world champion. ¬;The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ¬;The most important victory, in fact, was in Indonesia. In 1965 there was a military coup, which instantly carried out a Rwanda-style slaughter, and it's not an exaggeration. Rwanda-style slaughter, which wiped out the only mass-based political organization, killed mostly landless peasants, and instituted a brutal and murderous regime. There was total euphoria in the United States. So happy, they couldn't contain it. When you read the press, it was just ecstatic. It's kind of suppressed now because it doesn't look pretty in retrospect, but it was understood. ¬;The Oslo agreements did represent a shift in U.S.-Israeli policy. Both states had by then come to recognize that it is a mistake to use the Israel Defense Forces to run the territories. It is much wiser to resort to the traditional colonial pattern of relying on local clients to control the subject population, in the manner of the British in India, South Africa under apartheid, the U.S. in Central America, and other classic cases. That is the assigned role of the Palestinian Authority, which like its predecessors, has to follow a delicate path: it must maintain some credibility among the population, while serving as a second oppressor, both militarily and economically, in coordination with the primary power centers that retain ultimate control. The long-term goal of the Oslo process was described accurately by Shlomo Ben-Ami shortly before he joined the Barak government: it is to establish a condition of permanent neo-colonialist dependency. The mechanisms have been spelled out explicitly in the successive interim agreements; and more important, implemented on the ground. ¬;The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about. ¬;The political policies that are called conservative these days would appal any genuine conservative, if there were one around to be appalled. For example, the central policy of the Reagan Administration - which was supposed to be conservative - was to build up a powerful state. The state grew in power more under Reagan than in any peacetime period, even if you just measure it by state expenditures. The state intervention in the economy vastly increased. That's what the Pentagon system is, in fact; it's the creation of a state-guaranteed market and subsidy system for high-technology production. There was a commitment under the Reagan Administration to protect this more powerful state from the public, which is regarded as the domestic enemy. Take the resort to clandestine operations in foreign policy: that means the creation of a powerful central state immune from public

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inspection. Or take the increased efforts at censorship and other forms of control. All of these are called "conservatism," but they're the very opposite of conservatism. Whatever the term means, it involves a concern for Enlightenment values of individual rights and freedoms against powerful external authorities such as the state, a dominant Church, and so on. That kind of conservatism no one even remembers anymore. ¬;The Report calls for direct talks for Palestinians who "accept Israel's right to exist" (an absurd demand) but does not restrict Israelis to those who accept the right of a Palestinian state to exist, which would, for example, exclude Israel's Prime Minister Olmert, who received a rousing ovation in Congress when he declared that Israel's historic right to the land from Jordan to the sea is beyond question. ¬;The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ¬;The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. ¬;The United States developed its own economy behind very high protectionist walls with enormous state intervention and it maintains it that way. The Pentagon, for example, is itself a huge government program arranged for a taxpayer subsidy to advanced industry. I can't imagine anything more radically opposed to the free market. ¬;The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ¬;The whole question of recognizing the right of a state to exist was invented solely for Israel. People, on the other hand, have a right to exist. So the people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace. ¬;There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism. ¬;There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich. ¬;There's basically two principles that define the Bush Administration policies: stuff the pockets of your rich friends with dollars, and increase your control over the world. Almost everything follows from that. If you happen to blow up the world, well, you know, it's somebody else's business. Stuff happens, as Rumsfeld said. ¬;There's been Palestinian terrorism all the way through. I have always opposed it, I oppose it now. But it's very small as compared with the US-backed Israeli terrorism. Quite typically, violence reflects the means of violence.

It's not unusual. State terror is almost always much more extreme than retail terror, and this is no exception. ¬;There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. If you look at the history of imperialism, a lot of it has to do with that. ¬;Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate[s] the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles. There's a modern perversion of conservatism and libertarianism, which has changed the meanings of words, pretty much the way Orwell discussed. So nowadays, dependence refers to something else. When you listen to what's going in Congress, and people talk about dependence, what they mean by dependence is public support for hungry children, not wage labor. Dependence is support for hungry children and mothers who are caring for them. [...] We see this very dramatically right at this moment in Congress, under the leadership of Newt Gingrich, who quite demonstrably is the leading welfare freak in the country. He is the most avid advocate of welfare in the country, except he wants it to go to the rich.

His own district in Cobb County Georgia gets more federal subsidies than any suburban county in the country, outside of the federal system itself... And it's supposed to continue, because this kind of welfare dependency is good. Dependent children, that's bad. But dependent executives, that's good. You gotta make sure they keep feeding at the public trough. [...] the nation is not an entity, it's divided into economic classes, and the architects of policy are those who have the economic power. In his days, he said, the merchants and manufacturers of England, who make sure that their interests are "most peculiarly attended to", like Gingrich. Whatever the effect on others, including the people of England. To Adam Smith, that was a truism. To James Madison, that was a truism. Nowadays, you're supposed to recoil in horror and call it vulgar Marxism or something, meaning that Adam Smith and James Madison must have been disciples of Marx. And if you believe the rest of the story, you might as well believe that. But those are facts which you can easily discover if you bothered reading the sacred texts, that you're supposed to worship, but not read. ¬;Though the policies of Hamas are, again in my view, unacceptable, they happen to be closer to the international consensus on a political peaceful settlement than those of their antagonists, and it's a reflection of the power of the imperial states - the United States and Europe - that they are able to shift the framework, so that the problem appears to be Hamas' policies, and not the more extreme policies of the United States and Israel.

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¬;To gain control over this resource, and have probably military bases there (Iraq), is a tremendous achievement for world control. You read counter-arguments to this, and they're worth looking at. So it's argued that it can't be true, because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be greater than the profits that will be made. Well, maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but it's totally irrelevant. And the reason is because the costs of reconstruction are gonna be paid by the taxpayer, by you, and the profits are gonna go right into the pockets of the energy corporations. So yeah, it doesn't matter how they balance out, it's just another taxpayer subsidy to the rich. ¬;Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. ¬;We cannot disregard the historical record and talk about an ideal world. It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is. ¬;What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country. ¬;Why is it that the propaganda system is geared to suppressing any inquiry into ... the role of corporations in foreign policy...? Why such efforts to conceal the real history with fables about the awesome nobility of our intentions, flawed only by blunders arising from our naivete and simple-minded goodness...? ¬;You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible - not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert - not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That's the story of Noah. I mean, that's beyond genocide - you don't know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive - that's supposed to be gentle and wonderful. ¬;You can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.

B Bahya benJoseph ibnPaquda aka RabbeinuBachya–mid 11thCent:Spanish born, Jewish phil, rabbi, writer ¬;If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.

Baltasar Gracian y Morales–1601-1658:Spanish, Jesuit priest, teacher, preacher, writer esp BaroqueProse ¬;A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ¬;Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. ¬;It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. ¬;Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. ¬;Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ¬;The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

BarackHusseinObama–1961-:American, lawyer,LawProf, Dempol, IllinoisUSSen, 44thUSPres, NobelPeace ¬;A just peace includes not only civil and political rights — it must encompass economic security and opportunity. For true peace is not just freedom from fear, but freedom from want. It is undoubtedly true that development rarely takes root without security; it is also true that security does not exist where human beings do not have access to enough food, or clean water, or the medicine they need to survive. It does not exist where children cannot aspire to a decent education or a job that supports a family. The absence of hope can rot a society from within. ¬;Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for human rights. Investments in development. All of these are vital ingredients in bringing about the evolution that President Kennedy spoke about. And yet, I do not believe that we will have the will, or the staying power, to complete this work without something more — and that is the continued expansion of our moral imagination, an insistence that there is something irreducible that we all share. ¬;Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. ¬;Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.

Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ¬;I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. ¬;If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ¬;It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like

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them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. ¬;It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. ¬;It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can. ¬;Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based upon the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting. It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War. In the wake of devastation, they recognized that if human rights are not protected, peace is a hollow promise. And yet all too often, these words are ignored. In some countries, the failure to uphold human rights is excused by the false suggestion that these are Western principles, foreign to local cultures or stages of a nations development. And within America, there has long been a tension between those who describe themselves as realists or idealists — a tension that suggests a stark choice between the narrow pursuit of interests or an endless campaign to impose our values. I reject this choice. I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please, choose their own leaders or assemble without fear. Pent up grievances fester, and the suppression of tribal and religious identity can lead to violence. We also know that the opposite is true. Only when Europe became free did it finally find peace. America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens. No matter how callously defined, neither Americas interests — nor the worlds — are served by the denial of human aspirations. ¬;The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. ¬;The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach — and condemnation without discussion — can carry forward a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door. ¬;The world must remember that it was not simply international institutions — not just treaties and declarations — that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this: The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans. We have borne this burden not because we seek to impose our will. We have done so out of enlightened self-interest — because we seek a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom and prosperity. ¬;There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. ¬;There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. ¬;This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ¬;To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man and the limits of reason. ¬;Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. ¬;We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. ¬;We do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place. The non-violence practised by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preached — their faith in human progress — must always be the

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North Star that guides us on our journey. For if we lose that faith — if we dismiss it as silly or naive, if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace — then we lose what is best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass. ¬;We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ¬;We must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time ¬;We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. ¬;We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. ¬;What Washington needs is adult supervision. ¬;You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Barbara Ann Rosner aka Barbara Seaman – 1905-2008:American, journ, writer, women's health activist ¬;According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men - just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE. ¬;Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small. ¬;Probably the easiest thing would be to vasectomize males at the age of 13 after freezing some of their sperm.

Then you could unfreeze it only after they have enough money to support a child up to the age of 18.

Barbara Mertz aka Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Michaels – 1927- :American, novel esp mystery&gothic ¬;Few academic subjects are improved by being approached in a spirit of deadly seriousness. I suspect, in fact, that most of them can profit by a bit of kindly mockery, particularly if it is self-administered.

Barbara Mikkelson – 196?- :Canadian, found&owner myth & urban legend de-bunking web site Snopes ¬;Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the purse-strings that are actually being reached for.

Barbara 'Barbra'JoanStreisand–1942- :American, singer, song, actress, dir, prod, liberty act, won 2 Oscar ¬;The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, openminded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

Barbara Tober – 193?- :American, journalist, editor inc BridesMagazine, Pres Acronym, philanthropist ¬;Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

BarnettCocks–1907-1989 :British, bureaucrat, Clerk HouseOfCommons, edited ErskineMay ParlPractice ¬;A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

BarryB.LePatner–195?- :American, lawyer esp construction industry,lecturer, writer incBrokenBuildings ¬;Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry Morris Goldwater – 1909-1998:American, businessman, Rep pol, Arizona US Sen, US Pres Cand ¬;I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass. ¬;Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ¬;Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them ¬;The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. ¬;The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.

They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." ¬;Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be

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suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen.

Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ¬;When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye. ¬;You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. ¬;You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Baruch 'Benedict' de Spinoza akaBento–1632-1677:Dutch, lens grinder, phil esp rational, writer incEthics ¬;All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them. ¬;Although men, as a rule, are a prey to many emotions — and very few are found who are always assailed by one and the same — yet there are cases, where one and the same emotion remains obstinately fixed. We sometimes see men so absorbed in one object, that, although it be not present, they think they have it before them; when this is the case with a man who is not asleep, we say he is delirious or mad; nor are those persons who are inflamed with love, and who dream all night and all day about nothing but their mistress, or some woman, considered as less mad, for they are made objects of ridicule. But when a miser thinks of nothing but gain or money, or when an ambitious man thinks of nothing but glory, they are not reckoned to be mad, because they are generally harmful, and are thought worthy of being hated. But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases. ¬;Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ¬;Each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped. ¬;For men are diverse (seeing that those who live under the guidance of reason are few), yet are they generally envious and more prone to revenge than to sympathy. No small force of character is therefore required to take everyone as he is, and to restrain one's self from imitating the emotions of others. But those who carp at mankind, and are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men's dispositions, are hurtful both to themselves and others. ¬;God is without passions, neither is he affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain. ... Strictly speaking, God does not love or hate anyone. ¬;He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false. ¬;He whose honour is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away. Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others. The object of the strife being estimated as the greatest of all goods, each combatant is seized with a fierce desire to put down his rivals in every possible way, till he who at last comes out victorious is more proud of having done harm to others than of having done good to himself. This sort of honour, then, is really empty, being nothing. ¬;I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance. ¬;I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions; and to this end I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses ¬;If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between parents and children, than between masters and slaves; yet it advances not the art of household management to change a father's right into a right of property, and count children but as slaves. Slavery, then, and not peace, is furthered by handing, over the whole authority to one man. ¬;In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. A man would perish of hunger and thirst, if he refused to eat or drink, till he had obtained positive proof that food and drink would be good for him. But in philosophic reflection this is not so. On the contrary, we must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow. ¬;In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another. ¬;In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For

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no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power. ¬;It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other. ¬;Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently, for the most part, very prone to credulity. ¬;Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness. ¬;Most people seem to believe that they are free, in so far as they may obey their lusts, and that they cede their rights, in so far as they are bound to live according to the commandments of the divine law. They therefore believe that piety, religion, and, generally, all things attributable to firmness of mind, are burdens, which, after death, they hope to lay aside, and to receive the reward for their bondage, that is, for their piety and religion ; it is not only by this hope, but also, and chiefly, by the fear of being horribly punished after death, that they are induced to live according to the divine commandments, so far as their feeble and infirm spirit will carry them. ¬;Nature abhors a vacuum. ¬;Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ¬;Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. For they conceive of men, not as they are, but as they themselves would like them to be. ¬;Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. ¬;Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy. From all these considerations it is clearer than the sun at noonday, that the true schismatics are those who condemn other men's writings, and seditiously stir up the quarrelsome masses against their authors, rather than those authors themselves, who generally write only for the learned, and appeal solely to reason. In fact, the real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over. ¬;So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he should do it. ¬;Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues. ¬;The doctrines added by certain churches, such as that God took upon Himself human nature, I have expressly said that I do not understand; in fact, to speak the truth, they seem to me no less absurd than would a statement, that a circle had taken upon itself the nature of a, square. ¬;The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over-confident, and vain. No plan is then too futile, too absurd, or too fatuous for their adoption; the most frivolous causes will raise them to hope, or plunge them into despair — if anything happens during their fright which reminds them of some past good or ill, they think it portends a happy or unhappy issue, and therefore (though it may have proved abortive a hundred times before) style it a lucky or unlucky omen. Anything which excites their astonishment they believe to be a portent signifying the anger of the gods or of the Supreme Being, and, mistaking superstition for religion, account it impious not to avert the evil with prayer and sacrifice. Signs and wonders of this sort they conjure up perpetually, till one might think Nature as mad as themselves, they interpret her so fantastically. ¬;The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws. ... Under such circumstances they do not think it disgraceful, but most honorable, to hold the laws in abhorrence, and to refrain from no action against the government. ¬;The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included... ¬;The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others. No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty. ¬;To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man ... Care of the poor is

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Beatrice StellaTanner aka MrsPatrickCampbell – 1865-1940:English, UK&USA stage actress, film actress ¬;Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! ¬;The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Belva Plain–1919- :American, novel esp women's fiction inc Evergreen&LegacySilence, short story writer ¬;How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Ben Goldacre – 1974- :British, physician, psychiatrist, journ, col esp Guardian, writer inc Bad Science ¬;One of the central themes of my book [Bad Science] is that there are no real differences between the $600 billion pharmaceutical industry and the $50 billion food supplement pill industry ¬;You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Ben Haig Bagdikian – 1920- :Armenian Turkish born American, journ, Dean UCB Journ School, writer ¬;A brutal idiocy in the Vietnam War was the statement, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." ¬;Among neo-conservatives, there has been a basic long-term plan for the United States and for the rest of the world. In the United States the plan is open and even given a name: "Starve the Beast." The "Beast" is the United States government. The starvation is to have the government so loaded with debt or other limiting obligations that it makes it easier to cancel a wide range of government programs, or so cripple them they will not work. These are programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other fixtures that mainly benefit the middle-class Americans, environmental protections, anti-pollution laws, and the entire range of programs the neo-conservatives wish to privatize or cancel. ¬;Bin Laden plots death to the infidel Americans as well as death to fellow Muslims who fail to follow al Qaeda's radical Taliban-style Islam. Our own White House has adopted the secular fundamentalist of Cold War nihilism. There was the original gaffe of calling it a "crusade" against the various "theys" who are wicked and dangerous, those who fail to see the value of dropping the bombs in order to create a peaceful and properly righteous world. It is a classic case of opponents whose behavior becomes mirror images of each other. ¬;Bush proceeded to make it all worse....What swept through the country was a culture of no limits and no social conscience. Make as much money as you can and don't let the bureaucrats stop you. Success is honored by income. Taxes are a form of theft, so do everything you can to evade those gangsters in the I.R.S. The heroes were the people who made lots of money....Enter the culture of uninhibited greed, of joyful freedom from legalistic rules. CEOs heroism was based on which had the biggest compensation packages and stock options cashable at once for a few billion. It is as natural in Bush's capitalism to cheat and steal when there are no applicable rules as it is for wandering boys to pick apples from a roadside orchard. ¬;Changes over the years have radically altered the ratio of what corporations pay into the total federal income tax pool compared to ordinary taxpayers. It has been a steady process of fleecing ordinary working people.

Before World War II, the federal income tax receipts were 50-50, corporate-versus-individuals. It is now 20 corporate and 80 individuals. ¬;Diversity of channels does not give you diversity of content. You really need diversity of outlets to find a true diversity of voices and points of view. ¬;Earlier, it was possible to describe the dominant firms in each separate medium-daily newspapers, magazines, radio, television, books, and movies. With each passing year ... the number of controlling firms in all these media has shrunk: from fifty corporations in 1984 to twenty-six in 1987, followed by twenty-three in l990, and then, as the borders between the different media began to blur, to less than twenty in 1993. In 1996 the number of media corporations with dominant power in society is closer to ten....A prime exhibit of the cartel's new political power is the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This act was billed as a transformation of sixty-two years of federal communications law for the purpose of "increasing competition." It was, with some exceptions, largely described as such by most of the major news media. But its most dramatic immediate result has been to reduce competition and open the path to cooperation among the giants. ¬;Every one of Bush's war hawks undoubtedly has a I.Q. But a high I.Q. has never been a reliable defense against arrogance or lack of wisdom. Most of all, a high I.Q. is vulnerable to hubris, which the dictionary defines as "overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance." The penalties of hubris in high places, as readers of the classics and careful observers of human experience realize, are too chilling as a fate for the innocent citizens and soldiers of the United States and for the rest of the world. ¬;Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment. ¬;Of the 1,500 daily newspapers in the country, 99 percent are the only daily in their cities. Of the 11,800 cable systems, all but a handful are monopolies in their cities. Of the 11,000 commercial radio stations, six or eight formats (all-talk, all-news, variations of rock music, rap, adult contemporary, etc.), with an all but uniform content within each format, dominate programming in every city. The four commercial television networks and their local affiliates carry programs of essentially the same type, with only the meagerly financed public stations

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offering a genuine alternative. Thus, most of the media meet the tongue-twisting argot of Wall Street in J being oligopolies that are collections of local monopolies. This means few choices for citizens looking for genuine differences. ¬;Permanent poverty may have been inexorable in biblical times, when there really was inadequate food, inefficient use of arable land, rigid class systems, slavery and serfdom. But today's world has enough food for everyone, and affluent countries like the United States have enough rich resources to guarantee their populations enough decent food, housing, universal health care, jobs and pensions. Most of our peer countries do exactly that. Only the United States has chosen not to rid itself of a permanent poor....Why the media's strange lack of curiosity? It was part of the main media's gingerly treatment of basic causes of social ills whose remedies might involve an increase in taxes. On the contrary, the media generally celebrate the opposite-whatever reduces taxes.

Explaining the "dead canary" of the suddenly homeless might have stimulated renewed appropriations for subsidized low-cost housing-taxes for the benefit of the most politically powerless group in the electorate. ¬;The new media conglomerates have exacerbated the traditional problems of professional news. The cartel includes some industries that have never before owned important news outlets. Some of the new owners find it bizarre that anyone would question the propriety of ordering their employee-journalists to produce news coverage designed to promote the owner's corporation. Seeing their journalists as obedient workers on an assembly line has produced a growing incidence of news corporations | demanding unethical acts. There are more instances than ever of management contempt and cruelty toward their journalists. ¬;Since 1993, the tax burden on the 400 highest-income Americans has been cut 40 percent and some of the richest executives defer paying taxes for years until they can stretch it out for fractions of what even the shrunken tax brackets call for. But Lord have mercy on the weekly wage earner whose annual W-2 form shows up at IRS with no matching tax payment. ¬;Since the Industrial Revolution, society and culture have been subservient to technology. One of the compelling tasks today is to reverse the process and make technology serve culture and society. ¬;Sweeping away proven sensible procedures creates hysteria and chaos. There are individuals and groups those whose malice toward the United States is not only zealous and determined, but backed by high intelligence and low morality. They know how to play a system - false alarms mixed with real plans to overload local and national protective agencies, straw men as sacrificial goats to confuse the search system, planted lies about loyal Americans. (However) A security system that is sweeping and uninhibited and virtually unaccountable does not make us safer but can be a danger to genuine national security. It is the way certain viral infections cause the human body's immune system to attack itself. ¬;The Israelis have their Bible to shake in the face of their opponents. The Muslims have their Koran to shake back. The Bible speaks of peace but it also speaks of defending Christian precepts by fighting the wicked. The Koran also speaks of peace but speaks also of defending the faith to the death. Historically, millions have been killed in the name of God. Once again, the priests and rabbis bless the cannon and the Imams bless the Kalashnikovs. If there are angels, they are weeping. ¬;The usual democratic expectation for the media -- diversity of ownership and ideas -- has disappeared as the goal of official policy and, worse, as a daily experience of a generation of American readers and viewers. ¬;This fantasy is shrill in every political campaign - promising lower taxes as a dire necessity--- it is accepted as an urgently needed rescue of that beleaguered population, the very rich. Though the main media love to find culprits in social problems, on this they practice selective amnesia. For more than half a century, the share of federal taxes paid by corporations has been dropping radically and shifted onto families and individuals. In 1940, corporations paid 40 percent of federal revenues. By 2000 it had dropped to 12 percent. Guess who pays for that shift. ¬;Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. ¬;Unlimited, warrentless eavesdropping on citizen phone calls on such a widespread basis is prone to errors, lapses, and deliberate and dangerous confusions. For one thing, the Osama and jihadist enemies know they are being listened to and that sets up a game of I-spy-on-you-and-you-spy-on-me-and-who-gets-fooled-first? But even with good luck for our side, collected private conversations of such massive proportions is bound to have errors that at minimum ruin or harass innocent citizens. It dampens spontaneity in common or enjoyable conversation. It accumulates gargantuan masses of overheard words that invite naive or lazy conclusions. But worse, given the flippant attitude of the Bushies for constitutional and personal privacy, their penchant for calling disloyal those who disagree with his policies, it is open for selective retribution against loyal Americans who happen to think Bush's errors and fantasies are themselves threats to national security. ¬;Whenever a politician pulls at our heartstrings, to be generous to the widows and orphans, to act in relief of the poor and the suffering ---- grab your wallet. If major events of the past and continuing appeals from the White House present an act of mercy for the widows and orphans, the odds are they are Robins Hood in reverse---- they are about to steal from the poor and give to the rich.... the next time, a politician is heard promoting an action speaking in tearful terms of the poor folk, you can probably make money betting that there

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Ben Hecht – 1894-1964:American, journalist, novelist, play, screen inc Scoundrel, dir, prod, won 2 Oscars ¬;In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ¬;Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself. ¬;Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. ¬;Ninety per cent of the producers I have known were not bright. They were as slow-witted and unprofessional toward making up a story as stockbrokers might be, or bus drivers. Even after twenty or thirty years of telling writers what and how to write, they were still as ignorant of writing as if they had never encountered the craft. ¬;The answer Hollywood figured out for this question was what doomed it. It figured out that writers were not to be in charge of creating stories. Instead, a curious tribe of inarticulate Pooh-Bahs called Supervisors and , later, Producers were summoned out of literary nowhere and given a thousand scepters. It was like switching the roles of teacher and pupil in the fifth grade. The result is now history. An industry based on writing had to collapse when the writer was given an errand-boy status. ¬;Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Shneiderman – 1947- :American, comp sci esp human–computer interaction, Comp Sci Prof, writer ¬;A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Benazir Bhutto – 1957-2007:Pakistani, Pakistan People's Party pol, FinanceMinister, twice PrimeMinister ¬;And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition. ¬;I fully understand the men behind Al Qaeda. They have tried to assassinate me twice before. The Pakistan Peoples Party and I represent everything they fear the most — moderation, democracy, equality for women, information, and technology. We represent the future of a modern Pakistan, a future that has no place in it for ignorance, intolerance, and terrorism. The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated. I will step out on the tarmac in Karachi not to complete a journey, but to begin one. Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it. ¬;Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. ¬;No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to. ¬;Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea.

Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia–1806-1872:Mexican, lawyer, Chief Just, Lib pol, Oaxaca Gov, 5xMexico Pres ¬;Among the individuals, as well as among nations, respecting the other people's rights leads to peace.

Benjamin Barr Lindsey – 1869-1943:American, lawyer, judge, social&legal act inc juvenile courts, writer ¬;I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl – 1804-1881:English, novelist esp romance, essay, speculator, Con pol, UK PM ¬;A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. ¬;Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ¬;As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ¬;Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. ¬;Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ¬;How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ¬;I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ¬;In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable. ¬;Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. ¬;Justice is truth in action. ¬;Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ¬;Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. ¬;No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. ¬;Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think. ¬;One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a

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situation than its frank admission. ¬;Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ¬;Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ¬;The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. ¬;The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ¬;The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ¬;The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. ¬;The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ¬;The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ¬;The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. ¬;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ¬;To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ¬;We make our fortunes and call them fate. ¬;What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ¬;When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Franklin – 1706-1790:American, physicist, inventor, writer, phil, dip, pol, US Founding Father ¬;A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. ¬;All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. ¬;All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ¬;All would live long, but none would be old. ¬;Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. ¬;Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. ¬;Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn ¬;But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ¬;By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ¬;Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ¬;Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! ¬;Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ¬;Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. ¬;Energy and persistence conquer all things. ¬;For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail. ¬;God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." ¬;Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ¬;He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ¬;He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ¬;He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. ¬;He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. ¬;Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ¬;How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. ¬;I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats ¬;If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ¬;If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. ¬;Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ¬;Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. ¬;Necessity never made a good bargain. ¬;Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. ¬;Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

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¬;Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ¬;Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ¬;Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ¬;Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, Involve Me.....And I Remember. ¬;The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ¬;The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ¬;There never was a good war or a bad peace. ¬;Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ¬;Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. ¬;Well done is better than well said. ¬;When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. ¬;Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ¬;Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ¬;Wish not so much to live long as to live well. ¬;Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Benjamin Stolberg – 1891-1951:American, writer, col, journ esp American labour, served on Dewey Com ¬;An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

Bernard Bailey – 1916-1996:American, graphic artist, cartoonist inc DC Comics, writer, editor, pub ¬;When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Mannes Baruch–1870-1965:American, financier, speculator, Dem pol cons inc PresWilson&FDR ¬;Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible...as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead ¬;Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ¬;I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it. ¬;I never bother about that (seating arrangements). Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ¬;Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ¬;Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ¬;Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. ¬;There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. ¬;To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ¬;Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Bert Leston Taylor–1866-1921:American, poet, writer, essay, librettist, journ, col, inc ChicagoTribune, wit ¬;A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rdEarl – 1872-1970:Welsh, phil, logician, math, hist, won Nobel Lit ¬;A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. ¬;A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ¬;All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. ¬;Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. ¬;But all who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. ¬;Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. ¬;Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ¬;Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

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¬;Every advance in civilization has been denounced while it was still recent. ¬;Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. ¬;Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. ¬;Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ¬;Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ¬;Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ¬;Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. ¬;Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ¬;Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected. ¬;I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. ¬;I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill- treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ’The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. ¬;I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armour of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. ¬;I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ¬;I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. ¬;If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. ¬;If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. ¬;In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ¬;In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. ¬;It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ¬;It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. ¬;It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' ¬;It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions. ¬;It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. ¬;Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ¬;Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ¬;Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. ¬;Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ¬;Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ¬;Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. ¬;No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ¬;Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ¬;Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ¬;Of the great religions of history, I prefer Buddhism, especially in its orthodox form, because it has had the smallest element of persecution". The intellectuals of the West have agreed that for the first time in the history of the world, Buddha proclaimed a salvation, which each man could gain for himself, and by himself in this

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world, during his life, without the least help from God or Gods. ¬;One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ¬;One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. ¬;One who believes as I do, that free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism as much as to the Church of Rome. The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. ¬;Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance. ¬;Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ¬;Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. ¬;Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ¬;Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. ¬;Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ¬;Sin is geographical. ¬;So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ¬;The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ¬;The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. ¬;The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. ¬;The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. ¬;The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption. ¬;The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. ¬;The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. ¬;The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. ¬;The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ¬;The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ¬;The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile. ¬;The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ¬;The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ¬;The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ¬;The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things. ¬;There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ¬;There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ¬;There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. ¬;Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ¬;This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. ¬;This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. ¬;To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have

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reached this level. ¬;To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ¬;To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ¬;Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. ¬;War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ¬;We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ¬;We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. ¬;We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. ¬;What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. ¬;When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter scepticism, and complete scepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless. ¬;Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand de Jouvenal des Ursins – 1903-1987:French philosopher, pol econ, journ, editor, writer, futurist ¬;A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Beryl Pfizer – 193?- :American writer, broadc, screen inc Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, journalist ¬;I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. ¬;If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about getting done as I do worrying about doing them, I wouldn't have anything to worry about. ¬;If you treat children like grown-ups, they'll probably behave just as badly as the rest of us. ¬;People get nostalgic about a lot of things I don't think they were that crazy about the first time around Bessie Lee Pittman aka JacquelineCochran–1906-1980:American, ent, aviator, test pilot, co-found WAAC ¬;I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Betty Friedan – 1921-2006:American, writer, feminist activist, found NOW&Nat AbortionRights Alliance ¬;A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination. ¬;A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children. ¬;A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ¬;I thought it was absolutely outrageous that the Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars....I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shows. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold. ¬;If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. ¬;It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ¬;It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. ¬;Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ¬;No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ¬;Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. ¬;The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ¬;The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — “Is this all?”

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¬;We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it’s hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! ¬;When women take their education and their abilities seriously and put them to use, ultimately they have to compete with men. It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ¬;When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Beverly Mickins–196?- :American, writer, humourist, actress inc SquareOneTV, writer, singer, storyteller ¬;Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about. ¬;I love the lines the men use to get us into bed. "Please, I'll only put it in for a minute." What am I, a microwave?

Billy Don 'Bill' Moyers – 1934- :American, journ, pub, TVbroadc, Dem WhiteHousePressSec, BaptistMin ¬;A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism.

Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans, liberals & conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news. ¬;An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be sceptical And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too. ¬;Conservatives-- or better, pro-corporate apologists-- hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right... This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove-- the reputed brain of George W. Bush-- as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today ¬;Conservative politicians, judges, and publicists...justify the idea of a "natural order of things" as well as ...the notion that progress resulted from the elimination of the weak and the 'survival of the fittest'. ¬;I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people. ¬;I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works. ¬;News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. ¬;No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism. ¬;Part of the red meat (Republican) strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere—corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence—will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge. ¬;Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country. ¬;The corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory..access to political power has become...who gets what and who pays for it ¬;The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won... Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. ¬;The public is...distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes. ¬;The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn't matter if the rising tide lifted all boats...instead, however...the inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water. ¬;This 'zeal for secrecy' I am talking about – and I have barely touched the surface – adds up to a victory for the terrorists. When they plunged those hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago this morning, they were out to hijack our Gross National Psychology. If they could fill our psyche with fear – as if the imagination of each one of us were Afghanistan and they were the Taliban – they could deprive us of the trust and confidence required for a free society to work. They could prevent us from ever again believing in

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a safe, decent or just world and from working to bring it about. By pillaging and plundering our peace of mind they could panic us into abandoning those unique freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of the press – that constitute the ability of democracy to self-correct and turn the ship of state before it hits the iceberg. ¬;What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — halftruths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

Bion of Smyrna aka Bion of Phlossa–c.1stCent BC:Smyrna Greek, poet esp bucolic&pastoral inc Epitaph ¬;Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Blaise Pascal – 1623-1662:French, phil, theo, math, scientist esp probability theory & projective geometry ¬;Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him? ¬;Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ¬;For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. ¬;I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ¬;I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. ¬;I put it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world. ¬;Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured.

They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. ¬;Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. ¬;Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ¬;One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ¬;People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ¬;Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. ¬;The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. ¬;Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. ¬;We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Bonnie Prudden – 1914- :American, dancer, rock climber, physical fitness act esp youth, dev Myotherapy ¬;You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Booker TaliaferroWashington–1856-1915:American, slave, educator, writer, orator, civilrights act&leader ¬;I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ¬;If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ¬;No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ¬;One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ¬;Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ¬;There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

BørgeRosenbaum aka VictorBorge–1909-2000:DanishbornAmerican, actor, writer, wit, pianist, conductor ¬;Giuseppe Verdi. Joe Green to you. ¬;I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary. ¬;Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ¬;Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak – 1890-1960:Russian, poet, novel inc Doctor Zhivago, trans, won Nobel Lit ¬;Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. ¬;Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ¬;Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!

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¬;The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin – 1931-2007:Russian, eng, Comn pol, Mayor of Moscow, 1st Pres Russian Fed ¬;I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations. ¬;I want to ask for your forgiveness. For the fact that many of the dreams we shared did not come true. And for the fact that what seemed simple to us turned out to be tormentingly difficult. I ask forgiveness for not justifying some hopes of those people who believed that at one stroke, in one spurt, we could leap from the gray, stagnant, totalitarian past into the light, rich, civilized future. I myself believed in this, that we could overcome everything in one spurt. I turned out to be too naive in something. In some places, problems seemed to be too complicated.

We forced our way forward through mistakes, through failures. Many people in this hard time experienced shock. ¬;It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ¬;Our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ¬;There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Brendan Francis Behan – 1923-1964:Irish, poet, novel&short-story, play inc QuareFellow, IRA volunteer ¬;Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ¬;Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day ¬;I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ¬;Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ¬;People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. ¬;The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ¬;The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Brent Scowcroft – 1925- :American, AirForce L.Gen, US PresNatSecurityAdviser, found ForumIntPolicy ¬;An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes. ¬;Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. ¬;We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie. ¬;You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

Brian Clark – 1932- :English, writer, playwright inc Whose Life Is It Anyway? & Kipling, screenwriter ¬;The next time you make an assumption, see what happens when you do the opposite.

Brian Hugh Warner aka Marilyn Manson–1969- :American, musician, singer, song, poet, artist, actor, dir ¬;A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross! ¬;I'm not against God, I'm against the misuse of God. ¬;I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is. It's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message. ¬;I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you. ¬;I incorporate a lot of Christian morality into what I do and in fact a lot of my beliefs are very conservative – like my desire for the world to be a better place where people use more intelligence. If you had to condense all that I believe in, it's that responsible, intelligent people should be allowed to do what they want. That artists and performers and architects, people who contribute something to the world, that actually have something to say as opposed to a business man or a politician, say, people who actually contribute to society, the power should be traded. The creators are always suppressed – other than the placebo "fame" that they're always given. I don't really suggest any solution – that we could all kick them out of their positions of power and take over. It's just

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the idea that if you enjoy what you do, that's why you should do it. ¬;I think that's really ironic, that nobody said, "Well, maybe the President had an influence on this violent behavior." Because that's not the way the media wants to take it and spin it, and turn it into fear, because then you're watching television, you're watching the news, you're being pumped full of fear, there's floods, there's AIDS, there's murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath, they're not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl's not going to fuck you, and it's just this campaign of fear and consumption, and that's what I think it's all based on, the whole idea of "keep everyone afraid and they'll consume". ¬;If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world. ¬;If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. ¬;In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end. Because people no longer appreciate the taboos of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I have to take them as far as they've ever been taken before, on a grand scale, in order for the world to realize we have to start over. It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist and people are made to make a choice about their faith. I think certain elements of that are correct. ¬;Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults? ¬;Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization. ¬;Parents and legislators love to blame people like us for corrupting the youth of this country, but the kids were corrupted long before we ever got to them. ¬;Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am. ¬;Sometimes we admire the feathers and ignore the dying bird ¬;The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may. ¬;The world's not a great place anymore and it can't be. I'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable to be alive in the fifties, when there was at least an illusion of purity, and things that were taboo had such a great power to them. I think it was a time when magic was really alive. There's no imagination anymore. It was eliminated with video games and VCR's. I'm only necessary because of the way the world is. ¬;There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do. ¬;Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. ¬;We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. ¬;When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Bridget Jean Collins aka Jean Kerr–1922-2003:American, play, writer inc PleaseDon'tEatTheDaisies, col ¬;Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ¬;I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? ¬;If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. ¬;If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. ¬;The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ¬;Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself -- like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ¬;You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Bruce Fairchild Barton–1886-1967:American, editor, advertising exec, found BDO, Rep pol, NY USCong ¬;Conceit is God's gift to little men. ¬;The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model— whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home. ¬;When you're through changing, you're through.

Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron–1940- :English, lecturer, TV host, Lab pol, MP, House of Lords Chief Whip ¬;I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

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BurrhusFredericSkinner–1904-1990:American, psych esp RadicalBehaviorism, poet, inv, phil, Psych Prof ¬;A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. ¬;Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ¬;Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ¬;The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. ¬;We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

C Calvin Ellis Stowe – 1882-1886:American, editor, lecturer in Greek&Relg, writer esp educ&relg, educ act ¬;Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Carl Edward Sagan–1934-1996:American, astronomer, astro-physicist, exobiologist, writer, novel, broadc ¬;A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ¬;Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. ¬;All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. ¬;Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three! ¬;But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ¬;Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ¬;Fredrick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path. ¬;I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. ¬;I try not to think with my gut. Really it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in. ¬;If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ¬;If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ¬;In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights.

With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. ¬;In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.

They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ¬;It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. ¬;One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ¬;Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ¬;Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. ¬;Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ¬;The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool. ¬;The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ¬;The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ¬;Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

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¬;When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science. ¬;Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. ¬;Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Gustav Jung – 1875-1961:Swiss, psychologist esp Analytical Psycholgy & Dream Analysis, writer ¬;All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. ¬;Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place ¬;Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. ¬;Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. ¬;I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. ¬;If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. ¬;In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea! ¬;It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves. ¬;Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ¬;Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. ¬;Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. ¬;One looks with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ¬;Religion is a defense against the experience of God. ¬;Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. ¬;The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. ¬;The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ¬;The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ¬;The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ¬;The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ¬;The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ¬;To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. ¬;Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Lotus Becker – 1873-1845:American, Hist Prof, writer inc HeavenlyCity of 18thCenturyPhilosophers ¬;The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Carl Sandburg – 1878-1967:American, journ, editor, writer esp bio, poet, civil rights act, won 3 Pulitzers ¬;A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ¬;I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ¬;Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ¬;There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. ¬;Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ¬;When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Carl Schurz–1829-1906:German born American, journ, lawyer, UnionGen, Missouri USSen, US InterSec ¬;Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ¬;If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

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¬;Our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." ¬;The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting. ¬;We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. ¬;What is the rule of honor to be observed by a power so strongly and so advantageously situated as this Republic is? Of course I do not expect it meekly to pocket real insults if they should be offered to it. But, surely, it should not, as our boyish jingoes wish it to do, swagger about among the nations of the world, with a chip on its shoulder, shaking its fist in everybody's face. Of course, it should not tamely submit to real encroachments upon its rights. But, surely, it should not, whenever its own notions of right or interest collide with the notions of others, fall into hysterics and act as if it really feared for its own security and its very independence. As a true gentleman, conscious of his strength and his dignity, it should be slow to take offense. In its dealings with other nations it should have scrupulous regard, not only for their rights, but also for their self-respect. With all its latent resources for war, it should be the great peace power of the world. It should never forget what a proud privilege and what an inestimable blessing it is not to need and not to have big armies or navies to support. It should seek to influence mankind, not by heavy artillery, but by good example and wise counsel. It should see its highest glory, not in battles won, but in wars prevented. It should be so invariably just and fair, so trustworthy, so good tempered, so conciliatory, that other nations would instinctively turn to it as their mutual friend and the natural adjuster of their differences, thus making it the greatest preserver of the world's peace.

This is not a mere idealistic fancy. It is the natural position of this great republic among the nations of the earth.

It is its noblest vocation, and it will be a glorious day for the United States when the good sense and the selfrespect of the American people see in this their "manifest destiny." It all rests upon peace. Is not this peace with honor? There has, of late, been much loose speech about "Americanism." Is not this good Americanism? It is surely today the Americanism of those who love their country most. And I fervently hope that it will be and ever remain the Americanism of our children and our children's children.

Carlos Augusto Santana Alves–1947- :Mexican, song, rock musician esp guitar espSantana, won Grammy ¬;Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Cesar Arana Castaneda – 1925-1988:Peruvian born American, anthropologist, mystic, writer ¬;Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Carlos Ray 'Chuck'Norris–1940- :American, actor esp 'tough' roles, martial artist inc found ChunKukDo ¬;Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Carmen de Monteflores – 196?- :Puerto Rican born American, writer, novel inc Singing Softly, lesbian act ¬;Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carol Grace aka CarolMarcusSaroyan–1924-2003:American, actress, writer inc AmongPorcupines, novel ¬;There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Caroline Klein Simon – 1900-1993:American, lawyer, Judge-NY Court of Claims, Rep pol, NY SecOfState ¬;Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

Carolyn Wells – 1862-1942:American, librarian, writer, novelist esp mystery inc Fleming Stone, poet ¬;Actions lie louder than words.

Carrie P. Snow–196?- :American, writer, screen incRoseanne, comedienne esp standup, professional guest ¬;A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ¬;Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. ¬;Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ¬;I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species. ¬;I'd like to get married, because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night. ¬;If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war. ¬;Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. ¬;When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ¬;Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

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¬;You know why God is a man? Because if God was a woman she would have made sperm taste like chocolate.

Caskie Stinnett – 1911- :American, editor, humourist, writer inc OneMan'sIsland, essayist, columnist ¬;A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ¬;Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen – 197?- :English born American, writer, screen inc The Island & Beyond Borders ¬;When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it--God's the guy who ignores you.

Cesare Pavese – 1908-1950:Italian, poet, editor, translator, literary critic, novelist inc Moon&the Bonfires ¬;Religion consists of the belief that everything that happens to us is extraordinarily important. It can never disappear from the world for this reason. ¬;We do not remember days, we remember moments. ¬;We get the things we want when we no longer want them.

Charles Anderson Dana–1819-1897:American, journ, writer, WarDept investigating agent, owner NY Sun ¬;Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles Andre Joseph Marie De Gaulle – 1890-1970:French, Gen, leader WW2 FreeFrench, pol, 18thPres ¬;History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. ¬;I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ¬;In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ¬;Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him ¬;The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ¬;We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Charles CalebColton–1780-1832:English, Anglican priest, art&wine collector, writer, essay, poet, gambler ¬;Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ¬;Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ¬;If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ¬;Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ¬;It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance. ¬;It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. ¬;Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ¬;Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. ¬;We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. ¬;When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles 'Chaz' Bufe – 195?- :American, writer esp anarchism, essay, aphorist inc Am Heretic'sDictionary ¬;Invisible Hand, n. Invented by Adam Smith, the theory of the "invisible hand" posits that competition in the capitalist marketplace is guided, as if by an invisible hand, to produce the greatest public good—to put it more baldly, that unbridled competition unerringly promotes the common well-being. Given that the Earth has limited land and resources, this is more than a bit like positing that the competition over a limited supply of food between hungry rats in a locked caged will promote the common well-being of the rats. More accurately, that with 10% of the rats hoarding 90% of the food, the competition within the bottom 90% over the remaining morsels will promote the common well-being of the bottom 90%. ¬;War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Charles Dillon 'Casey' Stengel – 1890-1975:American, Major League baseball player & manager esp NY ¬;The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Charles Edward 'Ed' Macauley – 1928- :Catholic deacon, writer inc HomiliesAlive, pro basketball player ¬;When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl – 1964- :English, landowner, writer inc Althorp: Story Of ¬;Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

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Charles FarrarBrowne aka ArtemusWard–1834-1867:American, wit, lecturer, essay, editor incVanityFair ¬;I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Charles Franklin Kettering – 1876-1958:American, sci, inv-140 US patents, head GeneralMotors research ¬;A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true. ¬;An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ¬;An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ¬;Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time.

Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. ¬;It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ¬;Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. ¬;My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ¬;People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ¬;The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ¬;The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ¬;You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them. ¬;You can be sincere and still be stupid.

CharlesHaddonSpurgeon–1834-1892:English, writer esp relg, poet, BaptPreacher, aka PrinceOfPreachers ¬;It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men. ¬;Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ¬;You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles John 'Chuck' Klosterman – 1972- :American, journalist inc Washington Post, columnist, writer ¬;In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Charles John Huffam Dickens aka Boz–1812-1870:English, journ, editor, soc critic, writer, novel, lecturer ¬;Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ¬;I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ¬;No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ¬;Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ¬;Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. ¬;The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. ¬;We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Kuralt–1934-1997:American, journ incOnRoad, news anchor esp CBS inc NewsSundayMorning ¬;Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu – 1689-1755:French, pol phil inc separation of powers ¬;A rational army would run away. ¬;But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. ¬;I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. ¬;I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ¬;If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman...because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ¬;In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. ¬;People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. ¬;Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of

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intolerance...the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. ¬;Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. It is neither useful to the master nor to the slave; not to the slave, because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue; nor to the master, because by having an unlimited authority over his slaves he insensibly accustoms himself to the want of all moral virtues, and thence becomes fierce, hasty, severe, choleric, voluptuous, and cruel. ... where it is of the utmost importance that human nature should not be debased or dispirited, there ought to be no slavery. In democracies, where they are all upon equality; and in aristocracies, where the laws ought to use their utmost endeavors to procure as great an equality as the nature of the government will permit, slavery is contrary to the spirit of the constitution: it only contributes to give a power and luxury to the citizens which they ought not to have. ¬;The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ¬;You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Charles Luckman – 1909-1999:American, architect inc Kennedy Space Center, ent, Pres Lever Brothers ¬;The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Charles Mackay – 1814-1889:Scottish, journalist, song, poet, writer, editor inc Illustrated London News ¬;Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Michael 'Chuck' Palahniuk–1962- :American, mechanic, journ, writer, essay, novel inc FightClub ¬;A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ¬;Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. ¬;Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. ¬;If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. ¬;Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. ¬;On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair. ¬;People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. ¬;People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions.

Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ¬;The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ¬;The things you own end up owning you. ¬;When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. ¬;Which is worse: Hell or nothing? ¬;Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

CharlesMichaelSchwab–1862-1939:American, ent, steel magnate incBethlehamSteel, DG EmergencyFleet ¬;A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. ¬;All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. ¬;In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. ¬;Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

CharlesMonroeSchulz–1922-2000:American, writer, artteacher, cartoonist-createdPeanuts, ice-hockey act ¬;Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ¬;I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. ¬;I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. ¬;Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ¬;My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? ¬;Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." ¬;There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

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Charles Percy Snow, Baron–1905-1980:English, physicist, novel incStrangers&Brothers, Govn sci adviser ¬;The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ¬;When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Charles Peters – 194?- :American, writer, journ, found Washington Monthly, Pres Understanding Govn ¬;Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

Charles Pierre Baudelaire – 1821-1867:French, poet esp Les fleurs du mal, trans, lit critic, writer, essayist ¬;It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ¬;The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Robert Darwin–1809-1882:English, geo, naturalist esp natural selection, writer inc OriginSpecies ¬;A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. ¬;An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. ¬;As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. ¬;I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ¬;I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; — nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil. Such people have generally visited at the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated, and they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. Such inquirers will ask slaves about their condition; they forget that the slave must indeed be dull, who does not calculate on the chance of his answer reaching his master's ears. ¬;If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. ¬;Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ¬;In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ¬;In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. ¬;It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ¬;It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children — those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own — being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty... ¬;Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. ¬;The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ¬;The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. ¬;The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. ¬;The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people... With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. Nevertheless the more intelligent members within the same community will succeed better in the long run than the inferior, and leave a more numerous progeny, and this is a form of natural selection. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in

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the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion. It should, however, be borne in mind, that the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through natural selection as one of the most important elements of the social instincts. ¬;To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. ¬;To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility. ¬;We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Charles Rozell 'Chuck' Swindoll – 1934- :American, writer, preacher, broadc, founded Insight For Living ¬;There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Charles Simmons – 1940- :American, Journalism Prof, writer inc Powdered Eggs & All There Is To Know ¬;Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. ¬;Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ¬;Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. ¬;Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ¬;Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ¬;It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. ¬;Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. ¬;Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. ¬;Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ¬;Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.

Charles Varlet, Marquis De La Grange – 1639-1692:French, actor, writer inc Nouvelles Lettres ¬;When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Charles Wadsworth – 193?- :American, classical pianist, int chamber music events creator & promoter ¬;By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charley Reese – 1937- :American, journ esp OrlandoSentinel, col, editor, writer, Confederate phil activist ¬;But regardless of whose fault it is, most politicians today are not human beings. You want to pry open their mouths and shout into the darkness, 'Hello! Is there a human being in there?' Buried under all that lust for office, all that fear of offending a contributor? I know there must be. ¬;One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices — 545 human beings out of the 235 million — are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country ¬;The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. ¬;The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. ¬;We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Charlie Stuart'Charlie'Kaufman–1958- :American, screen inc BeingJohnMalkovich, prod, dir, won Oscar ¬;Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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CharlotteElizabethWhitton–1896-1975:Canadian, writer, feminist act, ProgressiveCon pol, OttawaMayor ¬;Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman–1816-1876:American, singer, stage actress esp Shakespeare, drama reader ¬;To try to be better is to be better.

Charlton Ogburn – 1911-1988:American, StateDept official, pub, col, writer inc MysteriousShakespeare ¬;We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Cherilyn Sarkisian aka Cher Bono – 1946- :American, singer, song, record prod, actress, won Oscar ¬;The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing--and then marry him.

Cheris Kramarae – 194?- :American, feminist act, cultural anthropologist inc Muted Group, Comm Prof ¬;Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. ¬;Perhaps a talkative woman is one who does talk as much as a man.

Chester Alan Arthur – 1829-1886:American, lawyer, civil aka father of Civil Service, Rep pol, 21st US Pres ¬;If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth ¬;If politics were really a serious business, of course, the indifference of the press and the people to such serious issues would also be a serious matter. But politics is not drama. It is a comic sideshow. And we should no more expect politicians to be men of character or wisdom than we should expect a porn star to recite Shakespeare's sonnets or a sword-swallower to lecture in fluent Sumarian.

ChesterBlissBowles–1901-1986:American, found Benton&Bowles, dip, Dem pol, ConnUSCong, Conn Gov ¬;Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ¬;There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

ChesterWilliamNimitz–1885-1966:American, navy officer, submarine act, 5*FleetAdmiral, Pacific C-in-C ¬;A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ¬;That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine – 1797-1856:Prussian German, journ, essay, lit critic, poet esp romantic ¬;People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral. ¬;There are more fools in the world than there are people. ¬;Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. ¬;Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Christina Georgina Rossetti–1830-1894:English, poet inc GoblinMarket&BleakMidwinter, writer esp relg ¬;Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad ¬;I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Christina Stead – 1902-1983:Australian, short story writer, novelist inc Man Who Loved Children, trans ¬;If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christopher Julius 'Chris' Rock – 1965- :American, comedian esp stand up, actor, screen, prod, director ¬;A black C student can't do shit with his life. A black C student can't be a manager at Burger King. Meanwhile, a white C student just happens to be the President of the United States. ¬;A lot of white people like to scream they're American as if they've got something to do with the country being the way it is … like they was on the Mayflower or some shit. ¬;All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it. That's it! What, you think you're better than somebody from France 'cause you came out of a pussy in Detroit? ¬;Black people yelling "racism!" White people yelling "reverse racism!" Chinese people yelling "sideways racism!" And the Indians ain't yelling shit, 'cause they dead. So everybody bitching about how bad their people got it: nobody got it worse than the American Indian. Everyone needs to calm the fuck down. ¬;Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative".

Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about.

Crime, I'm conservative. Prostitution, I'm liberal! ¬;I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. [some whistles and cheers from the audience] Don't hate the player, hate the game. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four

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black people. Who are these black people? Well, there's me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let's break it down, let's break it down: me, I'm a decent comedian.

I'm a'ight. [applause] Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He's a fucking dentist! He ain't the best dentist in the world...he ain't going to the dental hall of fame...he don't get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He's just a yankyour-tooth-out dentist. See, the black man gotta fly to get to somethin' the white man can walk to. ¬;If you said more words to him than "mommy'll be back", he might know something! ¬;We can't have gay marriage 'cause marriage is sacred, it happens in the church. Marriage is sacred, it's sacred.

No, it's not, not in America, not in a country that watches Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? and The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and Who Wants to Marry a Midget. Get the fuck outta here. Shit, Michael Jackson got married, how fucking sacred is that shit? ¬;When a woman get pregnant, it's an issue between her and her girlfriends. When a woman get pregnant, her and her girlfriends form an abortion tribunal, and they vote on the child like it was Survivor. Then the first girlfriend throws in her two cents: "Child, you should have that baby, that man got some good hair, it's wavy, it's wavy." Then second girlfriend throws in her two cents: "Girl, why are we even talking about this? Ain't we supposed to go to Cancun next weekend? Get rid of that baby." And that's how life is decided in America. ¬;White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "guns"? Congressional hearing. "Oh, my God, that nigger said gun, and he rhymed it with fun"! ¬;You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost $5000. $5000 for a bullet. You know why? 'Cause if a bullet costs $5000, there'd be no more innocent bystanders. … Every time someone gets shot, people will be like, "Damn, he must have did something. He put $50,000 worth of bullets in his ass!" Niggers will say "I would blow your fucking head off--if I could afford it! I'm gonna get me another job, I'm gonna start saving some money, and then you're dead man!. You better hope I can't get no bullets on layaway! ¬;You know, the beautiful thing about the gay marriage issue is the absolute only issue that the President will answer. The President don't give a fuck, he will give you a straight answer on gay marriage. "Mr. President, what about the war, when's it gonna end?" "Well, you never know, we're talking to people, and we're looking for stuff, and we might find it, we might not, and it's out there, we're gonna get it, you never know, how's it going, yeah!" "Mr. President, what about the economy, when's it gonna pick up?" "Well, you never know, we're talking to people, and economic indicators indicate that indications are coming to the indicator, you know what I'm saying, all right!" "Mr. President, what about gay marriage?" "Fuck them faggots!" ¬;You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon. ¬;You know why banks are closed on Sunday? 'Cause if they wasn't, church would be empty.

Christopher 'Kit' Lasch – 1932-1994:American, hist, soc critic, Hist Prof, writer inc CultureOfNarcissism ¬;Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Morley – 1890-1957:American, journ, essay, poet, novel inc Kitty Foyle, lecturer, stage prod ¬;A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. ¬;Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ¬;Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ¬;High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ¬;It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. ¬;Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ¬;No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does. ¬;Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. ¬;Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. ¬;The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people ¬;The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

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¬;There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. ¬;There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Robison aka Augusten Burroughs – 1965- :American, screenwriter, novelist, writer ¬;I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Christopher Ruben Studdard – 1978- :German born American, actor, singer esp R&B&Pop, won AmIdol ¬;People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. ¬;You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Cicely Isabel Fairfield aka Rebecca West,Dame – 1892-1983:English, journ, lib act, lit critic, novel, writer ¬;A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps. ¬;After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking. ¬;All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing. ¬;Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ¬;Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ¬;If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. ¬;God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ¬;I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ¬;Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ¬;Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world. ¬;The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. ¬;The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ¬;There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ¬;There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano. ¬;There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.

Claiborne de Borda Pell – 1918-2009:American, ForeignServiceOfficer, Dem pol, RhodeIsland USSenator ¬;The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Clarence Seaword Darrow – 1857-1938:American, lawyer esp corporate & labour, Dem pol, liberty act ¬;As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ¬;At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. ¬;Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. ¬;Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. ¬;Endless volumes have been written, and countless lives been sacrificed in an effort to prove that one form of government is better than another; but few seem seriously to have considered the proposition that all government rests on violence and force, is sustained by soldiers, policemen and courts, and is contrary to the idea peace and order which make for the happiness and progress of the human race. Authority has the same effect on human nature whether in an absolute monarchy or a democracy, and the tendency of authority is ever to enlarge its bounds and to encroach upon the natural rights of those who have no power to protect themselves.

The possession of authority and arbitrary power ever tends to tyranny ¬;I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ¬;Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ¬;Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. ¬;The beginnings of the state can be traced back to the early history of the human race when the strongest savage seized the largest club and with this weapon enforced his rule upon the other members of the tribe. By means of strength he became the chief and exercised this power, not to protect the weak but to take the good things for himself. One man by his unaided strength could not long keep the tribe in subjection to his will, so he chose lieutenants and aids, and these too were given a goodly portion of the fruits of power for the help they lent

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their chief. No plans for the general good ever formed a portion of this scheme of government. The ancient knight who with his battle-ax and coat of mail, enforced his rule upon the weak, was only the forerunner of the tax-gatherer and tax-devourer of today. ¬;The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ¬;True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ¬;When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. ¬;Who are these rulers without whose aid the evil and corrupt would destroy and subvert the defenceless and the weak? From the earliest time these self-appointed rulers have been conspicuous for all those vices that they so persistently charge to the common people whose rapacity, cruelty and lawlessness they so bravely curb. The history of the past and present alike proves beyond a doubt that if there is, or ever was any large class, from whom society needed to be saved, it is those same rulers who have been placed in absolute charge of the lives and destinies of their fellow men. From the early kings who, with blood-red hands, forbade their subjects to kill their fellow men, to the modern legislator, who with the bribe money in his pocket, still makes bribery a crime, these rulers have ever made laws not to govern themselves but to enforce obedience on their serfs. The purpose of this autocratic power has ever been the same. In the early tribe the chief took the land and the fruits of the earth, and parcelled them amongst his retainers who helped preserve his strength. Every government since then has used its power to divide the earth amongst the favored few and by force and violence to keep the toiling, patient, suffering millions from any portion of the common bounties of the world. ¬;You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Clarence Thomas – 1948- :American, lawyer inc Govn, ChairEqualEmplOppCom, USSupremeCourtJust ¬;As for the matter of my judicial philosophy, I didn't have one- and didn't want one. A philosophy that is imposed from without instead of arising organically from day-to-day engagement with the law isn't worth having. Such a philosophy runs the risk of becoming an ideology, and I'd spent much of my adult life shying away from abstract ideological theories that served only to obscure the reality of life as it's lived. ¬;Even then, though, I cared about people, not theories. I had no wish to spin individual cases into some grandiose, ideologically driven legal theory. I no longer believed in utopian solutions, or the cynical politicians who used them to sucker voters, claiming to care about the poor while actually exploiting them. Not only was I sure that such solutions were doomed to failure, but I also feared that once they failed, the resulting disillusionment would make matters even worse. Yet it was taken for granted in the seventies that the purveyors of these elaborate nostrums were doing the right thing, and anyone who dared to challenge their effectiveness was hooted down. That prospect intimidated me, especially when it came to racial matters. ¬;Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ¬;Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. ¬;I could feel the golden handcuffs of a comfortable but unfulfilling life snapping shut on my wrists. ¬;I had manufactured artificial goals as a means of motivating myself, using my longing for money, cars, and other material possessions to create a false sense of purpose. They had worked on me like spoonfuls of sugar- a jolt of energy that soon faded, leaving behind the pangs of a deeper hunger. I had cut myself off from the transcendent hope of religion, and now a vast and frightening expanse of uncertainty lay before me. ¬;I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind. ¬;I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest. ¬;The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike? ¬;The popular political answers of the day, I saw, had hardened into dogma, making anyone who questioned them a heretic. Having turned my back on religion, I saw no reason to accept mere political opinions as gospel truth. Years later these same dogmatists would walk away from the wreckage of their failed policies, like children tossing aside a broken toy. But the victims they left behind were real people- my people. ¬;To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity Clarissa Pinkola Estes–1945- :American, psychoanalyst esp post-trauma, poet, novel incFaithfulGardener ¬;A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed. ¬;Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees ¬;There is no ethnic group on the face of this earth that has not been slaughtered; viz Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Britons. When, after a conflict, the best balanced leaders who have a stake in the future of all persons, are bypassed, and instead power is seized by the angriest and most grudge-holding, whose greatest stake is in the past… without new consciousness, and without strong reconciling actions, thus erupts a horrible recycling of

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living out the least of what is human in this world.

Clark Kerr – 1911-2003:American, Economics Prof, Univ administrator, Pres UCB & Univ of California ¬;I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor Johnson – 1912-2007:American, ent, environment activist, US First Lady ¬;The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Clementine Paddleford – 1898-1967:American, journ, writer esp Am regional food inc How America Eats ¬;Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

Clerow 'Flip' Wilson – 1933-1988:American, comedian, actor, VarietyShow host, won Grammy & Emmy ¬;The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. ¬;Violence is a tool of the ignorant. ¬;You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Clifton P 'Kip' Fadiman – 1904-1999:American, broadc, editor inc Simon&Schuster, writer, book critic ¬;For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ¬;When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clinton Richard Dawkins – 1941- :Kenyan born British, biological theorist, ethologist, Sci Prof, writer ¬;Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God? ¬;Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them. ¬;By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. ¬;Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ¬;For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ¬;Genes do indirectly control the manufacture of bodies, and the influence is strictly one way: acquired characteristics are not inherited. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. ¬;Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth story window. ¬;I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ¬;I do remember one formative influence in my undergraduate life. There was an elderly professor in my department who had been passionately keen on a particular theory for, oh, a number of years, and one day an American visiting researcher came and he completely and utterly disproved our old man's hypothesis. The old man strode to the front, shook his hand and said, "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you, I have been wrong these fifteen years". And we all clapped our hands raw. That was the scientific ideal, of somebody who had a lot invested, a lifetime almost invested in a theory, and he was rejoicing that he had been shown wrong and that scientific truth had been advanced. ¬;I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder — it is also utterly ridiculous. ¬;If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who's God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as execution victim. ¬;If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is He manoeuvring to maximise David Attenborough's television ratings? ¬;If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it! ¬;If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence. ¬;In order not to believe in evolution you must either be ignorant, stupid or insane. ¬;It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially

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acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ¬;It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine. ¬;It would be deeply depressing if the only way children could get moral values was from religion. Either from scripture, and God knows we don't want them to get it from scripture, I mean, just look at scripture. Or, from being afraid of God, being intimidated by God. Anybody who is good for only those two reasons is not really being good at all. Why not teach children things like the Golden Rule, do as you would be done by, how would you like it if other children did that to you, so why do you do it to them... I think it's depressing that anybody should suggest that you actually need God in order to be moral. I would hope that our morals come from a better source than that, and therefore they are genuinely moral rather than based on outmoded scripture, or based on fear. ¬;Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous. ¬;Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods ... express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation. ¬;Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ¬;Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful! ¬;My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they' as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all. ¬;Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival: the analogue of steering by the moon for a moth. But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses. ¬;Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. ¬;Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, "I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection". I have dubbed this kind of fallacy "the Argument from Personal Incredulity". Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience. ¬;Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than "barking mad". ¬;Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ¬;Reason has built the modern world. It is a precious but also a fragile thing, which can be corroded by apparently harmless irrationality. We must favor verifiable evidence over private feeling. Otherwise we leave ourselves vulnerable to those who would obscure the truth. ¬;Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ¬;Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way. ¬;Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. ¬;The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. ¬;The human mind is a wanton storyteller and even more, a profligate seeker after pattern. We see faces in clouds and tortillas, fortunes in tea leaves and planetary movements. It is quite difficult to prove a real pattern as distinct from a superficial illusion.

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¬;The likelihood is that, in 100,000 years time, we shall either have reverted to wild barbarism, or else civilisation will have advanced beyond all recognition – into colonies in outer space, for instance. In either case, evolutionary extrapolations from present conditions are likely to be highly misleading. ¬;The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ¬;The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith". ¬;The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. ¬;There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. ¬;There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? ¬;Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye. ¬;To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough.

To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic. ¬;Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. ¬;We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ¬;We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligencia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it: the intelligencia, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. ¬;With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort. ¬;You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. ¬;You don't have to be a scientist – you don't have to play the Bunsen burner – in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.

Clive Alexander Barnes–1927-2008:English born American, writer, critic inc NYTimes inc dance &drama ¬;Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Staples Lewis – 1898-1963:Irish(North), Medieval&Ren Engl Prof, lit critic, writer, novel inc Narnia ¬;A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. ¬;Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. ¬;Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. ¬;Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ¬;Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ¬;Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and

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assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? ¬;Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ¬;I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. ¬;It is no good asking for a simple religion. Real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I'm sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of - all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to my optic nerve and what it does to my brain - and, of course, you'll find that what we call 'seeing a table' lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not - and the modern world usually is not - if you want to go on and ask what is really happening - then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something is not more simple. ¬;It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. ¬;No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. ¬;Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ¬;Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ¬;Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... ¬;The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. ¬;This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Colin Luther Powell – 1937- :American, army officer, 4*Gen, Chairman Joint-C-of-Staff, US Sec of State ¬;Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ¬;Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. ¬;Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. ¬;Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. ¬;Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. ¬;Experts often possess more data than judgment. ¬;Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. ¬;Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ¬;Get mad, then get over it. ¬;Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ¬;If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ¬;Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ¬;Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. ¬;Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. ¬;Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. ¬;There are no secrets to success. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ¬;War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Colin Henry Wilson – 1931- :English, phil inc existentialism, novel inc SF, writer esp crime & mysticism ¬;Man must believe in realities outside his own smallness, outside the 'triviality of everydayness', if he is to do anything worthwhile.

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¬;No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels. ¬;One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university. ¬;The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Cornelius Calvin Sale aka Robert Carlyle Byrd – 1917- :American, Dem pol, West Virginia US Senator ¬;I do question the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech. ¬;If the United States leads the charge to war in the Persian Gulf, we may get lucky and achieve a rapid victory.

But then we will face a second war: a war to win the peace in Iraq. This war will last many years and will surely cost hundreds of billions of dollars. In light of this enormous task, it would be a great mistake to expect that this will be a replay of the 1991 war. The stakes are much higher in this conflict. ¬;Increased security concerns call for prudent changes to, not blanket exemptions in, the information available to the public. If the government is allowed to operate in secrecy, without scrutiny, then the people's liberties easily can be lost. We ought to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, not undercut it. The American people ought to have access to information that directly impacts their freedoms and safety. ¬;The right to ask questions, debate, and dissent is under attack. The drums of war are beaten ever louder in an attempt to drown out those who speak of our predicament in stark terms. Even in the Senate, our history and tradition of being the world's greatest deliberative body is being snubbed. This huge spending bill—$87 billion —has been rushed through this chamber in just one month. There were just three open hearings by the Senate Appropriations Committee on $87 billion—$87 for every minute since Jesus Christ was born—$87 billion without a single outside witness called to challenge the administration's line. ¬;Today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination.

Craig Alexander Newmark – 1952- :American, Internet ent, founder of website Craigslist, soc & pol act ¬;Crooks are early adopters.

Cullen Hightower – 1923- :American, salesman, trainer esp in sales, humourist, writer, col, con activist ¬;If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises. ¬;Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. ¬;Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity. ¬;Our ego is our silent partner - too often with controlling interest. ¬;Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it. ¬;People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. ¬;Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. ¬;There's too much said for the sake of argument and too little said for the sake of agreement. ¬;Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. ¬;We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. ¬;We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message. ¬;When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on. ¬;Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions Cyril Vernon Connolly – 1903-1974:English, lit critic, writer inc Enemies of Promise, founded Horizon ¬;Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ¬;If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim. ¬;Orwell proved to me that there existed an alternative to character, Intelligence. Beaton showed me another, Sensibility. ¬;Perfect taste always implies an insolent dismissal of other people's. ¬;Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but the middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ¬;There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. ¬;Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. ¬;We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis – 1850-1933:American, advertising exec, pub inc CurtisPublishing ¬;There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

D Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki – 1870-1966:Japanese, essay, writer inc Zen Buddhism, trans, Buddhist Phil Prof ¬;We say, "In calmness there should be activity; ' in activity there should be calmness." Actually, they are the same thing; to say "calmness" or to say "activity" is just to express different interpretations of one fact. There is harmony in our activity, and where there is harmony there is calmness.

Daisie Adelle Davis – 1904-1974:American, consulting nutritionist, writer inc Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit ¬;Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Dale Breckenridge Carnagey aka Carnegie–1988-1955:American, salesman, writer esp self-improvement ¬;Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. ¬;Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ¬;Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting. ¬;Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ¬;Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ¬;Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. ¬;Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ¬;Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. ¬;I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. ¬;If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. ¬;If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. ¬;If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. ¬;Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ¬;It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. ¬;Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy.

Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. ¬;Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ¬;Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ¬;One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ¬;Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ¬;People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ¬;Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. ¬;Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. ¬;Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. ¬;The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ¬;The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ¬;There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. ¬;There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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¬;There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. ¬;Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. ¬;When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ¬;When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. ¬;When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. ¬;You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. ¬;You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

DanBarker–1949- :American, play, musician, writer, Christ preacher, radio host, atheist&free thinker act ¬;Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. ¬;Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender ¬;If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? ¬;To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special, above it all. ¬;Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down.

Amen!' If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it. ¬;What happens when the same number of people pray for something as pray against it? How does God decide whose prayer to answer? Does the total number of people praying for or against something matter? How about the righteousness of the supplicants? Are positive prayers answered more frequently than negative ones? Does God take the positive ones and Satan the negative? Does the intensity of the praying have any effect on the outcome? Does the length of time one devotes to praying have any effect on the frequency with which one's prayers are answered? Do the words and phrases used in the prayer -- either positive or negative -- have any bearing on the success rate? Does the nature of the thing or things prayed for have any bearing on the prayer's success rate -- either positive or negative prayers? Why or why not??

Dan Millman – 1946- :American, gymnast inc world trampoline champion, Prof of Physical Educ, writer ¬;If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. ¬;The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

Daniel E Geer – 197?- :American, comp security analyst, Principal GeerRiskServices, Chief Sci Verdasys ¬;A world without failure is a world without freedom. A world without the possibility of sin is a world without the possibility of righteousness. A world without the possibility of crime is a world where you cannot prove you are not a criminal. A technology that can give you everything you want is a technology that can take away everything that you have. At some point, real soon now, some of us security geeks will have to say that there comes a point at which safety is not safe. ¬;Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has a solution. Every solution has side effects.

Daniel Irvin 'Dan' Rather – 1931- :American, journalist, editor, CBS Evening News anchor, TV Mag host ¬;A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ¬;We begin to think less in terms of responsibility and integrity, which get you in trouble...and more in terms of power and money...Increasingly anybody who subscribes to the idea that the job is not to curry favor with people you cover...finds himself as a kind of lone wolf...Suck-up coverage is in.

Daniel JosephBoorstin–1914-2004:American, lawyer, writer, HistProf, 12thLibrarianOfCongress, Pulitzer ¬;Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ¬;The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ¬;Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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Daniel Raymond 'Quiz' Quisenberry – 1953-1998:American, poet, wit, Major League Baseball pitcher ¬;The future is much like the present, only longer.

Daniel Webster – 1782-1852:American, lawyer, orator, Whig pol, Massachusetts US Sen, US Sec of State ¬;A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ¬;Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. ¬;The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Danny Lebern Glover – 1946- :American, city administrator, actor, director, political & union activist ¬;Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is Dante Gabriel Rossetti – 1828-1882:English, poet, trans, illust, painter, found Pre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood ¬;The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dave Meurer – 197?- :American, writer inc MistakeItLikeAMan, wit, col esp marriage & modern living ¬;A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

David Boylan – 19??- :American, journ, broadcast media executive, Fox News station manager in Florida ¬;We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We'll decide what the news is. News is what we say it is!

David C Rapoport – 194?- :American, Pol Sci Prof, terrorism expert, writer inc Morality of Terrorism ¬;A way to think about our propensity to exaggerate disaster is to ask yourself, which position would you as an analyst prefer to be in? Is it better for your reputation to predict that grim events will happen and be wrong, or is it better for your professional credentials to be optimistic about disaster and equally wrong. All things being the same, the consequences of error would be much greater for the optimist and, therefore, the prudent analyst will be grim. This fact after all is the logic insurance policies are based on, a profitable economic activity David Cogswell – 196?- :American, journ, founded Rogers&Cogswell, writer inc Chomsky For Beginners N.B. The David Cogswell quotes are taken directly from his book 'Chomsky for Beginners' ¬;Programs that raise concerns over environmental or human rights issues that are consequences of the corporate system are not likely to be well received at any network, even on public TV. Television networks know what will sell to their advertisers and what won't. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that programmes that create doubt over the way big business operates probably won't sell to your large corporate sponsors. Sponsors also object to programming that discusses disturbing and complex issues that may disrupt the 'buying mood'. TV audiences are not thought of as 'citizens' but as 'consumers'. Sponsors want 'entertainment' that will offend the fewest possible and create no disturbance. ¬;The mass media is little more than a public relations industry for the rich and powerful. Its primary purpose is to sell to the public rather than to inform it, and to protect its own interests. ¬;The' news' is very personal and can be 'adjusted' to fit the needs of whoever owns it. (Journalists) who wish to remain employed, to maintain the prestige of working for an important paper, to keep their employment resumes blemish free will tow the line...The media's function is NOT to inform the public, it is to SELL to the public. ¬;War is the suspension of all of civilization's most ancient laws against murder, rape and plunder. War is anything goes. It is the canonization of bestiality. The bottom-line fall-back justification of the clean-cut military spokesman is "This is war." In war you have collateral damage. It's not always pretty, but this is war, they say.

But why is it war? Because you say it is. Because President Bush declared it, invoked it. Not with any justification, but once it is defined as war, then no one is any longer accountable for the worst crimes against humanity. ¬;Welfare for the Rich comes in an endless variety of forms, including 'entitlements' like capital gains cuts, investment subsidies, increased tax exemptions for estates, reduced health and safety regulations, larger allowances for depreciation and, of course, the Mother of All Entitlements, 'increased military expenditures – already the largest item on the budget by far.

David C Korten–1937- :American, econ, FordFound adviser, BusinessProf, foundPositiveFuturesNetwork ¬;Absentee investors are attracted by perceived opportunities to turn a quick profit-not to benefit a worthy local community. Though they do have real world consequences, most of what we call “international capital flows” are little more than movements of electronic money from one computer account to another in a high-stakes poker game. ¬;As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. ¬;Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

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¬;Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. ¬;Demilitarization presents a particularly obvious opportunity to eliminate significant waste of financial and physical resources while simultaneously eliminating one, perhaps the greatest, single cause of human suffering in our modern world. An estimated ten to thirty percent of all global environmental degradation is due to military related activities. ¬;Democracy is based on the principle of one person, one vote. The market functions on the principle of one dollar, one vote. Consequently, under conditions of unequal economic power, a society ruled by the market is a society ruled by those who have the most money – the antithesis of democracy. ¬;Each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. ¬;Economic globalization expands the opportunities for corporations to go about their business of concentrating wealth-and from the corporate perspective, it has been a brilliant success. The Fortune 500 corporations shed 4.4 million jobs between 1980 and 1993-while increasing their sales by 1.4 times. Their assets by 2.3 times. And CEO compensation by 6.1 times. These same corporations now employ only 1/20th of 1 percent of the world's population, but they control 25 percent of the world's economic output and 70 percent of world trade. According to The Economist magazine in each of seven major industries (consumer durables, automotive, airliners, aerospace, electronic components, electrical and electronic, and steel) five firms control more than 50 percent of the total global market-which qualifies them for the label highly monopolistic. ¬;From 1990 through 1994 Mexico became touted as an international economic miracle by attracting $70 billion in foreign money with high interest bonds and a super heated stock market. As little as 10 percent of this foreign money went into real investment. Most of it financed consumer imports and debt service payments or ended up in the private foreign bank accounts of wealthy Mexicans-including the accounts of the 24 Mexican billionaires the inflows helped to create. The bubble burst in December of 1994 and the hot money flowed out even faster than it flowed in. Mexico's stock market and the value of the peso plummeted. Mexican austerity measures and a sharp drop in U.S. exports to Mexico resulted in massive job loses on both sides of the border. Most foreign investment seeks to extract local wealth—not create it. ¬;If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart. ¬;In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ¬;In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy. ¬;Ironically we must conclude that the victory of global capitalism is not a victory of the market as much as it is a victory for central planning. Capitalism has simply shifted the planning function from governments which at least in theory are accountable to all citizens to corporations which are even in theory accountable only to their shareholders. ¬;It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. ¬;It's time to recover from the Wall Street bookies what we can of their unearned phantom loot and encourage them to take up honest work by rendering their schemes against society either illegal or unprofitable. ¬;Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity -which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology. ¬;Many of the people who claim globalization is a consequence of inevitable historical forces are paid to promote that message by the same global corporations that have invested millions of dollars in advancing the globalization policy agenda. Economic globalization is inevitable only so long as we allow the world's largest corporations to buy our politicians and write our laws. ¬;Money is a mechanism for control. ¬;Money is not wealth. Money is a number we agree to exchange for things with real value. The very vocabulary of finance and economics is a world of doublespeak that obscures such essential distinctions and in part explains why economists have such a hard time understanding either money or the economy. ¬;My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. ¬;Once upon a time local communities looked to corporations not only as sources of jobs, but as well of tax revenue to help cover the costs of essential local infrastructure and public services. For example, in 1957, corporations in the United States provided 45 percent of local property tax revenues. By 1987 their share had dropped to about 16 percent. ¬;Our development models-and their underlying myths-are artifacts of the ideas, values, and institutions of the industrial era. Corporations and the modern state have been cornerstones of that era, concentrating massive economic resources in a small number of centrally controlled institutions. 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small minority of the world's people could consume far more than their rightful share of the world's real wealth.

Now as we push the exploitation of the earth's social and environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality that the industrial era is exhausting itself-because it is exhausting the human and natural resource base on which our very lives depend. We must hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization based on life affirming rather than money affirming values. ¬;Our measures of growth are deeply flawed in that they are purely measures of activity in the monetized economy. Expanded use of cigarettes and alcohol increases economic output both as a direct consequence of their consumption and because of the related increase in health care needs. The need to clean up oil spills generates economic activity. Gun sales to minors generate economic activity. A divorce generates both lawyers fees and the need to buy or rent and outfit a new home-increasing real estate brokerage fees and retail sales. It is now well documented that in the United States and a number of other countries the quality of living of ordinary people has been declining as aggregate economic output increases. ¬;Over the past 3 years the profits of the Standard and Poors 500 largest corporations have grown an average of 20% a year. Stock prices are at record highs. For the most part, these gains went to people who have nothing better to do with their money than gamble on price movements in the giant global casino we call a stock market.

During 1995, wages, salaries and benefits-compensation for doing real work-increased only 2.7%-the smallest rise on record. ¬;Perhaps the most important discovery of all is that life is about living-not consuming. A life of material sufficiency can be filled with social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual abundance that place no burden on the planet. It is time to assume responsibility for creating a new human future of just and sustainable societies freed from the myth that greed, competition, and mindless consumption are paths to individual and collective fulfilment ¬;Since Wall Street behaves like a criminal syndicate, government should treat it like a criminal syndicate.

Prosecute the guilty and require the merely culpable to clean up their act or fold their tents ¬;Take the example of the Pacific Lumber company in California. It pioneered the development of sustainable logging practices on its substantial holdings of ancient redwood timber stands, provided generous benefits to its employees, fully funded its pension fund, and maintained a no lay-offs policy during downturns in the timber market. This made it a good citizen in the local community. It also made it a prime takeover target. Corporate raider Charles Hurwitz gained control in a hostile takeover. He immediately doubled the cutting rate of the company's holding of thousand-year-old trees, reaming a mile and a half corridor into the middle of the forest that he jeeringly named “Our wildlife-biologist study trail.” He then drained $55 million from the company's $93 million pension fund and invested the remaining $38 million in annuities of the Executive Life Insurance Company, which had financed the junk bonds used to make the purchase—and subsequently failed. ¬;The competition is made especially visible by the many development projects in Southern countries-many funded with loans from the World Bank and other multilateral development banks-that displace the poor so that the lands and waters on which they depend for their livelihoods can be converted to uses that generate higher economic returns-meaning converted to use by people who can pay more that those who are displaced. All too often what growth in GNP really measures is the rate at which the economically powerful are expropriating the resources of the economically weak in order to convert them into products that all too quickly become the garbage of the rich. ¬;The corporation is an institutional invention specifically and intentionally created to concentrate control over economic resources while shielding those who hold the resulting power from liability for the consequences of its use. The more national economies become integrated into a seamless global economy, the further corporate power extends beyond the reach of any state and the less accountable it becomes to any human interest or institution other than a global financial system that is now best described as a gigantic legal gambling casino. ¬;The most dramatic indicator is the increase in inequality: the ratio of income of the wealthiest 20% to the poorest 20% was 30:1 in 1960; it was 61:1 in 1991; by 1994 it went up to 78:1. ¬;The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ¬;This is what global competition is really about—local communities and workers competing against once another to absorb more of the production costs of the world's most powerful and profitable corporations...The company reaps handsome profits. The local people bear the costs. Economists applaud the company's contribution to national output and export earnings. And the winners in the global economy are able to buy their gold trinkets at a more attractive price. The one thing at which free, unregulated markets are truly efficient is in transferring wealth from the many to the few. ¬;Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual

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citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues. ¬;To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our 'garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other non biodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system. ¬;To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function. ¬;We are coming to realize that the extravagant promises of the advocates of the global economy are based on a number of myths that have become so deeply embedded in Western industrial culture that we have grown to accept them without examination. * The myth that growth in GNP is a valid measure of human well-being and progress. * The myth that free unregulated markets efficiently allocate a society's resources. * The myth that growth in trade benefits ordinary people. * The myth that economic globalization is inevitable. * The myth that global corporations are benevolent institutions that if freed from governmental interference will provide a clean environment for all and good jobs for the poor. * The myth that absentee investors create local prosperity. ¬;We can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living. ¬;We politely use the term investor when we speak of the speculators whose gambling destabilizes the global market and then because they are investors we favor them with tax breaks and special protection. ¬;We should be more than sceptical of an economic model that calls on us to give up all loyalty to place and community, says we must give free reign to securities fraud and corporate monopolies and deny workers the right to organize, and tells the poor to run faster and faster after a train they have no chance of catching-so that a few hundred thousand people can become multi-millionaires by destroying nature and depriving others of a decent means of livelihood.

David 'Dave' Barry – 1947- :American, musician, writer, novelist, wit, col inc MiamiHerald, won Pulitzer ¬;Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ¬;Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. ¬;Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing in your ear. ¬;I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.

Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. ¬;Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. ¬;Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. ¬;The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. ¬;The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. ¬;We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. ¬;We must remember that for every instance of the government's demonstrating the intelligence of a yam, there is also an instance of the government's rising to the level of a far more complex vegetable, such as the turnip ¬;You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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David Director Freidman – 1945- :American, Professor of Law, economist, writer esp anarcho-capitalism ¬;The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Herbert Richards Lawrence – 1885-1930:English, poet, play, essay, lit critic, novel inc LChatterley ¬;It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and secondhand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ¬;The plainest person can look beautiful, can "be" beautiful. It only needs the fire of sex to rise delicately to change an ugly face to a lovely one. That is really sex appeal: the communicating of a sense of beauty.

David Home aka Hume – 1711-1776:Scottish, hist, economist, pol phil esp British Empiricist, writer, essay ¬;Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. ¬;Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers ¬;Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ¬;Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ¬;It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. ¬;It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. ¬;Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few ¬;The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. ¬;The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ¬;To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. ¬;When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities ¬;Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

David John Moore Cornwell aka John Le Carre – 1931- :English, spy, writer, novelist inc Tinker Tailor ¬;Against stupidity, the gods themselves fight in vain. ¬;Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be. ¬;Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ¬;How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. ¬;In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done. ¬;On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution. ¬;Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. ¬;There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo. ¬;We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back. ¬;Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size? ¬;You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

David Lloyd George, 1stEarl–1863-1945:English born Welsh, lawyer, Lib pol, ChanOfExchequer, UK PM ¬;A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ¬;Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. ¬;He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. ¬;t is not too much to say that when the Great War broke out our Generals had the most important lessons of their art to learn. Before they began they had much to unlearn. Their brains were cluttered with useless lumber, packed in every niche and corner. ¬;Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. ¬;Personally I am a sincere advocate of all means which would lead to the settlement of international disputes by methods such as those which civilization has so successfully set up for the adjustment of differences between individuals. ¬;Well, I find that a change of nuisances is as good as a vacation. ¬;Who ordained that the few should have the land of Britain as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

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David McClureBrinkley–1920-2003:American, journ, NewsAnchor esp NBC incHuntley–Brinkley Report ¬;Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. ¬;The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

David Michael Letterman – 1947- :American, comedian, prod, TV Host inc NBC & CBS DL Late Show ¬;Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. ¬;I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ¬;New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ¬;Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

David PMikkelson–196?- :American, found myth de-bunking website Snopes, found SFValleyFolkloreSoc ¬;Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. ¬;Better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. ¬;The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David Paradine Frost – 1939- :English, satirist, journ, writer, broadc, pol interviewer inc FrostOnSunday ¬;Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Sedaris – 1956- :American, wit, radio broadc, essayist inc MeTalkPrettyOneDay, play inc Stitches ¬;I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. ¬;Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

Dean Gooderham Acheson – 1893-1971:American, lawyer, Dem pol, diplomat, strategist, US Sec of State ¬;The future comes one day at a time.

Deb Price – 196?- :American, journalist, col inc Detroit News, editor, writer inc And Say Hi To Joyce ¬;An engineering professor is treating her husband, a loan officer, to dinner for finally giving in to her pleas to shave off the scraggly beard he grew on vacation. His favorite restaurant is a casual place where they both feel comfortable in slacks and cotton/polyester-blend golf shirts. But, as always, she wears the gold and pearl pendant he gave her the day her divorce decree was final. They're laughing over their menus because they know he always ends up diving into a giant plate of ribs but she won't be talked into anything more fattening than shrimp.

Quiz: How many biblical prohibitions are they violating? Well, wives are supposed to be 'submissive' to their husbands (I Peter 3:1). And all women are forbidden to teach men (I Timothy 2:12), wear gold or pearls (I Timothy 2:9) or dress in clothing that 'pertains to a man' (Deuteronomy 22:5). Shellfish and pork are definitely out (Leviticus 11:7, 10) as are usury (Deuteronomy 23:19), shaving (Leviticus 19:27) and clothes of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19). And since the Bible rarely recognizes divorce, they're committing adultery, which carries the rather harsh penalty of death by stoning (Deuteronomy 22:22).

So why are they having such a good time? Probably because they wouldn't think of worrying about rules that seem absurd, anachronistic or - at best - unrealistic. Yet this same modern-day couple could easily be among the millions of Americans who never hesitate to lean on the Bible to justify their own anti-gay attitudes.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis aka Juvenal – 1st-2ndCent AD:Lazio born Roman, poet, orator, satirist incSatires ¬;But who shall guard the guardians? ¬;Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove. ¬;Dedicate one’s life to truth. ¬;It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. ¬;Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. ¬;The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses! ¬;Who will guard the guards themselves?

Dee Ward Hock – 1929- :American, farmer, ent, found & CEO Visa credit card, found Chaordic Alliance ¬;The monetized commercial form of corporation has steadily become an instrument of those with surplus money (capital) and those with surplus power (management) to reward themselves at the expense of the community, the biosphere, and the many without surplus wealth or power, commonly called 'consumers' and 'human resources'... 'human resources' are mined, smelted, shaped into products, worn out, and discarded with

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little more consideration on the part of monetary stockholders and management than they might give a load of ore or a pile of lumber. Government is now more an instrument of such corporations than the corporations are instruments of government. ¬;The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. ¬;Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper -- Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment -- that the beasts were securely caged.

Demetri Martin – 1973- :American, musician, actor, writer, screen comedian esp stand-up inc Daily Show ¬;I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

Democritus – c.460-c.370 BC – Thracian Greek, phil inc atomic theory, math, aka father modern science ¬;Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ¬;Word is a shadow of a deed.

Demosthenes – 384-322 BC:Athenian Greek, speechwriter, orator, lawyer, politician esp anti Phillip II ¬;He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ¬;Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ¬;The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Deng Xiaoping – 1904-1997:Sichuan Chinese, econ, reforming politician, dip, paramount leader of China ¬;It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

DenisCharlesPratt aka QuentinCrisp–1908-1999:English, writer incNakedCivilServant, actor,illust,model ¬;Fashion is for people who don't know who they are. ¬;I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist. ¬;I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won. ¬;In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ¬;It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble.

On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world. ¬;Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. ¬;Men get laid, but women get screwed. ¬;The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. ¬;The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children. ¬;The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. ¬;The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ¬;The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ¬;To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. ¬;Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. ¬;When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Denis Diderot – 1713-1784:French, writer, novel inc JacquesLeFataliste-Maître, phil, editor Encyclopédie ¬;A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. ¬;From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. ¬;Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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Denis J Halliday – 195?- :Irish, United Nations Administrator inc in Iraq, Patron Gandhi Foundation ¬;American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the (White House) and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos (in) the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story. ¬;Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E.. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff. ¬;My innate sense of justice was and still is outraged by the violence that UN sanctions have brought upon, and continues to bring upon, the lives of children, families – the extended families, the loved ones of Iraq. There is no justification for killing the young people of Iraq, not the aged, not the sick, not the rich, not the poor. Some will tell you that the leadership is punishing the Iraqi people. That is not my perception, or experience from living in Baghdad. And were that to be the case – how can that possibly justify further punishment, in fact collective punishment, by the United Nations? I don’t think so. And international law has no provision for the disproportionate and murderous consequences of the ongoing UN embargo – for well over 12 long years.

Diane Frolov – 195?- :American, producer, screenwriter inc Sopranos & Northern Exposure, won Emmy ¬;Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. ¬;There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

Diogenes of Sinope aka Cynic – c.412-323:Sinope(Turkey) Greek, phil esp cynic & self-sufficiency, writer ¬;Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. ¬;He has the most who is most content with the least. ¬;I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. ¬;I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. ¬;If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. [When asked what was the proper time for supper] ¬;Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. ¬;The mob is the mother of tyrants. ¬;Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ¬;When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ¬;Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara–1909-1999:Brazilian, theo, RomanCatholicArchbishop Olina&Recife, writer ¬;When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

Don Herold – 1889-1966:American, humourist, writer inc Happy Hypochondriac, illustrator, cartoonist ¬;Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. ¬;I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs ¬;If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ¬;It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ¬;Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people. ¬;The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ¬;There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ¬;There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ¬;Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ¬;Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Donald 'Don' Robert Perry Marquis – 1878-1937:American, poet, writer, play, journalist, humourist, col ¬;A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. ¬;A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists. ¬;An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. ¬;Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. ¬;Don't cuss the climate. It probably doesn't like you any better than you like it. ¬;Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ¬;I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column

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¬;I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race ¬;If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. ¬;If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ¬;In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. ¬;Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ¬;Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ¬;Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into ¬;The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. ¬;The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ¬;What man calls civilization always results in deserts ¬;When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Donald Wayne Foster–1950- :American, English Prof, Shakespearean scholar, forensic linguist, FBI cons ¬;No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald R. Gannon – 192?- :American, psych esp childhood developed learning&human behaviour, writer ¬;Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald John Trump – 1946- :American, ent, international real estate developer, CEO Trump Org, broadc ¬;In an argument, you have to learn to control your emotions. The other person is the revolver, but you are the trigger. The revolver won't hurt you as long as the trigger isn't pulled. ¬;Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. ¬;Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis – 1740-1814:French, aristocratic rev, writer, play, novelist ¬;A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. ¬;At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second. ¬;I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts. ¬;Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers? ¬;Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. ¬;My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. ¬;Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ¬;To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible. ¬;What is more immoral than war?

Doris Egan aka Jane Emerson – 1955- :American, prod inc Dark Angel, screen, writer inc Gate of Ivory ¬;You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

DorisMayLessing neeTayler–1919- :Iranian born Zimbabwean educ British, activist, novel, won Nobel Lit ¬;That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Dorothee Solle – 1929-2003:German, Prof of Systematic Theology, writer esp Christofascism, anti-war act ¬;If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

Dorothy Day – 1897-1980:American, journ, essay, social act, anarchist, found CatholicWorker movement ¬;I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Fanny Nevill,Lady–1826-1913:English, writer inc UnderFiveReigns, social hostess, horticulturist ¬;The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Parker nee Rothschild – 1893-1967:American, poet, writer, screen, social & lit critic, humourist ¬;Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

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¬;Don't put all your eggs in one bastard ¬;I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if i can remember any of the damn things. ¬;I've been too fucking busy. And vice versa. ¬;If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ¬;One more drink and I'd have been under the host. ¬;She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. ¬;The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ¬;This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Sarnoff – 1914-2008:American, singer inc opera, actress esp musicals inc King&I, self-help guru ¬;Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Doug Larson – 1926- :American, journalist, humourist, syndicated col, editor esp GreenBayPress-Gazette ¬;A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life ¬;A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ¬;Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ¬;Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. ¬;For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling ¬;If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ¬;Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ¬;Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ¬;The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. ¬;The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. ¬;The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. ¬;To err is human; to admit it, superhuman ¬;Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ¬;What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. ¬;Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk Douglas MacArthur – 1880-1964:American, Army 5*Gen, Chief of Staff, SCAP Japan, C-in-C UN Korea ¬;Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ¬;I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations. ¬;In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide. ¬;It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas Noel Adams – 1952-2001:English, scriptwriter, writer, novelist inc Hitchhikers, musician, env act ¬;A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." ¬;Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. ¬;All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ¬;And that, apart from a flurry of sensational newspaper reports which exposed him as a fraud, then trumpeted him as the real thing so that they could have another round of exposing him as a fraud again and then trumpeting him as the real thing again, until they got bored and found a nice juicy snooker player to harass instead, was that. ¬;Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. ¬;He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ¬;Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ¬;Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. ¬;I don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfil our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television

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stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world. ¬;I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ¬;If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. ¬;In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. ¬;Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ¬;It was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human. ¬;It was his subconscious which told him this - that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. ¬;Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ¬;Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ¬;So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance. ¬;The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ¬;The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency declaration forms, and official bribery, and tend to wander backwards and forwards across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them. ¬;The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along. ¬;The problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another – particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish. ¬;There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ¬;Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ¬;We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. ¬;We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. ¬;We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. ¬;You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Drew Allison Carey – 1958- :American, actor, photographer, game-show host inc WhoseLineIsIt...?, wit ¬;I shall smite you! Once I learn how to haggle with the gods. ¬;Whoever said nothing was impossible never tried slamming a revolving door. ¬;You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

Dudley Field Malone – 1882-1950:American, Dem pol, actor, lawyer inc Monkey Trial, suffragist activist ¬;I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dwight David'Ike'Eisenhower–1890-1969:American, 5*Gen, SupCommanderNATO, Rep pol, 34thUSPres ¬;A people that values its privileges above its principles soon looses both. ¬;A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ¬;All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time, if we believe for one second that nuclear fission and fusion, that type of weapon, would be used in such a war — what is a preventive war? I would say a preventive war, if the words mean anything, is to wage some sort of quick police action in order that you might avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be

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dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.... It seems to me that when, by definition, a term is just ridiculous in itself, there is no use in going any further. There are all sorts of reasons, moral and political and everything else, against this theory, but it is so completely unthinkable in today's conditions that I thought it is no use to go any further. ¬;An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ¬;Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. ¬;Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book ¬;Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live? ¬;Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield. ¬;Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. ¬;How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? ¬;I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ¬;I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.

Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. ¬;I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle. ¬;If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. ¬;In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ¬;In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ¬;I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. ¬;May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ¬;Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ¬;No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. ¬;One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness.

In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are — though they might not agree — robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. ¬;Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together ¬;People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the grey areas.... The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. ¬;Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. ¬;Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter

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group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt...a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. ¬;The final battle against intolerance is to be fought, not in the chambers of any legislature, but in the hearts of men. ¬;There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ¬;This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. ¬;Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ¬;Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides ¬;We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make – we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. ¬;We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. ¬;We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ¬;What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. ¬;When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. ¬;Without exhaustive debate, even heated debate, of ideas and programs, free government would weaken and wither. But if we allow ourselves to be persuaded that every individual or party that takes issue with our own convictions is necessarily wicked or treasonous, then, indeed, we are approaching the end of freedom's road. ¬;You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

DwightWhitneyMorrow–1873-1931:American, lawyer, banker, dip inc Amb toMexico, Rep pol, NJ USSen ¬;Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ¬;The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit

E E. Joseph Cossman – 192?-2002 :American, writer inc self-help, ent, marketer, found FutureMillionaires ¬;Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard ¬;Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. ¬;If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today ¬;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity ¬;Middle age is where your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. ¬;Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ¬;Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves ¬;The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once Earl Warren – 1891-1974:American, lawyer, Rep pol, California Gov, 14th US Supreme Court Chief Just ¬;All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. ¬;Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for. ¬;I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' ¬;I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. ¬;I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. ¬;In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ¬;It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ¬;Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. ¬;Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. ¬;Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

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¬;The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. ¬;This concept of "national defense" cannot be deemed an end in itself, justifying any exercise of legislative power designed to promote such a goal. Implicit in the term "national defense" is the notion of defending those values and ideals which set this Nation apart. For almost two centuries, our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution, and the most cherished of those ideals have found expression in the First Amendment. It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties — the freedom of association — which make the defense of our nation worthwhile. ¬;We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. ¬;You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Earl Wilson – 1907-1987:American, writer, journ inc NewYork Post, gossip col inc ItHappenedLastNight ¬;An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ¬;An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. ¬;Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. ¬;Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty ¬;Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't ¬;If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. ¬;Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air ¬;One way to get high blood-pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills ¬;Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with ¬;Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments ¬;To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible. ¬;Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Eckhart von Hochheim aka MeisterEckhart–1260-1328:German, phil, Dominican monk, writer, educator ¬;If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. ¬;In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Ed Greenwood – 1959- :Canadian, editor, novel esp fantasy, game desg inc ForgottenRealmsCampaignSet ¬;Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Edgar John Bergren aka Bergen – 1903-1978:American, actor, radio broadc, vaudeville esp ventriloquism ¬;Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Poe aka E Allan Poe – 1809-1849:American, editor, poet, lit critic, short-story writer esp mystery ¬;Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. ¬;I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. ¬;In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. ¬;The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ¬;Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Watson Howe – 1853-1937:American, novel, journ, newspaper&mag editor, found Howe'sMonthly ¬;Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. ¬;Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start ¬;Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. ¬;Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Edith Nesbit, aka Edith Bland – 1858-1924:English, poet, novel esp children, pol act, found Fabian Soc ¬;It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Edith Louisa Sitwell, Dame – 1887-1964:English, historian, writer, social critic, poet esp symbolist ¬;Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ¬;Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. ¬;I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish ¬;I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ¬;I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

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¬;The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. ¬;The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention. ¬;Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

Edith Newbold Jones aka Edith Wharton – 1862-1937:American, novel&short-story, inter desg, Pulitzer ¬;Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. ¬;How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? ¬;In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. ¬;It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more illbred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them. ¬;The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ¬;There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. ¬;There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ¬;True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edmund Burke–1729-1797:Irish, philosopher, writer, orator, Whig pol, MP, found modern Conservatism ¬;A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ¬;Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover. ¬;Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ¬;Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. ¬;By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation ¬;Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. ¬;Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ¬;Good order is the foundation of all good things. ¬;Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. ¬;If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. ¬;It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. ¬;It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable. They serve equally the first capacities and the lowest; and they are, at least, as useful to the worst men as to the best. Of this stamp is the cant of not man, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement. ¬;It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do. ¬;It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ¬;Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ¬;Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, -— in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, -— in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, —- in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. ¬;Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy...

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sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. ¬;Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. ¬;No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ¬;No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ¬;Our patience will achieve more than our force. ¬;Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. ¬;People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous. ¬;The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity ¬;The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best. ¬;The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion ¬;The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ¬;The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. ¬;There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. ¬;Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief ¬;Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. ¬;Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ¬;We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. ¬;We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation ¬;When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ¬;Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ¬;Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ¬;You can never plan the future by the past. ¬;Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Kealoha 'Ed'Parker–1931-1990:American, martial arts expert, GrandMaster USKenpo, teacher ¬;The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Eduardo Hughes Galeano – 1940- :Uruguayan, journ, editor, col, novel, writer inc OpenVeins of LatinAm ¬;Because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. ¬;Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them - will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't create art, but handicrafts. Who don't have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them. ¬;From the point of view by a worm, a plate of spaghetti looks like a wild orgy. ¬;People were in prison so that prices could be free ¬;The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show. Their officials, international technocrats, rule our countries: they are neither

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presidents nor ministers, they have not been elected, but they decide the level of salaries and public expenditure, investments and divestments, prices, taxes, interest rates, subsidies, when the sun rises and how frequently it rains. However, they don't concern themselves with the prisons or torture chambers or concentration camps or extermination centers, although these house the inevitable consequences of their acts. The technocrats claim the privilege of irresponsibility: 'We're neutral' they say.

Edward Albert CG.A Patrick David aka KingEdwardVIII aka Duke of Windsor–1894-1972:English, king ¬;The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward Alexander Crowley aka AleisterCrowley–1875-1947:English, occultist, writer, poet, spy, yogi, phil ¬;I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ¬;The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness. ¬;To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Edward Estlin 'e. e.' Cummings – 1894-1962:American, painter, essay, play inc Santa Claus, novelist, poet ¬;It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ¬;Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ¬;The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ¬;To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Edward Everett–1794-1865:American, Greek Prof, Pres Harvard, Mass Gov, Mass USSen, US SecOfState ¬;Make it your habit not to be critical about small things Edward GeorgeEarleLyttonBulwer aka Bulwer-Lytton, 1stBaron–1803-1873:English, poet, play, novel, pol ¬;Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. ¬;Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. ¬;Rank is a great beautifier. ¬;The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ¬;The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. ¬;There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward Gibbon – 1737-1794:English, writer, historian inc Decline&FallOfRomanEmpire, Whig pol, MP ¬;All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ¬;As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters. ¬;Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: The first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself ¬;Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity ¬;History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind ¬;My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India ¬;Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ¬;The Christian church (is) a phenomenon of general history, not a special case admitting supernatural explanations and disallowing criticism of its adherents ¬;The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. ¬;Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Hamilton Waldo aka Theodore Sturgeon – 1918-1985:American, novel esp SF & mystery, screen ¬;Ninety percent of everything is crud. ¬;Nothing is always absolutely so.

Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson – 1887-1964:English, actor, theatre dir, essayist, writer esp biography ¬;Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for

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the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Edward Israel Iskowitz aka Eddie Cantor – 1892-1964:American, singer, song, actor, comedian, writer ¬;Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Edward John 'Eddie' Izzard – 1962- :Yemen born British, actor, comedian inc stand-up inc Live At Amb ¬;Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal. ¬;I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. ¬;She said, "Spell 'ant' ", and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, "That doesn't spell 'ant' ", and I said, "It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!" ¬;The Crusades were, "We kill you in the name of Jesus!" "Wait, we have Jesus, too! He's a prophet in our religion! We kill you in the name of Jesus!" "Do you? … Well, we kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford!" "No, he wasn't! He was from Judea! Dark-skinned man, such as we!" "… Really?

Look, we've come all this way. Would you mind awfully if we hacked you to bits? Just for the press back home." ¬;The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

Edward L. Flom – 1930- :American, businessman, CEO Florida Steel Corp, Board Outback Steakhouse ¬;One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.

Edward Morgan 'EM' Forster – 1879-1970:English, writer, lit critic, novel, inc Passage to India, librettist ¬;A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race ¬;If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this ¬;Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. ¬;Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour ¬;Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. ¬;Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long ¬;Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three ¬;We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.

In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship Edward P Tryon – 193?- :American, physicist esp cosmology & theoretical quark models, Physics Prof ¬;In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Edward Paul 'Ed' Abbey – 1927-1989:American, essay, writer, novelist inc Monkey Wrench Gang, env act ¬;A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically? ¬;Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State ¬;Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ¬;Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion ¬;Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell ¬;In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time ¬;No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. ¬;One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork ¬;Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell. ¬;Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried ¬;Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top ¬;The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws ¬;The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

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¬;The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals ¬;To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori; Civilization is Sartre; culture Cocteau; Civilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & Ordure (sic); Civilization is uprising, insurrection, revolution; culture is the war of state against state, or of machines against people, as in Hungary and Vietnam; Civilization is tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture is the entrance examination, the gas chamber, the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair; Civilization is the Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno fighting the Germans, then the Reds, then the Whites, then the Reds again; culture is Stalin and the Fatherland; Civilization is Jesus turning water into wine; culture is Christ walking on the waves; Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand; culture is the Soviet tank or the L.A. cop that guns him down; Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement; Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood. ¬;Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and aesthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one Edward S. Herman – 1925- :American, econ, media analyst, col, writer inc RealTerrorNetwork, Fin Prof ¬;Among Latin American elites, a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education, organization or material advance for the majority, that has not been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. ... Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves, priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they are also, by definition, enemies. ¬;The establishment can't admit it is human rights violations that make... countries attractive to business – so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that don't meet standard of service to the transnational corporation..

Edward Verrall 'E. V.' Lucas – 1868-1938:English, journ col inc Punch, essay, writer esp travel & cricket ¬;I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely. ¬;I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Edward Wallis Hoch–1849-1925:American, printer, pub esp MarionCountyRecord, Rep pol, Kansas Gov ¬;There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behoves any of us, To talk about the rest of us.

Edwin Eugene 'Buzz'Aldrin–1930- :American, AFpilot, eng esp mechanical, NASA astro, 2ndManOnMoon ¬;I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Edwin Percy Whipple – 1819-1886:American, essayist inc Character & Characteristic Men, literary critic ¬;An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin 'Way' AlfredTeale–1899-1980:American, photographer, naturalist, writer inc AmSeasons, Pulitzer ¬;Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Egbert 'Edward' Roscoe Murrow – 1908-1965:American, journ, radio/TV news broadc incCBS, DirUSIA ¬;A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ¬;All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man. ¬;Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. ¬;Do not be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks.

They all have better taste. All are responsible to stockholders, and in my experience all are honorable men. But they must schedule what they can sell in the public market. ¬;During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: LOOK NOW, PAY LATER. For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive. I mean the word survive literally. ¬;Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them ¬;Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly. ¬;I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

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¬;I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. ¬;I have no technical advice or counsel to offer those of you who labor in this vineyard that produces words and pictures. You will forgive me for not telling you that instruments with which you work are miraculous, that your responsibility is unprecedented or that your aspirations are frequently frustrated. It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. ¬;I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry. ¬;If...news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it — I say it isn't news. ¬;If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. ¬;If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality, then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought ¬;If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. ¬;Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. ¬;Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ¬;No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. ¬;One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. The top management of the networks with a few notable exceptions, has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business.

But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time nor the competence to do this. ¬;Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kine-scopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. ¬;The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ¬;The politician is … trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him ¬;The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ¬;The sponsor of an hour's television program is not buying merely the six minutes devoted to commercial message. He is determining, within broad limits, the sum total of the impact of the entire hour. If he always, invariably, reaches for the largest possible audience, then this process of insulation, of escape from reality, will continue to be massively financed, and its apologist will continue to make winsome speeches about giving the public what it wants, or "letting the public decide." ¬;There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong. ¬;This instrument [television] can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. ¬;To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. ¬;We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria.

Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

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¬;We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ¬;When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Eike von Repkow – c.1180-c.1235:Saxony-Anhalt German, adm, scholar, writer Sachsenspiegel legal code ¬;First come first served (literally, He who comes to the mill first shall grind first Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine aka Catherine Doherty–1896-1985:Russian born Canadian, lecturer ¬;With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Elaine Gill – 194?- :American, writer, editor inc MountainMovingDay:PoemsByWomen, feminist act ¬;If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elbert Green Hubbard–1856-1915:American, artist, pub, essay inc MessageGarcia, phil, Arts&Crafts act ¬;A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ¬;Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. ¬;Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ¬;Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. ¬;Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ¬;I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills. ¬;If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. ¬;Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ¬;One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ¬;Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. ¬;Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. ¬;Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one ¬;The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid. ¬;The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ¬;The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. ¬;To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ¬;Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert aka Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy etc – 1906-1993:English, novel inc romantic ¬;Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter – 1927- :American, care&mental health act, writer, dip, US First Lady ¬;A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Eleanore Marie Sarton aka May Sarton – 1912-1995:American, poet, novelist, writer, lesbian activist ¬;The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. ¬;Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross–1926-2004:Swiss born American, psych, writer inc Death&Dying, hospice care act ¬;In Switzerland I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little. ¬;Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ¬;People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets

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in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within ¬;There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor aka Queen Elizabeth II – 1926- :English, Queen of UK & elsewhere ¬;It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. ¬;It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ¬;We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory. ¬;They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

Elizabeth Aston – 196?- :English, writer, novel esp writing in Jane Austen style inc Mr Darcy's Daughters ¬;Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are as many differences in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 1815-1902:American, women's rights act, writer inc Dec of Rights&Sentiments ¬;Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ¬;The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ¬;With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth deBeauchampGoudge–1900-1984:English, novel&short-story esp children incLittleWhiteHorse ¬;Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Rosemond 'Liz' Taylor, Dame – 1932- :English & American, actress, fundraiser, won 3 Oscars ¬;It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ¬;Success is a great deodorant. ¬;The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Tudor aka Queen ElizabethI – 1533-1603:English, Queen England&Ireland, 1stCof Eng SupGov ¬;Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. ¬;The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ¬;Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald – 1917-1996:American, singer esp jazz, musician esp piano, actress, won14Grammys ¬;It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow – 1873-1945:American, novel inc ThisOurLife, poet, lit critic, Pulitzer ¬;The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Ellen Goodman – 1941- :American, journalist inc Newsweek, writer, editor inc BostonGlobe, col, Pulitzer ¬;I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. ¬;Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. ¬;The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. ¬;You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Ellen Lee DeGeneres – 1958- :American, comedienne esp standup, actress, TV host, won 12 Emmys ¬;I get a lot of people quoting the Bible, specifically to me, which I don't know why, but a lot of people quote the Bible to me. And a lot of people evidently are praying for me and I thank you for that. Extra prayers for me.

Thank you. I would like those people to start praying for the animals, because I think the animals need all the prayers that they can get, and I think God would agree. I would like to quote something, I actually like some of the things in the Bible myself . I would like to quote 'Thou shall not kill' and it doesn't say in fine print 'except for the animals', it just says 'Thou shall not kill'. And how about 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'? How about that? ¬;I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. ¬;In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ¬;Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing ... chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too. ¬;The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

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¬;We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?

Elmer G Leterman – 1897-1982 :American, insurance broker, founded Leterman-Gortz, writer inc selling ¬;A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. ¬;Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger ¬;Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elvis Aaron Presley – 1935-1977:American, singer inc 104 USTop40Hits, musician, actor, won 3 Grammys ¬;I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ¬;Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess. ¬;The image is one thing and the human being is another, it's very hard to live up to an image. ¬;Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you. ¬;The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time but it ain't goin' away.

Elwyn Brooks 'E B' White – 1899-1985:American, journalist, col, writer esp children inc Stuart Little ¬;I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ¬;If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world.

This makes it hard to plan the day. ¬;People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. ¬;Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

Emerson W. Pugh – 195?- :American, writer esp technology esp IBM inc IBM's 360 & early 370 systems ¬;If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

Emile Auguste 'Alain' Chartier – 1868-1951:French, phil, journ, lecturer, essay inc Dreamer, pacifist act ¬;There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog aka Andre Maurois – 1885-1967:French, writer, novel inc children, essay ¬;A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ¬;Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. ¬;In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Emilie Rose Macaulay, Dame – 1881-1958:English, civil servant, writer esp biography & travel, novelist ¬;It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson – 1830-1886:American, poet esp slant rhyme-mainly published posthumously ¬;Forever is composed of nows. ¬;They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emma Alice Margaret Tennant aka MargotAsquith,Countess–1864-1945:Scottish, writer esp bio, socialite ¬;The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue...There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

Emo Phillips – 1956- :American, comedian esp surreal inc stand up, actor inc Weird Al, voice artist, prod ¬;At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. ¬;I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. ¬;My girlfriend always giggles during sex — no matter what she's reading. ¬;My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself. ¬;Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ¬;When I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness.

Enoch Arnold Bennett – 1867-1931:English, journalist, editor, literary critic, novelist inc Clayhanger ¬;Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. ¬;The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Epictetus–c.55-c.135:Phrygia(Turkey) Greek, slave&freedman, teacher, phil esp Stoic/fatalist-own school ¬;If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ¬;If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. ¬;Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

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¬;No man is free who is not master of himself. ¬;Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. ¬;There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ¬;To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ¬;We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less. ¬;What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epicurus – 341-270 BC:Samos born Athenian Greek, phil esp atomist & happiness-own school, writer ¬;Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. ¬;Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ¬;I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. ¬;If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ¬;If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ¬;It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ¬;Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. ¬;The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Eric Alterman – 1960- :American, journ, col, Prof of Engl & Prof of Journ, pol blogger inc Altercation ¬;Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria. ¬;Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. ¬;History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. ¬;We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.

Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell–1903-1950:Indian born British, journ, novel inc 1984, poet, lit critic ¬;A society becomes totalitarian when its structures become flagrantly artificial; that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. ¬;Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ¬;All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. ¬;All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ¬;Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. ¬;Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ¬;Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ¬;Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ¬;For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. ¬;Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows. ¬;From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. ¬;History is written by the winners. ¬;I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. ¬;If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ¬;If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking

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for them. ¬;If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. ¬;In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else. ¬;In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ¬;In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible...Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. ¬;In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. In a world where people's needs are met, and they have the resources to educate themselves, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.... War is a purely internal affair. It is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. ¬;Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. ¬;Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness ¬;No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. ¬;On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ¬;One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. ¬;One defeats the fanatic precisely by not becoming a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. ¬;Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ¬;Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ¬;Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ¬;Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ¬;Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. ¬;Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting ¬;The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. Although the point of emphasis may vary, the writer who refuses to sell his opinions is always branded as a mere egoist. He is accused, that is, either of wanting to shut himself up in an ivory tower, or of making an exhibitionist display of his own personality, or of resisting the inevitable current of history in an attempt to cling to unjustified privileges ¬;The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies — unless one counts journalists. ¬;The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. ¬;The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ¬;The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. ¬;The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are

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finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ¬;The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. ¬;They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it. ¬;This business of making people conscious of what is happening outside their own small circle is one of the major problems of our time, and a new literary technique will have to be evolved to meet it. Considering that the people of this country are not having a very comfortable time, you can't perhaps, blame them for being somewhat callous about suffering elsewhere, but the remarkable thing is the extent to which they manage to be unaware of it. Tales of starvation, ruined cities, concentration camps, mass deportations, homeless refugees, persecuted Jews — all this is received with a sort of incurious surprise, as though such things had never been heard of but at the same time were not particularly interesting. The now-familiar photographs of skeleton-like children make very little impression. As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses. ¬;To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ¬;To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. ¬;War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ¬;War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. ¬;We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. It is not merely that at present the rule of naked force obtains almost everywhere. Probably that has always been the case. Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bullyworship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger ... have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. ¬;Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ¬;Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

Eric Hoffer–1902-1983:American, longshoreman, psych, phil, pol scientist, writer inc Ordeal of Change ¬;A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ¬;Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. ¬;All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ¬;However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable. ¬;In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ¬;It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. ¬;It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor. ¬;It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ¬;It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ¬;Naivete in grown-ups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity ¬;Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity ¬;No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. ¬;One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears.

Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. ¬;Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. ¬;Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ¬;Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness

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of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. ¬;People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. ¬;People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ¬;Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. ¬;Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ¬;Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ¬;The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. ¬;The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ¬;The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. ¬;The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. ¬;The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ¬;The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. ¬;The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. ¬;The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. ¬;The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. ¬;There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ¬;They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. ¬;To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. ¬;To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ¬;To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. ¬;We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ¬;We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ¬;We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. ¬;We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. ¬;We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. ¬;We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ¬;We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. ¬;We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ¬;We usually see only the things we are looking for — so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. ¬;When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ¬;Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. ¬;You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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Erica Jong nee Mann–1942- :American, writer inc WhatDoWomenWant, novelist inc FearOfFlying, poet ¬;Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ¬;Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ¬;If you don't risk anything you risk even more. ¬;Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ¬;The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. ¬;You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erich Paul Remark aka Erich Maria Remarque – 1898-1970:German, journ, writer, novel inc All Quiet.. ¬;A hospital alone shows what war is. ¬;The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Erich Wolf Segal – 1937-2010 :American, novelist inc Love Story, writer, screenwriter, Greek&Latin Prof ¬;True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erma Louise Bombeck nee Fiste–1927-1996:American, wit, col, writer inc AtWit'sEnd, TV journ, lecturer ¬;Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ¬;Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely ¬;In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV ¬;Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids. ¬;It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. ¬;My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ¬;Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart ¬;The grass is always greener over the septic tank ¬;When humor goes, there goes civilization ¬;When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Ernest Edward 'Ernie' Kovacs – 1919-1962:American, comedian esp ad lib, technical innovator, actor ¬;Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

ErnestJohnPickstoneBenn,2ndBaronet–1875-1954:British, pub, writer inc ConfessionsOfCapitalist, pol act ¬;Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Miller Hemingway – 1899-1961:American, novelist, poet, writer, journ, won Pulitzer & Nobel Lit ¬;Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ¬;Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ¬;I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. ¬;Never confuse movement with action. ¬;No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ¬;The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin. ¬;They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ¬;When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Rutherford,1stBaron–1871-1937:NewZealandbornBritish, chem, physic, PhysicsProf, Nobel Chem ¬;Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

ErnstFriedrich'Fritz'Schumacher–1911-1977:German bornBritish, econ, stat, writer inc SmallIsBeautiful ¬;Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. ¬;Education can help us only if it produces “whole men”. The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories, he may treasure the Encyclopædia Britannica because “she knows and he needn’t”, but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity ¬;From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil ¬;Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can

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catch it ¬;To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence ¬;We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because, if we don’t do the right thing, we’ll be doing the wrong thing, and we’ll just be part of the disease and not a part of the cure.

Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich–1909-2001:Austrian born British, art historian & critic, writer, History Prof ¬;Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

Erving Goffman – 1922-1982:Canadian, writer, sociologist esp deference & demeanor, Pres Am Soc Assoc ¬;Concern about public life has heated up far beyond our capacity to throw light upon it Esther 'Etty' Hillesum – 1914-1943:Dutch, writer esp posthumous Diaries & Letters, Jewish mystic ¬;Even if there is only one decent German, they (the Germans) would deserve to be protected from the barbarian rabble and for that one German's sake one should not pour out one's hatred for the entire people. ¬;One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. ¬;We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Ethel Barrett – 1914- :American, writer inc There I Stood, storyteller, speaker esp religion, won Grammy ¬;We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Watts Mumford – 1876-1940:American, novelist, writer, poet, play esp farce, theatrical prod, illust ¬;Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier aka Stephen Grellet–1773-1855:French, missionary, educ/hosp/prison act ¬;I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht–1898-1956:German, poet, play esp epic styles, theatre dir esp BerlinerE ¬;Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ¬;First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics. ¬;For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. ¬;For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. ¬;Let nothing be called natural, In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things, Be held unalterable! ¬;So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit.

And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police. ¬;The headlong stream is termed violent, But the river bed hemming it in is, Termed violent by no one. ¬;You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Eugen Ionescu aka Eugene Ionesco – 1909-1994:Romanian & French, play, novelist, poet, lit critic, essay ¬;Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Devlan aka GeneFowler–1890-1960:American, journ, syndication manager, writer esp bio, screen ¬;An editor should have a pimp for his brother, so he'd have someone to look up to. ¬;For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. ¬;It is easier to believe than to doubt. ¬;Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ¬;The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ¬;What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins ¬;Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin – 1848-1903:French, stockbroker, painter esp Post-Impressionism, engraver ¬;A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. ¬;Copying nature — what is that supposed to mean? Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody! ¬;I shut my eyes in order to see. ¬;In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right? ¬;No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

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Eugene Hoffman Nickerson – 1918-2002:American, lawyer, Federal District Court Judge, Dem politician ¬;Congress may not enact discriminatory legislation because it desires to insulate heterosexual service members from statements that might excite their prejudices.

Eugene Joseph 'Gene' McCarthy–1916-2005:American, poet, Econ Prof, Dem pol, Minnesota US Senator ¬;Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ¬;In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted. ¬;It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ¬;One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics. ¬;The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. ¬;The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ¬;The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts. ¬;We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal–1925- :American, novelist inc MyraBreckinridge, play, essayist, screen, pol act ¬;For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. ¬;Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ¬;I'm a born-again atheist. ¬;I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. ¬;Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. ¬;The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ¬;There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ¬;To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. ¬;Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ¬;Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.

Euripides – c. 480-c. 406 BC:Salamis born Athenian Greek, play - 95 plays esp tragedy inc Bacchae ¬;Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. ¬;In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. ¬;Leave no stone unturned. ¬;Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. ¬;Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. ¬;Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ¬;The wisest men follow their own direction. ¬;Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Evan Esar - 1899-1995:American, wit, writer inc Easr'sComicDictionary & 20,000 Quips&Quotes, editor ¬;A signature always reveals a man's character... and sometimes even his name. ¬;Admiration -- Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. ¬;All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. ¬;America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ¬;Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. ¬;Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. ¬;Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. ¬;Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ¬;Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ¬;Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ¬;It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. ¬;Many a girl who receives advances from a young man has a father who has more need for them. ¬;Men still die with their boots on, but usually one boot is on the accelerator. ¬;Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

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¬;Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ¬;Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done. ¬;Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ¬;Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. ¬;The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother ¬;The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible. ¬;There's one point a husband and wife always agree upon; he thinks nothing is too good for her, and so does she. ¬;Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. ¬;Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Evan Harold Davis – 1962- :English, econ, journ, presenter inc BBC, TV editor, writer incPublicSpending ¬;Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Evelyn Underhill aka John Cordelier – 1875-1941:English, novelist, poet, Anglo-Catholic mystic, lecturer ¬;Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Ezra Weston LoomisPound–1885-1972:American, lit critic, poet esp modernist & aestheticism inc Cantos ¬;Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

F Farrah Gray–1984- :American, writer inc GetRealGetRich, col, social entrepreneur, motivational speaker ¬;In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Felix Frankfurter – 1882-1965:Austrian born American, lawyer, Law Prof, Zionist act, US Sup CourtJust ¬;A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, indiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. ¬;Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system—a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth. ¬;Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of (achieving) a free society. ¬;Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. ¬;The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare.

Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. ¬;Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Filippo Bruno aka Giordano Bruno – 1548-1600:Campania Italian, Dom friar, phil, math, astronomer ¬;It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ¬;Scholars at Oxford are...a constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job ¬;The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. ¬;To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.

Florence Scovel Shinn – 1871-1940:American, writer esp metaphysics, illustrator, NewThought teacher ¬;The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Florynce Rae Kennedy – 1916-2000:American, lawyer, civil rights act, writer, actor, found Feminist Party ¬;Don't agonize. Organize. ¬;If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ¬;There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

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Floyd Dell – 1887-1969:American, novel, essay, journ, editor, lit critic, poet, play inc LittleAccident, actor ¬;Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ¬;In a word, the home is a little dull. When you have got a woman in a box, and you pay rent on the box, her relationship to you insensibly changes character. It loses the fine excitement of democracy. It ceases to be companionship, for companionship is only possible in a democracy. It is no longer a sharing of life together—it is a breaking of life apart. Half a life—cooking, clothes, and children; half a life—business, politics, and baseball. It doesn’t make much difference which is the poorer half. Either half, when it comes to life, is very near to none at all. ¬;There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

Frances Ann 'Fran' Lebowitz – 1959- :American, col esp sardonic, essay inc Metropolitan Life, soc critic ¬;All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. ¬;Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke. ¬;Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football. ¬;Children ask better questions than do adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer? ¬;Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do. ¬;Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens. ¬;Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word.

Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian. ¬;Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. ¬;I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not. ¬;I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. ¬;I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? ¬;I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. ¬;If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract, teach him to deduct. ¬;If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal." ¬;If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies. ¬;Most of my news, I get from the radio news stations. One of the stations' advertising lines is "Give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world." In 22 minutes, they just have time for the headlines, so they can only really tell you what happened — which, by the way, is the news. They tell you how many people were killed in Iraq today, but they don’t then bring on some Republican senator to explain to you how that’s good. Or, on the contrary, they don’t bring in a bunch of Democrats to tell you why it’s bad. They just tell you what happened.

That’s the news. I am capable of analyzing my own news. What makes these people qualified to analyze my news for me? No matter what side they’re on, I never agree with them. ¬;Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs ¬;Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ¬;Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ¬;Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. ¬;Take away a man’s actual sense of manhood — which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children — and you’ve got to give them something else. And they did. This hideous religion that’s all over the country — these huge church-malls — that’s what substitutes for these lost towns. But that’s not a town. That’s a cult. A town is diverse, in a real way, not in this fake way we have now. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That’s just self-righteousness — incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic. People have become so rigid; their opinions seem to them like themselves. When that happens (and it has happened) people can’t change their minds. If you are identified by your opinions — if that is the very basis of yourself — how can you change your mind?

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¬;The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ¬;The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies — easily checkable, blatant lies — and I’m not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men — 15 of them are Saudis — and five minutes later the whole country thinks they’re from Iraq — how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors. ¬;Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type. ¬;Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra – 1915-1998:American, actor, prod, dir, singer, won 1 Oscar & 11 Grammy ¬;I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. ¬;Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. ¬;When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Francis Bacon 1st Viscount – 1561-1626:English, phil, scientist, lawyer, writer, pol, English Lord Chan ¬;A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ¬;If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. ¬;Knowledge itself is power. ¬;Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. ¬;The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicties of Solomon. ¬;They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis C 'Frank' Dane – possibly 195?- :American, lecturer, Psych Prof & Prof of Ethics & Public Policy ¬;A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal ¬;Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel ¬;Even if you understood women--you'd never believe it ¬;Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ¬;Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow ¬;Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins ¬;Morality – A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable ¬;Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm ¬;Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does ¬;Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately ¬;The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements ¬;The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa, the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York Francis Ford Coppola – 1939- :American, film dir inc ApocalypseNow, prod, screen, mag pub, vintner ¬;You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Francis 'Frank' Darwin – 1848-1925–English, botanist esp phototropism, writer inc Power of Movement ¬;In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis 'Frank' WilliamLeahy–1908-1973:American, college am football coach&manager esp NotreDame ¬;Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Francis George Steiner – 1929- :French born American, lit critic, writer, phil, polymath, Engl&Poet Prof ¬;Almost overwhelmingly, European culture, at the close of this millennium, is that of the museum. Who among us believes that we shall witness a new Dante, a Shakespeare of the 21st Century, a Mozart to come? ¬;Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. ¬;It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

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¬;More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level. ¬;The variables are surprisingly few. … One can whip or be whipped; one can eat excrement or quaff urine; mouth and private part can be meet in this or that commerce. After which there is the gray of morning and the sour knowledge that things have remained fairly generally the same since man first met goat and woman. ¬;There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. ¬;To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. ¬;To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless ¬;We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord – 1773-1850:Scottish, journ, literary critic, editor, Whig politician, lawyer, judge ¬;Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. ¬;There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald – 1896-1940:American, short-story writer, poet, novelist inc Great Gatsby ¬;Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ¬;At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. ¬;The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

François-Anatole Thibault aka Anatole France – 1844-1924:French, poet, novelist, journ, won Nobel Lit ¬;All religions breed crime. ¬;An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ¬;If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ¬;Ignorance is a necessary condition of human happiness, and it must be owned that in most cases we fulfill it well. We know almost nothing about ourselves; absolutely nothing about our neighbors. Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind; self- deception our felicity. ¬;It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. ¬;It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ¬;Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ¬;Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ¬;The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ¬;To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. ¬;When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince – 1613-1680:French, pol, soldier, writer esp maxims & autobio ¬;Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ¬;Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment ¬;Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind ¬;Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. ¬;Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. ¬;Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ¬;He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ¬;Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are travelling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. ¬;How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves? ¬;If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ¬;It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself ¬;It is easier to know men than to know a man ¬;It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ¬;Jealousy lives upon suspicion; and it turns into a fury or ends as soon as it passes from suspicion to certainty ¬;Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding ¬;Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range. ¬;Most people judge men only by their fashion or their fortune ¬;No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ¬;Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ¬;Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his

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action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation. ¬;One must listen if one wishes to be listened to ¬;Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. ¬;Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ¬;Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side ¬;Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others ¬;Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them. ¬;The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. ¬;The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. ¬;The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. ¬;The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. ¬;The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without ¬;The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ¬;There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong ¬;There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully ¬;To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated. ¬;To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. ¬;We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ¬;We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. ¬;We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ¬;We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ¬;We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. ¬;We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity. ¬;We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ¬;We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears ¬;We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. ¬;We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves ¬;We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives. ¬;What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste ¬;What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. ¬;When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ¬;Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon – 1651-1715:French, RomanCatholic theo, Abbot, poet, tutor ¬;It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire – 1694-1778:French, novel, essay play, poet, wit, phil, civil liberty act ¬;Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. ¬;As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions. ¬;But that a camel-merchant should stir up insurrection in his village; that in league with some miserable followers he persuades them that he talks with the angel Gabriel; that he boasts of having been carried to heaven, where he received in part this unintelligible book, each page of which makes common sense shudder; that, to pay homage to this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him. ¬;Common sense is not so common. ¬;Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. ¬;Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ¬;Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ¬;Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. ¬;Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such

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people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world. ¬;God created sex. Priests created marriage. ¬;History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. ¬;I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. ¬;If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ¬;If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor. ¬;In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ¬;It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge ¬;It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ¬;It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ¬;It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ¬;It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ¬;Love truth, and pardon error. ¬;Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ¬;May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their disciples? ¬;Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ¬;Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ¬;Prejudice is opinion without judgement. ¬;Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. ¬;So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. ¬;Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. ¬;The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in. ¬;The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ¬;The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ¬;There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. ¬;There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. ¬;Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. ¬;To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ¬;Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ¬;We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one. ¬;We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know.

François-René, Vicomte deChateaubriand–1768-1848:French, novel esp Romantic, pol, dip, MinOfForAff ¬;Aristocracy has three successive ages, — the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. ¬;In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. ¬;You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Frank Hall Crane – 1873-1948:American, stage & film actor, screen inc Stolen Voice, dir inc Miss Crusoe ¬;Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have.

It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. ¬;You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Lincoln Wright aka Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867-1959:American, architect esp Prairie, Interior Des ¬;A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. ¬;An expert is a man who has stopped thinking—he knows!

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Individuality is sacred. ¬;The truth is more important than the facts FrankMcKinney'Kin'Hubbard–1868-1930:American, journ, wit, cartoonist espAbeMartin-BrownCounty ¬;A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ¬;Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. ¬;Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ¬;Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. ¬;Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. ¬;Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people ¬;If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ¬;It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ¬;It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ¬;It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it ¬;It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. ¬;Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ¬;Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. ¬;Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. ¬;Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. ¬;The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ¬;The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ¬;The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ¬;There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? ¬;Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. ¬;We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate. ¬;When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

Frank Scully–1892-1964:American, journ, col esp VarietyMag, writer inc flying saucers incArmourBright ¬;Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Frank Tibolt – 1897-1989:American, co manager, writer esp motivational inc TouchOfGreatness, trainer ¬;We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Vincent Zappa – 1940-1993:American, musician esp elec guitar, composer, prod, dir, won Grammy ¬;Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. ¬;Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. ¬;Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. ¬;I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army. ¬;I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government. ¬;If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library. ¬;In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ¬;My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. ¬;Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ¬;The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work. ¬;The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ¬;There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. ¬;Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 1882-1945:American, lawyer, Dem pol, New York Sen, NY Gov, 32nd US Pres ¬;A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted – in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest of his head. ¬;Be sincere; be brief; be seated. ¬;Do we really have to assume that nations can find no better methods of realising their destinies than those which were used by the Huns and Vandals fifteen hundred years ago. ¬;Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.

Such things did not need as much emphasis a generation ago, but when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers; by disbursing universities, and by censoring news and literature and art; an added burden, an added burden is placed on those countries where the courts of free thought and free learning still burn bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation. ¬;Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. ¬;Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ¬;I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. ¬;I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ¬;If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. ¬;In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. ¬;In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want – everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear – everywhere in the world. ¬;In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ¬;It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property... The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor — these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age — other people's money — these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in. Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities. Throughout the nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness...These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike. ¬;Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance ¬;Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. ¬;Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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¬;More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. ¬;No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country ¬;Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. ¬;The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ¬;The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power. The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. ¬;The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. ¬;The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. ¬;The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States — only on a far bigger and broader basis. ¬;The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little ¬;The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ¬;There are as many opinions as there are experts. ¬;There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ¬;Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. ¬;True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. ¬;We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. ¬;We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the over privileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged. Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness. No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive; because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a decent livelihood for ourselves and for our families. We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well. In building toward this end we do not destroy ambition, nor do we seek to divide our wealth into equal shares on stated occasions. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper security, a reasonable leisure, and a decent living throughout life, is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ¬;We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. ¬;We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war. ¬;We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ¬;When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin 'Frank' Patrick Herbert – 1920-1986:American, journ, short-story writer, novel esp SF inc Dune ¬;A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ¬;All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. ¬;Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. ¬;Bureaucracy destroys initiative. ¬;Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ¬;Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

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Destroy the place and destroy the person. ¬;I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ¬;It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. ¬;Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. ¬;The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ¬;The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ¬;Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Franklin 'Frank' Tyger – 194?- :American, journ esp NJ Trenton Times, political cartoonist, columnist ¬;A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road ¬;Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. ¬;Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried ¬;Fear fades when facts are faced ¬;If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift ¬;If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. ¬;If you want happiness, provide it to others ¬;Keeping your fears to yourself is a form of courage ¬;Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly ¬;Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ¬;On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror ¬;Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble ¬;Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them ¬;Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening ¬;The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself. ¬;The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything ¬;The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't. ¬;There is no evidence that the tongue is connected to the brain ¬;There's more to be feared from closed minds than from closed doors ¬;To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. ¬;When you like your work every day is a holiday ¬;Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. ¬;You can't be envious and happy at the same time Franklin Leopold Adams aka F Pierce Adams – 1881-1960:American, journalist, col, radio panellist, trans ¬;An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ¬;Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. ¬;I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ¬;Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. ¬;To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P Jones – 1908-1980:American, journ esp Philadelphia Record, PR agency director, columnist ¬;A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. ¬;All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. ¬;Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business. ¬;Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next ¬;Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ¬;Forgive your enemies--if you can't get back at them any other way. ¬;Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ¬;It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ¬;Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ¬;Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. ¬;Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ¬;Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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¬;Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ¬;The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis ¬;The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one ¬;The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. ¬;The only problem with having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest. ¬;The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ¬;The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. ¬;What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ¬;You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance Franz Kafka – 1883-1924:Austro-Hungarian Czech, insurance mgr, novel & short-story inc The Trial ¬;A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. ¬;Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. ¬;Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ¬;Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ¬;There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. ¬;You are free, and that is why you are lost. ¬;Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Freddie 'Fred' Dalton Thompson – 1942- :American, actor, lawyer, lobbyist, Rep pol, Tennessee US Sen ¬;After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. ¬;Some of our folks went to Washington to drain the swamp and made partnership with the alligators instead. ¬;Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time. ¬;Where I stand doesn't depend on where I'm standing.

Frederic Harrison – 1831-1923:English, historian, lawyer, writer, lit critic, Jurisprudence & Int Law Prof ¬;Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.

Frederic Ogden Nash – 1902-1971:American, poet esp humorous verse, lyricist, writer, lecturer ¬;Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. ¬;I often wonder which is mine: tolerance, or a rubber spine? ¬;People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. ¬;People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

FrederickAugustusWashingtonBailey aka FrederickDouglass–1818-1895:American, slave, writer, abol act ¬;I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people. ¬;I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ¬;I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong ¬;If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others. ¬;In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the

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core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! ... And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... your interference is doing him positive injury. ¬;No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ¬;We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ¬;What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. ¬;Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ¬;You profess to believe "that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth," and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; yet you notoriously hate, (and glory in your hatred), all men whose skins are not colored like your own. You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you "hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas Jefferson, "is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose," a seventh part of the inhabitants of your country.

Frederick Grant Banting – 1891-1941:Canadian, physician, medical sci, disc insulin, won Nobel Medicine ¬;No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

FrederickHohenzollern II of Prussia akaFrederickTheGreat–1712-1786:Prussian German, King&Elector ¬;All Religions are equal and good, if only the people that practice them are honest people; and if Turks and heathens came and wanted to live here in this country, we would build them mosques and churches. ¬;I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people ¬;If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. ¬;The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick Langbridge–1849-1923:English, Anglican clergyman, poet inc ClusterOfQuietThoughts, writer ¬;Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

Frederick Lewis Collins – 1882-1950:American, col, publisher inc McClurePublications, novelist, writer ¬;There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

Frederick Locker aka Frederick Locker-Lampson – 1821-1895:English, civil servant, poet, book collector ¬;The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful Frederick Mann – 195?- :American, marketer, writer incEconomicRapeAmerica, found FreeWorldOrder ¬;Government is a Mafia-like protection racket. The so-called "state" has its origin in a gang of looters.... When the politicians and bureaucrats want your money they don't immediately point their guns at you. They send you words by paper or phone. In general, they only come after you with guns if you repeatedly don't give them money. ¬;Much of "modern" human culture is based on deception. Some preachers use deception to obtain tithes from their prey - in return for promises of "paradise". Most politicians use deception to obtain "taxes" from their prey - in return for promises of "welfare", etc. These modern predators live by consuming the values produced by his or their victims, giving little more than promises in return. ¬;The last resort of the monsters who masquerade as "government" is terror and violence. They have to threaten, terrorize, punish and kill to retain their coercive power. That's why it's appropriate to call them "territorial gangsters" or "territorial criminals".

Frederick Phillips Brooks – 1931- :American, software engineer inc dev OS/360, comp researcher, writer ¬;Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ¬;How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

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FrederickWilliamRobertson akaRobertsonOfBrighton–1816-1853:English, Anglicanpriest, theo, preacher ¬;The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Friedrich Engels – 1820-1895:Prussian German, social sci, pol theorist, phil, writer inc Comn Manifesto ¬;Terror is for the most part useless cruelties committed by frightened people to reassure themselves. ¬;The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich 'Fritz' Salomon Perls – 1893-1970:German born American, psych, psychotherapist esp Gestalt ¬;I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller – 1892-1984:German, theo, Lutheran pastor, poet, anti-war act ¬;First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt – 1769-1859:German, explorer, naturalist ¬;I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche–1844-1900:Prussian born German, classic philologist, phil esp existentialism ¬;A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything ¬;A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. ¬;Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one, and if you gaze for long into an abyss the abyss gazes also into you. ¬;But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! ¬;Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession… ¬;Faith: not 'wanting' to know what is true. ¬;I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ¬;Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ¬;I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely in order to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. ¬;In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad ¬;In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow. ¬;Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ¬;Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. ¬;Maturity means reacquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play. ¬;Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ¬;Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation. ¬;No one is such a liar as the indignant man. ¬;Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. ¬;One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. ¬;Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ¬;The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ¬;The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ¬;The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ¬;The 'Law', the 'Will of God', the 'Sacred Book', 'Inspiration' are all merely words for the conditions under which the priest comes to power and by which he maintains his power. ¬;The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ¬;The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ¬;The state lies in all languages; whatever it says, it lies - and whatever it has, it has stolen. ¬;The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ¬;The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. ¬;There are no facts, only interpretations. ¬;To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

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¬;We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. ¬;We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things — metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. ¬;We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance ¬;What doesn't kill us makes us stronger ¬;What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Fritz Kunkel – 1889-1956:German born American, psychotherapist, psych esp We-psychology, physician ¬;To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky – 1821-1881:Russian, essayist, philosopher, novelist esp existentialism ¬;A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying-to others and to yourself. ¬;I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. ¬;I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. ¬;Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. ¬;It wasn't the New World that mattered ... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. ¬;Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ¬;Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. ¬;Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. ¬;Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. ¬;People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel ¬;The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful. ¬;The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. ¬;The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ¬;When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

G Gadadhar Chattopadhyay aka Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri – 1836-1886:Indian, Hindu priest, mystic ¬;As long as I live, so long do I learn. ¬;Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. ¬;Do yourself what you wish others to do. ¬;God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. ¬;I had to practise each religion for a time — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. Furthermore, I followed the paths of the Śāktas, Vaishnavas, and Vedāntists. I realized that there is only one God toward whom all are travelling; but the paths are different. ¬;If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. ¬;One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides. ¬;One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear. ¬;One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by

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means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions. ¬;The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion. ¬;Truth is one; only It is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth; the variance is due to climate, temperament, and name. A lake has many ghats. From one ghat the Hindus take water in jars and call it 'jal'. From another ghat the Mussalmāns take water in leather bags and call it 'pāni'. From a third the Christians take the same thing and call it 'water'. Suppose someone says that the thing is not 'jal' but 'pāni', or that it is not 'pāni' but 'water', or that it is not 'water' but 'jal', It would indeed be ridiculous. But this very thing is at the root of the friction among sects, their misunderstandings and quarrels. This is why people injure and kill one another, and shed blood, in the name of religion. But this is not good. Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. ¬;You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion. God has made different religions and creeds to suit different aspirants. By no means all are fit for the Knowledge of Brahman.

Therefore the worship of God with form has been provided. The mother brings home a fish for her children. She curries part of the fish, part she fries, and with another part she makes pilau. By no means all can digest the pilau. So she makes fish soup for those who have weak stomachs. Further, some want pickled or fried fish.

There are different temperaments. There are differences in the capacity to comprehend.

Gail Sheehy – 1937- :American, lecturer, col inc Vanity Fair, writer esp bio & Life Cycle inc Passages ¬;Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ¬;Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Gaius Julius Caesar–100-44 BC:Roman, army officer, Gen, writer, pol, Consul, Roman Dictator Perpetuo ¬;All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures. ¬;Men willingly believe what they wish. ¬;We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter – 27-66:Roman, novel inc possibly Satyricon, RomanConsul, Senator, fashionista ¬;One good turn deserves another. ¬;The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived. ¬;What power has law where only money rules.

Gaius PliniusCaecilius Secundus akaPliny-Younger–61-c.112:Roman, lawyer, magistrate, pol, Gov, writer ¬;An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ¬;However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. ¬;Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye...We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

Gaius Plinius Secundus aka Pliny-Elder – 23-79:Roman, naturalist, natural phil, writer, navy&army Gen ¬;Fortune favours the brave ¬;From the end spring new beginnings. ¬;Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? ¬;No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. ¬;The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. ¬;This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. ¬;To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flock and gather together, and ready to make head and stand against all others of a contrary kind: the lions as fell and savage as they be, fight not with one another: serpents sting not serpents, nor bite one another with their venomous teeth: nay the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief. ¬;With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus aka Sallust – 86-34 BC:Roman, hist esp Historiae, Praetor, Sen, AfricaNova Gov ¬;Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. ¬;He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. ¬;It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. ¬;Necessity makes even the timid brave. ¬;Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. ¬;The higher your station, the less your liberty.

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¬;The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Galileo Galilei – 1564-1642:Florentine Italian, physicist, math, astronomer, phil, aka Father of Science ¬;All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ¬;And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ¬;I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ¬;I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. ¬;Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. ¬;We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Gary Edward 'Garrison' Keillor – 1942- :American, writer, humorist, col, musician, satirist, radio broadc ¬;It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle. ¬;Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ¬;They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Gary Zukav–193?- :American, soldier, writer inc SeatOfSoul, motivational speaker, found GenesisFound ¬;Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gene R. La Rocque – 1918- :American, naval officer, Rear Admiral, found CenterForDefenseInfo, broadc ¬;I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them. ¬;War has become a spectator sport for Americans.

Gene Zimmer – 196?- :American, ChurchOfScientology executive, trainer, writer inc RealityBelief&Mind ¬;A capable government, with decency, understanding and an ability to communicate honesty (which doesn't exist anywhere on Earth now), would discuss problems with its neighbors, with a desire to isolate true sources of their conflicts. Then they would address the actual sources and resolve the true underlying causes of their conflicts. Obviously, this is an oversimplification, but the point is that attacking of the negative or suppressing the undesirable is the common modern (and historical) approach to handling international, national, social and individual problems. The aim is almost never to create a desirable condition, but to eradicate an unwanted one.

It is assumed that removing the negative somehow brings about the positive. But this isn't so. The positive must be created. This one-sided approach of attacking the negative has its flaws, and a general unworkability.

Destroying and creating are two entirely different things, in theory, in practice, and in results achieved.

Removing immorality doesn't result in morality. Suppressing crime doesn't create a safe society. Removing illness does not necessarily bring about health. Penalizing lack of responsibility doesn't bring about responsibility. All good things must be created as a positive, and not only attacked as a negative. ¬;As an historical example, take the Spanish Inquisition. The Priests and Church wanted "holiness" and "Godliness" to reign throughout the land. Instead of creating it through communication and understanding, they instead concentrated upon the deviations from "holiness", and attacked heresy through extensive arrests, tribunals, court trials, torture and even public murder (burning at the stake, etc.). Of course, it's quite impossible to educate sane and observant people into a crazy belief system, and the only available avenue is oppression and force. There are many similar examples throughout history. Nazi Germany, following popular genetic theories, attempted to perfect Man and bring about the "Ubermensch" (Nietzche's "superman") by sterilizing people with low IQs, and eradicating "poor human stock". Again, they didn't try to locate the positive of what makes Man great, and build upon it, but instead tried to destroy what they imagined inhibited man's greatness. They basically assumed that if all the bad human traits were removed, then only the good traits would be left. What they completely missed is that the good always must be actively created. They basically had a noble idea with a brutally evil means toward reaching their conceived end. ¬;Drug advertisements make up the majority of the advertising in all "official" medical journals. The doctors take courses about what drugs to give for what diseases. The drug companies have worked closely with major medical schools for decades to establish the drug approach to modern western medicine. So, the doctor, whether caring, intelligent, honest or not, is basically "educated" (indoctrinated) within a very limited approach to the subject of health. Alternative subjects, such as chiropractic, homoeopathy, acupuncture, and osteopathy, which have been around much longer than modern drug medicine, are routinely ignored and ridiculed by many doctors, even though most of them know next to nothing about these subjects. It is even popular to ridicule these subjects. I am sure many of them make wise cracks about these subjects at their conventions and social

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functions. Condescension by people who think they know better, when they actually don't, is a common albeit somewhat pitiful practice. ¬;Governments largely do not concern themselves with creating or building an honest, productive workable society, but instead they concern themselves with attacking crime, handling dissidents, catching tax evaders, or inhibiting disorder. This is their usual solution to bringing about peace and order (both dumb goals in themselves but typical for the modern social planners). It generally involves stopping bad things from occurring instead of encouraging good things to exist. This mindset falsely imagines that if one were to take away all the bad, then good would naturally be left. This isn't the way it is and it never will be that way. The only good and decent things that exist anywhere exist only because somebody at some time actively created these things. ¬;Modern behavior modification techniques exhibit this. The theories and methods aim primarily to spot, name and eradicate unwanted behaviors. Again, any actual sources to the undesirable behavior are largely ignored or invented, and the symptoms (behaviors) are addressed with an aim to get rid of them. Ritalin is given to suppress the hyperactive child's unwanted behaviors, instead of attempting to locate underlying physical or emotional sources that, if corrected, could often handle the unwanted behaviors by allowing the natural health and natural desirable behaviors to surface. Factually, many hyperactive symptoms have disappeared in children when their diet or environment has been altered, thereby removing sugar, allergens or chemical toxins. But to the psychologists, psychiatrists and teachers (who have been educated into these crazy psychiatric notions), it's all "brain illnesses". The drugs act further to harm the child's mind and body. Most psychiatrists dismiss nutritional approaches as "unscientific" and "absurd". This is true stupidity and extreme one-sidedness parading itself as "educated", "intelligent" and "professional". While they may be "educated", they are, in fact total idiots.

They are truly stupid people. Allowing them to exist as "professionals" is a burden we all must bear, because the only true thing they excel at is harming people, their minds and society. Their "intelligence" is a complete farce.

That many of us have been suckered into accepting their ideas, and also hold the same beliefs and attitudes makes this no less true. ¬;Modern medicine is not the result of a hundred years of objective, unbiased research representing Man's honest and legitimate desire to discover "truth" and to "help" solve human suffering. Modern medicine is the result of certain huge financial interests that first, aligned themselves with the subject of western medicine, second, refused to support, actively inhibited and even destroyed alternative medical approaches (due to no profit potential and the threat of real competition), and third, completely oversaw, managed and directed the evolution of modern western medicine in theory and practice. Many people find this difficult to believe, and even completely ridiculous. This shows, not that what I state here is wrong, but that the majority of the public are completely "sold" on the idea of modern medicine as being valid, professional, scientific and all-inclusive.

These people are "modern believers". We all suffer from this to some extent, and none are immune. ¬;Modern western medicine...is almost completely drug oriented. The drug companies are the largest supporters of the major medical schools - through their extensive grants and yearly donations. The main direction of western medicine is drug oriented, not because there is anything inherently superior to it, but because a huge amount of money pours into it and supports it year after year. No drug company will finance studies and research that fail to strongly encourage drug "solutions", or that encourage alternative solutions to health problems that they do not profit by. Individual people, groups, and especially commercial business ventures do not pay money to support their competition or adversaries. Imagine if two new board games hit the market (like Monopoly or Clue), and one group spent nothing on advertising while the second group spent millions over a ten year period on promoting its product. Which group would have the more successful, played, and profitable game? Obviously, the game that had the huge amount of money spent to promote it. Which game might actually be "better" would be meaningless, because the money invested in advertising primarily determines which game achieves greater popularity. This is exactly the situation with modern medicine, and many other things. Using various medical journals, media outlets, and the FDA, the modern medical establishment actively attacks, derides and even attempts to eradicate alternative methods (especially if these alternative methods ARE effective and would pose a real competitive threat). Medicine is big business, the only goal is profits, and to hell with whether it works or not. It's primarily a matter of balance sheets for their respective accounting departments. ¬;Mommy yells at little Billy for touching things in the store, yet fails to sensibly communicate to him why he should not touch things that are not his own. The husband yells at and beats his wife when caught cheating with a neighbor instead of discussing the problems they each have, how to handle these, and both working towards and becoming people capable of creating a worthwhile relationship and family. ¬;One major problem in the world today, and this applies especially to "educated" people, is that they are not really very smart. Actually "smart" is not the right word. What I am trying to say is that they are not very perceptive and suffer from a marked inability to look and see things as they actually are. The reason for this is that they are the most familiar with the ideas and notions of the times, having been thoroughly "educated" into these notions and ideas. This "education" generally acts to create a set of cultural or "professional" blinders which prevents the "educated" person from viewing or understanding anything outside of the current

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"professional" framework which they have been indoctrinated into. It's not that they lack and need more knowledge, but that the knowledge which they do have, in itself, acts to prevent them from being able to view and understand anything outside their often limited framework of beliefs and attitudes - a framework which they assume to be be all-inclusive and often quite perfect. The rest of the culture goes along with everything they promote as "facts" and "truth" because these viewpoints and attitudes tend to be everywhere - newspapers, magazines, TV, schools and colleges. ¬;The point is that modern medicine, as it is officially accepted and practiced today, is far from a complete and valid system of health, in theory and in practice. Doctors are promoted and treated as "professionals", "authorities" and "scientific experts". This is largely a false picture, but has been thoroughly accepted by the majority of the public as being true. Medical doctors enjoy large salaries because they are the primary sales arm for the extremely profitable drug companies. Make no mistake about it, without the drug companies the medical doctors would not enjoy anywhere near the financial benefits they currently do. This situation of very incomplete and limited approaches also exists in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, and education. There are reasons why many modern fields of study are often incomplete, biased, limited, harmful or unworkable (meaning not getting useful effective results), even while the members are viewed at the same time as "professionals" and "authorities"...it has mainly to do with profit, power, and elitism (the condition where a certain select few think they know what is best for everyone else due to their selfassumed superior intelligence and ability). ¬;Their entire approach isn't to "create health", but to "destroy disease". There is a large philosophical difference involved here. This philosophical gulf results in drastic practical differences in applications. For example, osteopathy views "health" as something to create through proper diet, nutrition, exercise, and living. It attempts to locate the underlying causes which manifest as the "disease" (physical symptoms). Osteopathy might encourage a patient to locate and remove pesticides, food additives, and other chemical poisons from the body's environment and intake, but this is done from a viewpoint of "handling" negative causes and not simply "attacking" negative symptoms. It's a major difference in approach and effect. ¬;This is a common practice today, where one group attacks another by calling them various things that are known to have unique associated connotations by the majority of the public. "Oh, he's a socialist", "they're atheists", "it's just a cult", and "she's a right-wing extremist" are all examples of where reason, proof and sane arguments are discarded in favor of simple name-calling with the hope that the listener blindly accepts the overgeneralized label along with all its unspoken negative connotations. These planned attacks aim at a preconscious and emotional appeal level. The goal is never to honestly appeal to reason or to discover truth, but to change attitudes and opinions in one's favor. ¬;With governments there is also another problem. They often do not want anyone knowing what their true motives are and so are incapable of entering into honest discussions about actual causes. The US government talks endlessly about "spreading democracy", when in fact, the only thing spreading are the major corporations which control the US government. It is impossible for them to enter into honest discussions, because they promote the notion of "democracy" as a cover for their true underlying motives. These true motives are the consolidation and expansion of control by the top major financial powers on the planet.

Geoffrey Chaucer – 1343-1400:English, poet, phil, bureaucrat, courtier, dip, writer inc CanterburyTales ¬;There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson aka Anthony Glyn, 2ndBaronet – 1922-1998:British, ent, novelist, writer ¬;The French are perhaps the only nation to identify sex with l'amour, to see it as an act of love. To the Italians it is more of an art, and in this they are following the traditions of their Roman ancestors. To the Germans and Austrians it is an act of aggression and domination, as Freud discovered in his rather specialized studies. To the Americans sex is a physical need or perhaps a status symbol or even a science (one thinks of college girls working out their orgasm averages). To the Moslem it is pride of possession; his women are beautiful chattel, like his carpets or his furniture. To the modern international man, sex is a form of scalp hunting or collector's instinct; playboys collect movie stars as well as Monets, and there is no reason to think that the Don Juan myth is peculiarly Spanish. But the British see sex as none of these things. They see it, of course and typically, as a sport.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg–1742-1799:Hessen German, sci esp physics, Physics Prof, aphorist, satirist ¬;A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ¬;Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ¬;Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ¬;First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. ¬;I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. ¬;Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

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¬;Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ¬;The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. ¬;The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. ¬;There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. ¬;To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. ¬;When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? ¬;With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Henrik Tikkanen–1924-1984:Finnish, journ, col, artist, cartoonist, writer, novel, newspaper art dir ¬;Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ¬;Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw – 1856-1950:Irish, lit critic, journ, play, pol activist, won Oscar & Nobel Literature ¬;A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ¬;A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ¬;A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ¬;A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ¬;A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ¬;An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ¬;Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. ¬;All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. ¬;All great truths begin as blasphemies. ¬;Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. ¬;Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. ¬;Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. ¬;Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ¬;Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ¬;Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance ¬;Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. ¬;Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ¬;Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ¬;Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ¬;England and America are two countries separated by a common language. ¬;Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ¬;Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. ¬;Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. ¬;He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ¬;Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ¬;History, sir, will tell lies, as usual. ¬;I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ¬;I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. ¬;If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ¬;If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. ¬;If parents would only realize how they bore their children. ¬;If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot because they have never seen one anywhere else ¬;If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ¬;If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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¬;It is my considered opinion, unshaken at 85, that records of fact are not history. They are only annals, which cannot become historical until the artist-poet-philosopher rescues them from the unintelligible chaos of their actual occurrence and arranges them in works of art. ¬;It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. ¬;Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ¬;Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ¬;Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ¬;Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. ¬;Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. ¬;Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party. ¬;Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ¬;My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. ¬;Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. ¬;No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. ¬;One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. ¬;Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ¬;Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ¬;Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ¬;People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ¬;Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ¬;Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. ¬;Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. ¬;The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ¬;The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ¬;The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ¬;The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. ¬;The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ¬;The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ¬;The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ¬;The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. ¬;The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ¬;There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject. ¬;There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ¬;This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ¬;To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. ¬;Virtue is insufficient temptation. ¬;We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ¬;We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. ¬;What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ¬;When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. ¬;When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ¬;Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! ¬;While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

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¬;You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ¬;You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ¬;Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George CatlettMarshall–1880-1959:American, army officer, Gen, Sec of Defence&State, won Nobel Peace ¬;I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ¬;If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known ¬;The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it ¬;We have walked blindly, ignoring the lessons of the past, with, in our century, the tragic consequences of two world wars and the Korean struggle as a result. ¬;When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

George Cholmondeley, 2ndEarl Newborough – 1666-1733:English, army officer, Gen, pol, Privy Councillor ¬;Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

George David Aiken – 1892-1984:American, Rep pol, Vermont Gov, Vermont US Sen, anti monopoly act ¬;If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. ¬;People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way. ¬;True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

George DenisPatrickCarlin–1937-2008:American, comedian esp standup, actor, writer, soc act, 5Grammy ¬;After every horror, we're told, "Now the healing can begin." No. There is no healing. just a short pause before the next horror. ¬;Another thing I'm getting tired of is when after six policemen stick a floor lamp up some black guy's ass, the police department announces they're going to have "sensitivity training". If you need special training to be told not to jam a large, cumbersome object up someone else's asshole, maybe you're too fucked up to be on the police force in the first place. ¬;But you know, the longer you listen to this abortion debate, the more you hear this phrase "sanctity of life."

You've heard that, "sanctity of life." You believe in it? Personally, I think it's a bunch of shit. Well, I mean, life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death— has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians, all taking turns killing each other because God told them it was a good idea. The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question: "Do you believe in God?" "No." Boom! Dead. "Do you believe in God?" "Yes..." "Do you believe in my God?" "No." Boom! Dead. "My god has a bigger dick than your god!" ¬;Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you ¬;Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. ¬;Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass". ¬;Have you ever noticed, in traffic, anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac! ¬;Here's another one of these civic customs: swearing on the Bible. Do you understand that shit? They tell you to raise your right hand, place your left hand on the Bible. Does this stuff really matter? Which hand? Does God really give a fuck about details like this? Suppose you put right hand on the Bible, you raise your left hand.

Would that count? Or would God say: "Sorry, wrong hand! Try again!" Why does one hand have to be raised?

What is the magic in this gesture? This seems like some sort of a primitive voodoo mojo stick. Why not put your left hand on the Bible, let your right hand hang down by your side? That's more natural. Or put it in your pocket.

That's what your mother used to say. "Don't put your hands in your pockets!" Does she know something we don't know? Is this hand shit really important? Let's get back to the Bible: America's favorite national theatrical prop. Suppose the Bible they hand you to swear on is upside-down. Or backward. Or both! And you swear to tell the truth on an upside-down backward Bible. Would that count? Suppose the Bible they hand you is an old Bible and half the pages are missing. Suppose all they have is a Chinese Bible, in an American court! Or Braille Bible, and you're not blind! Suppose they hand you an upside-down backward Chinese Braille Bible and half the pages missing! At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that somebody made up? They fucking made it up, folks! It's make-believe! ¬;Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. brief pause See, nobody can do it! You know why?

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'Cause chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hanging around in drug gangs, do you? No. You don't see a chicken strapping some guy into a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you? pause When's the last chicken you heard about came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen, huh? Doesn't happen... 'cause chickens are decent people. ¬;Here's some bumper stickers I'd like to see: * We are the proud parents of a child whose self esteem is sufficient that he doesn't need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car. * We are the proud parents of a child who has resisted his teachers' attempts to break his spirit and bend him to the will of his corporate masters. * We have a daughter in public school who hasn't been knocked up yet. * We have a son in public school who hasn't shot any of his classmates yet. But he does sell drugs to your honor student. Plus he knocked up your daughter. ¬;I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it. ¬;I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever.

None. ¬;I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. ¬;I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took the group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan Administration. ¬;I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. ¬;I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?

You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? I can't follow the logic on that one at all! Of all the things you can do, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world.

In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people! In civilian life you go to jail for giving someone an orgasm! ¬;I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. ¬;I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ¬;If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ¬;If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten ¬;Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ¬;It's a great country, but it's a strange culture. ... This has got to be the only country in the world that could ever come up with a disease like bulimia; gotta be the only country in the world where some people have no food at all, and other people eat a nourishing meal and puke it up intentionally. This is a country where tobacco kills four hundred thousand people a year, so they ban artificial sweeteners! Because a rat died! You know what I mean? This is a place where gun store owners are given a list of stolen credit cards, but not a list of criminals and maniacs! And now, they're thinking about banning toy guns - and they're gonna keep the fucking real ones! ¬;It's a shame everything has to have a label. ¬;Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? [audience yells "No"] Doesn't matter, I drink it anyway. You know why? 'Cause I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. ¬;Millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the god question: "Do you believe in God?" "No." Boom! Dead. "Do you believe in God?" "Yes..." "Do you believe in my God?" "No." Boom!

Dead. ¬;Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. ¬;One thing leads to another ¬;Only a nation of unenlightened half-wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today — a shopping mall. ¬;Religion is just mind control. ¬;Remember, inside every silver lining there's a dark cloud. ¬;Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother."

He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old. ¬;So I say live and let live. That's my motto. Live and let live. Anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It's a simple philosophy, but it's always worked in our family. ¬;Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. ¬;Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big

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¬;Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government does not give a fuck about them!

The government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety. It simply does not give a fuck about you! It's interested in its own power. That's the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible. ¬;The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!" These people were given everything, everything was handed to them, and they took it all, sold it all; sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and they stayed loaded for twenty years and had a free ride. But now they're staring down the barrel of middle-age burnout, and they don't like it. They don't like it, so they've become selfrighteous, and they wanna make things hard for young people. They tell em abstain from sex, say no to drugs.

As for rock 'n' roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago so they can buy pasta machines and StairMasters and soybean futures. You know something? They're cold, bloodless people. It's in their slogans, it's in their rhetoric: "No pain, no gain," "Just do it," "Life is short, play hard," "Shit happens, deal with it," "Get a life." These people went from "Do your own thing" to "Just say no!" They went from "Love is all you need" to "Whoever winds up with the most toys, wins", and they went from cocaine to Rogaine. ¬;The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. ¬;The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. ¬;There are 200 countries in the world now. Do these people honestly think that God is sitting around picking out his favorites? Why would he do that? Why would God have a favorite country? And why would it be America out of all the countries? Because you have the most money? Because he likes our National Anthem?

Maybe it's because he heard we have 18 delicious flavors of Classic Rice-A-Roni! It's delusional thinking! And America is not alone with this sort of delusions. Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed. Somebody's wasting their fucking time. Could it be everyone? ¬;There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls.

They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.

They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all! At all!

And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. ¬;They (the Reagan Administration) want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street. ¬;'Things have to get better, they can't get any worse'. This is an example of truly faulty logic. Just because

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things can't get any worse, is no reason to believe they have to get better. They might just stay the same. And, by the way, who says things can't get any worse? For many people, things get worse and worse and worse. ¬;You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. ¬;When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts … Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. ¬;When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. ¬;Where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. Let's face it, we have very little to work with. Garbage in, garbage out. Ignorant citizens elect ignorant leaders, it's as simple as that. And term limits don't help. All you do is get a new bunch of ignorant leaders. So maybe it's not the politicians who suck; maybe it's something else. Like the public. That would be a nice realistic campaign slogan for somebody: "The public sucks. Elect me." Put the blame where it belongs: on the people. Because if everything is really the fault of politicians, where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans who are ready to step in and replace them? Where are these people hiding?

The truth is, we don't have people like that. Everyone's at the mall, scratching his balls and buying sneakers with lights in them. And complaining about the politicians. ¬;Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the foetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you.

They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.

Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach 'military age'. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Prolife... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a foetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them.

They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. Prolife... You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black foetuses transplanted into their uteruses, do you? No, you don't see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you?

No, that might be something Christ would do.

George Dennison Prentice – 1802-1870:American, lawyer, journ, found LouisvilleJournal, pro-bigotry act ¬;What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

George Edward Moore – 1873-1958:English, phil esp analytical phil, Prof of Mental Philosophy & Logic ¬;A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ¬;A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us. ¬;Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light. ¬;It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. ¬;It may be thought that my contention is unimportant, but that is no ground for thinking that I am not in the right. What I am concerned with is knowledge only - that we should think correctly and so far arrive at some truth, however unimportant: I do not say that such knowledge will make us more useful members of society. If any one does not care for knowledge for its own sake, then I have nothing to say to him; only it should not be though that a lack of interest in what I have to say is any ground for holding it untrue ¬;Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? ¬;The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. ¬;The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. ¬;Theology is the finding of bad reasons for things we are going to believe anyway. ¬;There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

George Frederick Will – 1941- :American, journ, col, editor, writer, ABC news analyst, won Pulitzer Prize ¬;Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings ¬;The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ¬;This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. ¬;We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is

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necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

George Frost Kennan–1904-2005:American, hist, dip, pol sci, US Govn advisor, aka father of containment ¬;A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end. This is true enough, and, if nations could afford to operate in the moral climate of individual ethics, it would be understandable and acceptable. But I sometimes wonder whether in this respect a democracy is not uncomfortably similar to one of those prehistoric monsters with a body as long as this room and a brain the size of a pin: he lies there in his comfortable primeval mud and pays little attention to his environment; he is slow to wrath — in fact, you practically have to whack his tail off to make him aware that his interests are being disturbed; but, once he grasps this, he lays about him with such blind determination that he not only destroys his adversary but largely wrecks his native habitat. You wonder whether it would not have been wiser for him to have taken a little more interest in what was going on at an earlier date and to have seen whether he could have prevented some of these situations from arising instead of proceeding from an undiscriminating indifference to a holy wrath equally undiscriminating. ¬;Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. ¬;For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of error. You have no right to hold in your hands — there is no one wise enough and strong enough to hold in his hands — destructive power sufficient to put an end to civilized life on a great portion of our planet. ¬;Here, for the first time, I felt an unshakable conviction that no momentary military advantage — even if such could have been calculated to exist — could have justified this stupendous, careless destruction of civilian life and of material values, built up laboriously by human hands over the course of centuries for purposes having nothing to do with war. Least of all could it have been justified by the screaming non sequitur: "They did it to us." And it suddenly appeared to me that in these ruins there was an unanswerable symbolism which we in the West could not afford to ignore. If the Western world was really going to make a pretense of a higher moral departure point — of greater sympathy and understanding for the human being as God made him, as expressed not only in himself but in the things he had wrought and cared about — then it had to learn to fight its wars morally as well as militarily, or not fight them at all; for moral principles were a part of its strength. Shorn of this strength, it was no longer itself; its victories were not real victories; and the best it would accomplish in the long run would be to pull down the temple over its own head. The military would stamp this as naïve; they would say that war is war, that when you're in it you fight with every means you have, or go down in defeat. But if that is the case, then there rests upon Western civilization, bitter as this may be, the obligation to be militarily stronger than its adversaries by a margin sufficient to enable it to dispense with those means which can stave off defeat only at the cost of undermining victory. ¬;Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise. The child, particularly one who reads a book dealing with real life, has nothing before it but the hieroglyphics of the printed page.

Imagination must do the rest; and imagination is called upon to do it. Not so the television screen. Here everything is spelled out for the viewer, visually, in motion, and in all three dimensions. No effort of imagination is called upon for its enjoyment. ¬;The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. ¬;The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ¬;There are certain sad appreciations we have to come to about human nature on the basis of these recent wars.

One of them is that suffering does not always make men better. Another is that people are not always more reasonable than governments; that public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians,

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commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. These people take refuge in the pat and chauvinistic slogans because they are incapable of understanding any others, because these slogans are safer from the standpoint of short-term gain, because the truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemma, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur. ¬;Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.

Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

George Gordon Battle Liddy – 1930-:American, lawyer, politician, FBI agent esp at Watergate, radio host ¬;Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

George Herbert – 1593-1633:Welsh, Anglican priest, MP, poet esp hymns, Cambridge Univ official orator ¬;Every mile is two in winter. ¬;Hope is the poor man's bread. ¬;You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herman 'Babe' Ruth–1895-1948:American, MajorLeagueBaseball player esp NYYankees, broadc ¬;It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up George Hornidge Porter,Baron – 1920-2002:English, chemist, Chem Prof, DirRoyalInst, won Nobel Chem ¬;I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

George Iles – 1852-1942:Canadian, hist, writer esp bio & science inc Little Masterpieces Science, editor ¬;A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. ¬;Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ¬;Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Jean Nathan – 1882-1958:American, editor, founded American Spectator, columnist, drama critic ¬;Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Lester Jackson – 1941-1971:American, writer inc Soledad Brothers, convict, Black Panther act ¬;Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Macaulay Trevelyan – 1876-1962:English, hist, writer, Prof of ModernHist, Master TrinityCollege ¬;Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ¬;Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ¬;Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ¬;Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

George Matthew Adams – 1878-1962:American, col, essay, found GMAdamsNewspaperSyndicateService ¬;There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George McDonald – 1824-1905:Scottish, poet, novelist esp fantasy & fairy tales, writer esp Christian, theo ¬;The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. ¬;Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

George Mikes–1912-1987:Hungarian born British, humourist, journ, novel, writer inc HowToBe AnAlien ¬;Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. ¬;On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners ¬;Rio is not a sexy town; it is a copulating town . . . Going to bed with women is almost a national hobby with Brazilians; it is rather like cricket in England. ¬;The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit George Norman Douglas – 1868-1952:Austrian born British, novelist, writer inc Fountains in the Sand ¬;Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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¬;How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

George Orson Welles – 1915-1985:American, writer, screen, actor, dir inc Citizen Kane, prod, magician ¬;Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. ¬;I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. ¬;I try to be a Christian...I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. ¬;In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ¬;It's about two percent movie-making and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life. ¬;Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ¬;My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ¬;Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ¬;Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. ¬;The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

George Price – 1901-1995:American, writer, graphic artist, cartoonist esp New Yorker mag, humourist ¬;Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Robert Gissing – 1857-1903:English, tutor, short story writer, novel esp realism inc New Grub St ¬;It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Robert Stephanopoulos – 1961- :American, pol organiser, TV journalist, Pres Clinton Comm Dir ¬;The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.

George Saunders – 1958- :American, short story writer, essay, col, journalist, CreativeWriting Professor ¬;The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

George Smith Patton – 1885-1945:American, army officer, US 4* General, armoured war activist ¬;A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. ¬;Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ¬;Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ¬;Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ¬;If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for? ¬;Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ¬;Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. ¬;The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. ¬;There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. ¬;When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

George Walker Bush – 1946- :American, oil entrepreneur & executive, Rep pol, Gov of Texas, 43rdUS Pres ¬;I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. ¬;If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. ¬;If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road. ¬;Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. ¬;The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. ¬;Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

George Walton Lucas – 1944- :American, film prod, dir inc Star Wars series, screen, found Lucasfilm ¬;Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. ¬;So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. ¬;The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be. ¬;Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. ¬;You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more

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control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption. ¬;You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

George Washington – 1732-1799:American, farmer, Gen, C-in-C Continental Army, pol, 1st US President ¬;As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. ¬;Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ¬;Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.

Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. ¬;I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned ¬;I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson. ¬;I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ¬;Of all the anomalies which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing , and ought most to be deprecated. ¬;Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise George Washington Carver – c.1864-1943:American, sci, inv, botanist, agricultural educ inc sustainability ¬;How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. ¬;When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau – 1841-1929:French, journalist, physician, pub, Radical pol, twice PM ¬;It is far easier to make war than peace. ¬;War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Bernanos – 1888-1948:French, insurance salesman, farmer, writer inc pol, novelist, pol & soc act ¬;The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Duhamel – 1884-1966:French, physician, writer, novel, editor, Chair & Pres Académie Française ¬;I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Henri Rouault – 1871-1958:French, printmaker esp lithography, painter inc Expressionist ¬;Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Gerald White Johnson – 1890-1980:American, journalist, editor, essayist, historian, writer esp bio, novel ¬;Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Germaine Greer – 1939- :Australian, journ, writer inc Female Eunuch, Engl Lit Prof, womens rights act ¬;As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. ¬;Compulsory motherhood is not ennobling, although the friends of the foetus are at pains to point out that most women denied abortions end up loving their issue just the same. Whether they love them just the same as they would have if they had wanted them is of course unverifiable; most women are not so perverse and unjust as to punish their children for the crimes of society (their fathers), but the oppression of their circumstances is real notwithstanding. For the oppressors themselves to take credit for the women's magnanimity is sickeningly smug. The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. ¬;Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. ¬;If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? ¬;In the nuclear family the child is confronted by only two adults contrasted by sex. The tendency towards polarization is unavoidable. The duplication of effort in the nuclear family is directly connected to the family's role as the principal unit of consumption in consumer society. Each household is destined to acquire a complete set of all the consumer durables considered necessary for the good life and per caput consumption is therefore maintained at its highest level. In sex, as in consumption, the nuclear family emphasizes possession and exclusivity at the expense of the kinds of emotional relationships that work for co-operation and solidarity. ¬;Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity. ¬;Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

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¬;The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. ¬;The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job. ¬;The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more. ¬;The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. ¬;We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. ¬;Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ¬;Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality.

They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed. ¬;Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Gerrit Gerritszoon aka Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus – 1466-1536:Dutch, Catholic priest, phil, theo ¬;A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant. ¬;Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character. ¬;I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. ¬;I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth. As if marriage, whose function cannot be fulfilled without these incitements, did not rise above blame. In other living creatures, where do these incitements come from? From nature or from sin? From nature, of course. It must borne in mind that in the apetites of the body there is very little difference between man and other living creatures. Finally, we defile by our imagination what of its own nature is fair and holy. If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations? ¬;If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already! ¬;In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ¬;It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ¬;The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. ¬;The rules of grammar are crabbed things to many persons... it is important early to instil a taste for the best things into the minds of children, and I cannot see that anything is learned with greater success than what is learned by playing, and this is, in truth, a very harmless kind of fraud, to trick a person into his own profit. ¬;War is the blackest villainy of which human nature is capable. ¬;You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

GerrySpence–1929- :American, trial lawyer esp individuals, lecturer, media cons, foundTrialLawyersColl ¬;I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gertrude Stein – 1874-1946:American, poet inc Tender Buttons, writer, playwright, art collector, socialite ¬;Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ¬;I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich ¬;It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true ¬;It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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¬;Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. ¬;We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do.

That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad – 1883-1931:Lebanese born American, artist, writer, poet ¬;God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. ¬;I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ¬;It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. ¬;Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ¬;Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ¬;The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. ¬;The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ¬;Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. ¬;Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton – 1874-1936:English, journalist, phil, poet, writer inc relg, novelist esp paradox ¬;A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man ¬;A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. ¬;A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ¬;All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired. ¬;Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. ¬;Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. ¬;He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. ¬;I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. ¬;I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid. ¬;I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals. ¬;I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ¬;It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ¬;It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. ¬;It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. ¬;Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ¬;Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ¬;Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity ¬;My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'. ¬;The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. ¬;The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ¬;The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. ¬;There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind. ¬;There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every

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man feel great. ¬;There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. ¬;Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ¬;To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. ¬;Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. ¬;We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. ¬;What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. ¬;When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. ¬;Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Gilda Susan Radner – 1946-1989:American, actress inc Saturday Night Live, comedienne, won Emmy ¬;I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. ¬;I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. ¬;While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone aka Saint Francis of Assisi –1181-1226:Italian, soldier, poet, monk ¬;Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Giovanni Maria Ciocchi delMonte aka PopeJulius III – 1487-1555:Roman, Palestrina Cardinal, dip, Pope ¬;Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

Glen David Brin – 1950- :American, sci, cons inc NASA, novelist esp SF inc Uplift, won Hugo & Nebula ¬;Ancestors...who had lived in dark ignorance...and seemed to have spent most of their time making up weird, ornate explanations of the world to fill the yawning gap of their ignorance. Back then, one could believe in anything at all. Simple, deliciously elegant explanations of human behavior. It apparently never mattered whether they were true or not, as long as they were incanted right. Party lines and wonderful conspiracy theories abounded. You could even believe in your own sainthood if you wanted. Nobody was there to show you, with clear experimental proof, that was no easy answer, no magic bullet, no philosopher's stone. Only simple, boring sanity. How narrow the Golden Age looked in retrospect. ¬;Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ¬;I hate the whole ubermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing. ¬;I've long felt that the best minds of the right had useful things to contribute to a national conversation — even if their overall habit of resistance to change proved wrong-headed, more often than right. At least, some of them had the beneficial knack of targeting and criticizing the worst liberal mistakes, and often forcing needful redrafting. That is, some did, way back in when decent republicans and democrats shared one aim — to negotiate better solutions for the republic. Alas, today's Republican Establishment seems not only incapable but uninterested in negotiation or deliberation. It isn't just the dogmatism, or lockstep partisanship, or Koolaid fantasies spun-up by the Murdoch-Limbaugh hate machine. Heck, even though "culture war" is verifiably the worst direct treason against the United States of America since Fort Sumter, that isn't what boggles most. It's the stupidity. The vast and nearly uniform dumbitudinousness of ignoring what has happened to conservatism, a transformation of nearly all of the salient traits of Barry Goldwater from: * prudence to recklessness * accountability to secrecy * fiscal discretion to spendthrift profligacy * consistency to hypocrisy * civility to nastiness * international restraint to recklessness... ¬;It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ¬;Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error. ¬;Step back for a minute and note an important piece of psychohistory — that every generation of Americans

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faced adversaries who called us "decadent cowards and pleasure-seeking sybarites, - wimps - devoid of any of the virtues of manhood." Elsewhere, I mark out this pattern, showing how every hostile nation, leader or meme had to invest in this story, for a simple reason. Because Americans were clearly happier, richer, smarter, more successful and far more free than anyone else. Hence, either those darned Yanks must know a better way of living - unthinkable!... or else they must have traded something for all those surface satisfactions.

Something precious. Like their cojones. Or their souls. A devil's bargain. And hence — our adversaries told themselves — those pathetic American will fold up, like pansies, as soon as you give them a good push.

It is the one uniform trait shown by every vicious, obstinate and troglodytic enemy of the American Experiment.

A wish fantasy that convinced Hitler and Stalin and the others that urbanized, comfortable New Yorkers and Californians and all the rest cannot possibly have any guts, not like real men. A delusion shared by the King George, the plantation-owners, the Nazis, Soviets and so on, down to Saddam and Osama bin Laden. A delusion that our ancestors disproved time and again, decisively — though not without a lot of pain. There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption. Ho Chi Minh never underestimated America. His avowed hero was George Washington and he remained in awe of the U.S., all his life. He remains the only enemy leader who ever defeated us at war, and then only because our hubris (not decadence) got the better of us. ¬;The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ¬;This is not about classic left-vs-right anymore. As if that metaphor ever held cogent meaning. Not when every measure of national health that conservatives ought to care about — from budget balancing to small business startups, to military readiness, to States' Rights, to the economy, to individual liberty, to control over immigration at our borders — does vastly and demonstrably better under democrats. With nearly 100% perfection. Fact avoidance is even worse when you encompass ALL of history. Ask today's conservatives which force destroyed more freedom and nearly every competitive market, across 5,000 years. Which foe of liberty and enterprise did Adam Smith despise? Hint: it wasn't "socialism" or "government bureaucrats." No. Given their lack of any other tangible accomplishments across the last fifteen years, one must to conclude that the core agenda of Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and their petroprince backers really is quite simple. To find out just how far they can push "culture war" toward a repeat of 1861.

Glenda May Jackson – 1936- :English, actress inc Women in Love, Labour politician, MP, won 2 Oscars ¬;The most important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.

Glenn Doman – 193?- :American, physician, physical therapist, founded Institue For...Human Potential ¬;The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

Gloria Anne Borger – 1952- :American, journ, col inc USNews&World Report, TV news broadc inc CNN ¬;For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

Gloria Marie Steinem – 1934- :American, journalist, editor, writer, publisher, feminist leader & activist ¬;A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ¬;Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence.

It also allows one to risk that marriage. ¬;I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ¬;If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. ¬;In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything. ¬;Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ¬;Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. ¬;The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

Gloria Pitzer – 1930- :American, journ, col, writer esp cookery inc Better Cookery, aka Recipe Detective ¬;About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ¬;In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're called pedestrians. ¬;Marriages may be made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.

Gloria May Josephine Swanson – 1899-1983:American, actress inc Sunset Boulevard, broadc, fashionista ¬;Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions.

Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Godfrey Harold Hardy – 1877-1947:English, mathematician esp number theory & math analysis, writer ¬;It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. ¬;Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books

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Gordon Arthur Kelly aka Art Linkletter – 1912- :Canadian born American, wit, broadc, TV host, writer ¬;Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant. ¬;Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Gordon Matthew Sumner aka Sting–1951- :English, actor, singer esp Police, musician, song, 16 Grammys ¬;A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice. ¬;I‘ve lived in Europe for about 15 years, I live in Italy. So I feel very European. I think it‘s an inevitable thing that our future in the British Isles will be with Europe. We'll be part of Europe, we‘ll be better for it Gordon Rupert Dickson – 1923-2001:Canadian born American, novel esp SF&Fantasy, 3 Hugos&Nebula ¬;Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Grace Murray Hopper–1906-1992:American, comp scientist inc dev COBOL, naval officer, Rear Admiral ¬;A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ¬;The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

Granville Hicks–1901-1982:American, lit critic, editor, English Prof, writer inc Marxist then anti-Marxist ¬;A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Grenville Kleiser – 1868-1935:Canadian born American, teacher, writer esp motivational & oratory ¬;There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.

Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti – 1719-1789:Italian born English, writer, lit critic, teacher, RoyalAcadSec ¬;I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Gustave Flaubert – 1821-1880:French, novelist esp realist &f ormalist schools inc Madame Bovary, play ¬;Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. ¬;The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. ¬;To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

H H Jackson Brown–196?- :American, advertising creative dir, writer esp motivational inc Life'sInstruction ¬;Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. W. Long – 188?-19?? :American, physician esp sex research, writer inc SaneSexLife & SaneSexLiving ¬;The act of coitus should be considered as composed of four parts, or acts, of one common play, or drama.

These four parts are: first, the preparation for the act; second, the union of the organs; third, the motion of the organs; fourth, the orgasm . . . Regarding the first part of the act, let it be said that here, above all situations in the world, "haste makes waste." Put that down as the most fundamental fact in this whole affair. Right here is where ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the troubles of married life begins!

Hannah Arendt – 1906-1975:German, political theorist, philosopher, researcher, columnist, writer ¬;The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah TatumWhitallSmith–1832-1911:American, writer esp relg, orator, Holiness&HigherLifeMove act ¬;Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. ¬;The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Harlan Jay Ellison–1934- :American, writer, essay, novel esp SF, screen, lit&cultural critic, 8Hugo &3Neb ¬;Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artifical responsibilities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, reciprocating unsolicited gifts, going to dull parties, putting up with acquaintances and family one avoids all the rest of the year...in short, of being brutalized by a 'holiday' that has lost virtually all of its original meanings and has become a merchandising ploy for color tv set manufacturers and ravagers of the woodlands. ¬;Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes,

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that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks. ¬;I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other. ¬;The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harold Bloom – 1930- :American, lit & cultural critic, writer inc Anxiety of Influence, Prof of Humanities ¬;I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ¬;The aristocrats in many civilizations are the fossils of the early conquering hordes. Their position at society's apex is the residue of robbery. In England, the titled classes, the folks who hold their noses in the air, are the descendants of Saxon, Viking and Norman soldiers who pillaged, slaughtered and raped in successive waves from roughly AD 470 to 1066. In Japan, the aristocracy, which has sat securely in place for nearly 1800 years is the remnant of a population of nomadic Mongoloid horsemen who came across the sea from Korea in the first century AD brutalizing the local population into submission with long iron swords. ¬;We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Harold Rosenberg – 1906-1978:American, writer inc TraditionOfNew, art critic, phil, SocialThought Prof ¬;In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole. ¬;No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe – 1811-1896:American, writer, novel esp hist inc Uncle Tom's, abol act ¬;Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath. ¬;The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ¬;To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ¬;When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. ¬;Women are the real architects of society.

Harriet Martineau – 1802-1876:English, phil, writer, essay, journ, sociologist, abolitionist & feminist act ¬;Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Harry Charles Bauer – 1902-1978:American, librarian esp Washington Univ, Library Science Professor ¬;Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick–1878-1969:American, theo, Baptist Minister & Presbyterian Pastor, relg broadc ¬;God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ¬;The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Herschel Goldhirsch aka Harry Lewis Golden – 1902-1981:Ukrainian born American, journ, pub, writer ¬;The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry S Truman – 1884-1972:American, farmer, soldier, ent, Dem pol, Missouri US Sen, 33rdUS President ¬;A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ¬;All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. ¬;All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ¬;Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. ¬;I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. ¬;I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ¬;I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

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¬;I learned that a leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it. ¬;I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. ¬;If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. ¬;Intense feeling often obscures the truth ¬;It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ¬;It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work. ¬;It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ¬;It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ¬;Liberty does not make all men perfect nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history ¬;Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ¬;Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. ¬;Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. ¬;The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world. ¬;Those who do not read and understand history are doomed to repeat it. ¬;We need not fear the expression of ideas—we do need to fear their suppression. ¬;Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ¬;You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.

HarryJuliusShearer–1943- :American, actor, vocal artist inc Simpsons, comedian, musician, radio broadc ¬;If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Sinclair Lewis – 1885-1951:American, journ, short story writer, novel, play, won Nobel Literature ¬;A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth... Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a travelling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius. Such a society functions admirably in the production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors. But it is not satisfied until the entire world also admits that the end and joyous purpose of living is to ride in flivvers, to make advertising-pictures of dollar watches, and in the twilight to sit talking not of love and courage but of the convenience of safety razors. ¬;Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ¬;All of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary ¬;Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ¬;Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. ¬;Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers. ¬;He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason. ¬;He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican. ¬;I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. ¬;I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.

We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. ¬;I went to a denominational college and learned that since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it. ¬;It is not a snobbish rich-man's college, devoted to leisurely nonsense. It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want — or what they are told they want — is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them. It is a Ford Motor Factory, and if its products rattle a little, they are beautifully standardized, with perfectly interchangeable parts.

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¬;People will buy anything that is one to a customer. ¬;The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trouser-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever. ¬;This age, which should adjudge happiness to be as valuable as soap or munitions, would never come so long as the workers accepted the testimony of paid spokesmen... to the effect that they were contented and happy, rather than the evidence of their own wincing nerves to the effect that they live in a polite version of hell. ¬;The theory that India and Africa have woes because they are not Christianized, but that Christianized Bangor and Des Moines have woes because the devil, a being obviously more potent than omnipotent God, sneaks around counteracting the work of Baptist preachers. ¬;With... small-town life... there are hundreds of thousands... who are not content. The more intelligent young people... flee to the cities... and... stay there, seldom returning even for holidays. The reason... is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment... the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is the slavery self-sought and self-defended.

It is dullness made God. A savorless people, gulping tasteless food and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.

Harry Weinberger – 1888-1944:American, lawyer, writer inc First Casualties In War, civil liberty activist ¬;The American people should never again allow the destruction or limitation of crops or animals; never again allow the United States to adopt an economy of scarcity. A democracy should allow no poverty, no hunger, no involuntary unemployment, for every one in a democracy has an unalienable right to work for a living.

Economic liberty or proper distribution of wealth and the proper forms of taxation has nothing to do with the question of liberty. It has only to do with economics. But only a free people with liberty of speech under a democratic form of government, can change economic conditions by ballots instead of bullets, in order to bring about the happiness of the people, one of the purposes of government as stated in the Declaration of Independence. ¬;The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. If the Government or magistrates think an individual is right, no one will interfere with him; but when agitators talk against the things considered holy, or when radicals criticize, or satirize political gods, or question the justice of our laws and institutions, or pacifists talk against war, how the old inquisition awakens, and ostracism, the excommunication of the church, the prison, the wheel, the torture-chamber, the mob, are called upon to suppress the free expression of thought. ¬;We can care for the unemployed, we can feed the hungry and provide shelter for the homeless without regimenting the nation in business, without goose-steeping every little industry, without leaving loose a bureaucratic flock of nosey incompetents running around clothed in brief authority, and with all the thunder of the majesty of the United States government behind them, giving petty orders with the little man and the little business cracked down upon while prices keep soaring for the necessities of life and business and individuals carry additional taxes and unemployment continues to grow with the number of those needing relief mounting.

Harvey LeRoy 'Lee' Atwater – 1951-1991:American, pol consultant, Rep political strategist, Pres adviser ¬;My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

Hector Berlioz – 1803-1869:French, musician, composer esp Romantic inc Symphonie Fantastique ¬;Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Hugh Munro aka Saki – 1870-1916:Burmese born British, journalist, play, short story writer ¬;He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. ¬;People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. ¬;The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ¬;We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart. ¬;Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then. ¬;You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.

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Heinz'Henry'AlfredKissinger–1923- :German born American, Govn Prof, dip, USSecOfState, NobelPeace ¬;A conventional army loses if it does not win. the guerilla army wins if it does not lose. ¬;A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. ¬;Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ¬;Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. ¬;History knows no resting places and no plateaus. ¬;I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. ¬;It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true. ¬;Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ¬;Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ¬;The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ¬;There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ¬;The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ¬;The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. ¬;The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. ¬;The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ¬;University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ¬;What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Helen Adams Keller – 1880-1968:American, writer, lecturer, human rights act, 1st deaf & blind get US BA ¬;College isn't the place to go for ideas. ¬;Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content ¬;Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. ¬;Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ¬;I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ¬;I am only one, still I am one. I can not do everything, still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do ¬;I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ¬;I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. ¬;Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ¬;Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ¬;No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ¬;One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ¬;People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. ¬;Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. ¬;Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. ¬;The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it. ¬;The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. ¬;There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. ¬;When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Hayes Brown–1900-1993:American, actress incSinMadelonClaudet, won Oscar&Grammy&Emmy ¬;From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings. ¬;My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

HelenPrejean–1939- :American, RomanCatholic nun, writer incDeadManWalking, death penalty abol act ¬;Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don’t cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.

Helen Rowland–1875-1950:American, journ, humourist, radio broadc, writer inc ReflectionsBachelorGirl ¬;A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

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¬;It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ¬;Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast ¬;Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time ¬;What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love ¬;When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. ¬;Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf vonMoltke–1800-1891:Prussian German, army officer, Gen, ChiefGenStaff ¬;First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ¬;No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse – 1869-1954:French, painter inc Fauvist inc Woman With A Hat, printmaker ¬;Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Estienne aka Henricus Stephanus – c.1528-1598:French, pub, printer, trans incThesaurus Linguae ¬;If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel – 1821-1881:Swiss, philosopher, Prof of Moral Phil, poet, writer inc Journal Intime ¬;Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ¬;Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. ¬;The great artist is the simplifier ¬;The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. ¬;The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not properly a personality at all. He floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions--such a man is a mere article of furniture--a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being--an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock the humble servant of the air in motion. ¬;The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides ¬;What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

Henrik JohanIbsen – 1828-1926:Norwegian, playwright inc founding Modernism, theatre director, poet ¬;A minority may be right, and the majority is always in the wrong. ¬;Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. ¬;Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies." ¬;He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration possesses it soulless, dead. One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands still in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by so doing that he has just lost it. Now this very contentedness in the possession of a dead liberty is characteristic of the so-called State, and, as I have said, it is not a good characteristic. ¬;Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother. Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as you are. ¬;Marriage (is) based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. ¬;The majority never has right on its side. ¬;The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ¬;You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henry Bessemer–1813-1898:English, manufacturer, engineer, inventor inc Bessemer steel making process ¬;I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Brooks Adams – 1838-1918:American, journ, hist, novel inc Democracy, writer, Medieval Hist Prof ¬;No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ¬;Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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Henry Charles Bukowski – 1920-1994:German born American, post office clerk, poet, columnist, novelist ¬;The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Henry Charles Link – 1889-1952:American, psych esp Employment Psych, Dir New York Psych Service ¬;Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature. ¬;While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry David Thoreau – 1817-1862:American, poet, surveyor, hist, writer, phil, transcendentalist, abol act ¬;A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. ¬;A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies. ¬;A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote. ¬;Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it. ¬;Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ¬;But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. ¬;Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ¬;Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ¬;Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. ¬;Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. ¬;Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ¬;Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new ¬;For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it. ¬;How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ¬;However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

It looks poorest when you are the richest. ¬;I'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ¬;I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation. It is important to preserve the mind's chastity in this respect. ¬;I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. ¬;I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? ¬;I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless. ¬;I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. ¬;I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too. ¬;I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. ¬;I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ¬;If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but

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if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ¬;If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole. ¬;If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ¬;If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. ¬;In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. ¬;It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ¬;It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. ¬;It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ¬;It is never too late to give up your prejudices. ¬;It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ¬;It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. ¬;It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. ¬;It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear. ¬;Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. ¬;Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after. ¬;Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is! ¬;Men have become the tools of their tools. ¬;Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ¬;Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. ¬;Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. ¬;Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself. ¬;Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. ¬;Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. ¬;Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ¬;Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ¬;Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe! ¬;Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ¬;Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ¬;That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ¬;That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ¬;The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed. ¬;The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. ¬;The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate

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handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. ¬;The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? ¬;The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool. ¬;The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison. ¬;The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free ¬;The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ¬;The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ¬;There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root ¬;There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. ¬;There is no remedy for love but to love more. ¬;There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. ¬;To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, and flatter and study effect only more finely than the rest. We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten. ¬;To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? — in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. ¬;Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. ¬;What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ¬;What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. ¬;What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. ¬;When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. ¬;Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul. ¬;Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. ¬;With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan, — mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards, — because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth, — because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end. ¬;You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be. ¬;You can not perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Henry Fielding – 1707-1754:English, lawyer, found Bow Street Runners, writer, play, novel inc Tom Jones ¬;A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ¬;I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. ¬;In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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Henry Ford – 1863-1947:American, eng, businessman, inventor inc 161 US patents, founded Ford Motor ¬;All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance. ¬;An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ¬;History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. ¬;I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ¬;If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ¬;It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. ¬;Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ¬;There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. ¬;Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. ¬;You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Franklin Winkler – 1945- :American, actor inc Fonzie-HappyDays, dir inc Memories Of Me, prod ¬;Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry George – 1839-1897:American, political econ, pol, writer inc Progress & Poverty, journalist, pub ¬;It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs. ¬;It is true that wealth has been greatly increased, and that the average of comfort, leisure, and refinement has been raised; but these gains are not general. In them the lowest class do not share. I do not mean that the condition of the lowest class has nowhere nor in anything been improved; but that there is nowhere any improvement which can be credited to increased productive power. I mean that the tendency of what we call material progress is in nowise to improve the condition of the lowest class in the essentials of healthy, happy human life. Nay, more, that it is still further to depress the condition of the lowest class. The new forces, elevating in their nature though they be, do not act upon the social fabric from underneath, as was for a long time hoped and believed, but strike it at a point intermediate between top and bottom. It is as though an immense wedge were being forced, not underneath society, but through society. Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down. ¬;Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ¬;More is given to us than to any people at any time before; and, therefore, more is required of us. We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit. Falling these, civilization must pass into destruction. It cannot be maintained on the ethics of savagery. ¬;Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. ¬;The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. ¬;Those who are most to be considered, those for whose help the struggle must be made, if labor is to be enfranchised, and social justice won, are those least able to help or struggle for themselves, those who have no advantage of property or skill or intelligence, — the men and women who are at the very bottom of the social scale. In securing the equal rights of these we shall secure the equal rights of all. ¬;To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. ¬;We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit. ¬;What is the use of objecting to the word when we have the thing? The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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Henry Graham Greene – 1904-1991:English, short story writer, novelist inc Brighton Rock, play, lit critic ¬;We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.

Henry 'Harry' Southworth Allen – 1939- :American, culture critic, journalist, novelist, won Pulitzer Prize ¬;It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

HenryHavelockEllis–1859-1939:English, teacher, sexologist, physician, writer inc SexualInversion, soc act ¬;It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. ¬;The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. ¬;There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ¬;What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Henry James – 1843-1916:American born British, writer inc travel & bio, novelist, literary critic, play ¬;Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. ¬;Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

HenryJohnKaiser–1882-1967:American, industrialist, found KaiserShipyard, aka father US shipbuilding ¬;Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. ¬;When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry Lewis Stimson – 1867-1950:American, lawyer, diplomat, Rep pol, US Sec of State & 2x Sec of War ¬;The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry Louis 'HL'Mencken–1880-1956:American, journ inc BaltimoreSun, essay, writer, satirist, soc critic ¬;A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ¬;A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ¬;A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. ¬;A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill. Worse, he is incurable, for disappointment, being essentially an objective phenomenon, cannot permanently affect his subjective infirmity. His faith takes on the virulence of a chronic infection. What he usually says, in substance, is this: "Let us trust in God, who has always fooled us in the past.” ¬;A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married. ¬;A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ¬;A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. ¬;A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ¬;All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. 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. ¬;All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. ¬;An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ¬;And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ¬;Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ¬;As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ¬;Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ¬;Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

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¬;Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. ¬;Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ¬;Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ¬;Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. ¬;Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. ¬;Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. ¬;Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ¬;Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ¬;Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ¬;For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong. ¬;Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ¬;God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters. ¬;Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ¬;I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom. . . [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men. ¬;I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overborne by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. ¬;I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. ¬;Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. ¬;In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. ¬;In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ¬;It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn't it a fine thing too, to face calumny, injustice and loneliness for the truth which makes men free? ¬;It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ¬;It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ¬;It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence.

The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. ¬;It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. ¬;It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, hereticburning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. ¬;Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. ¬;Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt ¬;Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

The truly civilized man is always sceptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." ¬;My guess is that well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through life without ever having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before, and by thousands. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic. The normal human society is very little troubled by them.

Whenever a new one appears the average man displays signs of dismay and resentment, The only way he can take in such a new idea is by translating it crudely into terms of more familiar ideas. That translation is one of the chief functions of politicians, not to mention journalists. They devote themselves largely to debasing the ideas launched by their betters.

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¬;Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. ¬;Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ¬;Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ¬;Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ¬;Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. ¬;Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell. ¬;The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked... ¬;The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ¬;The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ¬;The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. ¬;The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake. ¬;The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. ¬;The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ¬;The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable. ¬;The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ¬;The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.

What he wants beyond everything else is safety. ¬;The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob. ¬;The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda -- a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. ¬;The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians ¬;The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ¬;The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ¬;The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth-that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ¬;Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ¬;There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. ¬;To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ¬;Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ¬;Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ¬;War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. ¬;We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ¬;When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. ¬;When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ¬;Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly

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perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers.

Henry Maximilian 'Max' Beerbohm – 1872-1956:English, essay, satirist, caricaturist, wit, writer, broadc ¬;A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. ¬;All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ¬;I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ¬;Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ¬;Only the insane take themselves quite seriously. ¬;You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilization. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost —- he becomes a unit in unreason.

Henry Peter Brougham, 1stBaron – 1778-1868:Scottish, lawyer, writer, found EdinburghReview, Whig pol ¬;Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ¬;Try to know everything of something and something of everything. ¬;War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Stanley Haskins – 1875-1957:American, teacher, short story writer mag pub inc in The Smart Set ¬;Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the Gods ¬;Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ¬;Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. ¬;The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ¬;The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry Valentine Miller – 1891-1980:American, proof reader, painter, novel inc Tropic of Cancer, lit critic ¬;Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ¬;Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ¬;I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ¬;In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ¬;Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ¬;Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off! ¬;One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ¬;One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ¬;The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ¬;There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. ¬;To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. ¬;To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. ¬;What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? ¬;When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends.

Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Van Dyke – 1852-1933:American, writer inc relg, Engl Lit Prof, poet, essay, dip, pro slavery act ¬;Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. ¬;Self is the only prison that can bind the soul. ¬;Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. ¬;Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear. ¬;Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 1807-1882:American, poet esp lyric, translator, Modern Languages Prof ¬;Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. ¬;All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. ¬;Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think. ¬;If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ¬;It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. ¬;Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. ¬;Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. ¬;Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ¬;Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. ¬;Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ¬;We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Ward Beecher – 1813-1887:American, Congregationalist Minister, orator, novel, abol & social act ¬;Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are. ¬;Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ¬;It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. ¬;Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. ¬;The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong wont. ¬;The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ¬;The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. ¬;Young love is a flame; very pretty often very hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals deep burning unquenchable.

Henry Wheeler Shaw aka Josh Billings – 1818-1885:American, journ, lecturer, wit, writer inc Everybody ¬;About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ¬;As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ¬;Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. ¬;Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ¬;Genius ain’t nothing more than elegant common sense ¬;It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ¬;Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. ¬;Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. ¬;The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ¬;There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion.

Henry Zuckerman aka Buck Henry–1930- :American, writer, wit, actor, dir, screen incGetSmart, TV host ¬;We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Heraclitus – c.535-c.475 BC:Ephesus(Turkey) Greek, phil esp change & flux, aka Weeping Philosopher ¬;Nothing endures but change. ¬;Much learning does not teach understanding. ¬;The road up and the road down is one and the same. ¬;You can not step twice into the same river HerbertClarkHoover–1874-1964:American, mining eng, writer, HeadUSReliefAdmin,Rep pol, 31stUSPres ¬;About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ¬;Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt. ¬;It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow...that are the aftermath of war. ¬;Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die. ¬;The American people from bitter experience have a rightful fear that great business units might be used to dominate our industrial life and by illegal and unethical practices destroy equality of opportunity.. ¬;The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the

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architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned. ¬;When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Eugene Caen – 1916-1997:American, col inc San Francisco Chronicle, journ, won Pulitzer Prize ¬;The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herbert George Wells – 1866-1946:English, journ, teacher, artist, hist, short story writer, writer, novelist ¬;A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be...surer of the noose than a private homicide. ¬;Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. ¬;Advertising is legalized lying. ¬;Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community ¬;Crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life ¬;Cynicism is humour in ill health ¬;Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept. ¬;How far can we anticipate the habitations and ways, the usages and adventures, the mighty employments, the ever increasing knowledge and power of the days to come? No more than a child with its scribbling paper and its box of bricks can picture or model the undertakings of its adult years. Our battle is with cruelties and frustrations, stupid, heavy and hateful things from which we shall escape at last, less like victors conquering a world than like sleepers awaking from a nightmare in the dawn.... A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?" ¬;Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ¬;In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ¬;It is a law of Nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers. ¬;It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. ¬;Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ¬;New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?' ¬;The Buddha Is Nearer to Us You see clearly a man, simple, devout, lonely, battling for light, a vivid human personality, not a myth. Beneath a mass of miraculous fable I feel that there also was a man. He too, gave a message to mankind universal in its character. Many of our best modern ideas are in closest harmony with it. All the miseries and discontents of life are due, he taught, to selfishness. Selfishness takes three forms --one, the desire to satisfy the senses; second, the craving for immortality; and the third the desire for prosperity and worldliness. Before a man can become serene he must cease to live for his senses or himself. Then he merges into a greater being. Buddha in a different language called men to self-forgetfulness five hundred years before Christ. In some ways he was near to us and our needs. Buddha was more lucid upon our individual importance in service than Christ, and less ambiguous upon the question of personal immortality ¬;The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. ¬;The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. ¬;The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn ¬;The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ¬;The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. There is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it. Now there are various ways of exterminating a race, and most of them are cruel. You may end it with fire and sword after the old Hebrew fashion; you may enslave it and work it to death, as the Spaniards did the Caribs; you may set it boundaries and then poison it slowly with deleterious commodities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accustomed and to live under new and strange conditions that will expose it to infectious diseases to which you yourselves are immune, as the missionaries do the Polynesians; you may resort to honest simple murder, as we English did with the Tasmanians; or you can maintain such conditions as conduce to “race suicide,” as the British administration does in Fiji. ¬;There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980:Canadian, phil, media theorist, educ, lit critic, English Lit Prof ¬;A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. ¬;All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values ¬;All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. The new media are not ways of relating us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will. ¬;American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. ¬;Any technology tends to create a new human environment... Technological environments are not merely passive containers of people but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike. ¬;As we transfer our whole being to the data bank, privacy will become a ghost or echo of its former self and what remains of community will disappear. ¬;Disarmament is illogical and futile, unless one is prepared to regard the available means of production and social organization as affording unique social ends. To divert electrical energy and circuitry into atomic bombs shows the same imaginative power as wiring the dining-room chairs to enable one to electrocute the sitter in the event that he might prove hostile. It is part of the age-old habit of using new means for old purposes instead of discovering what are the new goals contained in the new means. ¬;It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. ¬;Marx shared with economists then and since the inability to make his concepts include innovational processes.

It is one thing to spot a new product but quite another to observe the invisible new environments generated by the action of the product on a variety of pre-existing social grounds. ¬;Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. ¬;New technological environments are commonly cast in the molds of the preceding technology out of the sheer unawareness of their designers. ¬;Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. ¬;Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ¬;Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is managed by men with Newtonian goals. ¬;The American bureaucracy ... was set up for very slow speeds of the printed word and railways. At electric speeds, nothing in the USA makes sense. ¬;There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ¬;There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. ¬;Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. ¬;We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. ¬;We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. ¬;When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood.

Herbert Rappaport aka Gerbert MoritsevichRappaport – 1908-1983:Austrian born Russian, screen, dir ¬;I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Sebastian Agar – 1897-1980:American, journ, editor inc LouisvilleCourier-Journal, won Pulitzer ¬;The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Spencer – 1820-1903:English, eng, phil esp evolution, pol theorist, sociologist, polymath, editor ¬;A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale. ¬;Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature — this is alike the aim of parent and teacher. ¬;Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. ¬;Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man ¬;Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life ¬;If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race. ¬;Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. ¬;No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ¬;Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

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¬;Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity ¬;The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have usually been wrong, must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. ¬;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ¬;The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered. ¬;Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none. ¬;We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong Herm Albright – 1876-1944:American, journalist inc Saturday Evening Post, humourist ¬;A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ¬;Always remember that you are unique -- just like everyone else. ¬;We don't always get what we deserve in life -- for which we should be eternally grateful.

Herman Melvill aka Melville – 1819-1891:American, sailor, teacher, essayist, poet, short story & novelist ¬;A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ¬;It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ¬;Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Hermann Hesse–1877-1962:German born Swiss, poet, painter, essay, novel inc Siddhartha, won Nobel Lit ¬;Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament--but only in enemy countries, not in his own. ¬;If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ¬;People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Wilhelm Göring – 1893-1946:German, pilot, Commander Luftwaffe, Nazi pol, Deputy Fuhrer ¬;The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Herodotus – c.484-c.425 BC:Halicarnassus(Bodrum) Greek, hist, writer esp Histories, aka Father of Hist ¬;Force has no place where there is need of skill. ¬;Haste in every business brings failures. ¬;If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ¬;Men trust their ears less than their eyes. ¬;Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Hesiod – 2nd half 8th Cent BC:Boeotia Greek, oral poet, writer inc astronomy & farming, aka the 1st econ ¬;It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. ¬;Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. ¬;Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Heywood Campbell Broun–1888-1939:American, journ, editor, sports writer, found Am Newspaper Guild ¬;Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Hideaki Anno – 1960- :Japanese, animator, film director, creator of the anime character Misato Katsuragi ¬;Miracles don't just happen, people make them happen Hilary Hinton 'Zig' Ziglar–1926- :American, salesman, writer inc SeeYouAtTheTop, motivational speaker ¬;Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ¬;Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence. ¬;If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. ¬;It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ¬;Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. ¬;Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ¬;Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. ¬;People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily. ¬;Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ¬;Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ¬;Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying,

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not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ¬;The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. ¬;The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes." ¬;You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. ¬;You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. ¬;You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently. ¬;Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton–1947- :American, lawyer, Dem pol, US 1stLady, NY USSen, US SecOfState N.B. Most of Hilary Clinton quotes are taken directly from her book 'Living History' ¬;Despite the right-wing mantra denouncing 'liberal media bias', the reality was that the loudest and most effective voices in the media were anything but liberal. Instead, public discourse was increasingly dominated by reactionary pundits and TV and radio personalities. ¬;I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" ¬;I believe that on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break our silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights...For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. The voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loud and clear: It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small. It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages fourteen to forty-four is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives. It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation. It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will. ¬;I do believe there was, and still is, an interlocking network of groups and individuals who want to turn the clock back on many of the advances our country has made, from civil rights and women's rights to consumer and environmental regulation, and they use all the tools at their disposal – money, power, influence, media and politics – to achieve their ends. In recent years they have also mastered the politics of personal destruction.

Fuelled by extremists who have been fighting progressive politicians and ideas for decades, they are funded by corporations, foundations and individuals. ¬;I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time ¬;It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families. ¬;One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values. ¬;The lost opportunities of the years since September 11 are the stuff of tragedy. Remember the people rallying in sympathy on the streets of Teheran, the famous headline — "we are all Americans now." Five years later much of the world wonders what America is now. As we face this landscape of failure and disorder, nothing is more urgent than for us to begin again to rebuild a bipartisan consensus to ensure our interests, increase our security and advance our values. It could well start with what our founders had in mind when they pledged "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind" in the Declaration of Independence. I think it's fair to say we are now all internationalists and we are all realists. This Administration's choices were false choices.

Internationalism versus unilateralism. Realism versus idealism. Is there really any argument that America must remain a pre-eminent leader for peace and freedom, and yet we must be more willing to work in concert with other nations and international institutions to reach common goals? The American character is both idealistic and realistic: why can't our government reflect both? ¬;There isn't any perfect human institution. There is no perfect market except in the abstract theories of economists. There is no perfect government except in the dreams of political leaders. And there is no perfect society. We have to work with human beings as we find them. ¬;We need a new politics of meaning, We need a new ethos of individual responsibility and caring. We need a

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new definition of civil society which answers the unanswerable questions posed by both the market forces and the governmental ones, as to how we can have a society that fills us up again and makes us feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

Hippocrates of Kos – c.460-c.370 BC:Kos Greek, writer, physician, aka the father of Western Medicine ¬;Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ¬;Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ¬;There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux – 1882-1944:French, diplomat, essay, novelist, play inc Madwoman of Chaillot ¬;Only the mediocre are always at their best. ¬;The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

HiramUlysses S Grant–1822-1995:American, army officer, UnionGen, farmer, writer, Rep pol, 18thUSPres ¬;As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects. Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law, international and local. ¬;I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. ¬;It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies. ¬;Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate. ¬;Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. ¬;Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

H.Norman Schwarzkopf–1934- :American, army officer, 4*Gen C-in-C USCentralArea inc Kuwait&Iraq ¬;Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good. ¬;It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ¬;Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ¬;There's more than one way to look at a problem, and they all may be right ¬;You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Holly Lisle–1960- :American, writer inc Mugging the Muse, novel esp SF fantasy paranormal & suspense ¬;Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. ¬;I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. ¬;You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Homer – around 8th Century BC:Greek, origins very unclear, epic poet inc (allegedly) Odyssey & Illiad ¬;Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. ¬;Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ¬;I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. ¬;You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer Hadley Hickam – 1943- :American, army officer, NASA engineer, writer inc Rocket Boys, novelist ¬;A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse. ¬;It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Honore de Balzac – 1799-1850:French, ent, play, novel esp realism & naturalism inc Comédie Humaine ¬;Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Horatio 'Horace' Walpole, 4thEarl – 1717-1797:English, writer, novelist, art historian, antiquarian, pol ¬;In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. ¬;The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ¬;The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Howard Hathaway Aiken – 1900-1973:American, physic, math, comp pioneer for IBM inc Harvard Series ¬;Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Mumford Jones – 1892-1980:American, writer, literary critic, Professor of English, won Pulitzer ¬;Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ¬;While it is true that we in this nation remain free to be idiotic, it does not necessarily follow, that we must be idiotic, in order to be free!

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft – 1890-1937:American, novelist esp horror fantasy, ghost writer, poet ¬;The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Howard Scott – 1890-1970:American, eng, founded Technocracy for sci analysis of prod, soc change act ¬;Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Tayler – 197?- :American, graphic artist, cartoonist - webcomic Schlock Mercenary, humourist ¬;A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. ¬;When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Howard W Newton – 1903-1951:American, advertising executive, Vice Pres Dancer Fitzgerald Sample ¬;Advertising is one of the few callings in which it is advisable to pay attention to someone else’s business. ¬;Little words hurt big ideas. ¬;People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. ¬;Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ¬;The thoughtless are rarely wordless. ¬;When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes Howard Zinn – 1922- :American, hist, Pol Sci Prof, play, writer inc People's History of US, civil rights act ¬;A critically important rhetorical device for the rule of the few is to speak to the many of "our" liberty, "our" property, "our" country. ¬;All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them. ¬;Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. ¬;Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. ¬;Historically, the most terrible things--war, genocide and slavery--have resulted from obedience, not disobedience. ¬;How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism? ¬;I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Slave revolts are justified, and if John Brown had really succeeded in arousing such revolts throughout the South, it would have been much preferable to losing 600,000 lives in the Civil War, where the makers of the war — unlike slave rebels — would not have as their first priority the plight of the black slaves, as shown by the betrayal of black interests after the war. Again, the Zapatista uprising seems justified to me, but some armed struggles that start for a good cause get out of hand and the ensuring violence becomes indiscriminate. Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change. ¬;If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. ¬;If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ¬;It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status. ¬;It is very important for the Establishment to maintain the historic pretension that the common enemy is not at home, and that disasters of economics or war are unfortunate errors of tragic accidents only, to be corrected by the members of the same club that brought the disasters. ¬;One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned. ¬;One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the property-less, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled.

These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country. ¬;Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than

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most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak. ¬;The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ¬;(The) state often uses deception. Not so much of the foreign enemy (which, after all, has little faith in its adversaries), but of its own citizens who have been taught to trust their leaders.... I want my readers to think twice about our traditional heroes, to re-examine what we cherish and what we ignore (human consequences). I want them to think about how easily we accept conquest and murder. Consider how much attention is given in historical writing to wars and battles and consider how little attention is given to antiwar movements and to those who struggled against the idiocy of war. ¬;The term 'just war' contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. ¬;There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. ¬;There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money.

It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more. But there is also the bubbling of change under the surface of obedience: the growing revulsion against endless wars, the insistence of women all over the world that they will no longer tolerate abuse and subordination... There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. ¬;Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. ¬;While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

HubertHoratioHumphrey–1911-1978:American, pharmacist, PolSciProf, Dem pol, MinnUSSen, USVPres ¬;In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ¬;It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. ¬;The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hugh FrancisIvoElliott, 3rdBaronet – 1913-1989:British, writer, Pres Ornithologists' Union, Colonial Adm ¬;Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Hugh 'Hef' Marston Hefner – 1926- :American, pub, editor, founder Playboy Mag & Playboy Enterprises ¬;The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Hugh Macleod – 1965- :American, lecturer copywriter, cartoonist, photographer, writer inc Ignore ¬;Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human. ¬;Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. ¬;Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it. ¬;Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. ¬;Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice. ¬;Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go. ¬;The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off. ¬;The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. ¬;The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the

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They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.

Hugh Prather – 1938- :American, writer esp relg & motivational, Methodist Minister, radio broadcaster ¬;True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

Hugo LaFayette Black – 1886-1971:American, lawyer, Dem pol, Alabama USSen, US Supreme Court Just ¬;Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people ¬;The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.

Hunter Stockton Thompson – 1837-2005:American, writer, novel inc Fear & Loathing in LasVegas, journ ¬;A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. ¬;All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. ¬;Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube. ¬;He was forever yapping about freedom of the press and keeping the paper going, but if he'd had a million dollars and all the freedom in the world he'd still put out a worthless newspaper because he wasn't smart enough to put out a good one. He was just another noisy little punk in the great legion of punks who marched between the banners of bigger and better men. Freedom, Truth, Honour- you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other. ¬;If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ¬;In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. ¬;Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. ¬;Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President? ¬;No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ¬;Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. ¬;Paranoia is just another word for ignorance ¬;So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. ¬;Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful. ¬;The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

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The party's over, folks. . . [Censorship of the news] is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information". That is routine behavior in Wartime — for all countries and all combatants — and it makes life difficult for people who value real news. ¬;The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong , but to those who see it coming and jump aside ¬;The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. ¬;The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ¬;The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me...

The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. ¬;There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? ¬;There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would never be President of the United States, no matter what the experts were saying — and that was when the whole Bush family suddenly appeared on TV and openly scoffed at the idea of Gore winning Florida. It was Nonsense, said the Candidate, utter nonsense. . . Anybody who believed Bush had lost Florida was a Fool. The Media, all of them, were Liars & Dunces or treacherous whores trying to sabotage his victory. . . Here was the whole bloody Family laughing & hooting & sneering at the dumbness of the whole world on National TV. The old man was the real tip-off. The leer on his face was almost frightening. It was like looking into the eyes of a tall hyena with a living sheep in its mouth. The sheep's fate was sealed, and so was Al Gore's. ¬;This blizzard of mind-warping war propaganda out of Washington is building up steam. Monday is Anthrax, Tuesday is Bankruptcy, Friday is Child-Rape, Thursday is Bomb-scares, etc., etc., etc... If we believed all the brutal, frat-boy threats coming out of the White House, we would be dead before Sunday. It is pure and savage terrorism reminiscent of Nazi Germany. ¬;Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed. ¬;We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer. ¬;We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores.

Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ¬;What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. In what seems like the blink of an eye, this George Bush has brought us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war. ¬;When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ¬;Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.

HymanGeorgeRickover–1900-1986:Polish born American, eng, naval officer, 4*Admiral, inv nuclear subs ¬;Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ¬;Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie Hypatia – c.370-415:Alexandrian(Egypt) Greek, math, astronomer, phil esp Neoplatonist, own phil school ¬;All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky – 1882-1971:Russian born French, conductor, musician esp piano, composer ¬;I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ¬;The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

Immanuel Kant – 1724-1804:Prussian German, writer inc Pure Reason, phil esp Transcendental Idealism ¬;A public can only arrive at enlightenment slowly. Through revolution, the abandonment of personal despotism may be engendered and the end of profit-seeking and domineering oppression may occur, but never a true reform of the state of mind. Instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones, will serve as the guiding reins of the great, unthinking mass. All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters.

But I hear people clamor on all sides: Don't argue! The officer says: Don't argue, drill! The tax collector: Don't argue, pay! The pastor: Don't argue, believe! ¬;Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. ¬;As to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings... ¬;By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. ¬;Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. ¬;Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ¬;From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. ¬;Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ¬;He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray ¬;He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ¬;Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. ¬;If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. ¬;Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. ¬;In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ¬;Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ¬;It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him. He has even become fond of it and for the time being is incapable of employing his own intelligence, because he has never been allowed to make the attempt. Statutes and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity. Whoever threw it off would make an uncertain jump over the smallest trench because he is not accustomed to such free movement. Therefore there are only a few who have pursued a firm path and have succeeded in escaping from immaturity by their own cultivation of the mind. ¬;Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. ¬;Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. ¬;Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. ¬;Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. ¬;Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ¬;Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. ¬;That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience. ¬;The death of dogma is the birth of morality ¬;The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason

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¬;The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend ¬;Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor! ¬;To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination. ¬;Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi – 1917-1984:Indian, Congress pol, Pres Indian National Congress, 4x PM ¬;My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ¬;You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

IosebB dzeJughashvili akaJosephVissarionovichStalin–1878-1953:GeorgiaRussian, Comn pol, USSR PM ¬;A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. ¬;Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ¬;I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. ¬;Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? ¬;In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. ¬;The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ¬;The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Irv 'Kup' Kupcinet – 1912-2003:American, journalist inc ChicagoSun-Times, columnist, talk show host ¬;What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Isaac Bashevis Singer – 1902-1991:Polish born American, novel, short story writer, won Nobel Literature ¬;Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ¬;Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ¬;If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments ¬;If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ¬;Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. ¬;Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge ¬;People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice.

According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ¬;There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ¬;We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice. ¬;When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ¬;When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Newton – 1643-1727:English, math, astronomer, natural phil, physicist, alchemist, writer, Math Prof ¬;A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. ¬;Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ¬;I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people ¬;I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ¬;I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light ¬;If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. ¬;If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ¬;Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

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¬;To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. ¬;To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ¬;Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. ¬;We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaak Yudovich Ozimov aka Isaac Asimov–1920-1992:Russian born American, Biochem Prof, hist, SF nov ¬;A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ¬;Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ¬;Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. ¬;I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. ¬;I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ¬;I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ¬;I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.

For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. ¬;I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it.

Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. ¬;If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ¬;Imagine the people (Christians) who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly. ¬;Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. ¬;It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ¬;It is not only the living who are killed in war. ¬;It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ¬;It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn. ¬;How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. ¬;Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. ¬;Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ¬;Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ¬;Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ¬;People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane

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structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be. ¬;Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived ¬;Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ¬;Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. ¬;The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' ¬;The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ¬;The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ¬;There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul ¬;Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ¬;To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ¬;To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ¬;Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isabel Diana Colegate – 1931- :English, literary agent, novel inc ShootingParty & News from City of Sun ¬;It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them ¬;The English will never turn Communist, they're such snobs. An English Communist could have a duke at gunpoint; if he asked him to stay for the weekend he'd drop the gun and dash off to Moss Bros to hire a dinnerjacket.

Isabella Baumfree aka Sojourner Truth–1797-1883:American, slave, writer, speaker, abol & women's act ¬;If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. ¬;That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Isabella Mary Beeton, nee Mayson – 1836-1865:English, cook, writer esp Mrs Beeton's Household Mgr ¬;A place for everything and everything in its place.

Israel Ehrenberg aka Ashley Montague – 1905-1999:British born American, anthropologist, Prof of Anth ¬;Absolute truth belongs only to one class of humans ... the class of absolute fools. ¬;Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. ¬;The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness ¬;The idea is to die young as late as possible ¬;The majority of people believe in incredible things that are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being. ¬;The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality

J Jack William Nicklaus – 1940- :American, professional golfer – 105 wins, int course designer, writer ¬;Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

Jacob Bronowski – 1908-1974:Polish born British, math, biologist, writer, TV presenter inc AscentOfMan ¬;Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years.

But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. ¬;Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. ¬;Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. ¬;It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ¬;No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ¬;Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ¬;That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ¬;You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

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Jacob Cohen aka Rodney Dangerfield – 1921-2004:American, salesman, actor, standup comedian, broadc ¬;I'm at an age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. ¬;I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going. ¬;I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again. ¬;I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. ¬;Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Jacqueline 'Jackie' Joyner-Kersee–1962- :American, heptathlon & long jump athlete, won 3OlympicGold ¬;It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jacquelyn Mitchard – 1957- :American, journalist, col, essayist, writer, novelist inc Deep End of Ocean ¬;Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacques Boularan aka Jacques Deval – 1895-1972:French, playwright inc Tovaritch, screen, theatre dir ¬;God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Derrida – 1930-2004:Algerian born French, phil-founder of deconstruction, Prof of Humanities ¬;But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jaleel Ahmad White – 1976- :American, screenwriter, child & adult actor inc Family Matters, voice actor ¬;You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What’s cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you’re yourself, you’ll be at peace with yourself.

James Joynes aka James Arthur Baldwin – 1924-1987:American, play, essay, novelist inc AnotherCountry ¬;Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. ¬;Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free — he has set himself free — for higher dreams, for greater privileges. ¬;Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ¬;I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this — which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never — the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. ¬;I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is. ¬;I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ¬;I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ¬;If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony. ¬;If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. ¬;Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ¬;It's no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not use misery elsewhere as an endless source of self-gratification and justification. Of course, people tell me all the time in the West that they are trying, they are trying hard. Some have tears in their eyes and let me know how awful they feel about the way our poor live, our blacks, or those in dozens of other countries. People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street. ¬;It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression. ¬;It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous

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and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous here, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. ¬;Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ¬;Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. ¬;Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. ¬;People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. ¬;The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ¬;Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ¬;You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

James Barrett Reston–1909-1995:Scottish born American, journ esp NewYorkTimes, writer, won Pulitzer ¬;A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck – 1740-1795:Scottish, lawyer, diarist, writer esp Life of Johnson ¬;Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Branch Cabell – 1879-1958:American, writer, journalist, short story writer, novelist esp fantasy ¬;The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Bryant Conant – 1893-1978:American, chemist, educational administrator, 23rd Pres Harvard Univ ¬;Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James Danforth 'Dan' Quayle – 1947- :American, lawyer, Rep pol, Indiana US Senator, 44th US Vice-Pres ¬;I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. ¬;I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. ¬;[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. ¬;The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. ¬;Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

James Douglas 'Jim' Morrison – 1943-1971:American, poet inc Wilderness, writer, song, singer esp Doors ¬;Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ¬;I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. ¬;If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ¬;Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature.

You imitate what you see. ¬;Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ¬;We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.

James Douglas Muir 'Jay'Leno–1950- :American, comedian esp stand up, TonightShow host, car collector ¬;A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. […] At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time. ¬;Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ¬;Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. ¬;How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve. ¬;I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder. ¬;I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

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¬;If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ¬;In Ohio, some people went to the polls to re-elect disgraced Congressman James Traficant, even though he?s currently in prison. Actually, when you think about it, jail isn't much different from Congress. Both of you serve a term, all expenses are paid by taxpayers, and you?re surrounded by fellow crooks ¬;Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. ¬;Women will soon be able to make their own sperm using their own bone marrow. Is that unbelievable? How unfair is that for us guys, huh? I mean, all these years, we've been in charge of manufacturing and distribution, you know what I'm saying? We provide free delivery and installation… ¬;You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

JamesEarl'Jimmy'Carter–1924- :American, farmer, Dem pol, Georgia Gov, 39thUS Pres, won NoblePeace ¬;As is the case with a human being, admirable characteristics of a nation are not defined by size and physical prowess. What are some of the other attributes of a superpower? Once again, they might very well mirror those of a person. These would include a demonstrable commitment to truth, justice, peace, freedom, humility, human rights, generosity, and the upholding of other moral values. ¬;Eight years before he became vice president, Richard Cheney spelled out this premise in his "Defense Strategy for the 1990s." Either before or soon after 9/11, he and his close associates chose Iraq as the first major target, apparently to remove a threat to Israel and to have Iraq serve as our permanent military, economic, and political base in the Middle East. ¬;Formerly admired almost universally as the pre-eminent champion of human rights, the United States now has become one of the foremost targets of respected international organizations concerned about these basic principles of democratic life. Some of our actions are similar to those of abusive regimes that we have historically condemned. ¬;Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ¬;Instead of entering a millennium of peace, the world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place. The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.

There is a plethora of civil wars, unrestrained by rules of the Geneva Convention, within which an overwhelming portion of the casualties are unarmed civilians who have no ability to defend themselves. And recent appalling acts of terrorism have reminded us that no nations, even superpowers, are invulnerable. It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. ¬;It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls. ¬;Our goals are the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people. ¬;The authenticity and universal applicability of these guarantees were never questioned by a democratic poweruntil recently, and by America! Instead of honoring the historic restraints, our political leaders decided to violate them, using the excuse that we are at war against terrorism. It is obvious that the Geneva Conventions were designed specifically to protect prisoners of war, not prisoners of peace... Aside from the humanitarian aspects, it is well known that, under excruciating torture, a prisoner will admit almost any suggested crime. Such confessions are, of course, not admissible in trials in civilized nations. The primary goal of torture or the threat of torture is not to obtain convictions for crimes, but to engender and maintain fear. Some of our leaders have found that it is easy to forgo human rights for those who are considered to be subhuman, or "enemy combatants." ¬;The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them. ¬;The Republican party is a party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future ¬;There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. ¬;War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ¬;We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will. With horrible brutality, neighbors have massacred neighbors in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents,

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which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us — often a child – is crippled or killed. From a great distance, we launch bombs or missiles with almost total impunity, and never want to know the number or identity of the victims. ¬;We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and underrepresented. ¬;We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. ¬;We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. ¬;We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

James Francis Byrnes – 1879-1972:American, Dempol, SC US Sen, USSupremeCourtJust, US SecOfState ¬;Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James Kern Feibleman–1904-1987:American, retailer, novelist & short story, phil, Phil&Humanities Prof ¬;A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ¬;That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

James Geary – 195?- :American, journ, editor, writer inc World in a Phrase, web blogger on aphorisms ¬;The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

James Grover Thurber – 1894-1961:American, cartoonist esp New Yorker, short story writer, humourist ¬;A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. ¬;All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ¬;Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years. ¬;Discussion in America means dissent. ¬;Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead ¬;Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, "How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?" and avoid "How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?" ¬;Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. ¬;He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. ¬;He who hesitates is sometimes saved. ¬;Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. ¬;I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ¬;I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. ¬;If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ¬;It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all ¬;It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ¬;Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ¬;Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam ¬;Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man. ¬;Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. ¬;Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. ¬;Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. ¬;Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

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¬;The dog has seldom been successful in pulling Man up to its level of sagacity, but Man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. ¬;The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ¬;There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures ¬;There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ¬;Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? ¬;You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ¬;You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward James Harold Wilson, Baron–1916-1995:English, OxfordUnivDon, statistician, econ, Lab pol, MP, 2x PM ¬;A week is a long time in politics. ¬;One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

James Hilton – 1900-1954:English, novel inc Goodbye Mr Chips, screen inc Mrs. Miniver, won Oscar ¬;Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more.

All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

James J 'Jim' Horning – 193?- American, comp sci, Xerox Research Fellow, writer esp programming ¬;Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be James MacKintosh – 1765-1832:Scottish, journ, hist, physician, lawyer, judge, phil. Prof of Law, Whig pol ¬;It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

James Madison – 1751-1836:American, phil, pol, aka Father US Constitution, US Sec of State, 4thUS Pres ¬;A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ¬;A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. ¬;Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. ¬;Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. ¬;During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. ¬;I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ¬;If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ¬;If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ¬;It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ¬;Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. ¬;No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ¬;Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. ¬;The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty ¬;The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. ¬;The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least

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imperfect. ¬;The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. ¬;War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement ¬;What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

James Matthew Barrie, 1stBaronet – 1860-1937:Scottish, journalist, play, writer, novelist inc children inc Peter Pan; ¬;His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. ¬;Life is a long lesson in humility. ¬;Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ¬;Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ¬;The most useless are those who never change through the years.

JamesMonroe–1758-1831:American, soldier, lawyer, pol, dip, USFoundingFather, Virginia Gov, 5thUSPres ¬;A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ¬;It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. ¬;The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

James Russell Lowell – 1819-1891:American, poet esp Romantic, critic, editor, diplomat, Languages Prof ¬;All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ¬;Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. ¬;Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ¬;Folks never understand the folks they hate. ¬;In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ¬;Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ¬;Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ¬;There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ¬;They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. ¬;Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ¬;Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ¬;Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Samuel Gordon – 195?- :American, psych esp integrative med, found Center Mind-Body Medicine ¬;It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James William Fulbright – 1905-1995:American, lawyer, Dem pol, Arkansas US Sen, found F.Fellowships ¬;The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust (our own) government statements. ¬;The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. ¬;We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

James William 'Jimmy' Buffett – 1946- :American, singer, songwriter inc Margaritaville, film prod, novel ¬;If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

James William Schopf – 1941- :American, Paleobiology Prof, writer, Pres CentreStudyOfEvo&OriginLife ¬;For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

James Wolcott – 1952- :American, journ, col inc Vanity Fair, soc&cultural critic, writer inc AttackPoodles ¬;Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. ¬;It’s one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. ¬;The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Jan Amos Komenský–1592-1670:Czech, educ, sci, UnityBrethren Bishop, aka Father of Moden Education ¬;Aristotle compared the mind of man to a blank tablet on which nothing was written, but on which all things could be engraved. There is, however, this difference, that on the tablet the writing is limited by space, while in the case of the mind, you may continually go on writing and engraving without finding any boundary, because, as has already been shown, the mind is without limit.

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¬;Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious ¬;If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives. ¬;Let the main object be … to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. ¬;The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.

Jane Austen – 1775-1817:English, novelist inc Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility, poet ¬;A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can ¬;I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. ¬;One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ¬;One man's style must not be the rule of another's. ¬;There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ¬;There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ¬;You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Wagner – 1935- :American, screen, director, producer, collaborator with Lily Tomlin, won 3 Emmys ¬;All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. ¬;Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. ¬;For fast acting relief, try slowing down. ¬;I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em ... the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen. ¬;If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less. ¬;It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ¬;No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. ¬;Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs ¬;Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ¬;Remember we're all in this alone. ¬;Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ¬;The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ¬;The best mind-altering drug is truth. ¬;The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Janeane Garofalo – 1964- :American, actress, comedienne esp stand up, writer, broadcaster, political act ¬;Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a fantastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media. ¬;Conservative talk radio hosts...have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a prolife, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. ¬;Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult...

Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. ¬;Nationalism and patriotism in the wrong hands will destroy lives, it really will, because I'll tell you something: it takes a village to ruin a child. I think we've proven that time and time again in this country. ¬;The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views. ¬;The majority of Americans, there is no doubt about it, they support a woman's right to choose. They support the separation of church and state. They support environmental protections. They support laws that regulate business, because remember deregulation is essentially lawlessness. And the bankruptcy bill and the energy bill that the Bush administration has pushed are gifts to big business and the majority of Americans, if they were to understand that, if their news media did their job, they wouldn't support it. They just wouldn't. And also they are

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just too busy in the course of a day, living their lives, and putting their kids through school, and putting food on the table, to hate gay people and black people and women enough, and to pray for the end of days enough, as the Bush administration would like them to. As you know there's a number of lawsuits filed against No Child Left Behind because the government has required that schools adhere to No Child Left Behind, yet haven't funded it!

Of course they haven't! Of course they haven't, because the Bush regime doesn't believe in funding education because if you fund education you will have a more educated populace. If you have a more educated populace, you will have critical thinking. If you have critical thinking, you cannot push this agenda that they have and you won't have as many people that are so willing to serve in the armed forces for Dick Cheney. Y'know, if you have a more educated, knowledgeable, critically-thinking populace, they will be less willing to fight and die for Dick Cheney! You know it really is that simple. And most people join the army, navy, air force, marines, to pay for their education, to better themselves, to see the world. That is fine, but if the young people are joining the armed forces to protect democracy, you gotta stay here! Because we need that here. We are losing democracy all the time under the Bush regime and Theocracy, where it will be fine, but it's just gonna take awhile. ¬;The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things. ¬;The reason the corporate media serves the Republican agenda so much is it means they don't have to work hard. They don't have to do anything. They don't have to do investigative journalism. They don't have to get into the dirty waters of speaking truth to power. If the corporate media continues to serve their Republican masters, then their job is easy peasy. It's nuttin'. You go to Matt Drudge. You go get some stuff from Karl Rove. You go to Grover Norquist meetings. You get the talking points. Easy peasy. ¬;There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?' ¬;To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. ¬;Unbelievable No stem-cell research. Can't have stem-cell research. Can't have reproductive rights. But by God we can bomb the shite out of anybody in the world! And we can have policies that are put forth by the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, and CAFTA and NAFTA that will destroy lives. That will destroy the environment. That will harm fetal development. I mean is it not insanity? ¬;You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

Jascha Heifetz – 1901-1987:Lithuanian born American, teacher, musician esp violin, int performer ¬;No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jason Fried – 196?- :American, web application developer, web consultant, found web dev co 37signals ¬;Projections are bullshit. They're just guesses. Wait until the real thing happens and then when it happens, then you can make the decision. Make decisions when you have a lot of information to make the decision. Not when you have to guess about what the decision is going to be or use data that doesn't exist yet. ¬;You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.

Jawaharlal 'Pandit' Nehru–1889-1964:Indian, Congress pol, 1stIndianPM, found Non-Aligned Movement ¬;A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ¬;A theory must be tempered with reality. ¬;Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Life is not all logic, and those ends will have to be varied from time to time to fit in with it, but some end must always be clearly envisaged. ¬;Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today. Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them. ¬;Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. We talk of the good of society. Is this something apart from, and transcending, the good of the individuals composing it? If the individual is ignored and sacrificed for what is considered the good of the society, is that the right objective to have? It was agreed that the individual should not be sacrificed and indeed that real social progress will come only when opportunity is given to the individual to develop, provided "the individual" is not a selected group but comprises the whole community. The touchstone, therefore, should be how far any political or social theory enables the individual to rise above his petty self and thus think in terms of the good of all. The law of life should not be competition or acquisitiveness but cooperation, the good of each contributing to the good of all. ¬;Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has

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good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work. ¬;Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ¬;Freedom and power bring responsibility. ¬;History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field. ¬;India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else, and Hindu and Moslem and Sikh and others take pride in their faiths and testify to their truth by breaking heads. The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere has filled me with horror, and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition and exploitation, and the preservation of vested interests. ¬;Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ¬;Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ¬;Organised religion allying itself to theology and often more concerned with its vested interests than with the things of the spirit encourages a temper which is the very opposite of science. It produces narrowness and intolerance, credulity and superstition, emotionalism and irrationalism. It tends to close and limit the mind of man and to produce a temper of a dependent, unfree person. ¬;Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. ¬;Religion is not familiar ground for me, and as I have grown older, I have definitely drifted away from it. I have something else in its place, something older than just intellect and reason, which gives me strength and hope. Apart from this indefinable and indefinite urge, which may have just a tinge of religion in it and yet is wholly different from it, I have grown entirely to rely on the workings of the mind. Perhaps they are weak supports to rely upon, but, search as I will, I can see no better ones. ¬;The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ¬;The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. ¬;The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth. ¬;Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality. ¬;There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. ¬;Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ¬;To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. But that certainly does not mean asceticism or self-mortification. Nor do I appreciate in the least the idealization of the "simple peasant life." I have almost a horror of it, and instead of submitting to it myself I want to drag out even the peasantry from it, not to urbanization, but to the spread of urban cultural facilities to rural areas. ¬;Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us. ¬;We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue happiness, which economic progress alone can bring, can never satisfy a people. ¬;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. ¬;We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people. ¬;Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. ¬;You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin aka Molière – 1622-1673:French, actor, play esp comedy farces, theatre director ¬;Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing. ¬;To create a public scandal is what's wicked; To sin in private is not a sin.

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¬;Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never. ¬;Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. ¬;Yes, if we were prepared to be honest we might rid ourselves of much self deception.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau – 1671-1741 :French, play inc Venus et Adonis, epigrammatist , poet esp libellous ¬;Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean de La Fontaine – 1621-1695:French, estate ranger, poet inc Contes, fabulist inc Fables, translator ¬;Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Jean Iris Murdoch, Dame – 1919-1999:Irish born British, philosopher, poet, playwright, writer, novelist ¬;Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Jean Jacques Rousseau – 1712-1778 :Geneva born French, phil, writer, novelist, play, musical theorist ¬;A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. ¬;As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. ¬;Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. ¬;From whatever aspect we regard the question, the right of slavery is null and void, not only as being illegitimate, but also because it is absurd and meaningless. The words slave and right contradict each other, and are mutually exclusive. It will always be equally foolish for a man to say to a man or to a people: “I make with you a convention wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I shall keep it as long as I like, and you will keep it as long as I like.” ¬;Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. ¬;He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. ¬;He who knows enough of things to value them at their true worth never says too much; for he can also judge of the attention bestowed on him and the interest aroused by what he says. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace. ¬;Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. ¬;I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest; as I could not accept absurd decisions, I was deprived of those which were not absurd. When I was told to believe everything, I could believe nothing, and I knew not where to stop. I consulted the philosophers, I searched their books and examined their various theories; I found them all alike proud, assertive, dogmatic, professing, even in their so-called scepticism, to know everything, proving nothing, scoffing at each other. This last trait, which was common to all of them, struck me as the only point in which they were right. Braggarts in attack, they are weaklings in defence. ¬;In reality, the difference is, that the savage lives within himself while social man lives outside himself and can only live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the feeling of his own existence only from the judgement of others concerning him. It is not to my present purpose to insist on the indifference to good and evil which arises from this disposition, in spite of our many fine works on morality, or to show how, everything being reduced to appearances, there is but art and mummery in even honour, friendship, virtue, and often vice itself, of which we at length learn the secret of boasting; to show, in short, how abject we are, and never daring to ask ourselves in the midst of so much philosophy, benevolence, politeness, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful appearance, honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness. ¬;Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. ¬;It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ¬;It violates natural law that a handful of men be glutted with superfluities while the starving multitude lacks necessities ¬;Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself. ¬;Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ¬;Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. ¬;Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ¬;Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ¬;Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. ¬;Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals. ¬;Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ¬;The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

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¬;The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ¬;The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ¬;The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. ¬;The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. ¬;The rich...institute regulations of justice and peace to which all are obliged to conform...all ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom ¬;The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty ¬;The very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affair, however little influence my voice may have in them. ¬;To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. ¬;True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes. ¬;We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. ¬;What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau – 1889-1963:French, poet, artist, play, novelist, designer, film dir ¬;The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre – 1905-1980:French, existentialist philosopher, play, novel, political act ¬;As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. ¬;Everything has been figured out except how to live. ¬;Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. ¬;Hell is other people. ¬;People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? ¬;We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ¬;We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim. ¬;What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes? ¬;When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean Rostand – 1894-1937:French, philosopher, writer esp science inc eugenism, experimental biologist ¬;Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. ¬;My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ¬;Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Jean William Fritz Piaget – 1896-1980:Swiss, psychologist esp children, phil esp Genetic Epistemology ¬;Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. ¬;The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse – 1732-1776:French, socialite inc salon owner, writer inc Lettres ¬;If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Jeanne Phillips – 1944- :American, advice col for 'Dear Abbey' – daughter of founder Pauline, broadc ¬;All the world's a cage.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin–1880-1973:American, soc work, Rep pol, Mon USCong, found CivilLb Union ¬;You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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Jef Mallett – 1962- :American, cartoonist esp Frazz, graphic artist, art dir inc BoothNewspapers, writer ¬;Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose. ¬;If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough. ¬;Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

Jeff Marder – 196?- :American, comedian esp stand up, TV actor inc Marder at Midnight, voice actor ¬;We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ¬;Why do they call it rush hour and your car just sits there?

Jeff Melvoin – 195?- :American, journalist, screen inc Northern Exposure & Remington Steele, producer ¬;George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? ¬;I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental. ¬;The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ¬;What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. ¬;You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

Jefferson Davis – 1808-1889:American, army officer, Miss US Sen, 1st& last Pres ConfederateStatesOfAm ¬;Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

Jeffery Amherst,1stBaron–1717-1797:English, soldier, C-in-CBritishArmy, FieldMarshal, GovGenCanada ¬;A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

Jeffery Marvin 'Jeff' Foxworthy – 1958- :American, actor inc Foxworthy, comedian esp standup, TV host ¬;Men like beer and something naked. ¬;There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. ¬;Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men are of our one! We clean something up, we're gonna talk about it all year long. It might be on the news, you don't know. A woman could be out re-paving the driveway. Men actually have enough gall to walk out onto the porch and go "Hey baby? Man, it's hot as hell out here! Look, don't worry about emptyin' that ashtray in the den, I done got it, all right? Did it for you, sweet pea. I'm gonna take a nap now.

Jennifer Louden – 196?- :American, writer, motivational speaker, personal coach, radio broadcaster ¬;I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

Jeph Paul Jacques – 1980- :American, illust, web cartoonist inc comedic Questionable Content, musician ¬;The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage. ¬;You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

Jeremy Bentham – 1748-1832:English, phil esp Utilitarianism, writer, essay, soc&legal&animal rights act ¬;Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure....There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency. ¬;Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ¬;Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think ¬;Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet. ¬;Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. ¬;That which has no existence cannot be destroyed — that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts. ¬;The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the

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skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a fullgrown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ¬;The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ¬;To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Jeremy Taylor – 1613-1667:English, Anglican clergyman, writer, Bishop Down&Connor, Univ Vice-Chan ¬;It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not. ¬;To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jerome Allen 'Jerry' Seinfeld – 1954- :American, comedian esp stand up, screen, actor esp Seinfeld, prod ¬;A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ¬;There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked. ¬;There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. ¬;Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

Jerome Clapp Jerome aka JeromeKlapkaJerome – 1859-1927:English, wit, novel inc 3MenInABoat, essay ¬;A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach. Indeed, a man's sluggish current may not be called love, compared with the rushing fountain that wells up when a boy's heart is struck with the heavenly rod. If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet.

Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves. ¬;Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear. Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny daggerthrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside. Without that breast-plate the sword of talent cannot force its way through the battle of life, for blows have to be borne as well as dealt. ¬;Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do. ¬;Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowly — you can watch it long and see no movement — very silently, unnoticed. ¬;I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ¬;It always is wretched weather according to us. The weather is like the government — always in the wrong. In summer-time we say it is stifling; in winter that it is killing; in spring and autumn we find fault with it for being neither one thing nor the other and wish it would make up its mind...We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself. ¬;It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ¬;It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. ¬;Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. ¬;That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still. ¬;The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain. One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it. ¬;There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ¬;We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.

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Jerome David 'J D' Salinger – 1919-2010:American, short story writer, novelist inc Catcher in the Rye ¬;The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Jerome John 'Jerry' Garcia – 1942-1995:American, musician esp guitarist inc Grateful Dead, painter ¬;Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ¬;I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. ¬;If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jesse Louis Burns aka Jesse Louis Jackson – 1941- :American, Baptist Min, Dem pol, civil rights&pol act ¬;I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. ¬;I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. ¬;If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me.

Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ¬;It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other. ¬;Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ¬;Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ¬;No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. ¬;We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ¬;When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. ¬;When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ¬;Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jessica Marie Alba – 1981- :American, TV & film actress inc Dark Angel & Sin City, charity activist ¬;My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti – 1895-1986:Indian, phil, orator, writer inc Commentaries, guru & 'World' Teacher ¬;From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully.

Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems—the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. ¬;I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally ¬;In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. ¬;It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ¬;It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. If the mind is petty, small, narrow, limited, however great and complex the problem may be, the mind approaches that problem in terms of its own pettiness. If I have a little mind and I think of God, the God of my thinking will be a little God, though I may clothe him with grandeur, beauty, wisdom, and all the rest of it. It is the same with the problem of existence, the problem of bread, the problem of love, the problem of sex, the problem of relationship, the problem of death. These are all enormous problems, and we approach them with a small mind; we try to resolve them with a mind that is very limited. Though it has extraordinary capacities and is capable of invention, of subtle, cunning thought, the mind is still petty. It may be able to quote Marx, or the Gita, or some other religious book, but it is still a small mind, and a small mind confronted with a complex problem can only translate that problem in terms of itself, and therefore the problem, the misery increases. So the question is: Can the mind that is small, petty, be transformed into something which is not bound by its own limitations? ¬;Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself — these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society. ¬;So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ¬;The first step is to perceive, perceive what you are thinking, perceive your ambition, perceive your anxiety, your loneliness, your despair, this extraordinary sense of sorrow, perceive it, without any condemnation, justification, without wishing it to be different. Just to perceive it, as it is. When you perceive it as it is, then there is a totally different kind of action taking place, and that action is the final action. ¬;Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself. In a school, in an ordinary school where there

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are a lot of boys, when one boy is compared with another who is very clever, who is the head of the class, what is actually taking place? You are destroying the boy. That’s what we are doing throughout life. Now, can I live without comparison—without comparison with anybody? This means there is no high, no low—there is not the one who is superior and the other who is inferior. You are actually what you are and to understand what you are, this process of comparison must come to an end. If I am always comparing myself with some saint or some teacher, some businessman, writer, poet, and all the rest, what has happened to me—what have I done? I only compare in order to gain, in order to achieve, in order to become—but when I don’t compare I am beginning to understand what I am. Beginning to understand what I am is far more fascinating, far more interesting; it goes beyond all this stupid comparison. ¬;To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness ¬;What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ¬;When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ¬;When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. ¬;You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, 'What did that man pick up?' 'He picked up a piece of the truth,' said the devil. 'That is a very bad business for you, then,' said his friend. 'Oh, not at all,' the devil replied, 'I am going to help him organize it.'

Jilly Cooper – 1937- :English, journ, col, writer inc How to Stay Married, novel esp romance inc Rutshire ¬;The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Jim Coudal – 197?- :American, graphic artist, art director, advertising executive, media consultant ¬;If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too.

People always ask, ‘What is your greatest failure?’ I always have the same answer — We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome! ¬;The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.

Jim Sorensen – 196?- :American, graphic artist & illust, corporate trainer, writer, motivational speaker ¬;A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

Jim Warren – 192?- :American, Professor of Math, columnist, comp scientist, IT privacy legislation act ¬;The first measure of a free society is not that its government performs the will of the majority. We had that in 1930s Germany and in the South until the '60s. The first measure of a free society is that its government protects the just freedoms of its minorities. The majority is quite capable of protecting itself.

Jimmy Donal 'Jimbo' Wales – 1966- :American, stockbroker, web ent inc found Bomis, found Wikipedia ¬;Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. ¬;Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Joan Alexandra Rosenberg nee Molinsky akaJoanRivers–1933- :American, comedienne, actress, host, ent ¬;A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off the tables by their cords, or wake Mommy before noon. ¬;Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch." ¬;I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again. ¬;There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

Joan Carol Dennison Vinge – 1948- :American, dollmaker, novelist esp SF inc Snow Queen, won 2 Hugos ¬;In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Joan Elise Blunden aka Joan Lunden – 1950- :American, TV journ inc Good Morning America, TV host ¬;Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joanne 'Jo' Murray aka J. K. Rowling – 1965- :English, teacher, philanth, novel esp children inc Potter ¬;Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

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¬;Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. ¬;Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. ¬;His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ¬;Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ¬;If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ¬;Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ¬;It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ¬;It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ¬;It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ¬;It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ¬;It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. ¬;Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. ¬;Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ¬;People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. ¬;The best of us must sometimes eat our words. ¬;The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Joaquin Setanti – 1540-1617:Catalan Spanish, writer inc Centellas de Varios Conceptos, political aphorist ¬;Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Jock Sturges – 1947- :American, photographer esp nudes inc MistyDawn, writer inc Last Day of Summer ¬;A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. ¬;As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. ¬;I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. ¬;If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. ¬;The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Joe Ancis–193?- :American, construction ent, comedian esp off -stage performance NY Hansen'sCafeteria ¬;The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Joe David Brown – 1915-1976:American, journalist inc Time Mag, editor, novelist inc Kings Go Forth ¬;Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.

Joe Martin – 195?- :American, writer esp comedy, singer, painter, aka World's Most Prolific Cartoonist ¬;If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

JoelHawes–1789-1867:American, clothier, Congregational pastor, preacher, writer incLecturesYoungMen ¬;Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joey Skaggs – 1945- :American, broadc, media prankster esp culture jamming, painter, sculptor, lecturer ¬;The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvred.

Johan August Strindberg – 1849-1912:Swedish, journalist, literary critic, librarian, playwright, novelist ¬;I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Johan Julius Christian 'Jean' Sibelius – 1865-1957:Finnish, composer inc Finlandia, songwriter ¬;Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Johann Christoph Friedrich vonSchiller–1759-1805:Wurtemberg German, poet, hist, play, phil, Hist Prof ¬;Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ¬;Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change. ¬;If you want to know yourself, just look how others do it; if you want to understand others, look into your own heart. ¬;It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. ¬;Live with your century but do not be its creature. ¬;Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. ¬;Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning. ¬;Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. ¬;The greater part of men are much too exhausted and enervated by their struggle with want to be able to

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engage in a new and severe contest with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. ¬;They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom ¬;War nourishes war. ¬;Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe–1749-1832:Frankfurt German, civil servant, phil, writer, play, sci, polymath ¬;A person hears only what they understand. ¬;A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. ¬;A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. ¬;A true German can't stand the French, yet willingly he drinks their wines. ¬;All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ¬;All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. ¬;As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ¬;Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. ¬;Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ¬;Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ¬;Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. ¬;Doubt grows with knowledge. ¬;Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ¬;Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ¬;Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again. ¬;Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful. ¬;Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ¬;How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. ¬;If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ¬;If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!" ¬;If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ¬;Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ¬;I love those who yearn for the impossible. ¬;In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ¬;In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ¬;Investigate what is, and not what pleases. ¬;Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ¬;Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ¬;Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ¬;No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ¬;None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ¬;Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. ¬;One must be something in order to do something. ¬;One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. ¬;Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. ¬;The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. ¬;The coward threatens when he is safe. ¬;The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. ¬;The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ¬;The little man is still a man. ¬;The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. ¬;There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. ¬;There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. ¬;To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. ¬;To rule is easy, to govern difficult. ¬;Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. ¬;We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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¬;We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ¬;We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ¬;We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. ¬;When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ¬;When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash. ¬;Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. (misattributed?) ¬;Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. ¬;Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ¬;Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

John Adams – 1735-1826:American, lawyer, writer, dip, Federalist pol, US Founding Father, 2nd US Pres ¬;A government of laws, and not of men. ¬;Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ¬;Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom, whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. ¬;But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. ¬;By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion. ¬;Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. ¬;Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ¬;Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ¬;I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history. ¬;I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of Birds and the Prattle of my Children. Don't you think I am somewhat poetical this morning, for one of my Years, and considering the Gravity, and Insipidity of my Employment? — As much as I converse with Sages and Heroes, they have very little of my Love or Admiration.

I should prefer the Delights of a Garden to the Dominion of a World. ¬;In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. ¬;It is weakness, rather than wickedness, which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. ¬;Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. ¬;Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. ¬;Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ¬;Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity. ¬;Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed. ¬;No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold. ¬;Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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¬;Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. ¬;Public virtue cannot exist without private virtue. ¬;Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ¬;The great art of law-giving consists in balancing the poor against the rich in the legislature, and in constituting the legislative a perfect balance against the executive power, at the same time that no individual or party can become its rival. The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. The executive and the legislative powers are natural rivals; and if each has not an effectual control over the other, the weaker will ever be the lamb in the paws of the wolf. The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative. Rivalries must be controlled, or they will throw all things into confusion; and there is nothing but despotism or a balance of power which can control them. ¬;The happiness of society is the end of government. ¬;The jaws of power are always open to devour and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking and writing ¬;The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that. ¬;The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated and applauded, but touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes. ¬;The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. ¬;The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. Let it be the study, therefore, of lawgivers and philosophers, to enlighten the people's understandings and improve their morals, by good and general education; to enable them to comprehend the scheme of government, and to know upon what points their liberties depend; to dissipate those vulgar prejudices and popular superstitions that oppose themselves to good government; and to teach them that obedience to the laws is as indispensable in them as in lords and kings. ¬;The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. ¬;There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ¬;There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ¬;There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight. ¬;Virtue is not always amiable. ¬;We may appeal to every page of history we have hitherto turned over, for proofs irrefragable, that the people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous and cruel as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power ... All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions ... The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ¬;We ought to consider what is the end of government, before we determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all Divines

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and moral Philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. ¬;We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact! There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself it is punished by boring through the tongue with a poker. In America it is not better; even in our own Massachusetts, which I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemers upon any book of the Old Testament or New. Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating into the divine authority of those books? Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis? But I cannot enlarge upon this subject, though I have it much at heart. I think such laws a great embarrassment, great obstructions to the improvement of the human mind. Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. It is true, few persons appear desirous to put such laws in execution, and it is also true that some few persons are hardy enough to venture to depart from them. But as long as they continue in force as laws, the human mind must make an awkward and clumsy progress in its investigations. I wish they were repealed. The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients, which I think will not bear examination, and they ought to be separated. ¬;When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. ¬;Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils?

Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days? ¬;While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Alexander Smith – 1863-1939:Scottish, phil esp idealist, trans esp Aristotle, Metaphysical Phil Prof ¬;Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years.

Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

John Andrew Holmes – 1874-19??:American, physician, writer inc Wisdom in Small Doses ¬;A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness ¬;At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ¬;Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ¬;It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ¬;Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ¬;Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. ¬;There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ¬;Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Burroughs – 1837-1921:American, federal bank examiner, essayist esp on nature, writer, naturalist ¬;It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ¬;Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

JohnCaldwellHolt–1923-1985:American, writer incHowChildrenFail, educ, homeschool&youth rights act ¬;Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and fans, driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves. ¬;It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion

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that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. ¬;The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know. ¬;The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher. ¬;The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. ¬;The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself. ¬;The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do John Calvin Coolidge – 1872-1933:American, lawyer esp transactional, Rep pol, Mass Gov, 30th US Pres ¬;Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ¬;I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. ¬;If you don't say anything, you won't be called upon to repeat it. ¬;It is a great advantage to a President and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. ¬;Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. ¬;No man ever listened himself out of a job. ¬;Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. ¬;Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ¬;The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

John Churton Collins – 1848-1908:English, journalist, essay, lit critic, writer, Prof of English Literature ¬;In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Cody Fidler-Simpson – 1944- :English, journ inc BBCForeignCorrespondent, political editor, writer ¬;Life itself is immensely valuable. Not just the lives of people who think and look and maybe worship like you and me, people who are attractive or well-educated or rich, people who are the right type of Christian or the right type of Muslim. All lives.

John Constable – 1776-1837:English, painter esp Romantic inc HayWain, lecturer inc Royal Academy ¬;I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Cunningham Lilly – 1915-2001:American, physician, psychoanalyst esp nature of consciousness ¬;In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John DeArmond – 196?- :American, eng, comp specialist, consultant, web blogger & consumer reporter ¬;You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.

John Dewey – 1859-1952:American, philo, psychologist esp functional psych, educ & democracy activist ¬;Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. Those who have the gift of creative expression in unusually large measure disclose the meaning of the individuality of others to those others. In participating in the work of art, they become artists in their activity. They learn to know and honor individuality in whatever form it appears.

The fountains of creative activity are discovered and released. The free individuality which is the source of art is also the final source of creative development in time. ¬;Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose. ¬;Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. ¬;In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves. ¬;"Knowledge," in the sense of information, means the working capital, the indispensable resources, of further inquiry; of finding out, or learning, more things. Frequently it is treated as an end in itself, and then the goal becomes to heap it up and display it when called for. This static, cold-storage ideal of knowledge is inimical to educative development. It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. No one could

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construct a house on ground cluttered with miscellaneous junk. Pupils who have stored their "minds" with all kinds of material which they have never put to intellectual uses are sure to be hampered when they try to think.

They have no practice in selecting what is appropriate, and no criterion to go by; everything is on the same dead static level. ¬;Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness. To hang out a sign saying "Come right in; there is no one at home" is not the equivalent of hospitality. But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. Results (external answers and solutions) may be hurried; processes may not be forced. They take their own time to mature. Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth, something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. ¬;The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals...To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered. ¬;The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home. ¬;The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools ¬;The "State" was substituted for humanity; cosmopolitan gave way to nationalism. To form the citizen, not the "man," became the aim of education. ¬;We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. ¬;When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.

John Donne – 1572-1631:English, lawyer, preacher, poet esp metaphysical, satirist, translator, MP ¬;No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

John Dryden – 1631-1700:English, poet esp heroic couplets, translator, play, lit critic, satirist inc Absalom ¬;Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. ¬;But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ¬;None are so busy as the fool and knave. ¬;We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

John Edgar Hoover – 1895-1972:American, lawyer, Dir Bureau Investig & 1st DirFedBureauInvestigation ¬;I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

John Eliot – 1974- :American, psychologist, Prof of Performance Psychology, writer inc Overachievement ¬;Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring. ¬;The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron – 1834-1902:Naples (Italy) born British, hist, writer, pol ¬;And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ¬;At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition. ¬;Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. ¬;Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ¬;Great men are almost always bad men ¬;If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. ¬;Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ¬;Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. ¬;Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When

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a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ¬;The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ¬;The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. ¬;The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ¬;The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. ¬;The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ¬;There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. ¬;There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. ¬;There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

John Ernst Steinbeck – 1902-1968:American, novel inc GrapesOfWrath, writer, won Pulitzer & Nobel Lit ¬;After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. ¬;And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ¬;All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. ¬;Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. ¬;I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ¬;I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical. ¬;I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. ¬;Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ¬;It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ¬;It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't forsee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one.

He cannot win over himself. ¬;It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. ¬;Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it. ¬;Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. ¬;Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. ¬;Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future. ¬;No one wants advice, only collaboration. ¬;Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ¬;The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. ¬;The President must be greater than anyone else, but not better than anyone else. We subject him and his family to close and constant scrutiny and denounce them for things that we ourselves do every day. A Presidential slip of the tongue, a slight error in judgment — social, political, or ethical — can raise a storm of protest. We give the President more work than a man can do, more responsibility than a man should take, more pressure than a man can bear. We abuse him often and rarely praise him. We wear him out, use him up, eat him up. And with all this, Americans have a love for the President that goes beyond loyalty or party nationality; he is ours, and we exercise the right to destroy him. ¬;Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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¬;We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. ¬;We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. ¬;What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.

John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy – 1917-1963:American, naval officer, Dem pol, Mass USSen, 35th US Pres ¬;All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. ¬;All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. ¬;But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. ¬;Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ¬;Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. ¬;Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ¬;For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage… Second, were we truly men of judgment… Third, were we truly men of integrity… Finally were we truly men of dedication? ¬;I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ¬;I'm an idealist without illusions. ¬;If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." ¬;If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. ¬;If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ¬;In short, we must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ¬;In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ¬;It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. ¬;Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. ¬;Let us focus on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions. ¬;Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ¬;Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. 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smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing ¬;Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process ¬;Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ¬;Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ¬;The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. ¬;The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. ¬;The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ¬;The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ¬;The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' ¬;The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. ¬;The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. ¬;The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. ¬;The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. ¬;The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ¬;The supreme reality of our time is our indivisibility as children of God and the common vulnerability of this planet. ¬;The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ¬;The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any. ¬;The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know. ¬;The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. ¬;There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. ¬;There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility. ¬;Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ¬;Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable ¬;To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. ¬;To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ¬;Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ¬;Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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¬;War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ¬;We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ¬;We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ¬;We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John Florence Sullivan aka FredAllen–1894-1956:American, vaudeville&TV actor, broadc esp ad-libs, col ¬;A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. ¬;A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ¬;An advertising agency is 85% confusion and 15% commission. ¬;During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk. Today we have small men enjoying big talk. ¬;I'd like to be a squirrel. With all the nuts in radio, I would be very, very happy. ¬;Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ¬;Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in the navel of a flea and still have enough room beside them for the heart of a network vice president. ¬;The trouble with television is, it's too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone has to wear the same one. Everything is for the eye these days: Life, Look, the picture business. Nothing is for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brains at all. ¬;You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. ¬;You know, television is called a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a medium---because nothing is well done.

John Foster Dulles – 1888-1959:American, lawyer esp int, Rep pol, New York US Sen, US Sec of State ¬;Somehow we find it hard to sell our values (abroad), namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

John Foster Hall aka Rev Vivian Foster:Vicar of Mirth – 1867-1945:English, teacher, actor, comedian ¬;We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.

John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet – 1792-1871:English, math, astronomer, chemist, botanist ¬;Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Gaule–1603-1687:English, Puritan clergyman, essay inc Conscience, antiwitchcraft prosecutions act ¬;A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

John Gray – 1951- :American, lecturer, therapist esp family, columnist, writer inc Men are from Mars ¬;It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. ¬;Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems. ¬;Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. ¬;We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone. ¬;When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

John Henry Newman – 1801-1890:English, Anglican priest, theo, writer, Catholic convert, Cardinal ¬;Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Heywood – 1497-1580:English, writer inc Proverbs of John Heywood, play inc Merry Play, poet ¬;A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he can not make him drink without he will. ¬;Be they winners or loosers, Beggars should be no choosers. ¬;It is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. ¬;Look ere ye leap ¬;No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth ¬;Some things that provoke young men to wed in haste, Show after wedding, that haste makes waste. ¬;The more the merrier, we all day hear and see, You, but the fewer the better fare, said he. ¬;The nearer to the church, the farther from God. ¬;Three may keep counsel, if two be away. ¬;True, said Ales, things done can not be undone, Be they done in due time, too late, or too soon, But better late

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than never to repent this ¬;When the sun shines make hay, which is to say, Take time when time comes, lest time steal away ¬;Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake? ¬;You cannot see the wood for the trees.

John Joseph Bernet – 1868-1935:American, railworker, Pres many US Railroads, aka Doc Sick Railroads ¬;Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman JohnJosephGotti–1940-2002:American, criminal boss of NY based Gambino Mafia family, aka TeflonDon ¬;I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

John Joseph 'Jack' Nicholson – 1937- :American, actor, screenwriter, director, producer, won 3 Oscars ¬;My mother never saw the irony of calling me the son of a bitch ¬;The censors say they're protecting the family unit in America, when the reality is, if you suck a tit, you're an X, but if you cut it off with a sword, you're a PG. John Keats – 1795-1821:English, poet esp Romanticism inc Ode to Nightingale & EveOfSt Agnes, writer ¬;Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. ¬;If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. ¬;The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Kenneth Galbraith – 1908-2006:Canadian born American, econ, writer, US Pres Adviser, Econ Prof ¬;A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ¬;All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ¬;Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong. ¬;Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man... begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization — the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. ¬;By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. ¬;Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ¬;Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ¬;Going back to the most ancient times, national well-being, the national prestige depended on territory. The more territory a country had, the more income revenue there was, the more people there were to be mobilized for arms strength. So we had an enormous sense of territorial conflict and territorial integrity, and that was unquestionably a part of the cause of war, coupled with the fact that there was a disposition in that direction by the landed class, a disposition to think of territorial acquisition and territorial defense and to think of the peasantry as a superior form of livestock which could be used for arms purposes. ¬;I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. ¬;I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula. There are some things where the government is absolutely inevitable, which we cannot get along without comprehensive state action. But there are many things — producing consumer goods, producing a wide range of entertainment, producing a wide level of cultural activity — where the market system, which independent activity is also important, so I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership."

I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ¬;If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. ¬;In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. ¬;In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

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¬;In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ¬;In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ¬;In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire freeenterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. ¬;Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system.

And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity. ¬;Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ¬;Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. ¬;Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ¬;Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups. ¬;Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. ¬;People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development. At some stages of development — the stage that India and Pakistan have reached, for example — they are central to the strategy of development. But we are coming to realize, I think, that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. ¬;People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ¬;Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ¬;The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. ¬;The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ¬;The decisive weakness in neoclassical and neo-Keynesian economics is not the error in the assumptions by which it elides the problem of power. The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience. Rather, in eliding power — in making economics a nonpolitical subject — neoclassical theory destroys its relation to the real world. In that world, power is decisive in what happens. And the problems of that world are increasing both in number and in the depth of their social affliction. In consequence, neoclassical and neo-Keynesian economics is relegating its players to the social sidelines where they either call no plays or use the wrong ones. To change the metaphor, they manipulate levers to which no machinery is attached. ¬;The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ¬;The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware. ¬;The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ¬;The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ¬;The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process. However, a more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. ¬;The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

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¬;The traveler to the United States will do well, however, to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others. ¬;There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human oesophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it. ¬;There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ¬;There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. ¬;This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and politics because the firm is safely subordinate to the market and the state and for this reason it is safely at the command of the consumer and citizen. Such an economics is not neutral. It is the influential and invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public. If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. ¬;Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ¬;Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ¬;War remains the decisive human failure. ¬;We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. ¬;We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. ¬;When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. ¬;When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are the students who instruct in error. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. ¬;When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble — until the day of disaster. ¬;Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. ¬;You will find that (the) State (Department) is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

John Kord Lagemann – c.1910-1969:American, journ, col, writer inc WhatManShouldKnowAboutWife ¬;Empathy is the ability to appreciate the other person's feelings without yourself becoming emotionally involved that your judgment is affected. The biggest mistake in dealing with others is to underestimate the importance of their feelings. ¬;Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.

John Lancaster Spalding–1814-1916:American, RomanCatholic priest, Bishop, found CatholicUnivOfAm ¬;Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

John Locke – 1632-1704:English, physician, phil esp empiricism & mind&pol, writer inc 2TreatisesOfGov ¬;All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ¬;All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. ¬;As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. ¬;False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion interest, et cetera. ¬;For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all

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he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. At least, those who have not thoroughly examined to the bottom all their own tenets, must confess they are unfit to prescribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposing that as truth on other men's belief, which they themselves have not searched into, nor weighed the arguments of probability, on which they should receive or reject it. Those who have fairly and truly examined, and are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess and govern themselves by, would have a juster pretence to require others to follow them: but these are so few in number, and find so little reason to be magisterial in their opinions, that nothing insolent and imperious is to be expected from them: and there is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others. ¬;He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ¬;He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it. There is nobody in the commonwealth of learning who does not profess himself a lover of truth: and there is not a rational creature that would not take it amiss to be thought otherwise of. And yet, for all this, one may truly say, that there are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives not the truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other bye-end. ¬;I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. ¬;I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. ¬;It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. ¬;Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits—a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities. - Paraphrased variant: The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason. ¬;New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ¬;Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. ¬;The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom. ¬;The imagination is always restless and suggests a variety of thoughts, and the will, reason being laid aside, is ready for every extravagant project; and in this State, he that goes farthest out of the way, is thought fittest to lead, and is sure of most followers: And when Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. He that will impartially survey the Nations of the World, will find so much of the Governments, Religion, and Manners brought in and continued amongst them by these means, that they will have but little Reverence for the Practices which are in use and credit amongst Men. ¬;The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ¬;The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ¬;There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason. ¬;This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. ¬;To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. ¬;Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron – 1883-1946:English, civil servant, econ esp macroeconomics & political ¬;A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ¬;Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be; and this national weakness finds its nemesis in the stock market.

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¬;Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone ¬;Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ¬;For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable. ¬;I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. ¬;I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ¬;I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. ¬;If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ¬;If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. ¬;It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong. ¬;It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain. ¬;Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history. ¬;Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ¬;Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; ¬;Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. ¬;The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ¬;The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. ¬;The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. ¬;The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ¬;The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. ¬;The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists...and the disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention then either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ¬;The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. ¬;The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. ¬;The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. ¬;The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. ¬;They offer me neither food nor drink — intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilisation which we have already attained. ¬;This is a nightmare, which will pass away with the morning. For the resources of nature and men's devices are just as fertile and productive as they were. The rate of our progress towards solving the material problems of life is not less rapid. We are as capable as before of affording for everyone a high standard of life...and will soon learn to afford a standard higher still. We were not previously deceived. But to-day we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand. The result is that our possibilities of wealth may run to waste for a time—perhaps for a long time. ¬;To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol — a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.

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Himself a schoolboy, too, but the other kind — with ruffled hair, soft hands and a violin. See him as he squats on Cromer beach doing sums, Charlie Chaplin with the brow of Shakespeare...So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against him. He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast — intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing? ¬;Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols. ¬;When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value.

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease ... But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. ¬;When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ¬;Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally. ¬;Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Michael Crichton – 1942-2008:American, screenwriter inc Jurassic Park, prod, dir, writer, novelist ¬;Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue. ¬;Be cautious around anyone who creates proselytizing followers. ¬;Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own. ¬;Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. ¬;I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. ¬;I couldn't leave things alone. I was an urban, technological man accustomed to making things happen. I had been taught countless times that you were supposed to make things happen, that anything less implied shameful passivity. ¬;I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years. In the old days, commentators such as Eric Sevareid spent most of their time putting events in a context, giving a point of view about what had already happened. Telling what they thought was important or irrelevant in the events that had already taken place. This is of course a legitimate function of expertise in every area of human knowledge. But over the years the punditic thrust has shifted away from discussing what has happened, to discussing what may happen. And here the pundits have no benefit of expertise at all. Worse, they may, like the Sunday politicians, attempt to advance one or another agenda by predicting its imminent arrival or demise. This is politicking, not predicting. ¬;In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter t Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. ¬;Most of us have had some experience interacting with religious fundamentalists, and we understand that one of the problems with fundamentalists is that they have no perspective on themselves. They never recognize that their way of thinking is just one of many other possible ways of thinking, which may be equally useful or good.

On the contrary, they believe their way is the right way, everyone else is wrong; they are in the business of salvation, and they want to help you to see things the right way. They want to help you be saved. They are totally rigid and totally uninterested in opposing points of view. In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. ¬;One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations.

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It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. ¬;Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all. ¬;Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method means it is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young.

It's verifiable whether you like the results of a study, or you don't. ¬;Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago. ¬;Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal. ¬;The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance — neither too detached nor too caring — was something few learned. ¬;The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery. ¬;The entire episode left me with a renewed respect for the power of the unconscious mind. What I had demonstrated, to myself at least, was that my ordinary assumption that in some casual and automatic way I know what I am doing, and why, is simply wrong. ¬;The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die. ¬;The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff.

Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk — and as the years go on, and the world population grows increasingly urban, it's uninformed talk. Farmers know what they're talking about. City people don't. It's all fantasy. ¬;This seems to me to confirm the idea that so-called psychic or paranormal phenomena are misnamed. There's nothing abnormal about them. On the contrary, they're utterly normal. We've just forgotten we can do them. The minute we do do them, we recognize them for what they are and think, So what? ¬;Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. ¬;We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears. ¬;What's really wrong with making them the problem is that you abdicate your own responsibility. Once you say some mysterious they is in charge, then you're able to sit back comfortably and complain about how they are doing it. ¬;What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their "beliefs." The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.

John Milton – 1608-1674:English, civil servant, writer, poet inc Paradise Lost, prose polemicist, tutor ¬;Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ¬;He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ¬;If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. ¬;No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

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John Milton Cage–1912-1992–American, composer, musical theorist, phil, poet, artist, printmaker, writer ¬;I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ¬;Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness John Milton Hay – 1838-1905:American, journ, writer, lawyer, sec to Lincoln, dip, 37th US Sec of State ¬;The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. ¬;True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Morley, 1st Viscount – 1838-1923:English, journalist, editor, Liberal politician, Sec of State for India ¬;Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. ¬;Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law. ¬;I said years ago that I would rather be the man who helped on a rational scheme which should secure the comfort of old age than I would be a general who had won ever so many victories in the field. These are, to me, the two most tragic sights in the world—a man who is able to work, and anxious to work, and who cannot get work; and the other tragic sight is that of a man who has worked until his eyes have become dim, and his natural force has become abated, and he is left to spend the declining years of a life that has been so nobly used, so honourably used, in straits, difficulties, and hardships. ¬;It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. ¬;Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. ¬;Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. ¬;You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John N. Gray – 1948- :English, political phil, col, writer, Professor of European Thought & Politics Prof ¬;As commonly practised, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs. In Kant's time the creed of conventional people was Christian, now it is humanist. Nor are these two faiths so different from one another. Over the past 200 years, philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error — the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals. ¬;If Darwin's discovery had been made in a Taoist or Shinto, Hindu or animist culture it would very likely have become just one more strand in its intertwining mythologies. In these faiths humans and other animals are kin.

By contrast, arising among Christians who set humans beyond all other living things, it triggered a bitter controversy that rages on to this day. ¬;Not everything in religion is precious or deserving of reverence. There is an inheritance of anthropocentrism, the ugly fantasy that the Earth exists to serve humans, which most secular humanists share. There is the claim of religious authorities, also made by atheist regimes, to decide how people can express their sexuality, control their fertility and end their lives, which should be rejected categorically. Nobody should be allowed to curtail freedom in these ways, and no religion has the right to break the peace. ¬;Ridden with conflicts and lacking the industrial base of communism and nazism, Islamism is nowhere near a danger of the magnitude of those that were faced down in the 20th century. ¬;Secularism is like chastity, a condition defined by what it denies. ¬;The core of the belief in progress is that human values and goals converge in parallel with our increasing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the contrary. Human beings use the power of scientific knowledge to assert and defend the values and goals they already have. New technologies can be used to alleviate suffering and enhance freedom. They can, and will, also be used to wage war and strengthen tyranny. Science made possible the technologies that powered the industrial revolution. In the twentieth century, these technologies were used to implement state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics do not advance in line with the growth of knowledge — not even in the long run. ¬;The mass political movements of the 20th century were vehicles for myths inherited from religion, and it is no accident that religion is reviving now that these movements have collapsed. ¬;The populist rant about greedy banks that is being loudly ventilated in Congress is a distraction from the true causes of the crisis. The dire condition of America's financial markets is the result of American banks operating in a free-for-all environment that these same American legislators created. It is America's political class that, by embracing the dangerously simplistic ideology of deregulation, has responsibility for the present mess. ¬;The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing. ¬;The whole world is in some ways better than it's ever been in the past. And, indeed, I think for many people the meaning of their lives really depends on that belief. If you strip out that belief in progress, if you start thinking of the world in the way in which the ancient pre-Christian Europeans did, or the Buddhists and the Hindus or the Taoists of China do, many people think that's a kind of despair. I don't know how many times I've been told "If I thought that, John, I wouldn't get up in the morning" and "If I agreed with you, John, that history

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had no pattern of that kind, I wouldn't get up in the morning." I said, "Well, stay in bed a bit longer, you might find a better reason for getting up." ¬;Their minds befogged by fashionable nonsense about globalisation, western leaders believe liberal democracy is spreading unstoppably. The reality is continuing political diversity. Republics, empires, liberal and illiberal democracies, and a wide variety of authoritarian regimes will be with us for the foreseeable future.

Globalisation is nothing more than the industrialisation of the planet, and increasing resource nationalism is an integral part of the process. (So is accelerating climate change, but that's another story.) As industrialisation spreads, countries that control natural resources use these resources to advance their strategic objectives. ¬;Throughout the years in which the US was punishing countries that departed from fiscal prudence, it was borrowing on a colossal scale to finance tax cuts and fund its over-stretched military commitments. Now, with federal finances critically dependent on continuing large inflows of foreign capital, it will be the countries that spurned the American model of capitalism that will shape America's economic future. ¬;To affirm that humans thrive in many different ways is not to deny that there are universal human values. Nor is it to reject the claim that there should be universal human rights. It is to deny that universal values can only be fully realized in a universal regime. Human rights can be respected in a variety of regimes, liberal and otherwise. Universal human rights are not an ideal constitution for a single regime throughout the world, but a set of minimum standards for peaceful coexistence among regimes that will always remain different.

John Nelson Abrams – 1946- :American, army officer, 4* Gen inc Training Command, writer, consultant ¬;If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

John Nelson Wanamaker–1838-1922:American, retailer, aka father ModAdv, Rep pol, US PostmasterGen ¬;Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Patrick Goggan – 1905-1995:American, play inc Teahouse of the August Moon, screen, won Pulitzer ¬;Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Paul Stevens–1920- :American, lawyer esp antitrust, CircuitCourtOfAppealJudge, USSupCourtJust ¬;The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship John Perry Barlow – 1947- :American, lyricist, poet, essayist, Rep pol, found Electronic Frontier Found ¬;Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ¬;Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us.

You have no sovereignty where we gather. ¬;I believe in free markets, but... sometimes you have things that look like free markets but aren't because of artificial reasons. I'm not very happy with the current state of what calls itself free market economy in the world because you've got all these grotesque monopolies that are able to game the system in a way that's to their advantage by virtue of their power, and that's not a free market. A real free market has some kind of countervailing influence from the government to keep a monopoly in check, but this government... it's not about free marketing principles, it's about greed pure and simple. And this government wants to assure that the other people that they went to college with get just as rich as they do. This country is going to make Mexico look like Sweden inside of ten years in terms of wealth distribution, because there are no countervailing forces. They've eliminated tax basically for the ultra-rich, they've eliminated any control over monopolies, the greedy have free reign and its just going to be the super rich and the peasants. ¬;I was always raised to think that Republicans were about limited government, about individual liberty, about fiscal responsibility, about balanced budgets, about a wariness of military adventures abroad, about responsible encouragement to business. There's a whole list of things I thought the Republican Party was all about, and these guys that presently occupy the White House, are categorically against every single one of those things. So if they're Republicans, I'm not. But I'm really not a very comfortable Democrat. I mean the Democrats in the last elections proved themselves to be a bunch of dithering pussies... and it was pathetic. So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. ¬;I wasn't tempted to vote for Bush, but I understand why people did… because he obviously had integrity. It was a terrible kind of integrity, but he does what he says and he means what he says. And what he says is terrible and what he does is terrible, but he's consistent. So I think a lot of people in Wyoming who care so much about integrity that there willing to choose somebody that has a monstrous willingness to do any damn thing as long as he's up front about it — but that's not really quite enough for me. ¬;It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist.

You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about

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curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ¬;Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ¬;TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob. ¬;We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. ¬;You are all optimizing against the imaginable, not the probable. And the imaginable, especially the imaginable evil, has no inertia at all. There is no limit to what it might do and therefore, there is no limit to what one must do to prevent it...If we are to design all of our policies around the worst thing that could possibly happen, if we are trying to achieve a world of such absolute safety that no one in power can ever be blamed for a humancaused catastrophe, we will have to endow law enforcement with powers of surveillance which will make a police state not just imaginable but probable. ¬;Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish. These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

JohnQuincyAdams–1767-1848:American, lawyer, dip, writer, Rhetoric Prof, pol, Mass US Sen, 6thUS Pres ¬;Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. ¬;I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ¬;In the turbid stream of political life, a conscientious man must endeavour to do justice to all, and to return good for evil, but he must always expect evil in return. ¬;The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same. ¬;To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

John Robert Wooden–1910- :American, basketball player & coach, won 10 NCAA championships, writer ¬;Be quick, but don’t hurry. ¬;Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. ¬;Flexibility is the key to stability.

John RonaldReuelTolkien–1892-1973:English, poet, philologist, Anglo-Saxon Prof, novel incLordOfRings ¬;All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. ¬;Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ¬;Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. ¬;He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. ¬;I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ¬;If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ¬;It's a dangerous business going out your front door. ¬;It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. ¬;It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. ¬;Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. ¬;Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... ¬;The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

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¬;The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. ¬;What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

John Ruskin – 1819-1900:English, social philosopher esp Christian socialism, artist, art critic, writer, poet ¬;All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud. ¬;Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it.

Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ¬;For when we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a thing, we get tired of hearing the same tale told over and over again, and stopping always at the same point — we want a new story presently, a newer and better one — and the picture of the day, and novel of the day, become as ephemeral as the coiffure or the bonnet of the day. Now this spirit is wholly adverse to the existence of any lovely art. If you mean to throw it aside to-morrow, you can never have it to-day. ¬;I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power.

But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. ¬;In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ¬;In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. ¬;In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. ¬;It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert. ¬;Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. ¬;Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ¬;Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ¬;Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. ¬;The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. ¬;The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ¬;The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. ¬;There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. ¬;This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. ¬;We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: — the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, — the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little. ¬;What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. ¬;When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. ¬;You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ¬;Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it.

Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

John Russell – 1919-2008:English, art critic esp Sunday Times & New York Times, writer inc Matisse ¬;Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. ¬;A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ¬;Ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd; and it is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present. ¬;Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ¬;Capacity for [higher] nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but my mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying. ¬;Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. ¬;He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. ¬;How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds? ¬;However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. ¬;Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness which does not include their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their scheme of consequences from the utilitarian principle. To do this in any sufficient manner, many Stoic, as well as Christian elements require to be included. But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation. ¬;I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. ¬;I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment. ¬;If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ¬;In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other. ¬;In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ¬;Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes. ¬;It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it. ¬;It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool

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satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides. ¬;Mankind can hardly be too often reminded, that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public opinion of his time, there took place a memorable collision. Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness, this man has been handed down to us by those who best knew both him and the age, as the most virtuous man in it; while we know him as the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue... This acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived — whose fame, still growing after more than two thousand years, all but outweighs the whole remainder of the names which make his native city illustrious — was put to death by his countrymen, after a judicial conviction, for impiety and immorality. ¬;No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. ¬;No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ¬;One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. ¬;People are not aware how entirely, in former ages, the law of superior strength was the rule of life; how publicly and openly it was avowed, ¬;Protection...against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. ¬;Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime. ¬;Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being "pushed to an extreme"; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case. ¬;Stupidity is much the same all the world over. ¬;That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ¬;The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. ¬;The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. ¬;The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. ¬;The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. ¬;The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ¬;The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. ¬;The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and

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practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them...We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from this would be to nourish the worst intellectual habit of all, that of not finding, and not looking for, certainty in any teacher. But the teacher himself should not be held to any creed; nor should the question be whether his own opinions are the true ones, but whether he is well instructed in those of other people, and, in enforcing his own, states the arguments for all conflicting opinions fairly. ¬;The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. ¬;The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion. ¬;To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures. ¬;To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. ¬;To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. ¬;To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common. ¬;Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ¬;We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ¬;Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

John Swinden – 19??-19??:American, writer, journalist, chief-of-staff of The New York Times ¬;There is no such thing at this date of the world's history in America as an independent press. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinion, and if you did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things. and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allow my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it, and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks. They pull the strings, and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

JohnTillotson–1630-1694:English, tutor, essay, Presb priest, preacher, Anglican ArchbishopOfCanterbury ¬;A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. ¬;Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Thomas Sladek – 1937-2000:American, technical writer, novel esp SF inc Tik-Tok, short story writer ¬;The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Tyler – 1790-1862:American, lawyer, Jacksonian Dem-Rep & Whig pol, Virginia Gov, 10th US Pres ¬;Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

John Webster – c.1580-c.1634:English, lawyer, play esp tragedies inc Duchess of Malfi & The White Devil ¬;Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

John Wellman Chaney aka Jack London – 1876-1916:American, sailor, tramp, journ, novel & short story ¬;A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ¬;You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

John WilliamGardner–1912-2002:American, writer, Pres Carnegie, Rep pol, US SecHealthEduc&Welfare ¬;History never looks like history when you are living through it. ¬;Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. ¬;Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ¬;One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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¬;Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ¬;Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen.

It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clear air and water.

Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery. ¬;The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ¬;The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything. ¬;The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ¬;We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems ¬;We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit. ¬;When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

John William 'Johnny' Carson – 1925-2005:American, comedian, TVHost inc TonightShow, won 6Emmys ¬;Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties. ...Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto -- usually a mop or a leaf blower. It means that with proper timing and scrupulous bookkeeping, anyone can die owing the government a huge amount of money. ... Democracy means free television, not good television, but free. ... And finally, democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head -- this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle. ¬;Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be President, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be Vice President ¬;For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. ¬;Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard. ¬;I couldn`t care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself.

I feel that is my right, and anybody who disagrees with that, that`s his business. Whatever you do, you`re going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don`t hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business. ¬;I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. ¬;I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. ¬;It`s silly to have as one`s sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I`m doing, and the fact that I make money at it -- big money -- is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that`s really important, and that`s the freedom of not having to worry about money. I`m concerned about values -- moral, ethical, human values -- my own, other people`s, the country`s, the world`s values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter. ¬;Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ¬;People will pay more to be entertained than educated. ¬;Ronald Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, 'Best wishes, Ronald Reagan. ¬;Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"

JohnWinstonLennon–1940-1980:English, rockmusician esp Beatles, singer, song, peace act, won Grammy ¬;Apathy isn’t it. We can do something. So flower power didn’t work. So what. We start again. ¬;Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. ¬;Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ¬;Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

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¬;The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. ¬;Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. ¬;When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, we'd have peace. ¬;You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

Johnny Allen Hendrix aka James Marshall'Jimi'Hendrix–1942-1970:American, musician esp guitar, song ¬;I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes. ¬;Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ¬;When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jon Lien – 194?- :American born Canadian, scientist, Marine Sci Prof, founded Whale Research Group ¬;The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos of brains and 1,000 kilos of testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about.

Jonathan Charles Rauch – 1960- :American, journ inc Economist, col, writer, public policy act esp gays ¬;It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other...Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

Jonathan Eybeschütz – 1690-1764:Austro-Hungarian, Rabbi, theo, preacher, writer inc Ya'arot Devash ¬;All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

JonathanHarshmanWinters–1925- :American, comedian esp stand up, actor inc MadMadMadMadWorld ¬;I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ¬;If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! ¬;Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Kozol – 1936- :American, writer inc ShameOfTheNation, novelist, educ act, social psychologist ¬;Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Swift – 1667-1745:Irish, essay, satirist, poet, cleric, pol pamphleteer, novel inc Gulliver'sTravels ¬;Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of. ¬;But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. ¬;Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ¬;I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ¬;It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ¬;Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ¬;No wise man ever wished to be younger. ¬;Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. ¬;Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics. ¬;The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ¬;There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense. ¬;There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy. ¬;Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ¬;We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. ¬;When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jorge AgustínNicolásRuizDeSantayana yBorrás akaGeorgeSantayana–1863-1952:Spanish,phil,poet,novel ¬;A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. ¬;A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. ¬;A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ¬;Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ¬;Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ¬;For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. ¬;Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

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¬;The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ¬;The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ¬;The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. ¬;There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ¬;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ¬;Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. ¬;Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo – 1899-1986:Argentine, essay, short story writer, poet, trans ¬;Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ¬; I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ¬;The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

José Julián Martí Pérez – 1853-1895:Cuban, poet, essay, writer, journalist, translator, revolutionary phil ¬;Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Jose Ortega y Gasset – 1883-1955:Spanish, essay, publisher, phil, Professor of Psychology Logic & Ethics ¬;Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ¬;I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. ¬;Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ¬;Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. ¬;Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. ¬;To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ¬;We are in presence of the contradiction of a style of living which cultivates sincerity and is at the same time a fraud. ¬;We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Simon – 1945-2008:American, comedian esp stand up, musician, found ComedyDay in SanFrancisco ¬;In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

Joseph Addison – 1672-1719:English, poet, essayist, play, politician inc Chief Secretary of Ireland, pub ¬;Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ¬;Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ¬;Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ¬;Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. ¬;When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

JosephCharlesSalak–191?-19??:American, col inc NudeLiving&NudeLure, short story writer incCowboy ¬;This summer one third of the nation will be ill-housed, ill-nourished, and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.

Joseph Chilton Pearce – 194?- :American, scientist, lecturer, writer esp educ issues inc Magical Children ¬;To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ¬;We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Heller – 1923-1999:American, copywriter, satirist, play, screen, short story & novel inc Catch-22 ¬;Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. ¬;Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society? ¬;God does have this self-serving habit of putting all blame for His own mistakes on other people, doesn't He? He picks someone arbitrarily, unbidden, right out of the blue so to speak, and levies upon them tasks of monumental difficulty for which we don't always measure up in every particular, then charges US for HIS error in selecting imperfectly. He tends to forget that we are no more infallible than He is. ¬;How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? ¬;It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. ¬;It is neither necessary or possible to educate someone who never questions anything. ¬;Just as the man who wants silver will not be satisfied with silver, a man who wants the blood of another will not be satisfied with having that blood, nor the woman with jewels be satisfied with jewels, and the man who

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wants women will not be satisfied with women. Don't try telling me different. Haven't I looked about me in the city and seen how all labor is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not filled? Don't I know myself that no want is ever satisfied? Wishes are granted, goals attained. But wants? Forget them. They live as long as the person they inhabit. ¬;Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ¬;Outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. ¬;Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it ¬;Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ¬;That might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail. ¬;The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ¬;The last thing any sensible human being should want is immortality. As it is, life lasts too long for most of us. ¬;The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be sceptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a sceptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I think in this country and in Australia too there's a late intolerance in most religions, an intolerance, a part that could easily become persecutions. We have some ultra-orthodox Jewish sects here in New York and I fear them as much as I would fear a Nazi organisation. ¬;There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. ¬;Women don't suffer from penis envy. Men do.

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc – 1870-1953:French born British, hist, novel, poet, editor, Lib pol, MP ¬;I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment ¬;The standard of intellect in politics is so low that men of moderate mental capacity have to stoop in order to reach it.

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien – 1934- :Canadian, lawyer, Liberal Party pol, 20thCanadian Prime Minister ¬;When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

Joseph Joubert – 1754-1824:French, teacher, essay, philosopher, writer inc Pensées, Univ Inspector-Gen ¬;The Aim of an Argument ... should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre – 1753-1821:Savoyard Italian&French, lawyer, dip, writer, phil esp con ¬;False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau – 1919-2000:Canadian, Professor of Law, Liberal pol, 15thPM ¬;A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate. ¬;I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ¬;If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another. ¬;Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ¬;Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future. ¬;Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. ¬;The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Joseph Priestley – 1733-1804:English, theo, phil, educ, political theorist, scientist inc discovered oxygen ¬;In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. ¬;What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Joseph Pulitzer – 1847-1911:Hungarian born American, journ, pub, Rep pol, established Pulitzer prize ¬;A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. ¬;An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ¬;I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

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¬;My newspaper's...cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling – 1865-1936:Indian born British, journ, poet, short story & novel, won Nobel Lit ¬;Funny how the new things are the old things. ¬;Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ¬;He did his best to interest the girl in himself—that is to say, his work—and she, after the manner of women, did her best to appear interested in, what behind his back, she called "Mr. Wressley's Wajahs"; for she lisped very prettily. She did not understand one little thing about them, but she acted as if she did. Men have married on that sort of error before now. ¬;I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. ¬;If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. ¬;Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm. ¬;Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. ¬;There is no sin greater than ignorance. ¬;We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Joseph Warren 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell – 1883-1946:American, army officer, 4*Gen, US WWII Burma Gen ¬;Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Joseph Wood Krutch – 1893-1970:American, naturalist, writer esp nature & bio, theatre critic, Lit Prof ¬;Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. ¬;Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ¬;If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. ¬;It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ¬;It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being. ¬;Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ¬;There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski aka Joseph Conrad – 1857-1924:Polish born British, sailor, novelist ¬;A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. ¬;Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealing with men ¬;It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog. ¬;It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes ¬;The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ¬;The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ¬;There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón – 1881-1958:Spanish, poet esp pure, writer, Spanish Prof, won Nobel Lit ¬;If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Judith Hayes nee Meyer–1945- :American, writer inc InGodWeTrust:ButWhichOne, Happy Heretic guru ¬;A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god. ¬;If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the power of prayer is nil ¬;If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. ¬;The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? ¬;Why is every utterance of the Pope considered to be worthy of worldwide attention and respect? It's like the fawning reverence that was accorded every banal platitude ever uttered by the late Mother Teresa. But the Pope is not exactly on the cutting edge of world events -- or anything else, for that matter. It was only a little over a year ago, in October 1996, that John Paul II announced that the scientific theory of evolution could be said to be

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valid. That message was received with enthusiastic approval in many circles throughout the world. Warm congratulations were offered to John Paul, just as they had been in 1979. In that year he declared that the Roman Catholic Church had been mistaken when it sentenced a 70-year-old Galileo to house arrest (with threats of the tortures of The Inquisition) for insisting that the Earth orbits the Sun, not vice versa. Mistaken?! No, not mistaken. A mistake is when you slip the wrong key into your front door. The Church's treatment of Galileo, one of the world's few geniuses, was viciously cruel and betrays the unenlightened, progress-impeding attitude that has dominated the Church since its inception. And they were as wrong as it is possible to be. ¬;Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before Judith Martin nee Perlman – 1938- :American, journ, drama critic, columnist 'Miss Manners', writer ¬;"Dear Miss Manners: Does joint custody mean I always have to be polite to someone I can’t stand? "Gentle Reader: Yes. But think of the benefits. You will set an unparalleled example of civilized behaviour ¬;"Dear Miss Manners: How is a hat correctly worn? "Gentle Reader: Same as always; on the head." ¬;Dear Miss Manners: What is the proper way to eat potato chips? Gentle Reader: With a knife and fork. A fruit knife and an oyster fork, to be specific. Good heavens, what is the world coming to? Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ¬;Dear Miss Manners: What should I say when I am introduced to a homosexual "couple?" Gentle Reader: "How do you do?" "How do you do?" ¬;If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. ¬;If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. ¬;It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ¬;Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ¬;Miss Manners doubts that there is anything in the world like an elegantly dressed Bostonian lurching across the room and diving face first into a bowl of guacamole dip while simultaneously disengaging her bodice from her bosom. Therefore, Miss Manners has a wee bit of trouble preparing a general rule for dealing with this eventuality. ¬;There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. ¬;We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judy Carter – 196?- :American, magician, comedienne esp stand up, lecturer, writer inc Standup Comedy ¬;Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.

Judy Garland – 1922-1969:American, singer inc OverRainbow, actress inc Wizard of Oz & A Star is Born ¬;Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Jules Henri Poincare – 1854-1912:French, mining eng, math, theoretical physicist, sci phil, Prof of Math ¬;Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ¬;Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Jules Ralph Feiffer–1929- :American, cartoonist, play, screen, writer, Media Prof, won Pulitzer & Oscar ¬;Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

JulianaLuiseEMWilhelmina vanOranje-Nassau akaQueenJulianaI–1909-2004:Dutch, Netherlands Queen ¬;I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

Julius Gordon, Rabbi – 189?-19??:American, Jewish theo esp UnionFor ReformJudaism, Rabbi inc Mass ¬;Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx–1890-1977:American, vaudeville&film actor, singer, comedian, wit, TVhost ¬;Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ¬;He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. ¬;I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ¬;In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. ¬;Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like

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mine: we both were crazy about girls. ¬;Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ¬;Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ¬;Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ¬;Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ¬;The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. ¬;The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. ¬;Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer–1904-1967:American, theoretical physic, Physics Prof, akaFatherAtomBomb ¬;No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ¬;The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ¬;There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ¬;We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert. ¬;When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Julius Rosenwald – 1862-1932:American, clothier, Chairman Sears Roebuck, philanthropist ¬;Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary Justin Brooks Atkinson – 1894-1984:American, journ esp NY Times, editor, theatre critic, won Pulitzer ¬;In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ¬;The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. ¬;The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

K Karl Augustus Menninger – 1893-1990:American, psychiatrist, founded Menninger Clinic, writer ¬;The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

Karl Heinrich Marx – 1818-1883:German, phil, political economist, hist, sociologist, found Communism ¬;Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ¬;For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. ¬;In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ¬;It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.

History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ¬;It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness. ¬;Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. ¬;Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ¬;Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ¬;Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ¬;The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. ¬;The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. ¬;The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr–1892-1971:American, Pastor, theo esp Christian Realism, PracticalTheoProf ¬;All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

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¬;God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ¬;Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it necessary. ¬;Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. ¬;The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself. ¬;The inevitable hypocrisy, which is associated with the all the collective activities of the human race, springs chiefly from this source: that individuals have a moral code with make the actions of collective man an outrage to their conscious. They therefore invent romantic and moral interpretations of the real facts, preferring to obscure rather than reveal the true character of their collective behavior. Sometimes they are as anxious to offer moral justifications for the brutalities from which they suffer as for those which they commit. The fact that the hypocrisy of man's group behavior... expresses itself not only in terms of self-justification but in terms of moral justification of human behavior in general, symbolizes one of the tragedies of the human spirit: its inability to conform its collective life to its individual ideals. As individuals, men believe they ought to love and serve each other and establish justice between each other. As racial, economic and national groups they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. ¬;The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends. ¬;The modern man is . . . certain about his essential virtue . . . [and since] he does not see that he has a freedom of spirit which transcends both nature and reason . . . [he] is unable to understand the real pathos of his defiance of nature's and reason's laws. He always imagines himself betrayed into this defiance either by some accidental corruption in his past history or by some sloth of reason. Hence he hopes for redemption, either through a program of social reorganization or by some scheme of education. ¬;The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ¬;We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized. ¬;While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

Karol Józef Wojtyła aka Pope John Paul II–1920-2005:Polish, priest, Cardinal, 264th Catholic Sup Pontiff ¬;All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture. For an adequate formation of a culture, the involvement of the whole man is required, whereby he exercises his creativity, intelligence, and knowledge of the world and of people. Furthermore, he displays his capacity for self-control, personal sacrifice, solidarity and readiness to promote the common good. ¬;Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. ¬;Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance! ¬;There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts.

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn–1928- :English, journalist, columnist, writer, editor, model, radio broadc ¬;A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. ¬;A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. ¬;Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. ¬;An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director’s chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl’s chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on). ¬;Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ¬;From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ¬;I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

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¬;I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. ¬;I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one. ¬;Men have four legs: food, food, sex and food. ¬;Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in. ¬;The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it ¬;The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. ¬;The trouble with so many born-again people is that you wish they hadn’t been born the first time. ¬;There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes ¬;When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn – 1907-2003:American, theatre&media actress inc LionInWinter, 4 Oscars ¬;Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. ¬;Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Kathleen Mansfield Murry nee Beauchamp – 1888-1923:NewZealander, poet, short story writer ¬;Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude. ¬;Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in. ¬;Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Paterson nee Womeldorf – 1932- :Chinese born American, novelist inc Bridge To Teribithia ¬;Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Katrina van den Heuvel – 1959- :American, journ esp on Russia, pub, editor, owner Nation mag, pol act ¬;I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

Kazuo Inamori – 1932- :Japanese, ent, founder of Kyocera & KDDI Corp, philanth, found Kyoto Prize ¬;Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of selfcentered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Kelvin Throop III–1964- :American, fictional character in AnalogMag by R A J Philips, then many others ¬;Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. ¬;Computer people have often spoken of the "gigo" effect, standing for "garbage in - garbage out." What gives some of us chills is the thought of a second meaning of "gigo": "garbage in - gospel out." It can happen here. ¬;God doesn't want to make it too easy for His children — many of them are spoiled enough already. ¬;Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? ¬;Just because there's twilight doesn't mean you can't tell the difference between night and day. ¬;Many of our most important decisions are made by someone too inexperienced to have much idea what he's doing. ¬;Nobody ever prevented a war by firing the first shot. ¬;Rules are solutions to yesterdays problems. ¬;Why does our culture consider supervising good work more deserving of respect and compensation than doing good work?

Ken Hakuta aka Dr. Fad – 195?- :American, inv, ent, TV personality inc Dr. Fad Show, found AllHerb ¬;Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Kenneth McKenzie 'Ken' Wark – 1961- :Australian, col, cultural phil, writer, Prof of Culture & Media ¬;We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

Kenneth Peacock Tynan – 1927-1980:English, journ, theatre critic inc TheObservor, prod, writer, screen ¬;A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. ¬;A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. ¬;A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. ¬;Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. ¬;I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until

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everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair”. ¬;Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard. ¬;Western man, especially the Western critic, still finds it very hard to go into print and say: 'I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection. ¬;When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.

Kent Nerburn – 195?- :American, sculptor, native anthropologist, phil, writer inc Chief Joseph & Flight.. ¬;Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ¬;In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others. ¬;We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine – 197?- :American, creators of Ask a Ninja comedy films from 2005 on ¬;Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.

Kevin Kelly–1952- :American, journ, photographer, editor inc WiredMagazine, writer, environmental act ¬;The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Kevin Patrick Smith – 1970- :American, actor, screen, prod, director, comic-book writer, writer,podcaster ¬;My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

Kingsley William Amis – 1922-1995:English, poet, lit critic, lecturer, writer, novelist inc Lucky Jim, screen ¬;If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

KonradZachariasLorenz–1903-1989:Austrian,zoologist&animalpsych,ornithologist, wonNobelPhysiology ¬;All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction ¬;It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ¬;The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual....One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff..

Kristin Elaine Hunter aka Kristin Hunter Lattany – 1931-2008:American, journ, writer inc God Bless ¬;First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kuan Yew 'Harry' Lee – 1923- :Singaporean, lawyer, PeoplesActionParty pol, 1st SingaporePrimeMinister ¬;I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You are not a leader. ¬;In America itself, after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programmes, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neigbourhoods are insecure, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself. ¬;Low salaries will draw in the hypocrites who sweet talk their way into power in the name of public service, but once in charge will show their true colour, and ruin the country. ¬;What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups..It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances. ¬;With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural background, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

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Kurt Herbert Alder – 1902-1958:German, chemist, Experimental Chemistry Prof, won Nobel Chemistry ¬;Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

Kurt Tucholsky – 1890-1935:German, journ, editor inc DieWeltbühne, satirist, song, poet, soc&pol critic ¬;Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic ¬;I do not want to think about the Church; there is no use discussing with a religion if its point of view has been protected by the penal law. ¬;If elections changed anything, they would be forbidden. ¬;Soldiers are murderers Kurt Vonnegut – 1922-2007:American, satirist, novelist esp SF, President American Humanist Association ¬;A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it. ¬;About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. ¬;Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ¬;During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. ¬;Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. ¬;Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. ¬;He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. ¬;Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. ¬;Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East?

Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. ¬;I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. ... The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.

Film doesn't create illusions. It makes them impossible. It's a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's. ¬;I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy — because we’re experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that’s what’s going on now. ¬;I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. ¬;I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ¬;I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. ¬;If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC. ¬;If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ¬;If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler? ¬;If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. ¬;It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There are people, particularly dumb people, who are in terrible trouble and never get out of it, because they're not intelligent enough. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry — or laugh. ¬;Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. ¬;Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.

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¬;My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die.

There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM. ¬;New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. ¬;One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. ¬;One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. ¬;Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! ¬;Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting. They think that the whole country is sick of it, and they could be right. It isn't the gold standard that they want to put us back on. They want something even more basic. They want to put us back on the snake-oil standard. ¬;Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them. ¬;Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ¬;The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage — and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still — I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art. ¬;The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority. ¬;The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected. ¬;Vietnam...only made billionaires out of millionaires. (Iraq) is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress. ¬;We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ¬;We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. ¬;Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books ... why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it's been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with ... humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it's presumably to encourage them to make a better world. ¬;When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform — uncontrollable fear. ¬;You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.

Kurt Zadek Lewin – 1890-1947:Polish Prussian born American, psychologist, aka founder of social psych ¬;A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

L Lajos Kossuth – 1802-1894:Hungarian, journalist, lawyer, writer, politician, Hungarian Regent-President ¬;The unspoken word never does harm.

Langston Trey Coleman – 194?- :American, professional American footballer, political aide, educ admin ¬;Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Laozi aka Lao-tzu etc – c.600-c.470 BC:Chinese, phil esp Taoism, writer esp Daodejing or Tao Te Ching ¬;A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ¬;A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. 'Fail to honour people' they fail to honour you.' But of a good leader, who talks

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little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves. ¬;Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. ¬;He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. ¬;He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. ¬;He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened. ¬;How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ¬;Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ¬;Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! ¬;Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force. ¬;Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. ¬;The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. ¬;The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ¬;The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. ¬;To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. ¬;Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ¬;Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ¬;When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ¬;Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.

Larry Claxton Flynt – 1942- :American, porn entrepreneur, pub esp Hustler, found Larry Flynt Pub ¬;Freedom of speech doesn’t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don’t like. ¬;I don't mind women protesting, but why can't some cute ones do it? ¬;If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me. ¬;Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper ¬;Murder is a crime. Writing about it isn't. Sex is not a crime, but writing about it is. Why? ¬;My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling. ¬;My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing. ¬;That's 'Mr. Smut Peddler' to you! ¬;There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. ¬;You take a picture of a murder, which is illegal, and you can win Picture of the Year for TIME Magazine. You take a picture of two people having sex, which is not illegal, and you can get thrown in jail.

Larry Lorenzoni, Father – 1923- :Italian born American, Roman Catholic Salesian Order priest, teacher ¬;Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ¬;The average person thinks he isn't.

Laurence Johnston Peter – 1919-1990:American, educator, trainer, Educ Prof, writer esp Peter Principle ¬;A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. ¬;A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. ¬;A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. ¬;Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ¬;America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. ¬;An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ¬;An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ¬;Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ¬;Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. ¬;Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. ¬;Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ¬;Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ¬;Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ¬;Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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¬;Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. ¬;Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. ¬;Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ¬;Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. ¬;Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ¬;Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. ¬;If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ¬;If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ¬;In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. ¬;In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ¬;It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. ¬;Lead, follow, or get out of the way. ¬;Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. ¬;Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it. ¬;Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? ¬;Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. ¬;Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ¬;Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings ¬;Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. ¬;Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. ¬;Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ¬;Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ¬;The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. ¬;The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ¬;The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn. ¬;The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ¬;The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ¬;There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. ¬;There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. ¬;When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. ¬;You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Laurens Jan van der Post – 1906-1996:South African, journ, writer, dip, explorer, educ, conservationist ¬;Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Lawrence Joseph 'Larry' Ellison – 1944- :American, software eng, entrepreneur, founder Oracle Corp ¬;Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

Lech Walesa – 1943- :Polish, shipyard worker, trade union act, pol, Polish Pres, won Noble Peace Prize ¬;I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ¬;The Polish Communists are just like radishes. They are only red on the outside.

Lee Simonson – 1888-1967:American, painter, theatre set designer esp Guild Theatre, architect, writer ¬;Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Leo Anthony Gallagher – 1946- :American, comedian esp stand up & prop comic, writer, politician ¬;Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ¬;If "pro" is the opposite of "con", is "progress" the opposite of "congress"?

Leo Calvin Rosten – 1908-1997:Russian born American, humourist, journalist, writer, scriptwriter, educ ¬;Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ¬;Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. ¬;For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed. ¬;I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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¬;I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ¬;I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. ¬;If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. ¬;If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. ¬;Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. ¬;Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci–1452-1519:Florentine Italian, eng, sci, artist, sculptor, architect, polymath ¬;Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ¬;Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ¬;Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ¬;Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ¬;He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ¬;It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ¬;Learning never exhausts the mind. ¬;Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. ¬;Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. ¬;Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ¬;The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. ¬;The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ¬;The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ¬;There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. ¬;Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. ¬;You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leone Levi – 1821-1888:Italian born English, statistician, lawyer, writer, Professor of Commerce Law ¬;Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

Leopold Stein–1810-1882:Frankfurt German, poet, writer, teacher, pub, Jewish reform theologian, Rabbi ¬;To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Leroy Robert 'Satchel' Paige–1906-1982:American, professional baseball player in Negro&MajorLeagues ¬;Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ¬;Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ¬;How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Leslie Townes 'Bob' Hope – 1903-2003:English born American, actor inc Road Series, comedian, broadc ¬;A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ¬;I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. ¬;I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap. ¬;I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money. ¬;Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. ¬;Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ¬;My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. ¬;No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties. ¬;People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein aka Leon Trotsky – 1879-1940:Russian, phil, Bolshevik pol, founded Red Army ¬;A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. ¬;A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel. ¬;Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. ¬;Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full. ¬;Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

Lev Nikolayevich 'Leo' Tolstoy, Count – 1828-1910:Russian phil, educ, writer, novelist inc War & Peace ¬;A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.

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executioner who kills only condemned criminals, but one ready to butcher any innocent man at the word of command. ¬;Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ¬;I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. ¬;In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ¬;Teachers must …regard every imperfection in the pupils not as a defect … but as a deficit in his or her own instruction, and endeavour to develop… the ability to discover a new method of teaching. ¬;The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. ¬;Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ¬;What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. ¬;What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky – 1896-1934:Belarusian Russian, psychologist, found cultural-historical psych ¬;The teacher must orient his work not on yesterday’s development in the child but on tomorrow’s.

Lewis H Lapham – 1935- :American, writer esp politics&society, journalist, editor Harpers Mag, broadc ¬;A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. ¬;As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. ¬;By declaring 'war on terrorism' the Bush administration had declared war on an unknown enemy and an abstract noun...[which would be similar to] sending the 101st Airborne Division to conquer lust ¬;Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. ¬;I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ¬;If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. ¬;If the laundering of money is the most conspicuous of the nation’s rituals, it is the practice of philanthropy that most vividly expressed the American genius for the arts of ablution. … a considerable sum of the largesse serves to clothe the criminal nakedness of the donor in the robes of virtue. ¬;In societies willing to earn the future instead of bidding up its price on a foreign market, the desire for life precedes the desire for profit. This elementary law of survival is bound to be denied as long as profit is believed to be a sacrament. Although we loot the world of its resources, we cannot think of anything to do with the spoils except to build the tombs of the national security state. ¬;More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth ¬;Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return. ¬;Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? ¬;People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. ¬;Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of ''consensus.'' In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics. ¬;The American education system is ... an inept and insolent bureaucracy armed with badly written textbooks instills in the class the attitudes of passivity, compliance, and boredom. ¬;The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy. ¬;The media compose the pictures of a preferred reality, and their genius is that of the nervous careerist who

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serves, simultaneously, two masters--the demos, whom they astound with marvels and fairy tales, and the corporate nobility, whose interests they assiduously promote and defend. ¬;The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend. ¬;The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den. ¬;The people who earn the most money are never those who advance the frontiers of knowledge or extend the reach of the sympathetic imagination. With surprisingly few exceptions the highest fees are paid to the people who deal in the commodity of money. ¬;To the extent that the delight in money becomes a transcendent faith, the converts to "the world's leading religion" imagine that money stands as surrogate for all the other denominations of human currency--for love, work, art, play and thought. ¬;To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. ¬;Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. ¬;Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ¬;We have a government in Washington that doesn't defend the liberty of the American people, steals from the poor to feed the rich, finds its wealth and happiness in the waging of ceaseless war ¬;We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer ''Yes, but I did it for the money',' satisfy all but the most tiresome objections. ¬;What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press. ¬;Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

Lewis Mumford – 1895-1990:American, hist esp City in History, scientific philosopher, writer, lit critic ¬;Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. ¬;But what would become of mass production and its system of financial expansion if technical perfection, durability, social efficiency, and human satisfaction. The very condition for current financial success — constantly expanding production and replacement — works against these ends. To ensure the rapid absorption of its immense productivity, megatechnics resorts to a score of different devices: consumer credit, installment buying, multiple packaging, non-functional designs, meretricious novelties, shoddy materials, defective workmanship, built-in fragility, or forced obsolescence through frequent arbitrary changes of fashion. Without constant enticement and inveiglement by advertising, production would slow down and level off to normal replacement demand. Otherwise many products could reach a plateau of efficient design which would call for only minimal changes from year to year. ¬;Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ¬;Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ¬;I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. ¬;If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of good will — and that is the supreme task of our generation, and the foundation of all its other potential achievements — we must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent. ¬;Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ¬;Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. ¬;New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. ¬;Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence

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when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. ¬;The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. ¬;The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. ¬;The human mind possesses a special advantage over the brain: for once it has created impressive symbols and has stored significant memories, it can transfer its characteristic activities to materials like to stone and paper that outlast the original brain's brief life-span. When the organism dies, the brain dies, too, with all its lifetime accumulations. But the mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them. ¬;Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ¬;Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ¬;Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. ¬;Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and build-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. ¬;Values do not come ready-made: they are achieved by a resolute attempt to square the facts of one's own experience with the historic patterns formed in the past by those who devoted their whole lives to achieving and expressing values. If we are to express the love in our own hearts, we must also understand what love meant to Socrates and Saint Francis, to Dante and Shakespeare, to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, to the explorer Shackleton and to the intrepid physicians who deliberately exposed themselves to yellow fever. These historic manifestations of love are not recorded in the day's newspaper or the current radio program: they are hidden to people who possess only fashionable minds. ¬;War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing ¬;We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

Lewis Wendell Willkie - 1892-1944:American, lawyer esp corp, businessman, writer, Rep pol, Pres cand ¬;The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Lhamo Döndrub aka Jetsun J. N. L. Y. Tenzin Gyatso aka 14th Dalai Lama – 1935- :Tibetan, relg leader ¬;All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons. ¬;All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ¬;Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ¬;I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. ¬;If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ¬;If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ¬;It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ¬;Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ¬;My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ¬;Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ¬;The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. ¬;There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Lido Anthony 'Lee'Iacocca–1924- :American, businessman, PresChrysler, writer incWhereLeadersGone? ¬;People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. ¬;The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. ¬;There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got

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raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'

Lillian Eichler Watson–1902-19??:American, copywriter inc Doubleday, writer esp manners inc Etiquette ¬;Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. ¬;There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present Lillian Florence Hellman – 1905-1984:American, playwright inc The Children's Hour, writer, social act ¬;A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. ¬;Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ¬;I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ¬;It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ¬;Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Lin Yutang – 1895-1976:Chinese, writer, trans esp classical Chinese literature, inv inc Chinese typewriter ¬;A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals. ¬;Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ¬;If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ¬;Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey ¬;It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ¬;Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. ¬;This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of thought and life. It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths. In fact I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. ¬;Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. ¬;When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ¬;When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.

Linus Carl Pauling – 1901-1994:American, chemist, writer, peace act, won Nobel Peace & Noble Chem ¬;I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world. ¬;I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' [Pause.] The twenty-five percent is for error. ¬;If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. ¬;It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or decisions made by the people who really are running things. It no longer makes sense. Nobody wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is all of this human suffering ¬;Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set.

But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. ¬;Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. ¬;The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be sceptical — always think for yourself. ¬;When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong.

Logan Pearsall Smith – 1865-1946:American born British, essay, literary critic, writer inc Words&Idioms ¬;Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ¬;Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. ¬;People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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¬;Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. ¬;Thank heavens the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. ¬;The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. ¬;The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. ¬;There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ¬;To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. ¬;When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ¬;You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.

Lois Wyse – 1926-2007:American, advertising exec, poet, novel, writer, journalist, col esp TheWayWeAre ¬;Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis – 1856-1941 : American, lawyer aka People's Lawyer, US Supreme Court Justice ¬;Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means-to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal-would bring terrible retribution.

Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face. ¬;If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. ¬;Instead of holding a position of independence, between the wealthy and the people, prepared to curb the excesses of either, able lawyers have, to a large extent, allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great corporations and have neglected the obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people. We hear much of the 'corporation lawyer,' and far too little of the 'people's lawyer.' ¬;It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. . . If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. . . Georgia asserts the right to protect the individual's mind from the effects of obscenity. We are not certain that this argument amounts to anything more than the assertion that the State has the right to control the moral content of a person's thoughts. ¬;No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs ¬;Only through participation by the many in the responsibilities and determinations of business can Americans secure the moral and intellectual development which is essential to the maintenance of liberty. ¬;The consumer had abrogated his role as a countervailing power against bigness. . . He lies not only supine, but paralyzed, and deserves to suffer like others who take their lickings 'lying down.' ¬;The defendant's objections to the evidence obtained by wire-tapping must, in my opinion, be sustained. It is, of course, immaterial where the physical connection with the telephone wires leading into the defendant's premises was made. And it is also immaterial that the intrusion was in aid of law enforcement. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ¬;The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ¬;The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery. To satisfy a prurient taste the details of sexual relations are spread broadcast in the columns of the daily papers. To occupy the indolent, column upon column is filled with idle gossip, which can only be procured by intrusion upon the domestic circle. The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world, and man, under the refining influence of culture, has become more sensitive to publicity, so that solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury. ¬;The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life, and, hence to be borne with resignation.

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¬;Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient tool employed by individuals in the conduct of private business have become an institution-an institution which has brought such concentration of economic power that so-called private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the state. The typical business corporation of the last century, owned by a small group of individuals, managed by their owners, and limited in size by their private wealth, is being supplanted by huge concerns in which the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands of employees and the property of tens of hundreds of thousands of investors are subjected, through the corporate mechanism, to the control of a few men. Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. And, as ownership of the shares is becoming continually more dispersed, the power which formerly accompanied ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. . . . [and] coincident with the growth of these giant corporations, there has occurred a marked concentration of individual wealth; and that the resulting disparity in incomes is a major cause of the existing depression. ¬;To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution. ¬;We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place. ¬;We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ¬;When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just – 1767-1794:French, poet, pol, memb Rev Committee of Public Safety ¬;Keep cool and you command everybody.

LouisDearbornLaMoore, later L'Amour–1908-1988:American, itinerant, short story & novel esp Western ¬;A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

Louis Malcolm 'Mal' Boyd – 1927-2007:American, journalist, columnist inc Mike Mailway & Grab Bag ¬;Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

Louis Pasteur – 1822-1895:French, microbiologist, chemist, dev pasteurization & vaccinations, ChemProf ¬;Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. ¬;In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. ¬;Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ¬;Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ¬;There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. ¬;Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louise Lester Beal–1867-1952:American, stage&film actress esp silent films incWestern incCalamityAnne ¬;Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues – 1715-1747:French, soldier, essay, writer, phil, literary critic ¬;It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. ¬;The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger – 4 BC-65 AD:Roman, phil esp Stoicism, writer, play, pol ¬;All cruelty springs from weakness. ¬;Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ¬;Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse. ¬;He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. ¬;He who does not prevent crime when he can encourages it. ¬;He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. ¬;I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. ¬;I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ¬;If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. ¬;It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. ¬;It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ¬;It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

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¬;It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. ¬;It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ¬;It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ¬;It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ¬;It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. ¬;Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies. It is just as possible for you to see in him a freeborn man as for him to see in you a slave. ¬;Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. ¬;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ¬;Many things have fallen only to rise higher. ¬;Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. ¬;The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. ¬;The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. ¬;Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ¬;To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. ¬;Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors. ¬;We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? There are no limits to our greed, none to our cruelty. And as long as such crimes are committed by stealth and by individuals, they are less harmful and less portentous; but cruelties are practised in accordance with acts of senate and popular assembly, and the public is bidden to do that which is forbidden to the individual. Deeds that would be punished by loss of life when committed in secret, are praised by us because uniformed generals have carried them out. Man, naturally the gentlest class of being, is not ashamed to revel in the blood of others, to wage war, and to entrust the waging of war to his sons, when even dumb beasts and wild beasts keep the peace with one another. Against this overmastering and widespread madness philosophy has become a matter of greater effort, and has taken on strength in proportion to the strength which is gained by the opposition forces. ¬;We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. ¬;Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. ¬;What once were vices are manners now.

Lucius Cary, 2ndViscount Falkland – 1610-1643:English, soldier, writer esp Infallibility, Royalist politician ¬;If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus aka Plutarch – 46-120:Greek born Roman, historian, essay, writer, priest, dip ¬;Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ¬;For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ¬;It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ¬;Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. ¬;He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. ¬;It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp. ¬;Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ¬;Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. ¬;No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. ¬;Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle. ¬;Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is adversity. ¬;Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ¬;Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ¬;The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth. Suppose someone were to go and ask his neighbors for fire and find a substantial blaze there, and just stay there continually warming himself: that is no different from someone who goes to someone else to get to some of his rationality, and fails to realize that he ought to ignite his own flame, his own intellect, but is happy to sit entranced by the lecture, and the words

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trigger only associative thinking and bring, as it were, only a flush to his cheeks and a glow to his limbs; but he has not dispelled or dispersed, in the warm light of philosophy, the internal dank gloom of his mind. ¬;The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. ¬;Thus our judgments, if they do not borrow from reason and philosophy a fixity and steadiness of purpose in their acts, are easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others, which make us distrust our own opinions. ¬;To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ¬;To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. ¬;When the candles are out all women are fair.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein–1889-1951:Austrian born British, phil esp analytic philosophy, writer ¬;A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. ¬;A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ¬;Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability. ¬;I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false. ¬;If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. ¬;If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ¬;If you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?" ¬;Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ¬;Remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. ¬;Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said. ¬;The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

(One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. ¬;To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. ¬;Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ¬;What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about. ¬;What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will. ¬;When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard – 1897-1977:German, businessman, econ, CDU pol, West German Chancellor ¬;A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Lydia Maria Child – 1802-1880:American, journalist, novelist, pol activist, poet inc Through the Woods ¬;Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion?

The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ¬;That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ¬;They (the slaves) have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians! ¬;You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. ¬;We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson – 1908-1973:American, political aide, Dem pol, Texas US Senator, 36th US Pres ¬;A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. ¬;If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". ¬;I strive for the best and I do the possible. ¬;If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves. ¬;Law is the greatest human invention. All the rest give him mastery over his world, but law gives him mastery over himself. ¬;Only two things are necessary to keep a wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her way, and the other is to let her have it. ¬;Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. ¬;The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ¬;We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. ¬;Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. ¬;You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. ¬;You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: 'now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.' You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe you have been completely fair... This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

Lynn Johnston – 1947- :Canadian, medical & graphic artist, animator, cartoonist inc ForBetterForWorse ¬;Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. ¬;Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking.

They'll encourage you to death.

Lynn Lavner – 195?- :American, musician, comedienne inc stand up esp pol incorrect & Lesbian&Jewish ¬;The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

M M. Joseph 'Joe' Sobran – 1946- :American, lecturer, journalist inc NationalReviewMag, col, writer, editor ¬;Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves. ¬;Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ¬;Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ¬;Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth. ¬;The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. ¬;The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent. ¬;To say that society requires the state amounts to saying that human social life depends on granting some men the power to kill and enslave others, rather than on freedom, love, cooperation, and production. By this logic, the Soviet Union should have been the most prosperous of societies. But it was just the opposite. Ruling with uninhibited terror, it killed, enslaved, and impoverished millions, never producing so much as a new egg-beater or can opener. Force is the mortal enemy of creation. ¬;We ‘re supposed to think that the system that can extort half our earnings from us is benevolent? The majority of people always fall for the idea that if the state is hurting someone else even worse than it’s hurting them, it’s on their side, and is therefore their friend, protector and benefactor. As long as the government is prepared to bomb foreigners to death, Americans imagine that their proximate enemy is defending them.

Madeline Hunter – 197?- :American, novel esp hist romance inc StealingHeaven, Professor of Art History ¬;If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow. . . go to the cutting edge of your competence, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you are growing.

Madeleine L'Engle Camp – 1918-2007:American, novel esp for young adults inc WrinkleInTime, actress ¬;Alike and Equal are not the same. ¬;Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is. Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable

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fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. ¬;I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. ¬;It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. ¬;Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. ¬;That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ¬;Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. ¬;We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. We can give a child a self-image. But is this a good idea? Hitler did a devastating job at that kind of thing.

So does Chairman Mao. ... I haven't defined a self, nor do I want to. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Madonna Louise Ciccone – 1958- :American, singer, actress, prod, dir, ent, Billboard No. 1 top artist ever ¬;A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you. ¬;Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous. ¬;I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me. Our greatest risk is not terrorism, and it's not Iraq or the "Axis of Evil". Our greatest risk is a lack of leadership, a lack of honesty and a complete lack of consciousness. Unfortunately our current government cannot see the big picture. They think too small. They suffer from the “what's in it for me?” syndrome. The simple truth is that the current administration has squandered incredible opportunities to bring the world together, to promote peace in regions that have only known war, to encourage health in places that are ravaged with disease, to make us more secure by living up to our principles at home and abroad. The simple truth is that the policies of our current administration do not reflect what is great about America. ¬;I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. ¬;I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist. ¬;I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ¬;Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ¬;Love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family ¬;Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die? ¬;One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. When you get your head wrapped around that, you can no longer think of life as a series of random events - you participate in life in a way you didn't previously. I am the architect of my destiny. I am in charge. I bring that to me, or I push that away. You can no longer blame other people for things that happened to you. ¬;One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal. ¬;Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ¬;To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt. ¬;You know Catholics. I used to draw people naked all the time in my art class and my nun teachers used to tell me I had to put clothes on them. So I just drew lines around their bodies. See-through clothes.

Malcolm Gladwell – 1963- :British born Canadian, journ, writer inc Tipping Point, 'popular' sociologist ¬;It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research ¬;We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ¬;We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes – 1919-1990:American, politician, publisher Forbes Mag, motorcyclist act ¬;Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ¬;Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. ¬;Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

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¬;Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ¬;Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ¬;Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ¬;If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route. ¬;If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ¬;It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ¬;It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. ¬;Let your children go if you want to keep them. ¬;Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. ¬;Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. ¬;The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ¬;There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. ¬;Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ¬;When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. ¬;When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. ¬;When you cease to dream you cease to live. ¬;You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm 'X' Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz – 1925-1965:American, radical pol, Black&Muslim act ¬;Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the "religious" claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation ... where Spain used to be, as the European Zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine? ¬;I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. ¬;If it doesn't take senators and congressmen and presidential proclamations to give freedom to the white man, it is not necessary for legislation or proclamation or Supreme Court decisions to give freedom to the Black man.

You let that white man know, if this is a country of freedom, let it be a country of freedom; and if it's not a country of freedom, change it. ¬;If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. ¬;I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. ¬;In Asia or the Arab world or in Africa, where the Muslims are, if you find one who says he's white, all he's doing is using an adjective to describe something that is incidental about him…. There is nothing else to it. He's just white. But when you get the white man over here in America and he says he's white, he means something else. You can listen to the sound of his voice when he says he's white. He means he's boss. ¬;In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again — as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. ¬;Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists -- some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white! ¬;The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ¬;They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice." I feel that if white people were attacked by Negroes — if the forces of law prove unable, or inadequate, or reluctant to protect those whites from those Negroes — then those white people should protect and defend themselves from those Negroes, using arms if necessary. And I feel that when the law fails to protect Negroes from whites' attacks, then those Negroes should use arms if necessary to defend themselves.

"Malcolm X advocates armed Negroes!" What was wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong. I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes — that's all right: "Have patience"..."The customs are entrenched"..."Things will get better.""

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¬;They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. ¬;Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. ¬;We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day ¬;When I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat, or a Republican... I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who have — who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism, we see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism.

We don’t see any American dream; we’ve experienced only the American nightmare. We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy; we’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy. ¬;You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ¬;You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Mao Zedong – 1893-1976:Chinese, philosopher, created 'Maoism', poet, Comn pol, Gen, Leader of China ¬;All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ¬;Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be "to be insatiable in learning" and towards others " to be tireless in teaching. ¬;Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. ¬;Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus aka Lucan–39-65 AD:Cordoba born Roman, poet esp Pharsalia, pol, Quaestor ¬;A crime which is the crime of many none avenge. ¬;A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Marcus Aurelius AntoninusAugustus–121-180:Roman, Stoic phil, priest, writer inc Meditations, Emperor ¬;A man should be upright, not kept upright. ¬;All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. ¬;By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. ¬;How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ¬;Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ¬;Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. ¬;Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ¬;Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ¬;Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. ¬;Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ¬;Sexual intercourse...is merely internal attrition and the spasmodic excretion of mucus. ¬;The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ¬;The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ¬;Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. ¬;Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ¬;Very little is needed to make a happy life. ¬;Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! ¬;Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. ¬;You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus aka Quintilian – c.35-c.100:Spanish born Roman, rhetoric teacher, writer ¬;Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ¬;Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites. ¬;They condemn what they do not understand. ¬;Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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¬;Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ¬;We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. ¬;When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Marcus Porcius Cato aka Cato the Elder – 234-149 BC:Roman, farmer, politician, Consul, Censor, writer ¬;After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ¬;Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. ¬;Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ¬;Grasp the subject, words will follow. ¬;I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. ¬;Patience is the greatest of all virtues. ¬;Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. ¬;We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. ¬;Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Marcus Terentius Varro aka Varro Reatinus–116-27 BC:Reate Roman, Praetor, pol, writer incDisciplines ¬;The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. ¬;The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero – 106-43 BC:Arpinum Roman, lawyer, phil, pol theorist, orator, Roman Consul ¬;A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. ¬;A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. ¬;A room without books is like a body without a soul. ¬;After victory, you have more enemies. ¬;Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. ¬;He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ¬;I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know ¬;In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ¬;Let the punishment match the offense. ¬;Let your desires be ruled by reason. ¬;Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. ¬;The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. ¬;The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. ¬;To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. ¬;When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Marcus Valerius Martialis akaMartial–c.40-c.103:Spanish born Roman, writer, satirist, poet incEpigrams ¬;Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ¬;There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ¬;Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Marcus Velleius Paterculus – 19 BC-31 AD:Roman, soldier, hist inc Compendium of Roman Hist, Consul ¬;His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Margaret Wander Bonanno – 1950- :American, small press pub, writer inc bio, novel esp SF inc StarTrek ¬;Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ¬;It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Margaret Elizabeth Heald Jenkins – 1905-1984 : English, teacher, novelist, writer esp bio inc Elizabeth I ¬;The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Margaret EllisMillar,neeSturm–1915-1994:Canadian & American, novelist esp mystery&suspense, screen ¬;Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Margaret Halsey – 1910-1997:American, writer inc WithMaliceTowardsSome & Some of MyBestFriends ¬;Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness – 1925- :English, chemist, Con pol, UK PrimeMinister, aka Iron Lady ¬;All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly

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valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them. ¬;Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper. ¬;Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. ¬;I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain. ¬;I hate extremes of any kind. Communism and the National Front both seek the domination of the state over the individual. They both, I believe crush the right of the individual. To me, therefore, they are parties of a similar kind. All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument... The National Front is a Socialist Front. ¬;I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation ¬;If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ¬;Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth. ¬;Singapore's success shows us that a country's wealth need not depend on natural resources, it may even ultimately benefit from their absence. The greatest resource of all is Man. What government has to do is to set the framework for human talent to flourish. ¬;The freedom of peoples depends fundamentally on the rule of law, a fair legal system. The place to have trials or accusations is a court of law, the Common Law that has come right up from Magna Carta, which has come right up through the British courts—a court of law is the place where you deal with these matters. If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies because you have not had it done with all of the careful rules that have developed in a court of law. Press and television rely on freedom. Those who rely on freedom must uphold the rule of law and have a duty and a responsibility to do so and not try to substitute their own system for it. ¬;To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. ¬;You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

MargaretMead–1901-1978:American, cultural anthropologist, educ, curator, writer incComingAgeSamoa ¬;I do not believe in using women in combat, because women are too fierce ¬;If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. ¬;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has! ¬;No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. ¬;Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. ¬;Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Marguerite Ann Johnson aka Maya Angelou – 1928- :American, poet, writer, producer, play, actress ¬;Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ¬;If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ¬;People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ¬;Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ¬;There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Maria Montessori – 1870-1952:Italian, physician, phil, humanitarian, educator esp Montessori method ¬;Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. ¬;I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.

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¬;Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. ¬;Scientific observation has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment. The task of the teacher becomes that of preparing a series of motives of cultural activity, spread over a specially prepared environment, and then refraining from obtrusive interference.

Human teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servants help the master. ¬;The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.” ¬;The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Marianne Williamson – 1952- :American, lecturer, relg minister, writer, spiritualist act, found Peace All ¬;Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. ¬;Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marie Jean Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet – 1743-1794:French, math, phil, political scientist ¬;Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ¬;People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

Marie Leneru – 1875-1918:French, deaf & near blind playwright inc Maison sur Roc, diarist esp Journal ¬;To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Magdalene 'Marlene' Dietrich – 1901-1992:German born American, singer, actress inc Blue Angel ¬;In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

MarieSkłodowska-Curie–1867-1934:Polish bornFrench, physic esp radiation, chem, NobelPhysics&Chem ¬;Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ¬;Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. ¬;I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. ¬;I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ¬;I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. ¬;Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. ¬;Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ¬;One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. ¬;There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ¬;We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. ¬;You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Baroness – 1830-1916:Czech born Austrian, novelist esp psychological ¬;Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ¬;In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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Marilyn Mach vos Savant – 1946- :American, writer, col, play, lecturer, in Guinness as World'sHighest IQ ¬;Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ¬;To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ¬;The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. ¬;Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. ¬;What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Marion Mitchell Morrison aka John Wayne – 1907-1979:American, film actor, director, prod, won Oscar ¬;Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

Mark Ruslander aka Mark Russell–1932- :American, comedian esp standup, pol satirist, singer, musician ¬;The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ¬;This is not to agree with Mark Twain's comment about Congress being a notorious criminal class. That is a bit harsh. We must assume they are all innocent--until they learn the ropes ¬;You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

Martin A. Lee–195?- :American, investigative journ, lecturer, writer inc UnreliableSources, found FAIR Norman Solomon – 1951- :American, journ writer inc Unreliable Sources, found InstForPublicAccuracy ¬;Advertising is institutionalized lying. Network news are brought to us by sponsors that lie routinely; so how truthful can we expect the news to be? ¬;Lies are fundamental to the political and economic system that sustains (and is sustained by) the mass media of the United States. A central function of the American press is to keep legitimizing the country's most powerful institutions. The media converts the elite opinion into popular opinion. ¬;The media are perhaps best understood as institutions of governance that have broken new ground in "making people love their servitude" ¬;The much-discussed "missile gap" of the early 1960 turned out to be a hoax, as the New York Times finally acknowledged a quarter of century later. "The charge was untrue," the Times Times editorialized about allegations that the US lagged far behind the Soviet arsenal. "At the time of the missile crisis, the United States had 2,000 long range missiles, the Soviet Union less than 100." Later came "the ABM gap." "The hard-targetkill gap." "the spending gap" and "the laser gap." As a result, U.S. taxpayers were hoodwinked.

Martin Henry Fischer – 1879-1962:German born American, physician, scientist, Professor of Physiology ¬;A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ¬;A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. ¬;A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ¬;All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ¬;Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ¬;Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting micro-organisms. ¬;Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ¬;Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ¬;Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ¬;Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ¬;First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ¬;Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ¬;Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. ¬;Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. ¬;I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ¬;If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. ¬;If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. ¬;In diagnosis think of the easy first. ¬;In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ¬;It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong ¬;Life goes faster on protein. ¬;Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. ¬;Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ¬;Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.

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¬;Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ¬;Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? ¬;Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish. ¬;The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman. ¬;The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ¬;The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty—not marble floors and foundations. ¬;The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ¬;The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food. ¬;The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. ¬;The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ¬;The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects. ¬;The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. ¬;We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. ¬;We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic. ¬;When there is no explanation, then give it a name, which immediately explains everything ¬;Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ¬;You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts. ¬;You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Martin Louis Gross – 1925- :American, journalist, writer inc Government Racket, Prof of Social Science ¬;Government at all levels has emerged as our number one growth industry...for the first time in American history, even in the history of the Western industrialized world, there are more people working for government at all levels (18.7 million) than in manufacturing (18.1 million). Since manufacturing jobs make money while government jobs take money, this has become an equation for economic disaster. ¬;Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. ¬;Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. ¬;The citizens are awakening to the truth...for the first time in American history, government is seen as an enemy rather than a friend. ¬;The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wageearners must do to make ends meet. ¬;We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin Luther – 1483-1546:German, theo, priest, monk, writer, Theo Prof, start Protestant Reformation ¬;A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 'tis a rare bird in the land. ¬;Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men. ¬;Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. ¬;Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. ¬;The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised Him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Martin Luther King – 1929-1968:American, Baptist preacher, writer, civil rights act, won Nobel Peace ¬;A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. ¬;A riot is the language of the unheard. ¬;All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ¬;As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of selfesteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian emancipation proclamation or Johnsonian civil rights bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The negro will only be free

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when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, "I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history. ¬;But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. ¬;Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. ¬;Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. ¬;Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. ¬;Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today. ¬;Do you realize that the Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945, after a combined French and Japanese occupation. And incidentally, this was before the communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. And this is a little known fact, these people declared themselves independent in 1945, they quoted our Declaration of Independence in their document of freedom. And yet our government refused to recognize, President Truman said they were not ready for independence. So we failed victim as a nation at that time of the same deadly arrogance that has poisoned the international situation for all of these years. France then set out to reconquer its former colony. And they fought eight long, hard, brutal years, trying to reconquer Vietnam. You know who helped France? It was the United States of America, it came to the point that we were meeting more than 80% of the war cost. And even when France started despairing of its reckless action, we did not. And in 1954, a conference was called at Geneva, and an agreement was reached, because France had been defeated at Dien Bien Phu. But even after that and even after the Geneva Accord, we did not stop. We must face the sad fact that our government sought in a real sense to sabotage the Geneva Accord. Well, after the French were defeated, it looked as if independence and land reform would come through the Geneva agreement. But instead the United States came and started supporting a man named Diem, who turned out to be one of the most ruthless dictators in the history of the world. He set out to silence all opposition, people were brutally murdered merely because they raised their voices against the brutal policies of Diem. And the peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly rooted out all opposition. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by United States influence, and then by increasing numbers of United States troops, who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused. When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace. And who are we supporting in Vietnam today? It's a man by the name of General Ky, who fought with the French against his own people, and who said on one occasion that the greatest hero of his life is Hitler. This is who we're supporting in Vietnam today. Oh, our government, and the press generally, won't tell us these things, but God told me to tell you this morning. The truth must be told. ¬;Each of us lives in two realms, the "within" and the "without." The within of our lives is somehow found in the realm of ends, the without in the realm of means. The within of our [lives], the bottom -- that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion for which at best we live. The without of our lives is that realm of instrumentalities, techniques, mechanisms by which we live. Now the great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives.

The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. ¬;Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. ¬;Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ¬;Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ¬;How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Any law that uplifts the human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust...An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. This is difference made legal. On the other hand a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow that it is willing to follow itself.

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This is sameness made legal. ¬;Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ¬;I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "personoriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ¬;I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. ¬;I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. ¬;I have not urged a mechanical fusion of the civil rights and peace movements. There are people who have come to see the moral imperative of equality, but who cannot yet see the moral imperative of world brotherhood. I would like to see the fervor of the civil-rights movement imbued into the peace movement to instill it with greater strength. And I believe everyone has a duty to be in both the civil-rights and peace movements. But for those who presently choose but one, I would hope they will finally come to see the moral roots common to both ¬;I have seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. ¬;I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I've seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. ¬;I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will be still rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. ¬;I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ¬;I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ¬;I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ¬;I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owners — all those to whom beauty is truth and truth beauty — and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. ¬;If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ¬;If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle...your chief legacy to the future will be an

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endless reign of meaningless chaos. ¬;In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ¬;In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn't this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber. ¬;Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ¬;It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. ¬;It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. ¬;Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. ¬;Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. ¬;Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. ¬;Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy. ¬;Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. ¬;Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice. ¬;Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated. ¬;Non-violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts… Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.

The foundation of such a method is love. ¬;Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ¬;Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

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equal.' ¬;Nowhere have the riots won any concrete improvement such as have the organized protest demonstrations.

When one tries to pin down advocates of violence as to what acts would be effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see that no internal revolution has ever succeeded in overthrowing a government by violence unless the government had already lost the allegiance and effective control of its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind knows that this will not happen in the United States. ¬;One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ¬;Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ¬;Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ¬;Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. ... Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. ¬;Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ¬;Softmindedness often invades religion. ... Softminded persons have revised the Beautitudes to read "Blessed are the pure in ignorance: for they shall see God." This has led to a widespread belief that there is a conflict between science and religion. But this is not true. There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. ... Science investigates; religion interprets.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. ¬;The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. ¬;The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. ¬;The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ¬;The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. ¬;The time is always right to do what is right. ¬;The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment. Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ¬;The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ¬;The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ¬;The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. ¬;There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence.

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¬;There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ¬;There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ¬;There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children." There is something wrong with that press. ¬;This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. ¬;True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. ¬;True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. ¬;Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: It merely creates new and more complicated ones. ¬;We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. ¬;We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ¬;We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ¬;We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. ¬;We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ¬;Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. ¬;You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ... If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Van Buren – 1782-1862:American, lawyer, Dem & Free Soil pol, US Sec of State, 8th US President ¬;It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ¬;The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought ¬;The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

Martina Šubertová aka Martina Navrátilová –1956- :Czech born American, tennis player-59 GrandSlam ¬;Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ¬;What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly Marvin Harris – 19??- :American, writer inc Our Kind:WhoWe Are WhereWe Came WhereWe Going ¬;None of the major world religions could have achieved their eminence, were it not for their capacity to sponsor and encourage military conquest and to aid and abet harsh forms of political repression and control. I wish I could say that the emergence of world religions to our kind's tendency to adopt more human principles of spiritual and ethical beliefs. But the historical achievements of the principal religions of love and mercy constitute a decisive refutation of any such view. Each of the nonkilling religions is implicated in devastating inversions of the principle of nonkilling and reverence for life. Indeed, were it not for their ability to sponsor and encourage militarism and harsh measures of state control, there would be no world religions in the world today.

Marvin Lee Minsky – 1927- :American, cognitive sci esp artificial intelligence, AI phil, Comp & Eng Prof ¬;Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. ¬;Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. ¬;What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. ¬;You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot – 1819-1880:English, novel inc Middlemarch, poet, translator, essay ¬;An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ¬;Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. ¬;Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ¬;It's never too late to be who you might have been. ¬;Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ¬;The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. ¬;The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. ¬;The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ¬;We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, Dame – 1901-2000:English, broadcaster, novelist esp romantic ¬;Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Mary Engelbreit – 1952- :American, graphic artist, greeting card desg, founded Home Companion Mag ¬;If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

MaryFieldBelenky–195?- :American, psych esp cognitive development, writer inc Women'sWaysKnowing ¬;Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Mary Flannery O'Connor–1925-1964:American, novel inc Wise Blood, essay, short-story writer esp ethics ¬;The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Mary Jane 'Mae' West – 1893-1980:American, actress inc Klondike Annie, play, screenwriter, comedienne ¬;An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ¬;Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ¬;His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. ¬;I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ¬;I do all my best work in bed. ¬;I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time. ¬;I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ¬;I have only done what comes naturally, what the average American does secretly, drenching himself in guilt fixations and phobias because of his sense of sinning. I have never felt myself a sinner or committed what I would call a sin. ¬;I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ¬;I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ¬;It is better to be looked over than overlooked. ¬;It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one. ¬;It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men ¬;Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love— that's not so bad either. ¬;Too much of a good thing is wonderful. ¬;When I'm good, I'm very, very good. When I'm bad, I'm better. ¬;When women go wrong, men go right after them. ¬;Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mary Jean 'Lily' Tomlin – 1939- :American, actress, producer, writer, comedienne, won Grammy Award ¬;For fast acting relief, try slowing down. ¬;I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. ¬;I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em ... the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen. ¬;Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ¬;Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ¬;The best mind-altering drug is truth. ¬;The point I want to make is, the idea that people will say — out of the 170,000 people or however many were killed in the tsunami — they'll say, "God saved me." As if God particularly saved this person. There's a tremendous amount of narcissism in that belief, that God is speaking directly to you. I mean, it's unbelievable. ...

All these disparate opinions and points of view that people say they're getting as direct divine guidance — I've been concerned for decades about presidents who claim to be born again. ¬;The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ¬;There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. ¬;When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one. ¬;Your problem is your role models were models.

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Mary Jessamyn West – 1902-1984:American, short story writer, novelist inc The Friendly Persuasion ¬;A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ¬;In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ¬;We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Mary Pettibone Poole – 191?-19?? :American, novelist inc A Glass Eye at a Keyhole ¬;He who laughs, lasts! ¬;People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. ¬;People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money. ¬;To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pickford–1892-1979:Canadian born American, stage&film actress, found UnitedArtists, won Oscar ¬;If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Wilson Little – 18??-19??:American, writer inc A Paragrapher's Reveries ¬;A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ¬;He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ¬;The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ¬;There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Marya Mannes – 1904-1990:American, writer, social critic, essayist, novel, radio/TV broadc Vogue editor ¬;Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. ¬;The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Mason Cooley – 1927-2002:American, Prof of English, aphorist, writer inc Comic Art of Barbara Pym ¬;Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. ¬;'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.' ¬;Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence ¬;Don’t milk the cow too hard. She will kick you. ¬;Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ¬;Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. ¬;Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ¬;I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest. ¬;People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. ¬;Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. ¬;Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth ¬;Travelers never think that they are the foreigners ¬;Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma ¬;Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Matina Souretis Horner – 1939- :American, psychologist, Social Relations Prof, Pres Radcliffe College ¬;What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Matthew Abram 'Matt' Groening–1954- :American, screen esp Simpsons, prod, cartoonist inc Life in Hell ¬;God often gives nuts to toothless people. ¬;My tastes are much more obscure than you think. The other day, this reporter asked me who my favorite Spice Girl was and I was like, 'I dunno, but ask me about percussion ensembles from Senegal'. ¬;When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. ¬;Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good." All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

Matthew 'Matt' Frewer – 1958- :Canadian & American, stage film&TV actor esp Max Headroom, broadc ¬;Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

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Matthew Prior – 1664-1721:English, poet, writer, satirist, dip, Sec to King William, Chief Sec for Ireland ¬;They always talk who never think.

Maureen Murphy – 1952-2008 :American, Republican politician, Illinois House of Representatives ¬;The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Maurice Auguste Chevalier – 1888-1972:French, actor esp Love Me Tonight, singer, entertainer, mimic ¬;Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Bernard Sendak – 1928- :American, artist, children book illust, writer inc WhereWildThingsAre ¬;There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton – 1894-1986:English, soldier, publisher, Con pol, UK PM ¬;I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Maurice P. Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck–1862-1949:Belgian, play, essay, poet, won Nobel Lit Prize ¬;Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. ¬;The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most. ¬;When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Max Leon Forman – 1909-1990 :American, writer inc Ideas that work:Pin-up programs-special occasions ¬;Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Max Planck – 1858-1947:German, physicist esp quantum theory, Theoretical Physics Prof, Nobel Physics ¬;A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ¬;It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ¬;New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

Max Rudolf Frisch – 1911-1991:Swiss, architect, journalist, novel esp on human identity, playwright, phil ¬;Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Maxwell 'Max' Alan Lerner – 1902-1992 :Russian born American, journalist, col, editor, writer, educator ¬;I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Menander of Athens – 342-291 B.C.:Greek, play inc 'New Comedies' inc Dyskolos, writer esp maxims ¬;I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. ¬;It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. ¬;Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. ¬;Riches cover a multitude of woes. ¬;The man who runs may fight again. ¬;The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. ¬;Whom the gods love dies young.

Michael Francis Moore – 1954- :American, writer, soc&pol critic, prod, documentary director, won Oscar ¬;By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to. ¬;Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. ¬;Halliburton is not a "company" doing business in Iraq. It is a WAR PROFITEER, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested — or worse. ¬;Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings – give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel – four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians – they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone. ¬;How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows? ¬;I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws. I think they're way too restrictive. ... I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. I think filmmakers are wrong about this. I think sharing's a good thing. ... They said television would kill the movies, it didn't. They said VCRs would kill the movies, it didn't. Now they're saying this is going to kill the movies. It won't. People want to get out of the house and go to the movies! Nothing's ever going to kill that ¬;I don't agree with the copyright laws, and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people… as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off it as long as they're not, you know trying to make a profit off my labor — I would oppose that but you know I do quite well, and I don't know... I make these books and movies and TV shows because I want things to change, and so the more people who get

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to see them, the better. And so I'm…I'm happy I'm happy if that happens Should I not be happy?.I don't know, It's like if a friend of yours had the DVD of my movie — gave it to you to watch one night is that person doing something wrong? I'm not seeing any money from that, but he's just handing the DVD to you so that you can watch my movie, that he bought, and you're not buying it — and yet you're watching it without paying me any money you see, I think that's OK, I mean, that's always been okay right? — You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared. ¬;I want to thank all the right-wing organizations out there who tried to stop the film, either from their harassment campaign that didn't work on the theatre owners, or going to the FEC to get our ads removed from television, to all the things that have been said on television. It's only encouraged more people to go and see it.

We are happy to announce that the efforts of the small-minded few have failed miserably. ¬;I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. ¬;Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. ... You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them! ¬;No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! ¬;Our young people who go off to war and who join the service, we need to honor them because they're willing to risk their lives to protect us, to defend us, so we can have this way of life. And the agreement that they make with us is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. I think most Americans — I just saw the latest poll today — 54% now believe that invading Iraq wasn't the wisest thing to do — it wasn't certainly in self-defense. You weren't threatened; I wasn't being threatened, and that's the only time, because ultimately if it was your child…would you give up your child to secure Fallujah? ¬;The majority of Americans — the ones who never elected you — are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. ¬;The stories of the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies is told. My film acts as a balance. I exist to provide balance, and I tell you, it isn't much balance. They're on every day, all day. My film is two hours. If for two hours during this entire year, people are exposed to the other side of the story, isn't that ok?

It's amazing how they go after me. You asked me back there, 'You're biased. You have only one side.' Well, yeah, I have a bias. I have a bias on behalf of the little guy who doesn't have a say. I'm lucky enough to be able to have this bully pulpit, to be able to say the things I say, on behalf of the people who don't have a voice. The pharmaceutical companies and corporate America, they've got their voice. They own the networks and they can say whatever they want, all the time, and they do. So can we just have two hours for this side to have their say? I hope so, I think so. That's what I'm trying to do. ¬;There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. ¬;There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat. ¬;These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control. ¬;They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. National Geographic produced a survey which showed that 60 percent of 18-25 year olds don't know where Great Britain is on a map. And 92 percent of us don't own a passport. ¬;We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this. ¬;We know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took AfricanAmericans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But I've been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush. ¬;We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Thank you very much. ¬;White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car

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salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here — have a nice day!" ¬;You've got the Bush Administration using that event in such a disrespectful and immoral way — using the deaths of those people to try and shred our civil liberties, change our Constitution, round people up. That's not how you honor them, by using them to change our way of life as a free country. ¬;You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

Michael Fry & Thomas Leslie Lewis :American, both cartoonists on OverTheHedge strip-Fry also an ent ¬;The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan – 1963- :American, professional basketball player esp Chicago Bulls, ent ¬;I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

Michael Josephson – 1942- :American, lawyer, lecturer, writer esp ethics, founded Institute of Ethics ¬;If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

Michael Korda – 1933- :English, novelist, writer, editor-in-chief Simon & Schuster in New York City ¬;The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Michael Parenti – 1933- :American, hist, political sci, lecturer, essay, writer inc Democracy For The Few ¬;All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one. ¬;Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it. ¬;Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world. ¬;Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all. ¬;It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. ¬;It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power. ¬;Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. ¬;One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. ¬;The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth. ¬;The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. ¬;The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. ¬;The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state. ¬;The New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. ¬;The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it. ¬;The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. ¬;The trick is to steal big. ¬;The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. ¬;To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations. ¬;You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Michael Pritchard – 195?- :American, youth probation officer, comedian esp stand up, TV host, youth act ¬;No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. ¬;You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Ryan Flatley – 1958- :American, writer, flautist, choreographer inc Riverdance, step dancer, host ¬;Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Wayne Godwin – 1956- :American, Internet lawyer inc for Electronic Frontier Found, writer, col ¬;I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 or 20 years from now she will come to me and say, 'Daddy, where

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were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'. ¬;Whenever you think about the First Amendment, the first thing you should remember is that it was designed by the Framers of the Constitution to protect offensive speech and offensive speakers. After all, no one ever tries to ban the other kind.

Michel de Grosourdy de Saint-Pierre, 7thMarquis – 1916-1987:French, journ, writer, novel inc Aristocrats ¬;An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne – 1533-1592:French, writer, essay esp Essais, philosopher, lawyer, pol, dip ¬;A philosopher is one who doubts. ¬;All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. ¬;As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. ¬;Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation. ¬;Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet— the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ¬;Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. ¬;Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in. ¬;Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. ¬;Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to. ¬;Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ¬;Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ¬;He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. ¬;He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ¬;He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ¬;He who would teach men to die would teach them to live. ¬;How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us? ¬;I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ¬;I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ¬;I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ¬;I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them. ¬;I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ¬;I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ¬;I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. ¬;In my opinion, every rich man is a miser. ¬;In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. ¬;In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ¬;It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others ¬;It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other. ¬;Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. ¬;Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ¬;Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it. ¬;Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ¬;Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself. ¬;Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. ¬;Montaigne's axiom: "Nothing is so firmly believed as that which least is known." ¬;No man is a hero to his own valet. ¬;No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. ¬;No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. ¬;Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. ¬;Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ¬;Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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¬;Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. ¬;Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ¬;Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. ¬;Saying is one thing and doing is another. ¬;Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head. ¬;So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. ¬;The clatter of arms drowns the voice of law. ¬;The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ¬;The only thing certain is nothing is certain. ¬;The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes. ¬;The thing I fear most is fear. ¬;The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ¬;There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. ¬;There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ¬;There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. ¬;There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. ¬;There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity. ¬;To set a mark we can seldom hit is not an honest game. We take good care not to be righteous according to the laws of God, and we make it impossible to be righteous according to our own. From the same sheet of paper on which a judge writes his sentence against an adulterer, he tears off a piece to scribble a love note to his colleague's wife. ¬;We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." ¬;We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. ¬;We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ¬;When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? ¬;Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. ¬;Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people Michelangelo diLodovicoBuonarrotiSimoni–1475-1564:Florentine Italian, painter, sculptor, architect, eng ¬;I am still learning. ¬;I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ¬;It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. ¬;The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. ¬;The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. ¬;What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Mignon McLaughlin – 1913-1983:American, journalist, short story writer, play, editor Glamour Mag ¬;A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ¬;Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. ¬;Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ¬;Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. ¬;If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. ¬;It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ¬;Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ¬;No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ¬;The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ¬;Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra–1547-1616:Spanish, soldier, tax-collector, poet, play, novel inc DonQuixote ¬;Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo – 1864-1936:Spanish, essayist, novelist, poet, play, philosopher, Univ Rector ¬;Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit. ¬;Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ¬;If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science — of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of philology — may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudophilosophical erudition. ¬;Once the needs of hunger are satisfied — and they are soon satisfied — the vanity, the necessity — for it is a necessity — arises of imposing ourselves upon and surviving in others. Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. He boasts even of his weakness and his misfortunes, for want of anything better to boast of, and is like a child who, in order to attract attention, struts about with a bandaged finger. ¬;Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians. ¬;The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. ¬;The vain man is in like cause with the avaricious — he takes the mean for the end; forgetting the end he pursues the means for its own sake and goes no further. The seeming to be something, conducive to being it, ends by forming our objective. We need that others should believe in our superiority to them in order that we may believe in it ourselves, and upon their belief base our faith in our own persistence, or at least in the persistence of our fame. We are more grateful to him that congratulates us on the skill with which we defend a cause than we are to him who recognizes the truth or goodness of the cause itself. ¬;To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ¬;Underlying even the so-called problem of knowledge there is simply this human feeling, just as underlying the inquiry into the "why," the cause, there is simply the search for the "wherefore," the end. All the rest is either to deceive oneself or to wish to deceive others; and to wish to deceive others in order to deceive oneself. ¬;We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – 1934- :Hungarian born American, psych esp positive psych, Psychology Prof ¬;It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. ¬;People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. ¬;Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason. ¬;The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own. ¬;There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better. ¬;Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin – 1814-1876- :Russian, journalist, phil esp anarchism, writer, rev activist ¬;A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes. ¬;All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice-that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. ¬;All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

Consequently, the religious heaven is nothing but a mirage in which man, exalted by ignorance and faith, discovers his own image, but enlarged and reversed — that is, divinized. The history of religion, of the birth, grandeur, and decline of the gods who have succeeded one another in human belief, is nothing, therefore, but the development of the collective intelligence and conscience of mankind. ¬;By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. ¬;I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen.

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Only in respecting their human character do I respect my own. ...I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ¬;In order to touch the heart and gain the confidence, the assent, the adhesion, and the co-operation of the illiterate legions of the proletariat — and the vast majority of proletarians unfortunately still belong in this category — it is necessary to begin to speak to those workers not of the general sufferings of the international proletariat as a whole but of their particular, daily, altogether private misfortunes. It is necessary to speak to them of their own trade and the conditions of their work in the specific locality where they live; of the harsh conditions and long hours of their daily work, of the small pay, the meanness of their employer, the high cost of living, and how impossible it is for them properly to support and bring up a family. ¬;In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant.

But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ¬;It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. ¬;No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. ¬;Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society. ¬;Of escape there are but three methods — two chimerical and a third real. The first two are the dram-shop and the church, debauchery of the body or debauchery of the mind; the third is social revolution. ¬;Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie ¬;The State is the organized authority, domination, and power of the possessing classes over the masses the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest. This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue Thus, to offend, to oppress, to despoil, to plunder, to assassinate or enslave one's fellowman is ordinarily regarded as a crime. In public life, on the other hand, from the standpoint of patriotism, when these things are done for the greater glory of the State, for the preservation or the extension of its power, it is all transformed into duty and virtue This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all countries — statesmen, diplomats, bureaucrats, and warriors — if judged from the standpoint of simply morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over earned their sentence to hard labor or to the gallows. There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state." ¬;This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. They say in a single breath: "God and the liberty of man," "God and the dignity, justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men" — regardless of the fatal logic by virtue of which, if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. For, if God is, he is necessarily the eternal, supreme, absolute master, and, if such a master exists, man is a slave; now, if he is a slave, neither justice, nor equality, nor fraternity, nor prosperity are possible for him. In vain, flying in the face of good sense and all the teachings of history, do they represent their God as animated by the tenderest love of human liberty: a master, whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to show himself, remains none the less always a master. His existence necessarily implies the slavery of all that is beneath him. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist. ¬;When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

Milan Kundera – 1929- :Czech born French, lecturer, novelist inc The Unbearable Lightness of Being ¬;Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. ¬;The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of

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Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten. In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the adventure itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life.

Millard Fillmore – 1800-1874:American, lawyer, founded Univ of Buffalo, Whig pol, 13th US President ¬;An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. ¬;It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress. ¬;Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Milton Friedman – 1912-2006:American, statistician, econ, Prof of Economics, won NobelEconomicsPrize ¬;A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. ¬;Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. The benefits of a tariff are visible. [Union workers] can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it. ¬;Drugs...does harm a great many other people, but primarily because it's prohibited. There are an enormous number of innocent victims now. You've got the people whose purses are stolen, who are bashed over the head by people trying to get enough money for their next fix. You've got the people killed in the random drug wars.

You've got the corruption of the legal establishment. You've got the innocent victims who are taxpayers who have to pay for more and more prisons, and more and more prisoners, and more and more police. You've got the rest of us who don't get decent law enforcement because all the law enforcement officials are busy trying to do the impossible. And, last, but not least, you've got the people of Colombia and Peru and so on. What business do we have destroying and leading to the killing of thousands of people in Colombia because we cannot enforce our own laws? If we could enforce our laws against drugs, there would be no market for these drugs. ¬;Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ¬;Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ¬;History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ¬;I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. ¬;I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. ¬;I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. ¬;If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ¬;In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. ¬;Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful. ¬;It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else. Most of the arrests for drugs are for possession by casual users. Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons. ¬;Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. ¬;One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

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¬;One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative. ¬;Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.

The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances. ¬;The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend. ¬;The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on. ¬;The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. ¬;The power to do good is also the power to do harm. ¬;The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good. ¬;The stock market and economy are two different things. ¬;We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. ¬;With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Miltona Mirkin Cade aka Toni CadeBambara–1939-1995:American, novel, Afro-Am Studies Prof, soc act ¬;Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Miss Piggy–1974- :American, character in series Muppets, creator JimHensen, mainly voiced by FrankOz ¬;Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ¬;Never eat more than you can lift.

Mitchel David 'Mitch' Albom – 1958- :American, journalist, screen, dramatist, novelist, musician, broadc ¬;But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. ¬;Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitchell Lee 'Mitch' Hedberg – 1968-2005:American, comedian esp stand up esp observational, actor ¬;I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread. ¬;I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. ¬;I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down. ¬;I was in a casino, minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move. You're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. Unless you're a table. ¬;I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. ¬;I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. ¬;One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said,"Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is of you when you were younger. "Here's a picture of me when I'm older." "You son-of-a-bitch! How'd you pull that off? Lemme see that camera... what's it look like? ¬;They say Sprite is made out of lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home, there's more to it than that.

Mohandas Karamchand 'Bapu''Mahatma'Gandhi–1869-1948:Indian, phil, Congress pol, non violence act ¬;A man of truth must also be a man of care. ¬;A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. ¬;A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ¬;An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ¬;An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ¬;An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. ¬;Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ¬;Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. ¬;Be the change that you want to see in the world. ¬;But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I

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saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. ¬;Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. ¬;Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ¬;Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ¬;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ¬;Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. ¬;Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ¬;God has no religion. ¬;Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ¬;I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ¬;I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ¬;I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. ¬;I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. ¬;I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. ¬;I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. ¬;I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. ¬;I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ¬;I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. ¬;I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ¬;If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. ¬;In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ¬;In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. ¬;In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals. ¬;In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ¬;Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. ¬;Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ¬;Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. ¬;It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. ¬;It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ¬;It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace …

Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? ¬;It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ¬;It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ¬;Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. ¬;Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. ¬;Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ¬;Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. ¬;Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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¬;Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. ¬;No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. ¬;Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ¬;Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. ¬;Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ¬;Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ¬;Poverty is the worst form of violence. ¬;Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ¬;The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood? ¬;The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. ¬;The future depends on what we do in the present. ¬;The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ¬;The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ¬;The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests. ¬;The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ¬;There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ¬;There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. ¬;There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ¬;There is more to life than increasing its speed ¬;There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. ¬;There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ¬;To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? ¬;To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other. ¬;Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. ¬;Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ¬;We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives.

Let our lives be open books for all to study. ¬;We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. ¬;What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ¬;When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. ¬;You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ¬;Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions.

Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

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Christianity to them; they have no kindness, no compassion, no charity. I want Jesus to come back and say: "THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" ¬;Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. ¬;I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. ¬;Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Moritz Guedemann – 1835-1918:Austrian, theo, writer inc Nationaljudentum, rabbi, Vienna Chief Rabbi ¬;Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Morris King 'Mo' Udall–1922-1998:American, professional basketball player, lawyer, wit, Dem pol, Cong ¬;If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Morris 'Morrie' Schwartz – 1916-1995:American, LouGehrig's Disease sufferer, writer, sociology lecturer ¬;Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Moses Harry Horwitz aka Moe Howard – 1897-1975:American, comedian esp leader Three Stooges, actor ¬;Only fools are positive.

Moshe Dayan – 1915-1981:Israeli, policeman, soldier, Gen, Army Chief-of-Staff, Defence & Foreign Mins ¬;If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

N Nanak Dev Ji, Guru – 1469-1539:Indian, theo, teacher, words in GuruGranthSahib, 1stof the10SikhGurus ¬;Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. ¬;Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets NancyWitcherAstor,Viscountess, neeLanghorne–1879-1964:American bornBritish, socialite, Con pol, MP ¬;I married beneath me. All women do. ¬;In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. ¬;One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ¬;Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. ¬;The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. ¬;The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. ¬;Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Napoleon Bonaparte – 1769-1821:French, army officer, Gen, military strategist, pol, Emperor of France ¬;A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. ¬;A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command. ¬;As a rule it is circumstances that make men. ¬;Conscience is the most sacred thing among men. Every man has within him a still small voice, which tells him that nothing on earth can oblige him to believe that which he does not believe. The worst of all tyrannies is that which obliges eighteen-twentieths of a nation to embrace a religion contrary to their beliefs, under penalty of being denied their rights as citizens and of owning property, which, in effect, is the same thing as being without a country. ¬;Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated. ¬;History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ¬;I do not see in religion the mystery of the incarnation so much as the mystery of the social order. It introduces into the thought of heaven an idea of equalization, which saves the rich from being massacred by the poor. ¬;I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances. ¬;Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen. ¬;In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. ¬;In practical administration, experience is everything. ¬;In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. ¬;It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow

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for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature — education and circumstances do the rest. ¬;It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. ¬;It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. ¬;Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you. ¬;Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule.

Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success. ¬;Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. ¬;Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ¬;One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. ¬;One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them. ¬;Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. ¬;Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency. ¬;Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ¬;Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ¬;The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ¬;The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself. ¬;The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. ¬;The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. ¬;The military principles of Caesar were those of Hannibal, and those of Hannibal were those of Alexander — to hold his forces in hand, not to be vulnerable at any point, to throw all his forces with rapidity on any given point. ¬;The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory. ¬;The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. ¬;The people must not be counted upon; they cry indifferently : "Long live the King!" and "Long live the Conspirators!" a proper direction must be given to them, and proper instruments employed to effect it. ¬;The truth is that one ought to serve his people worthily, and not strive solely to please them. The best way to gain a people is to do that which is best for them. Nothing is more dangerous than to flatter a people. If it does not get what it wants immediately, it is irritated and thinks that promises have not been kept; and if then it is resisted, it hates so much the more as it feels itself deceived. ¬;There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the long run, the sword is always defeated by the mind. ¬;There is no such thing as an absolute despotism; it is only relative. A man cannot wholly free himself from obligation to his fellows. A sultan who cut off heads from caprice, would quickly lose his own in the same way.

Excesses tend to check themselves by reason of their own violence. What the ocean gains in one place it loses in another. ¬;Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. ¬;To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government. ¬;Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system. ¬;We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. ¬;We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front. ¬;What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. ¬;You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970:American, journ, lawyer, lecturer, writer esp motivational inc ThinkGrowRich ¬;Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure.

When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. ¬;Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ¬;Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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¬;Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ¬;Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. ¬;If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after. ¬;It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. ¬;No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. ¬;Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. ¬;Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use autosuggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard. ¬;When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. ¬;You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Narendranath Dutta aka Swami Vivekananda–1863-1902:Indian, int guru, aka a father of mod Hinduism ¬;A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. ¬;All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. ¬;All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ¬;All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue. ¬;Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.” ¬;Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. ¬;As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. ¬;Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. ¬;Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others “fads” thought the greed of getting supporters. ¬;Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. ¬;By the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. ¬;Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred. ¬;Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts? ¬;“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.” ¬;Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. ¬;Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. ¬;Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming. ¬;Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you.

If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle. ¬;Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself. It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect. ¬;Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these —and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details. ¬;Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think

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ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. ¬;Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. ¬;Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves. ¬;“Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. ¬;Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.”

Dehypnotize the whole thing. ¬;I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping! ¬;If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. ¬;In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us. ¬;Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up! ¬;It is not the sign of a candid and scientific mind to throw overboard anything without proper investigation.

Surface scientists, unable to explain the various extraordinary mental phenomena, strive to ignore their very existence. ¬;It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world ¬;Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition.

Have no weakness even in the face of death. Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds. Be âzâd ("free"). ¬;Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. ¬;Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. ¬;Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture.

We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it. ¬;Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon. ¬;My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. Work for the idea, not the person. ¬;Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life?

Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow—never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. ¬;Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ¬;Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work. ¬;Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities. ¬;So long as millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them. ¬;Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pigindividuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep? ¬;Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

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¬;Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse. ¬;Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. ¬;The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! ¬;The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence. ¬;The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. ¬;The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is the fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment. ¬;The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. ¬;The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. ¬;This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. ¬;This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. ¬;This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. ¬;Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. ¬;To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. ¬;To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. ¬;True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion. ¬;Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true ¬;We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. ¬;We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else.

Why should God be blamed? ¬;We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ¬;We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best. ¬;What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth. ¬;Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others.

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Saviour or a Prophet to do everything for us. ¬;Women will work out their destinies—much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women. ¬;Worship of society and popular opinions is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time. ¬;You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

NatalieGoldberg–1948- :American, writer esp writing as Zen practice esp Wild Mind:LivingWriter's Life ¬;Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Nathan Birnbaum aka George Burns – 1896-1996:American, vaudeville artist, comedian, actor, writer ¬;I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. ¬;If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it ¬;Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope

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¬;Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant ¬;Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair ¬;When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric.

Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile ¬;You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Nathan Roscoe Pound–1870-1964:American, Dean HarvardLawSchool, legal researcher, legal realism act ¬;The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Neil Alden Armstrong – 1930- :American, test pilot, astronaut, Prof of Aerospace Eng, first man on Moon ¬;I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion. ¬;It's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations, and with interests and the curiosity and with the vision for the future. ¬;It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Neil Leslie Diamond – 1941- :American, singer, songwriter inc Song Sung Blue, musician esp guitar ¬;Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. ¬;Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

Neil Richard Gaiman – 1960- :English, novelist esp SF & fantasy, graphic artist, cartoonist, screenwriter ¬;I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor (Karen Berger). She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe. ¬;It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ¬;Life — and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. ¬;Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future. ¬;The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. ¬;There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. ¬;You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Nelle Harper Lee – 1926- : American, writer, essayist, novelist inc To Kill a Mockingbird, won Pulitzer ¬;I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller – 1908-1979:American, banker, businessman, philanth, Rep pol, US Vice Pres ¬;There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". ¬;You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

NelsonRolihlahla'Madiba'Mandela–1918- :SouthAfrica, anti-apartheid act, SouthAfricaPres, NobelPeace ¬;A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ¬;And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ¬;As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility ¬;As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ¬;Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? ¬;During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. ¬;Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. ¬;For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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¬;I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. ¬;I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. ¬;I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ¬;If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ¬;If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

They don't care for human beings. ¬;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ¬;If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ¬;In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions. In the absence of these safeguards the phrase 'equality before the law', in so far as it is intended to apply to us, is meaningless and misleading. All the rights and privileges to which I have referred are monopolised by whites, and we enjoy none of them. The white man makes all the laws, he drags us before his courts and accuses us, and he sits in judgement over us. ¬;In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ¬;It always seems impossible until its done. ¬;It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case.

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning. ¬;Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ¬;Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. ¬;Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. ¬;Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ¬;No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones. ¬;Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ¬;Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony. ¬;That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed ¬;The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced — between the unpalatable and the inedible. ¬;There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ¬;There is no such thing as part freedom. ¬;There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ¬;We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image

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Newton Diehl Baker – 1871-1937:American, lawyer, Dem politician, Mayor of Cleveland, US Sec of War ¬;The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Niccolò di Bernardo deiMachiavelli–1469-1527:Florentine Italian, civil servant, phil, dip, musician, writer ¬;Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ¬;Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them. ¬;Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones ¬;He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. ¬;He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. ¬;If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains. Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent. God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried. ¬;It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. ¬;Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. ¬;People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. ¬;The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them. ¬;There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. ¬;When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the populace. ¬;Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Nicholas Bornoff – 196?- :English, journ, graphic designer, writer inc on Japan, copywriter, translator N.B. Most of Nicholas Bornoff quotes are taken directly from his book 'Pink Samurai' ¬;Although poverty had driven almost all the frail sisters into the 'floating world', for every tragic waif there were several vixens who were not quite as uncomfortable in the brothels as latter-day moralists would like us to believe. In Edo-period Japan, many girls were much better off in the pleasure quarters than they could ever be at home. ¬;As in most places, alas, among those who exploit prostitutes, those who enjoy them and those who condemn them, too few stop to think that it is only bigotry that has turned the profession into the social evil it is ¬;As in most societies with a short life expectancy, men & women married in their early teens...women were on the marriage market very soon after they began menstruating and produced offspring as soon as they were able ¬;Decency, which is so often decreed by those who resent others enjoying what they do not enjoy themselves... ¬;Despite the sexual frankness of the Japanese, the virtue of primness impressed upon them both by Confucianism and nineteenth-century European morality has led not a few women to believe that sex is as dirty and degrading as do an albeit dwindling number of their western sisters...Making a convenient marriage with resentment, primness has also produced numerous and vociferous women's groups constantly launching crusades to have prostitution outlawed altogether ¬;It should by now be obvious to the world that the proliferation of subsistence prostitution is a phenomenon

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unavoidable given its economic precedents. What is most sad is not that these girls are prostitutes, but that they are neither sufficiently protected from pimps, nor, while making substantial and vital contributions to struggling economies, given their due respect. As long as moral bigotry and prejudice regulate the whore everywhere to her allotted social nadir, her lot is unlikely to improve ¬;More than behaving like arrogant armies as many Japanese critics contend, the sex tourists seem like bands of prisoners of war suddenly released and treated to revels in wine, women and song after years of deprivation. ¬;Myopic and irrational, few ever stop to think that tolerance and legislation make better sense than greater repression, which only drives the sex industry even deeper underground and causes women to suffer much greater injustices in the hands of exploitative thugs. ¬;Sentient Japan is not happy about sex tourism at all. As usual , women's groups – moralizing battleaxes and otherwise – were the first to denounce the phenomenon. But while they lambast the sex tourists, they hardly mention the system producing them, which at once fosters male sexual deprivation and sanctions the predatory infrastructures to palliate it. The tendency to single out scapegoats and ignore the wood for the trees is all too typical. ¬;The complete acceptance of the human body and its sexual functions was once upon a time one of the lessons that Japan could have taught the West, but the first western visitors were far too immured to their 'civilized' morality to notice. ¬;The plight of the unwilling slave is well known and still a reality but...women from the lower orders were not...'especially demure'. Their attitude to sex was often sufficiently free-wheeling to present them with no compunction to offer it for sale. ¬;To the consternation of moral crusaders, repeated surveys taken among the prostitute population in Thailand show that the overwhelming majority find life in the bright lights, bars and even bedrooms more fun, lucrative and fulfilling than in the slums or remote and backward native villages Nicholas Murray Butler – 1862-1947:American, dip, phil, Pres Columbia Univ, won Nobel Peace Prize ¬;All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ¬;The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Nicolas-Sébastien Roch aka Nicolas Chamfort–1741-1794:French, writer, epigramist, teacher, playwright ¬;In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. ¬;The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.

Niels Henrik David Bohr – 1885-1962:Danish, physic esp quantum mech, Physics Prof, won Nobel Physics ¬;Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are. ¬;It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature. ¬;Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. ¬;Of course not ... but I am told it works even if you don't believe in it. ¬;Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them. ¬;The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. ¬;Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth. ¬;What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character ... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly. ¬;We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev – 1894-1971:Russian, Communist pol, Commissar, Leader Soviet Union ¬;Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikola Tesla – 1856-1943:Serbian born American, eng, inventor inc alternating current power & radio ¬;Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

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¬;If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. ¬;The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up... His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. ¬;The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ¬;Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality ¬;When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole? For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol – 1809-1852:Russian, play, humourist, short story & novelist inc Dead Souls ¬;It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Noël Peirce Coward – 1899-1973:English, playwright, actor, poet, wit, singer, songwriter, composer, dir ¬;I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ¬;It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ¬;The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. ¬;Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Nora Ephron – 1941- :American, actress, prod, dir, screen inc WhenHarryMetSally, journalist, columnist ¬;Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Norma Jeane Mortenson (Baker) aka Marilyn Monroe–1926-1962:American, actress, model, singer, prod ¬;An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. ¬;Dogs never bite me. Just humans. ¬;Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help? ¬;Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. ¬;Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ¬;Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ¬;It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on. ¬;It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. ¬;Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. ¬;That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing. ¬;The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. ¬;The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. ¬;When it comes down to it, let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, than I’m already better than them anyway. ¬;Why? — It paid the rent.

Norman Kingsley Mailer – 1923-2007:American, novelist, essay, poet, journ, screen, dir, won 2 Pulitzers ¬;Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. ¬;Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ¬;The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ¬;The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today.... We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. ¬;The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

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Norman Vincent Peale – 1898-1993:American, Protestant preacher, writer inc Power of Positive Thinking ¬;Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ¬;Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ¬;Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. ¬;Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. ¬;Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ¬;Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ¬;If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing. ¬;The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ¬;Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. ¬;Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. ¬;Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. ¬;We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ¬;When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

O Oliver Goldsmith – c.1730-1774: Irish born British, physician, poet, writer inc Vicar of Wakefield, play ¬;Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

OliverWendellHolmesSr–1809-1894:American, physician, Medicine Prof, poet, writer inc Breakfast-Table ¬;A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ¬;A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations. ¬;Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ¬;Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ¬;I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ¬;I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes. ¬;If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him. And the temptation is to some natures a very great one. Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. In common life we shirk it by forming habits, which take the place of self-determination. In politics partyorganization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote. ¬;It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ¬;Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ¬;Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ¬;Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run

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through it without sticking. ¬;Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. ¬;Most persons have died before they expire, — died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. ¬;Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ¬;There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' ¬;We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts..."I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless." ¬;What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! ¬;Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? ¬;You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them. It didn't seem much to them to condemn a few thousand millions of people to purgatory or worse for a mistake of judgment. They didn't know what it was to have a child look up in their faces and say 'Father!' It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy. ¬;You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr – 1841-1935:American, lawyer, Prof of Law, writer, editor, US Sup Court Just ¬;A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience. ¬;A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ¬;Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ¬;Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. ¬;Eloquence may set fire to reason. ¬;Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. ¬;I happen to prefer champagne to ditch-water, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does. ¬;I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. ¬;It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. ¬;Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ¬;Man has his will--but woman has her way! ¬;Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ¬;Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. ¬;The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ¬;The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. ¬;The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. ¬;The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. ¬;The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ¬;This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ¬;To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Omar Nelson Bradley – 1893-1981:American, army officer, 5*Gen, first Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff ¬;Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader. ¬;If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ¬;It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship. ¬;The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. ¬;The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

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Oprah Gail Winfrey – 1954- :American, actress, talk show host, prod, publisher, writer, ent, cultural icon ¬;Everyone in the world is constantly fighting an internal battle. A battle between what the brain knows is right and what the heart knows it wants. ¬;Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed. ¬;Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ¬;You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. ¬;What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

OscarFingalO'FlahertieWillsWilde–1854-1900:Irish, journ, aesthetic teacher, poet, play, shortstory writer ¬;A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ¬;A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat. ¬;Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ¬;America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ¬;And, after all, what is a fashion?..it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ¬;Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ¬;Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ¬;Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. ¬;As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ¬;Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ¬;But what is the difference between literature and journalism?/ ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. ¬;Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. ¬;Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ¬;Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed. ¬;Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. ¬;Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography. ¬;Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. ¬;Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ¬;Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. ¬;He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ¬;High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ¬;Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. ¬;I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. ¬;I can resist anything but temptation. ¬;I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. ¬;I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ¬;I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ¬;I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. ¬;If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ¬;Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. ¬;Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ¬;Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor is provided to console him from what he is. ¬;It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ¬;Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. ¬;Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. ¬;Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. ¬;Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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¬;Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ¬;My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ¬;Niagara Falls is the bride's second great disappointment. ¬;Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ¬;One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. ¬;One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ¬;One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ¬;Only the shallow know themselves. ¬;Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ¬;People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. ¬;Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. ¬;Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ¬;Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ¬;Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ¬;Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. ¬;Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ¬;The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ¬;The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ¬;The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. ¬;The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. ¬;The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. ¬;The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ¬;The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. ¬;The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ¬;The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ¬;The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ¬;There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ¬;There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ¬;There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ¬;There is no sin except stupidity. ¬;Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ¬;To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. ¬;To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ¬;To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. ¬;To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. ¬;To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. ¬;To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ¬;Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. ¬;We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ¬;We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. ¬;We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ¬;We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. ¬;What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ¬;What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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¬;When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? ¬;When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ¬;Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ¬;Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ¬;While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler – 1880-1936:German, historian, philosopher, writer inc DeclineOfWest ¬;Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. ¬;The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom. ¬;This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ¬;To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed. ¬;What we need is not freedom of the press, we need freedom FROM the press.

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck – 1815-1898:Prussian German, pol, led German unification, 1st Chan ¬;A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ¬;Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ¬;Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art. ¬;Politics is the art of the possible. ¬;When you say you agree to a thing on principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

P P. J. Plauger – 1940- :American, programmer esp C&C++ standardization, novel esp SF, writer esp comp ¬;If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. ¬;My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

Pablo Diego J.F. de P.J.N.M. de los R.C. de la S. T.R. y Picasso – 1881-1973:Spanish, painter, multi-artist ¬;All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. ¬;An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ¬;Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ¬;Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ¬;God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. ¬;Good taste is the enemy of creativity ¬;I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ¬;I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ¬;Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. ¬;There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. ¬;There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ¬;We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. ¬;We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

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Patrick Henry – 1736-1799:American, lawyer, tobacco farmer, pol, Gov of Virginia, US Founding Father ¬;Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! ¬;It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. ¬;I know of no way to judge the future but by the past. ¬;The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Patrick Jake O'Rourke – 1947- :American, journ, col, Con pol satirist, writer inc On Wealth Of Nations ¬;A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. ¬;Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ¬;Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us. ¬;Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties. ¬;Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. ¬;Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. ¬;Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait. ¬;Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often.

Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ¬;I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with. ¬;Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. ¬;If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. ¬;In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe. ¬;In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. ¬;Incidentally, there's a balanced position that all of America's presidential candidates could take on the controversial abortion issue. If they want votes they shouldn't campaign to make abortion illegal or legal. They should campaign to make it retroactive. If a kid reaches 25 and he or she is still jobless, feckless, and sitting around Starbucks acting like a — no offense — European, then whack. ¬;Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. ¬;Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers. ¬;Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. ¬;Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with. ¬;No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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¬;One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. ¬;Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. ¬;Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts. ¬;Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. ¬;Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. ¬;Sure, the terrorism by his supporters is frightening. Hence, its name, 'terrorism.' Killing innocent people by surprise is not called 'a thousand points of light.' But, as frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers. The minute somebody sets off a suicide bomb, you can be sure that person doesn't have 'career prospects.' And no matter how horrendous a terrorist attack is, it's still conducted by losers. Winners don't need to hijack airplanes.

Winners have an Air Force. ¬;The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ¬;The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ¬;There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. ¬;There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. ¬;When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ¬;When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. ¬;You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen. ¬;You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Patrick 'Pat' Layton Paulsen – 1927-1997:American, satirist, comedian inc Smothers Brothers, musician ¬;A good many people feel that our present draft laws are unjust. These people are called soldiers. ¬;All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ¬;Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. ¬;I feel proud to be living in a country where people are not afraid to laugh at themselves and where political satire is tolerated by the government, if not the television network.

Patsy Louise Neal aka Patricia Neal – 1926- :American, stage & film actress inc FaceInCrowd, won Oscar ¬;A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

PaulEdwardTheroux–1941- :American, lit critic, novel incMosquitoCoast, writer incGreatRailwayBazaar ¬;Assigning human personalities to animals is the chief trait of the pet owner—the doting dog-lover with his baby talk, the smug stay-at-home with a fat lump of fur on her lap who says, "Me, I'm a cat person," and the granny who puts her nose against the tin cage and makes kissing noises at her parakeet. Their affection is often tinged with a sense of superiority. Deer and duck hunters never talk this way about their prey, though big game hunters— Hemingway is the classic example — often sentimentalize the creatures they blow to bits and then lovingly stuff to hang on the wall. ¬;Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life. ¬;Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past. ¬;Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ¬;I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life ¬;In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there has been too much of) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected. ¬;“Mustn’t grumble” was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair.

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incredible things” was not an English expression. "I’m fairly keen" was not American. Americans were showoffs — it was part of our innocence — we often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools. ¬;The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ¬;Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. ¬;You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Eldridge–1888-1982:American, poet, short story writer, novel inc MyFirstTwoThousandYears, educ ¬;Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Paul Fix – 1901-1983:American, film&TV actor esp Westerns esp character parts incTheRifleman, screen ¬;The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Paul Graham – 1965- :American, programmer, venture capitalist, essay, computer writer, found Viaweb ¬;Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

Paul Harvey Aurandt – 1918-2009:American, radio broadc esp News & Comment, webcaster, station mgr ¬;In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Johannes Tillich – 1886-1965:German born American, phil esp existentialism, theo, Prof of Theology ¬;Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. ¬;The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. ¬;The first duty of love is to listen.

PaulJosephGoebbels–1897-1945:German, bank clerk, journ, Nazi pol, PropogandaReichsminister, Chanc ¬;If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. ¬;Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Paul Robin Krugman–1953- :American, col, writer, economist, Prof of Economics, won Nobel Economics ¬;Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. ¬;I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society. ¬;Intellectual property rights typically make some better off (the drug companies) and many worse off (those who otherwise might have been able to purchase the drugs). ¬;Real economists don't talk about competitiveness. ¬;The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many people find hard to follow. How reassuring, then, to be told that it is all irrelevant -- that all you really need to know are a few simple ideas! Quite a few supply-siders have created for themselves a wonderful alternative intellectual history in which John Maynard Keynes was a fraud, Paul Samuelson and even Milton Friedman are fools, and the true line of deep economic thought runs from Adam Smith through obscure turn-of-the-century Austrians straight to them. ¬;The economic policy of the Bush administration...There is no economic policy. That's really important to say.

The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do. ¬;The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing.

One of my lines in a column -- in which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally -- was that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: 'Shape of Earth-Views Differ.' Then they'd quote some Democrats saying that it was round. ¬;The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for selfsufficiency. ¬;We’re living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive — the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so

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much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed.

Paul Thomas Mann–1875-1955:German born Czech & American, novel, essay, socialcritic, won Nobel Lit ¬;I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being. ¬;Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ¬;Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ¬;War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ¬;We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side. ¬;What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Paul Tournier – 1898-1986:Swiss, physician esp psychosocial & counselling, writer inc Healing Persons ¬;That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Vixie – 196?- :American, programmer, computer writer, co-founded Internet Software Consortium ¬;Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Paula Poundstone – 1959- :American, comedienne esp standup, writer, TV pol journ, quiz show panellist ¬;I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. ¬;I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away? ¬;The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Pauline Friedman aka Abigail van Buren – 1918- :American, writer, columnist, started 'Dear Abbey' col ¬;A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. ¬;Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! ¬;If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ¬;In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. ¬;People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ¬;The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ¬;Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

PearlSydenstrickerBuck akaSaiZhenZhu–1892-1973:American, missionary,novel,wonPulitzer&Nobel Lit ¬;Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. ¬;All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. ¬;An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. ¬;Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naiveté, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them. To talk even with a farmer and his family, none of whom could read or write, was often to hear a philosophy at once sane and humorous. If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy.

Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy. ¬;Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. ¬;I became mentally bifocal, and so I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since, although damage may be too dark a word, for it merely meant that I could never belong entirely to one side of any question. To be a Communist would be absurd to me, as absurd as to be entirely anything and equally impossible. I straddled the globe too young. ¬;In any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. ... I came home more torn in heart than any child should be, for I saw that each side was right as well as wrong, and I yearned over both in a helpless fashion, unable to see how, history being what it was, anything now could be done. ¬;It is a shameful sign of our arrogance that our history departments have almost no Chinese history in them,

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our literature courses almost no Chinese literature, our philosophy departments almost none of the great Chinese systems of philosophy. And our religious schools have been the most arrogant of all. This ignorant arrogant mind has become fixed in its patterns. It is the pattern which considers anything not American to be inferior — unless it be English. ¬;Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority. ¬;The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. ¬;There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be. ¬;There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. ¬;Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking ¬;Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. ¬;You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse – 1881-1975:English born American, novelist inc Jeeves series, play, lyricist ¬;A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. ¬;At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. ¬;Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. ¬;If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. ¬;Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. ¬;The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. ¬;The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch...

The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.

PennFraserJillette–1955- :American, comedian,juggler,musician,magician,writer,TVhost inc Penn&Teller ¬;Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. ¬;Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around. ¬;Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ¬;God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways. ¬;I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. ¬;I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

Pericles – c.495-429 BC:Athenian Greek, Gen, pol, orator, Athenian leader, visionary, Parthenon builder ¬;Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it. ¬;But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. ¬;If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty. ¬;Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. ¬;Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. ¬;Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. ¬;Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. ¬;We do not say a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he

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has no business here at all. ¬;What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

PeterAlexanderBaron vonUstinov–1921-2004:English, actor,writer,novel,PresWorldFedMove, won2Oscar ¬;As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ¬;Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. ¬;Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ¬;Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. ¬;I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. ¬;I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world. ¬;If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ¬;In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ¬;It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. ¬;Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ¬;Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well. ¬;Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. ¬;The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ¬;There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. ¬;When people say to me "Have a nice day", I reply "Sorry, I've made other plans". ¬;World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

PeterAlexanderMcWilliams–1949-2000:American,writer esp self-help&motivational,medical cannabis act ¬;Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. ¬;Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." ¬;If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. ¬;If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. ¬;Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? ¬;Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power." ¬;To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. ¬;You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

Peter Brian Medawar – 1915-1987:Brazilian born British, zoologist, Prof of Zoology, won Nobel Medicine ¬;The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Peter de Vries – 1910-1993:American, radio actor, editor, caption writer, wit, satirist, novelist, playwright ¬;Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Peter Finley Dunne – 1867-1936:American, journalist, editor, writer, humourist, cartoonist esp Mr Dooley ¬;A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ¬;Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts. ¬;An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ¬;One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. ¬;Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ¬;Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward ¬;The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ¬;There is one thing to be said in favor of drink, and that is that it has caused many a lady to be loved that otherwise might have died single. ¬;You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

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Peter Ferdinand Drucker – 1909-2005:Austrian born American, management cons, Prof of Management ¬;A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant--and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates. ¬;All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it. ¬;Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one. ¬;An organization is "sick" -- when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job -- when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks -- and with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength -- and when good human relations become more important than performance and achievement. ...The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever. ¬;Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ¬;Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ¬;Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society. ¬;Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city. ¬;Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfilment In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?" ¬;It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him. ¬;It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior. ¬;Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ¬;Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. ¬;Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ¬;Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. ¬;No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ¬;Our society has become an employee society. ¬;Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value.

Nothing else constitutes quality. ¬;So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. ¬;The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make--for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre. ¬;The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. ¬;The information revolution. Almost everybody is sure ...that it is proceeding with unprecedented speed; and ...that its effects will be more radical than anything that has gone before. Wrong, and wrong again. Both in its speed and its impact, the information revolution uncannily resembles its two predecessors ...The first industrial revolution, triggered by James Watt's improved steam engine in the mid-1770s...did not produce many social and economic changes until the invention of the railroad in 1829 ...Similarly, the invention of the computer in the mid-1940s, ...it was not until 40 years later, with the spread of the Internet in the 1990s, that the information revolution began to bring about big economic and social changes. ...the same emergence of the “super-rich” of their day, characterized both the first and the second industrial revolutions. ...These parallels are close and striking enough to make it almost certain that, as in the earlier industrial revolutions, the main effects of the information revolution on the next society still lie ahead. ¬;The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ¬;The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

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¬;The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. ¬;The "thought man" ...the "action man" ...the "people man" ...the "front man" ...Yet those four temperaments are almost never found in one person. ...The one-man top management job is a major reason why business fail to grow. ¬;The world political system is still based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other. ¬;This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. ...the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists:” computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists, paralegals. ...They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers, but they see themselves as “professionals.” Just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 20th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant social—-and perhaps also political—-force over the next decades. ¬;This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work...or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work--still abysmally low-will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. ¬;Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal. ...The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers. ¬;Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. ¬;We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model. ¬;We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. ¬;What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it. ¬;When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ¬;Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter 'Fulton' John Sheen–1895-1975:American, Roman Catholic theo, Newport Archbishop, won Emmy ¬;Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. ¬;Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

Peter McArthur – 1866-1924:Canadian, journ col esp farm life, poet, pub, writer inc In Pastures Green ¬;A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ¬;Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter Minard – 1908-1988:French, Benedictine monk, founded Holy Mother of God Monastery, essayist ¬;Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter 'Pete' Seeger – 1919- :American, singer esp folk & protest, songwriter, civil rights & anti-war act ¬;Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ¬;I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn’t like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for. ¬;I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ¬;I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail. ¬;Some may find them [songs] merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution.

And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I. ¬;The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Phaedrus – c.15 BC-50 AD:Macedonian born Roman, writer especially collections of fables inc Aesop ¬;Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. ¬;Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

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¬;The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. ¬;There is danger in both belief and unbelief. ¬;Things are not always what they seem. ¬;To add insult to injury.

Phil Kerby – 193?- :American, teacher, FBI Agent, writer inc WithHonor & Purpose, private investigator ¬;Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.

Philip Cortelyou Johnson – 1906-2005:American, architect inc GlassHouse, Seagram & CrystalCathedral ¬;Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Dormer Stanhope,4thEarlChesterfield–1694-1773:English, writer, Whig pol, dip, IrelandSecOfState ¬;Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. ¬;I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ¬;Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ¬;Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ¬;Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Douglas 'Phil' Jackson – 1945- :American, professional basketball player, coach inc Chicago Bulls ¬;Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Philip George Zimbardo–1933- :American, Psych Prof, writer, found Shyness Clinic, Pres AmPsychAssoc ¬;Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. ¬;Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. ¬;I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. ¬;Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. ¬;The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ¬;The seeds of madness can be planted in anyone's backyard ¬;Treating other people as insignificant, as anonymous, as dehumanized, bothered me very much. So one of the things I studied later on was the psychology of deindividuation.

Philip Guedalla – 1889-1944:English, lawyer, writer esp history travel & biography, wit, Liberal politician ¬;Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. ¬;Even reviewers read a Preface ¬;History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other Philip Kindred Dick – 1928-1982:American, short story writer, essay, novelist esp SF & soc sci, won Hugo ¬;A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. ¬;Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. ¬;Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home. ¬;I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the Hbomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that. ¬;Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ¬;The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. ¬;They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means. ¬;Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. We are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

PhilipposOfGreece&Denmark,Prince akaPhilipMountbatten,DukeEdin–1921- :Greek born British, sailor ¬;I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. ¬;I realise that there are any number of vital causes to be fought for, I sympathise with people who work up a passionate concern about the all too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness, but behind all this hangs a really deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and unrecognised, the process of destroying our natural environment is gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with this challenge, all the other problems

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will pale into insignificance. ¬;It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now. ¬;For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest. He may have occasional fits of conscience and moral rectitude but otherwise his actions are governed by self-interest. It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure. ¬;Why then be concerned about the conservation of wildlife when for all practical purposes we would be much better off if humans and their domestic animals and pets were the only living creatures on the face of the earth?

There is no obvious and demolishing answer to this rather doubtful logic although in practice the destruction of all wild animals would certainly bring devastating changes to our existence on this planet as we know it today...The trouble is that everything in nature is completely interdependent. Tinker with one part of it and the repercussions ripple out in all directions...Wildlife - and that includes everything from microbes to blue whales and from a fungus to a redwood tree - has been so much part of life on the earth that we are inclined to take its continued existence for granted...Yet the wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect. ¬;You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

Phillip Calvin McGraw, aka Dr Phil – 1950- :American, psych, writer, found CourtroomSciences, TV host ¬;At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Phocylides – c.560 BC-c.5?? BC:Miletus Greek, gnomic poet, creator & collector of Maxims ¬;Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

Phyllis Ada Driver aka Phyllis Diller – 1917- :American, film&television actress, comedienne esp standup ¬;Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ¬;It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ¬;We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Pierre-Jules Renard – 1864-1910:French, writer esp Histoires Naturelles, novelist, poet, play, Socialist pol ¬;I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself. ¬;I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ¬;Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ¬;Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. ¬;There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last ¬;We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. ¬;Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ¬;Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted.

Pindar – c.522 BC-c.440 BC:Theban Greek, lyric poet inc Victory Odes, choreographer, Delphi priest, pol ¬;Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ¬;Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Plato – 428 BC-348 BC:Athenian Greek, phil, mathematician, writer, founded the Athenian Academy ¬;All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ¬;Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. ¬;As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers. ¬;Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ¬;Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ¬;Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. ¬;False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ¬;Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ¬;He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. ¬;He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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¬;Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty. ¬;I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ¬;If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. ¬;If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. ¬;If you would read a man’s Disposition, see him Game; you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation, and little Wagers will try him as soon as great Stakes, for then he is off his Guard. ¬;Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ¬;Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. ¬;Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ¬;Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. ¬;Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. ¬;Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. ¬;Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. ¬;Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ¬;Necessity, who is the mother of invention. ¬;Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ¬;No human thing is of serious importance. ¬;No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. ¬;One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ¬;The beginning is the most important part of the work. ¬;The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ¬;The eyes which are the windows of the soul. ¬;The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. ¬;The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. ¬;The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ¬;The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men. ¬;Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ¬;To a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors. ¬;Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. ¬;The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ¬;Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded... ¬;This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ¬;Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ¬;Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. ¬;We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ¬;When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ¬;When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ¬;Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

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¬;Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ¬;You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. ¬;You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Polybius – c.203 BC-c.120 BC:Arcadian Greek&Roman, 1stsystematic hist esp Histories, writer, tutor, pol ¬;He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace. ¬;Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death. ¬;Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Poul William Anderson – 1926-2001:American, short story writer, novel esp SF fantasy&hist, won 7 Hugo ¬;I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. ¬;So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

Proverb or Author unknown ¬;A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. ¬;A censor is someone who views pornography all day, but does not get corrupted even though he is certain you would be. ¬;A closed mind is a good thing to lose. ¬;A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. ¬;A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head. ¬;A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. ¬;A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. ¬;A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. ¬;A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. ¬;A fool judges people by the presents they give him. ¬;A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. ¬;A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden. ¬;A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ¬;A light heart lives long. ¬;A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain. ¬;A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion. ¬;A mother understands what a child does not say. ¬;A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help. ¬;A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. ¬;A picture may paint a thousand words, but it uses up 1000 times more memory. ¬;A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ¬;A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. ¬;A stumble may prevent a fall. ¬;A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. ¬;A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . ¬;A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have. ¬;A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. ¬;A woman never knows what she really wants until she finds out what her husband cannot afford. ¬;Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ¬;After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. ¬;After looking at the bill for my operation, I understand why the doctors wear masks in the operating room. ¬;After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. ¬;An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions. ¬;An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a

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bottle of stout. ¬;Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing. ¬;Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. ¬;Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. ¬;As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. ¬;As you teach, you learn. ¬;At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish. ¬;Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ¬;Bad is never good until worse happens. ¬;Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet. ¬;Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ¬;Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. ¬;Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. ¬;Better a bad peace than a good war. ¬;Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant ¬;Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ¬;Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ¬;Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ¬;Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. ¬;By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible. ¬;By learning to obey, you will know how to command. ¬;Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ¬;Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ¬;Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners. ¬;Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. ¬;Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities. ¬;Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. ¬;Dig the well before you are thirsty. ¬;Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ¬;Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ¬;Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ¬;Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. ¬;Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ¬;Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened. ¬;Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by. ¬;Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ¬;Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ¬;Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ¬;Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it. ¬;Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. ¬;Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones. ¬;Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. ¬;Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. ¬;Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ¬;Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by." ¬;Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin. ¬;Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. ¬;Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ¬;Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ¬;Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. ¬;Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. ¬;Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ¬;Fools rush in where fools have been before. ¬;For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. ¬;Fortune's wheel is ever turning.

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¬;Foster's Law : The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ¬;George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ¬;Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. ¬;God gives, but man must open his hand. ¬;God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. ¬;God pays, but not weekly wages. ¬;Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. ¬;Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind ¬;Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ¬;Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. ¬;He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. ¬;He that promises most will perform least. ¬;He that seeks trouble never misses. ¬;He that would be a leader must be a bridge. ¬;He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. ¬;He who doesn't look ahead remains behind. ¬;He who feels no compassion will become insane. ¬;He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ¬;He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. ¬;He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is. ¬;He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth. ¬;He who refuses to obey cannot command. ¬;He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. ¬;He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. ¬;He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time. ¬;How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ¬;How many Star Trek fans does it take to change a light bulb? - Ten, one to change the bulb and nine to debate whether the new bulb is better than the old one. ¬;How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table. ¬;However long the night, the dawn will break. ¬;I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. ¬;I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. ¬;I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. ¬;I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.' ¬;Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. ¬;If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried ...but if at first you succeed, try to hide your surprise. ¬;If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists. ¬;If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ¬;If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet I’d put shoes on my cat. ¬;If it works without fail, it hasn't got enough features yet ¬;If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land. ¬;If sometimes you feel yourself little, useless, offended and depressed, always remember that you were once the fastest and most victorious sperm in your group. ¬;If the young only knew; if the old only could. ¬;If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ¬;If you believe everything you read, better not read. ¬;If you can smile when things are going wrong, then you already know whom to blame. ¬;If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself. ¬;If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. ¬;If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. ¬;If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. ¬;If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon. ¬;If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ¬;If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling. ¬;If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.

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¬;If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say. ¬;If you look back, you'll soon be going that way. ¬;If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. ¬;Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance ¬;In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal. ¬;It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. ¬;It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. ¬;It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ¬;It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. ¬;It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. ¬;It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything. ¬;It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. ¬;Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. ¬;Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ¬;Life does not begin at the moment of conception or the moment of birth. It begins when the last kid leaves home and the dog dies ¬;Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ¬;Like swift water an active mind never stagnates. ¬;Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics. ¬;Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. ¬;Mahatma Gandhi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral. ¬;Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. ¬;Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope ¬;Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. ¬;Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ¬;Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone. ¬;Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it. ¬;Men are like fine wine-- they all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something we'd like to have dinner with. ¬;Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. ¬;My Karma ran over your dogma. ¬;My wife keeps complaining that I never listen to her, or something like that. ¬;Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit. ¬;Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which. ¬;Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. ¬;Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. ¬;Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend ¬;Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. ¬;Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ¬;No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. ¬;No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous. ¬;Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse. ¬;Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. ¬;One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind. ¬;One may have good eyes and yet see nothing. ¬;One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed. ¬;One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. ¬;Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ¬;Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ¬;Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

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¬;True strength lies in gentleness. ¬;Truth fears no questions. ¬;Use soft words and hard arguments. ¬;Victory is a political fiction. ¬;Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day. ¬;We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. ¬;We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. ¬;What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. ¬;What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. ¬;What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. ¬;When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen. ¬;When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife. ¬;When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ¬;When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ¬;When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. ¬;When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. ¬;When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. ¬;Who begins too much accomplishes little. ¬;Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ¬;Why are men so bad at sex and driving? - Because the bastards pull out with no thought of who else might be coming! ¬;Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ¬;With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. ¬;Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. ¬;Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ¬;You keep asking me questions that you know I have to lie at. 'Do I look fat?' 'Nah, no.' If you wasn't fat, you wouldn't have asked. That's why you asked the question. Skinny people don't say, 'Do I look fat?' Skinny people say, 'Do you want to eat? Would you like to have a sandwich?' ¬;You know your children have grown up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going. ¬;You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it ¬;You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Publilius Syrus – c.1st Century BC:Assyrian born Roman, freed slave,, writer & collector of maxims ¬;A rolling stone gathers no moss. ¬;A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. ¬;Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. ¬;An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. ¬;Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ¬;Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. ¬;Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ¬;I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ¬;If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. ¬;In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. ¬;It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. ¬;It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. ¬;It is better to learn late than never. ¬;It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. ¬;It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. ¬;It is not every question that deserves an answer. ¬;It is only the ignorant who despise education. ¬;Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. ¬;Many receive advice, few profit by it. ¬;Never find your delight in another's misfortune. ¬;Never promise more than you can perform. ¬;No man is happy who does not think himself so. ¬;No one knows what he can do till he tries.

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¬;Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ¬;Practice is the best of all instructors. ¬;The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ¬;The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ¬;There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ¬;There are some remedies worse than the disease. ¬;To do two things at once is to do neither. ¬;Today is the pupil of yesterday. ¬;We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. ¬;You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus – c.56-117 AD:Roman, writer inc Annals, historian, Gov, Sen, Consul ¬;In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. ¬;It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. ¬;Keen at the start, but careless at the end. ¬;No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. ¬;The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. ¬;The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. ¬;To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Publius Ovidius Naso aka Ovid – 43 BC-18 AD-Sulmo Roman, poet esp elegiac couplets inc Amores ¬;Do not let too strong a light come into your bedroom. There are in a beauty a great many things which are enhanced by being seen only in a half-light. ¬;It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. ¬;Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark. ¬;Nothing is stronger than habit. ¬;The cause is hidden, but the result is well known. ¬;Time, the devourer of all things. ¬;We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. ¬;We can learn even from our enemies. ¬;You will be safest in the middle.

PubliusTerentiusAfer akaTerence–c.195-159 BC:Carthaginian born Roman, freed slave, play inc Heauton ¬;Charity begins at home. ¬;Extreme law is often extreme injustice. ¬;Fortune helps the brave. ¬;In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. ¬;Moderation in all things. ¬;Nothing is said that has not been said before. ¬;That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it. ¬;There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ¬;What is done let us leave alone. ¬;You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Publius Vergilius Maro aka Virgil – 70-19 BC:Cisalpine Gaul born Roman, poet inc Aeneid & Eclogues ¬;A snake lurks in the grass. ¬;Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Grecians, even bearing gifts. ¬;Fortune favors the brave. ¬;Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. ¬;I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. ¬;It is easy to go down into Hell ¬;They are able because they think they are able.

Pyrrhus of Epirus–319-272 BC:MolossianGreek, Gen,strategist, King of Epirus&Macedon, writer on war ¬;Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Pythagoras of Samos – c.570-c.495 BC:Samos Greek, mathematician, phil, found Pythagoreanism religion ¬;Above all things reverence thy Self. ¬;As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. ¬;Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down. ¬;Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear! ¬;Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

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¬;Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. ¬;Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. ¬;In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. ¬;It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong. ¬;It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ¬;Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. ¬;No man is free who cannot control himself. ¬;Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. ¬;Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. ¬;Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. ¬;Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. ¬;The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought. ¬;We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Q Qiu Kong aka Zhongni aka Confucius – 551-479 BC:Lu Chinese, phil esp morality & ancestors, writer ¬;A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. ¬;And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ¬;Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ¬;Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ¬;Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ¬;By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ¬;Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ¬;Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ¬;Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. ¬;Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. ¬;I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ¬;If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. ¬;If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ¬;Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star ¬;In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ¬;It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. ¬;It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ¬;Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ¬;Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ¬;No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to selfchosen ignorance. ¬;Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ¬;Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. ¬;Study the past, if you would divine the future. ¬;The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ¬;The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ¬;The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ¬;The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ¬;Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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¬;To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ¬;To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ¬;To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ¬;What one does not wish for oneself, one ought not to do to anyone else; what one recognises as desirable for oneself, one ought to be willing to grant to others. ¬;What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ¬;When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ¬;When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ¬;When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. ¬;When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Quintus Ennius – c.239-c.169 BC:Messapian born Roman, poet, playwright, aka father of Roman poetry ¬;Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do. ¬;No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. ¬;No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. ¬;The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus aka Horace – 65-08 BC:Venusia born Roman, army officer, scribe, lyric poet ¬;He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! ¬;He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ¬;Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. ¬;Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! ¬;The covetous man is ever in want. ¬;Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus aka Tertullian–160-220:Cathaginian born Roman, Christian theo ¬;He who flees will fight again. ¬;It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ¬;Out of the frying pan into the fire. ¬;Truth does not blush. ¬;Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

R Rabindranath Tagore – 1861-1945:Indian, poet, novelist, writer, play, musician, polymath, won Nobel Lit ¬;Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Ralph Nader – 1934- :American, lawyer, lecturer, writer, environmental consumerist & pol act, Pres cand ¬;Because the civil society is being closed down, the source of most social justice progress in our country, by the concentration of corporate power over our government, over our workplace, over our environment, over many institutions that should not be subordinated to global corporate power. ... Either the people are going to be sovereign or big business is going to be sovereign. ¬;Did you learn how to think or how to believe? ¬;For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ¬;I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. ¬;In our country, the large corporations are the dominant institution. They comprise the strongest, consistent, generic power in the land. They share a high degree of coordinated values. Their power is all the more remarkable in its resiliency and ability to accommodate or absorb other challenging power centers such as big government and organized labor in ways that turn an additional profit, erect an additional privilege, or acquire protective mechanisms to defeat proposals for change or reform. ¬;Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. ¬;The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ¬;The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ¬;There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882:American, phil esp individual, poet, essayist, Transcendentalist leader ¬;A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ¬;A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ¬;A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good. ¬;A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ¬;A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ¬;A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. ¬;All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ¬;All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. ¬;Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative. ¬;Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. ¬;By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ¬;Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? ¬;Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. ¬;Common sense is as rare as genius. ¬;Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. ¬;Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ¬;Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ¬;Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. ¬;Every hero becomes a bore at last. ¬;Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.

Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. ¬;Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. ¬;I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. ¬;If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, — if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, — we should all rush to their gates: ¬;Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ¬;In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ¬;Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. ¬;It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ¬;Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ¬;Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ¬;Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. ¬;Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. ¬;Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. ¬;Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. ¬;My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. ¬;Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ¬;Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. ¬;One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's

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folly. ¬;Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism.

The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? ¬;People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ¬;Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect. ¬;Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. ¬;Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better. ¬;That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ¬;The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ¬;The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ¬;The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. ¬;The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. ¬;There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but though his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. ¬;There is properly no history; only biography. ¬;This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ¬;Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. ¬;We all boil at different degrees. ¬;What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. ¬;When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. ¬;Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. ¬;Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ¬;Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Washington Sockman – 1889-1930:American, Methodist pastor, preacher, broadc, writer esp relg ¬;The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ¬;The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Randal 'Randy' Keith Milholland – 197?- :American, graphic artist, webcomic desg incSomethingPositive ¬;In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. ¬;It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions. ¬;It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be. ¬;Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful. ¬;Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love. ¬;Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it. ¬;The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. ¬;Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple. ¬;Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. ¬;Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?

Randolph Severn'Trey'Parker–1969- :American, writer, screen, animator, prod, actor, created SouthPark Matthew Richard'Matt'Stone–1971- :American, musician, screen, dir, producer, actor, created SouthPark ¬;I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. ¬;I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole

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educator of their kids. ¬;Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical. ¬;Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. ¬;The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across. ¬;The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything. ¬;You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.

Ray Douglas Bradbury – 1920- :American, essayist, short story & novel esp SF fantasy horror&mystery ¬;I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. ¬;If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. ¬;If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. ¬;Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. ¬;People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better. ¬;Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here. ¬;There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. ¬;There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ¬;We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? ¬;You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Raymond Elias Gonzales aka Raymond E Feist – 1945- :American, novelist & short story esp Fantasy ¬;Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Raymond Lindquist – 193?-2001:American, Presb preacher, senior pastor 1st Presb Church of Hollywood ¬;Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight akaEltonHerculesJohn–1947- :English, singer, song, pianist, Oscar&5Grammy ¬;There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex . . . People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

Rene Descartes – 1596-1650:French, phil, math, physic, aka Father of Modern Phil & analytical geometry ¬;A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed ¬;After that, I thought about what a proposition generally needs in order to be true and certain because, since I had just found one that I knew was such, I thought I should also know what this certainty consists in. Having noticed that there is nothing at all in the proposition 'I think, therefore I am' [cogito ergo sum] which convinces me that I speak the truth, apart from the fact that I see very clearly that one has to exist in order to think, I judged that I could adopt as a general rule that those things we conceive very clearly and distinctly are all true.

The only outstanding difficulty is in recognizing which ones we conceive distinctly. ¬;But from the time I was in college I learned that there is nothing one could imagine which is so strange and incredible that it was not said by some philosopher; and since that time, I have recognized through my travels that all those whose views are different from our own are not necessarily, for that reason, barbarians or savages, but that many of them use their reason either as much as or even more than we do. I also considered how the same person, with the same mind, who was brought up from infancy either among the French or the Germans, becomes different from what they would have been if they had always lived among the Chinese or among the cannibals, and how, even in our clothes fashions, the very thing that we liked ten years ago, and that we may

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like again within the next ten years, appears extravagant and ridiculous to us today. Thus our convictions result from custom and example very much more than from any knowledge that is certain... truths will be discovered by an individual rather than a whole people. ¬;Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ¬;Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ¬;Doubt is the origin of wisdom. ¬;Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. ¬;Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ¬;I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. ¬;I believed that, instead of the multiplicity of rules that comprise logic, I would have enough in the following four, as long as I made a firm and steadfast resolution never to fail to observe them. The first was never to accept anything as true if I did not know clearly that it was so; that is, carefully to avoid prejudice and jumping to conclusions, and to include nothing in my judgments apart from whatever appeared so clearly and distinctly to my mind that I had no opportunity to cast doubt upon it. The second was to subdivide each on the problems I was about to examine: into as many parts as would be possible and necessary to resolve them better. The third was to guide my thoughts in an orderly way by beginning, as if by steps, to knowledge of the most complex, and even by assuming an order of the most complex, and even by assuming an order among objects in! cases where there is no natural order among them. And the final rule was: in all cases, to make such comprehensive enumerations and such general review that I was certain not to omit anything. The long chains of inferences, all of them simple and easy, that geometers normally use to construct their most difficult demonstrations had given me an opportunity to think that all the things that can fall within the scope of human knowledge follow from each other 'in a similar way, and as long as one avoids accepting something as true which is not so, and as long as one always observes the order required to deduce them from each other, there cannot be anything so remote that it cannot be reached nor anything so hidden that it cannot be uncovered. ¬;I think; therefore I am. ¬;If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ¬;In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ¬;It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ¬;It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. ¬;It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ¬;One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ¬;So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. ¬;The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ¬;The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ¬;The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another. ¬;The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ¬;To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say ¬;When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ¬;Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to conceive them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper.

Rex Allen Hudler – 1960- :American, MajorLeagueBaseball utility player-6 teams, sports radio broadc ¬;Be a fountain, not a drain.

Rex Todhunter Stout – 1886-1975:American, short story writer, novel esp detective inc Nero Wolfe, lib act ¬;Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ¬;The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

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Rich Cook – 1944- :American, broadcaster, novelist esp fantasy inc The Wizardry Compiled, writer ¬;Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Richard Alva 'Dick' Cavett–1936- :American, actor, comedian inc standup, talkshow host, won 3 Emmys ¬;As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. ¬;Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ¬;It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan – 1751-1816:Irish, poet, playwright, owner London Theatre Royal, Whig MP ¬;He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. ¬;Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. ¬;The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. ¬;The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ¬;There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. ¬;When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."

Richard Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller – 1895-1983:American, architect, des, inventor, writer esp the future ¬;As a consequence of the slavish "categoryitis" the scientifically illogical, and as we shall see, often meaningless questions "Where do you live?" "What are you?" "What religion?" "What race?" "What nationality?" are all thought of today as logical questions. By the twenty-first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti-evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth. ¬;Dare to be naïve. ¬;Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession — not conscious planning — provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. Nature's long-term design intervenes to circumvent the shortsightedness of human individuals, corporations, and nations competing for a share of the economic pie. Fundamentally, political economists misassume an inadequacy of life support to exist on our planet. Humanity therefore competes militarily to see which political system... is fittest to survive. In slavish observance of this misassumption, humans devote their most costly efforts and resources to "killingry" — a vast arsenal of weapons skillfully designed to kill ever more people at ever-greater distances in ever-shorter periods of time while employing ever-fewer pounds of material, ergs of energy, and seconds of time per killing. ¬;Don't fight forces, use them. ¬;I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that's what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. We're all on the frontier, we're all in a great mystery — incredibly mysterious. Each one possesses exactly what each one is working out, and what each one works out relates to their particular set of circumstances of any one day, or any one place around the world. ¬;In spite of all humans' innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago these world-powerstructure builders learned to shunt all the bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers.

The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier, because innate, comprehensive functioning. All one needs to do is to discover how self-perpetuating is this disease of specialization is to witness the inter-departmental battling for educational funds and the concomitant jealous guarding of the various specializations assigned to a department's salaried experts on each subject in any university. ¬;It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. ¬;Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ¬;Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. ¬;Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. ¬;The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably sceptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. ¬;The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. ¬;The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. ¬;The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a

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majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe. ¬;The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ¬;There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ¬;Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. ¬;We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around earth... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ¬;We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable.

Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. ¬;We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. ¬;When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst single killing of humans by humans.

That was about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a 75,000-capacitystadium full of around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5percent world food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total world's population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing. ¬;When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.

Richard Cecil – 1748-1810:English, Evangelical Anglican priest, preacher, found Eclectic Society, writer ¬;I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. ¬;It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it. ¬;Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. ¬;We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

Richard Claxton 'Dick' Gregory – 1932- : American, comedian, writer, ent, civil rights & social activist ¬;I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Richard Phillips Feynman – 1918-1988:American, physic esp particle physics & quantums, Nobel Physics ¬;Although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial ¬;Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain," into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. ¬;Each piece, or part, of the whole nature is always an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.......The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth”. ¬;For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ¬;God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand.

Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. ¬;I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing

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than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me. ¬;I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! ¬;I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ...There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. ¬;I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. ¬;If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. ¬;Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers, you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age. ¬;It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvellous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. ¬;It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. ¬;Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true. ¬;No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. ¬;On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics. ¬;Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. ¬;Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvellous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ¬;Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation ... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ¬;She had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. ¬;Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself. ¬;Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. ¬;"The exception tests the rule." Or, put another way, "The exception proves that the rule is wrong." That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong. ¬;The first ... has to do with whether a man knows what he is talking about, whether what he says has some basis or not. And my trick that I use is very easy. If you ask him intelligent questions — then he quickly gets stuck. It is like a child asking naive questions. If you ask naive but relevant questions, then almost immediately the person doesn't know the answer, if he is an honest man. ¬;The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

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¬;The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." ¬;The remark which I read somewhere, that science is all right as long as it doesn't attack religion, was the clue I needed to understand the problem. As long as it doesn't attack religion it need not be paid attention to and nobody has to learn anything. So it can be cut off from society except for its applications, and thus be isolated.

And then we have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

But if they want to defend their own point of view, they will have to learn what yours is a little bit. So I suggest, maybe correctly and perhaps wrongly, that we are too polite. ¬;The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know.

But I don’t know whether everyone realizes this is true. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained. ¬;The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. ¬;There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. ¬;There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in "cargo cult science." It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards.

For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked — to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition. In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. ¬;There were certain things I didn't like, such as tipping. I thought we should be paid more, and not have to have any tips. But when I proposed that to the boss, I got nothing but laughter. She told everybody, "Richard doesn't want his tips, hee, hee, hee; he doesn't want his tips, ha, ha, ha." The world is full of this kind of dumb smartalec who doesn't understand anything. ¬;We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

People are terrified—how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know. ¬;We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems.

But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. ¬;We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?" ¬;You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Francis Burton – 1821-1890:English, explorer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, dip ¬;The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own. ¬;The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Richard Greenberg – 1958- :American, play inc Take Me Out & Three Days of Rain, won Tony Award ¬;I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

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Richard Melville Hall aka Moby – 1965- :American, singer, song, musician esp ambient electronic, D.J. ¬;I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Richard Milhous Nixon – 1917-1994:American, lawyer, Rep pol, California US Senator, 37th US President ¬;For years politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. ¬;The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. ¬;The media are far more powerful than the President in creating public awareness and shaping public opinion, for the simple reason that the media always have the last word.

Richard Steele – 1672-1729:Irish, playwright, writer, founder Spectator Magazine, Whig politician, MP ¬;Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Richard Willard Armour – 1906-1989:American, poet inc humourus, writer inc bio, novel, Prof of English ¬;Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Rick Pitino – 1952- :American, college basketball coach, writer inc SuccessIsChoice, motivational speaker ¬;When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Rita Mae Brown – 1944- :American, novelist esp mystery, screen, poet, writer, civil rights & feminist act ¬;I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ¬;My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ¬;No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ¬;Normal is the average of deviance. ¬;One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ¬;What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Rita Rudner – 1953- :American, screen, novelist, writer, dancer, actress, comedienne inc improvisational ¬;According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful. ¬;I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'." ¬;I like men who wear earrings. They've bought jewelry and they've experienced pain. ¬;I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ¬;I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ¬;I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ¬;Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ¬;My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. ¬;My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. ¬;My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. ¬;Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. ¬;Well, the old theory was "marry a older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature — marry a young one". ¬;When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. ¬;Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men — how about "New Car Interior"?

Roald Dahl – 1916-1990:British, novel & short story esp children inc Charlie&ChocolateFactory, screen ¬;A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. ¬;Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen – 1872-1928:Norwegian, explorer esp polar, 1st man to SouthPole ¬;Adventure is just bad planning.

Robert Alan 'Bob' Edwards–1947- :American, radio broadc, news anchor incNatPublicRadio MorningEd ¬;A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan–1941- :American, poet, singer, song, musician, Oscar &Pulitzer ¬;All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ¬;Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

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Robert Anson Heinlein – 1907-1988:American, essay, screen, novel esp SF, aka Dean of SF, won 4 Hugos ¬;A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ¬;A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased — he hates all creative people equally. ¬;A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ¬;A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. ¬;A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events. ¬;Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. ¬;An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. ¬;Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure "good" government; it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the "backseat-driver syndrome." ¬;Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too.

Who decides? Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. ¬;Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ¬;Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. ¬;Does history record any case in which the majority was right? ¬;Early rising may not be a vice ... but it is certainly no virtue. The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed. ¬;Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft. ¬;Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ¬;Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. ¬;History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. ¬;How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? ¬;Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way. ¬;I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. I had sampled them — public libraries are a ready source of recreation for an actor short of cash — but I had found them as poor in vitamins as a mother-inlaw’s kiss. Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything. I had the same contempt for the moral instruction handed to most children. Much of it is prattle and the parts they really seem to mean are dedicated to the sacred proposition that a “good” child is one who does not disturb mother’s nap and a “good” man is one who achieves a muscular bank account without getting caught. No, thanks! ¬;If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! ¬;In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. ¬;It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. ¬;Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. ¬;Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. ¬;Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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¬;Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. ¬;Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy"is the most amazing — with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place. ¬;Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. ¬;Once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth. ¬;One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority. ¬;One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ¬;One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ¬;Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. ¬;Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ¬;Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. ¬;Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ¬;Specialization is for insects. ¬;Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ¬;Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too. ¬;The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. ¬;The less respect an older person deserves, the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. ¬;The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful. ¬;The Office does not sanctify the holder of it. ¬;The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. ¬;The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. ¬;The whole principle of censorship is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak ¬;Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ¬;There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest.

This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. ¬;There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. ¬;What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! ¬;What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! ¬;Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. ¬;You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. ¬;You live and learn. Or you don't live long. ¬;Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend.

Robert Anthony – 195?- :American, psychotherapist inc energy therapist, hypnotist, motivational trainer ¬;If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ¬;If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

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¬;Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. ¬;Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. ¬;Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ¬;The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it. ¬;The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ¬;When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Robert Edward 'Anton' Wilson–1932-2007:American, novelist, essay, writer, editor, libertarian phil, play ¬;Belief is the death of intelligence. ¬;Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ¬;Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. ¬;Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. ¬;I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. ¬;I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops". both of which mean the killing must continue. ¬;I see the power game resting on three levels of force and fraud. First, earliest and still most powerful is the government racket itself, the monopoly on force (military power, police power, etc.) which allows the governing group to take tribute (taxation) from the enslaved or deluded masses. Second, derivative from this primordial conquest, is the landlord racket, the mammalian monopoly on territory which allows the king's relations (lordsof-the-land) or their successors, today's "land-lords," to take tribute (rent) from those who live within the territory. Rent is the daughter of taxation; the second degree of the same racket. Third, the latest in historical time, is the usury racket, the monopoly on the issue of currency which allows the money lords to take tribute (interest) on the creation of money or credit, and on the continuous circulation of the money or credit every step of the way. Interest is the son of rent, the rent of money. Since most people engaged in nefarious practices are, in my opinion, very loathe to acknowledge what they are doing, and are addicted to the same hypocrisies as the rest of humanity, I think all power groups quite sincerely believe that what they are doing is proper, and that anybody who attacks them is a revolutionary nut. ¬;It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ¬;There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury – 1830-1903:English, Con pol, 3x UK PM ¬;By a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom. ¬;I have heard it stated — and I confess with some surprise — as an article of Conservative opinion that paternal Government — that is to say, the use of the machinery of Government for the benefit of the people — is a thing in itself detestable and wicked. I am unable to subscribe to that doctrine, either politically or historically. ¬;If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ¬;No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. ¬;On general grounds I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence. ¬;The only true lasting benefit which the statesman can give to the poor man is so to shape matters that the greatest possible opportunity for the exercise of his own moral and intellectual qualities shall be offered to him by the law; Robert Brault – 1938- :American, writer, col, aphorist, web blogger at Define Heartache:A Reminiscence ¬;A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. ¬;A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ¬;A sense of entitlement is an entitlement to a permanent sense of dissatisfaction. ¬;As you wait for better days, don’t forget to enjoy today — in case they’ve already started. ¬;Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ¬;Genius is the knack of being inspired by common sense. ¬;History is 99% the achievement of people who never made history. ¬;How often we choose to continue the life we know, only to look back and realize that it was not one of the choices.

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¬;Love may be blind, but this I’ll state — it’s eagle-eyed compared to hate. ¬;Most marriages can survive “better or worse.” The tester is all the years of “exactly the same.” ¬;New ideas seldom pop into your head through your mouth. ¬;Nothing shakes your faith in democracy like the family's three-to-two vote for fudge sundaes for breakfast. ¬;Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. ¬;The first test of a good idea is that somebody thinks it foolish. ¬;The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ¬;The surest sign that the goal is near is that offers of help begin to appear. ¬;We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. ¬;We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. ¬;What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. ¬;Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Robert Byrne – 193?- :American, professional pool&billiards player, novel, writer inc quote compilations ¬;A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. ¬;Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses. ¬;Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo ¬;Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. ¬;There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on ¬;Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Robert Charles Benchley – 1889-1945:American, col, essay inc New Yorker, actor, humourist, won Oscar ¬;Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ¬;Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ¬;Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ¬;Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ¬;I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems. ¬;I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason. ¬;It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ¬;That is my great trouble in taking tests and examinations of any kind. I always want to argue with the examiner, because the examiner is always so obviously wrong.

Robert Corn-Revere – 196?- : American, lawyer inc US Federal Comm Commission, free speech activist ¬;Censorship is contagious, and experience with this culture of regulation teaches that regulatory enthusiasts herald each new medium of communications as another opportunity to spread the disease Robert Edward Lee – 1807-1870:American, combat eng, US Army Colonel, Confederate Army General ¬;I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. ¬;The education of a man is never completed until he dies. ¬;The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forbearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. ¬;What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors... to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world RobertEdward'Ted'Turner–1938- :American, media tycoon, found CNN&WTBS, found UnitedNatFound ¬;Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. ¬;Having great wealth is one of the most disappointing things. It's overrated, I can tell you that. It's not as good as average sex. ¬;I'd like to see a world without land mines, with kids out playing. I'd like to see us act like highly educated, civilized human beings. ¬;I'd rather go to hell. Heaven has got to be boring. ¬;I'd rather put myself in the Iraqis' hands than in some Americans' ¬;I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me ¬;If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

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¬;If you've got an innovative idea, and the majority does not pooh-pooh it, then the odds are you must not have a very good idea. When people thought I was loony, it did not bother me at all. In fact, I considered that I must really be onto something. ¬;(Iran's) a sovereign state. We have 28,000 (missiles). Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel — they've got 100 of them approximately — or India or Pakistan or Russia. ¬;Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. ¬;Men should be barred from public office for 100 years in every part of the world... The men have had millions of years where we've been running things. We've screwed it up hopelessly. Let's give it to the women. ¬;My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job. ¬;Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need.

The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts ¬;Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. ¬;The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. ¬;The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. ¬;There's an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party. Who needs it all? ¬;War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. ¬;We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. ¬;We’re the only first world country that doesn’t have universal healthcare and it’s a disgrace. ¬;Well, you can't make people give - that's not giving. They gotta want to give. It's very complicated, but the best way is to lead by example. ¬;When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.

Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy – 1925-1968:American, lawyer, Dem pol, NY US Sen, US Attorney Gen ¬;All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change. ¬;Are we like the God of the Old Testament, that we in Washington can decide which cities, towns, and hamlets in Vietnam will be destroyed? Do we have to accept that? I don't think we do. I think we can do something about it. ¬;But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. ¬;Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience.

Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future. ¬;Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. ¬;Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. ¬;Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ¬;First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. ¬;For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.

This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a

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child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter. ¬;GNP counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. ¬;I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering. ¬;If we would lead outside our borders, if we would help those who need our assistance, if we would meet our responsibilities to mankind, we must first, all of us, demolish the borders which history has erected between men within our own nations — barriers of race and religion, social class and ignorance. Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. ¬;It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ¬;Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws—but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted —when we tolerate what we know to be wrong—when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened—when we fail to speak up and speak out—we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice. ¬;Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed. ¬;One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time ¬;Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ¬;Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live. ¬;The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer — not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people. ¬;The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. ¬;The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. ¬;Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one can be certain who next will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed, and yet it goes on, and on, and on, in this country of ours.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily, whenever we tear at the fabric of our lives which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, whenever we do this, then the whole nation is degraded. Too often, we honour swagger and bluster and the wielders of force. Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives from the shattered dreams of other human beings.

But this much is clear, Violence breeds violence, repression breeds retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls. For when you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color, or his beliefs or the policies that he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you, threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens, but as enemies. To be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated, and to be mastered. We learn at the last to look at our brothers as aliens. Alien men with whom we share a city, but not a community. Men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in a common

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effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. Our lives on this planet are too short, the work to be done is too great.

But we can perhaps remember, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life that they seek as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, surely this bond of common fate, this bond of common roles can begin to teach us something, that we can begin to work a little harder, to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again. ¬;We must recognize the full human equality of all our people-before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous-although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it-although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll – 1833-1899:American, US Army Colonel, lawyer, Rep pol, orator, social activist ¬;All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. ¬;Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ¬;Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. ¬;Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ¬;Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. ¬;Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. ¬;Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ¬;How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? Always by a statute against blasphemy, against argument, against free speech. And there never was such a statute that did not stain the book that it was in and that did not certify to the savagery of the men who passed it. ¬;I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain. ¬;I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes. For my part, I believe men will be nearer honest in business, in politics, grander in art — in everything that is good and grand and beautiful, if they are taught from the cradle to the coffin to tell their honest opinion. ¬;If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ¬;If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. ¬;In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences. ¬;In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. ¬;Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy. ¬;It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. ¬;Let us be honest. Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno? Did all the priests of France do as great a work for the civilization of the world as Diderot and Voltaire? Did all the ministers of Scotland add as much to the sum of human knowledge as David Hume? Have all the clergymen, monks, friars, ministers, priests, bishops, cardinals and popes, from the day of Pentecost to the last election, done as much for human liberty as Thomas Paine? — as much for science as Charles Darwin? ¬;Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged. ¬;Nature never prompted a loving mother to throw her child into the Ganges. Nature never prompted men to exterminate each other for a difference of opinion concerning the baptism of infants. These crimes have been produced by religions filled with all that is illogical, cruel and hideous. These religions were produced for the most part by ignorance, tyranny and hypocrisy. Under the impression that the infinite ruler and creator of the

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universe had commanded the destruction of heretics and infidels, the church perpetrated all these crimes: ¬;No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead. ¬;Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes. Every science has been an outcast. All the altars and all the thrones united to arrest the forward march of the human race. The king said that mankind must not work for themselves. The priest said that mankind must not think for themselves. One forged chains for the hands, the other for the soul. ¬;Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ¬;Protestants and Catholics vied with each other in the work of enslaving the human mind. For ages they were rivals in the infamous effort to rid the earth of honest people. ¬;The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was con-substantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior. ¬;The fact is, very few men are right in everything. ¬;The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved — cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

I want no part in any heaven in which the saved, the ransomed and redeemed will drown with shouts of joy the cries and sobs of hell — in which happiness will forget misery, where the tears of the lost only increase laughter and double bliss. ¬;The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ¬;The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in vain. Every heretic has been, and is, a ray of light. ¬;The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. ¬;The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ¬;There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. ¬;They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief.

When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man. ¬;Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave. All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy — making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. ¬;Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. ¬;Without heresy there could have been no progress.

Robert Henry Cozad aka Robert Henri – 1865-1925:American, painter esp Ashcan School, art teacher ¬;There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Herrick – 1591-1674:English, Anglican vicar, poet inc Hesperides;Works both Human & Divine ¬;Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

RobertHoughwoutJackson–1892-1954:American,lawyer,chief Nuremberg Pros, USAttGen, SupCourtJust ¬;But we must not forget that in our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds — that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. ¬;Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom.

The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ¬;He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. ¬;I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments in every case. First came the one I had planned – as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented – interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night

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¬;If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure. ¬;It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. ¬;Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. ¬;No one will question that this power is the most dangerous one to free government in the whole catalogue of powers. It usually is invoked in haste and excitement when calm legislative consideration of constitutional limitation is difficult. It is executed in a time of patriotic fervor that makes moderation unpopular. And, worst of all, it is interpreted by judges under the influence of the same passions and pressures. Always, as in this case, the Government urges hasty decision to forestall some emergency or serve some purpose and pleads that paralysis will result if its claims to power are denied or their confirmation delayed. ¬;Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. ¬;The Court's reasoning adds up to this: The Commission must be sustained because of its accumulated experience in solving a problem with which it had never before been confronted! I give up. Now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.' ¬;The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power. ¬;The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. ¬;The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. ¬;Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ¬;We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy. ¬;When the Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Robert Hutchings Goddard – 1882-1945:American, space sci, physic esp liquid-fuel rocketry, Physics Prof ¬;Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. ¬;It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert James 'Bob' Shiller – 1946- :American, economist, Economics Prof, col, writer esp MacroMarkets ¬;The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert James Sawyer – 1960- :Canadian & American, editor, novelist esp SF, won Hugo & Nebula ¬;General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. ¬;Honor does not have to be defended. ¬;How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension. ¬;Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. ¬;Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. ¬;The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. ¬;You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Robert Jeffrey Sternberg – 1949- :American, psych, psychometrician, Prof of Psych, Pres US Psych Assoc ¬;Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert L. 'Bob' Veninga – 194?- :American, writer, essay, Public Health Prof, motivational & org speaker ¬;Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.

Robert Lee Frost – 1874-1963:American, farmer, teacher, writer, playwright, poet, won 4 Pulitzer Prizes ¬;A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ¬;By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. ¬;Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ¬;Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ¬;Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ¬;The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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¬;The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ¬;The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Lee Fulghum – 1937- :American, Unitarian minister, teacher, painter, sculptor, musician, essayist ¬;The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert LouisBalfourStevenson–1850-1894:Scottish, poet, essay, writer esp travel, novel incTreasureIsland ¬;A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. ¬;Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference? ¬;For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! As for the others, the irony of facts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. ¬;For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. ¬;Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties. ¬;If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. ¬;Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ¬;Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. ¬;Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ¬;Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ¬;Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ¬;That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ¬;The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ¬;The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ¬;There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. ¬;There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign ¬;To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ¬;To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. ¬;To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. ¬;To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ¬;To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ¬;We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. ¬;You can't touch pitch and not be mucked. ¬;You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Marion La Follette – 1855-1925:American, lawyer, Rep & Prog pol, Wisconsin Gov, Wisc US Sen ¬;Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ¬;Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. ¬;If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another...after the war is on. ¬;In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

RobertMaynardHutchins–1899-1977:American, educ phil, editor, DeanYaleLawSchool, PresChicagoUniv ¬;Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view. ¬;“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts … it is to teach them to think, and always to think for themselves.

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Robert McCloskey – 1914-2003:American, novelist, esp children's inc Make Way for Ducklings, illust ¬;I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert Meredith Willson – 1902-1984:American, composer inc Music Man, song, conductor, play, writer ¬;The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.

Robert Nesta 'Bob' Marley – 1945-1981:Jamaican, musician, singer, songwriter esp reggae, Rastafari ¬;Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. ¬;Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Robert Orben – 1927- :American, magician, writer, comedian esp stand up, RepPresidential speechwriter ¬;A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ¬;Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? ¬;Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ¬;I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. ¬;Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ¬;More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. ¬;Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ¬;Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches. ¬;Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. ¬;The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world. ¬;There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs, there'd be no place to put it all. ¬;To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ¬;Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.

Robert Peel – 1788-1850:English, Conservative pol, created modern police force, UK Prime Minister ¬;Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ¬;There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Robert Pellevé de LaMotte-Ango, Marquis deFlers–1872-1927:French, journ, play, librettist, novel, editor ¬;Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Robert Stokes – 1908-1980:American, film animator inc work for Disney inc SnowWhite & SevenDwarfs ¬;The world is proof that God is a committee.

Robert W. Sarnoff – 1918-1997:American, media entrepreneur & organiser, President NBC & Pres RCA ¬;Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert Waterman McChesney – 196?- :American, journ, essayist, writer, pub, Prof of Comm, radio host ¬;In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

Robert Wilensky – 195?- :American, scientist inc artificial intelligence programming, Comp Science Prof ¬;We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Robert William Service – 1874-1958:Scottish born Canadian, bank clerk, writer inc travel, poet ¬;Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Zend – 1929-1985:Hungarian born Canadian, poet inc Beyond Labels, writer, phil, radio broadc ¬;Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ¬;People have one thing in common: they are all different. ¬;There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Robin McLaurim Williams – 1951- :American, comedian esp standup, actor inc GoodWillHunting, Oscar ¬;Ah yes DIVORCE from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet ¬;And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He takes his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up! ¬;Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal.

It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.

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¬;Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! ¬;I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." ¬;I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least, Miss Right Now. ¬;See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. ¬;Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robin Morgan – 1941- :American, child actor, poet, editor, feminist act, founded Women's Media Center ¬;It is undeniable that history is a record of most women acting peaceably and of most men acting belligerently — to a point where the capacity for belligerence is regarded as an essential ingredient of manhood and the proclivity for conciliation is thought largely a quality of women. ¬;Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Robyn E Blumner – 195?- :American, lawyer esp labour, columnist, Civil Liberties Union executive ¬;Before Bush upended things, religious groups had always been enlisted by government as providers of social services. They just had to wholly separate their religious mission from their government-funded services. Under Bush, there has been substantial blurring of the line. As to hiring, the law always allowed religious groups to discriminate on religious grounds - so that the Catholic Church could hire Catholic priests, for example - but that exemption did not extend to employees hired with public funds to provide social welfare. It was a simple, clear rule. If you took public money, you hired on the basis of merit, not piety. But Bush wiped away this calibrated distinction by issuing a series of executive orders early in his presidency approving taxpayer financed religious discrimination. ¬;Impugning the patriotism of others is the favorite sport of flag-wrapped conservatives who have a cribbed view of love of country. These folks become apoplectic when liberals criticize war-making and are fond of telling people on the left: America, love it or leave it. That is, until the commander in chief is not one whom they voted for. Then they join tea parties or found organizations to throw verbal stink bombs in the direction of the president. The hypocrisy eludes them. Keep America Safe is a conservative advocacy organization run by Liz Cheney, daughter of the former vice president. Its reason for being is to push out a drumbeat of material that traduces the Obama administration’s approach to fighting terrorism. The organization wants Americans to believe that President Barack Obama's decisions to return the nation to the rule of law endangers national security. As VP, Dick Cheney believed in the unitary executive, which included the lawless notion that Congress could not constrain the president’s powers on national defense. It is interesting that under the current president, the Cheney family is taking the opposite tack, trying to convince Congress to stand in the way of Obama’s stated intentions to close Guantanamo and use the criminal justice system to try terror suspects. In the Cheney family’s world, trashing the Constitution and disregarding the Geneva Conventions are all solely within the province of the president. But that sweeping authority is apparently not available in reverse, to resurrect the law of the land. ¬;In 2005 alone, more than $2-billion in federal tax money went to faith-based programs for such services as job placement programs, addiction treatment and child mentoring. Overwhelmingly, this money went to groups affiliated with Christian religions. This reallocation of social service money from secular agencies to religiously affiliated programs has also resulted in shifting employment opportunities. But some of these new employers have a shocking job requirement - only Christians need apply. ¬;Money is flowing into religious coffers without anyone watching. A June report from the Government Accountability Office found that few government agencies that award grants to faith-based organizations bother to monitor whether the recipient is improperly mixing religion into their programs or discriminating against clients on the basis of religion. A few organizations contacted by the GAO even admitted to praying with clients while providing government-funded services. As to kicking out non-Christians on the staff, the Bush Justice Department says that it is perfectly okay. ¬;Referring to God's anger toward America, Falwell said on Pat Robertson's show, The 700 Club: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'" Robertson readily agreed. And Robertson recently added to the emotional distress of Haitian earthquake victims by claiming they are cursed because of a pact they made with the devil for independence from the French. Nothing new about nutty reverends saying hateful things. It's ugly but not actionable. Free expression needs "breathing space," as the Supreme Court has said, to protect the exchange of ideas. ¬;The (George W.) Bush administration has done more damage to our national identity than any administration before it... You can't have the rule of law when the vice president (Dick Cheney) claims laws don't apply to him.

You can't have a nation of reason when the government elevates faith and politics over fact and science. And you can't have equal opportunity for a common good when the rules are rigged to solidify ever larger gains for those at the top. Bush has substituted our Enlightenment values with his own: crass materialism (go shopping to show your love of country), class privilege, anti-intellectualism, cronyism, religious zealotry and American

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Rodman Edward 'Rod' Serling – 1924-1975:American, screen, TV prod inc TwilightZone, won 6 Emmys ¬;Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit. ¬;I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. ¬;I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive. ¬;It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ¬;The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Ronald David Laing–1927-1989:Scottish, psych, writer inc PoliticsOfExperience, foundPhiladelphiaAssoc ¬;A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad. ¬;Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. ¬;I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you. ¬;Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible. From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful. ¬;Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. ¬;The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ¬;There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality." Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie ¬;We are all murderers and prostitutes — no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. ¬;We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Ronald Harold Nessen – 1934- :American, journ inc NBC News, US PresFord PressSec, lecturer, writer ¬;Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ronald Wilson Reagan–1911-2004:American, actor, PresActorsGuild, Rep pol, CaliforniaGov, 40thUSPres ¬;A people free to choose will always choose peace. ¬;Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others — white and black — preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people. ¬;Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. ¬;Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

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¬;History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ¬;I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. ¬;I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. ¬;It's surprising what you can accomplish when no one is concerned about who gets the credit. ¬;No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. ¬;People do not make wars; governments do. ¬;Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ¬;Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. ¬;The Chinese philosopher, Sun Tzu, 2,500 years ago said winning a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the acme of skill; to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ¬;The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. ¬;The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ¬;To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.

Ronnie Shakes – 195?-2006 :American, comedian esp improvisational standup inc New York Club circuit ¬;After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' ¬;I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ¬;My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. ¬;We live in a mobile home. Hey, there are advantages to living in a mobile home. One time, it caught on fire.

We met the fire department halfway there.

RosaLouiseMcCauleyParks–1913-2005:American, seamstress, civil rights act espMontgomeryBusBoycott ¬;I have always been a timid person but my life has required me to be courageous. ¬;I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. ¬;Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. ¬;Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosalie Elisabeth K. Chow aka Liz Comber aka HanSuyin–1917- :China born American, physician, novel ¬;Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Russell Dana'Russ'Feingold–1953- :American, lawyer, Dem pol, Wisconsin US Sen, pol finance reform act ¬;Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography. ¬;How many times are we going let George Bush and Dick Cheney say, ’You guys don’t support the troops.

You’re not patriotic,’ and let them push us around? We have to stand up to them. ¬;It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something. ¬;Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. ¬;The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just bypass two branches of government, and obey only those laws he wants to obey. ¬;We, as a Congress, have to stand up to a president who acts like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on September 11.

Russell Wayne Baker – 1925- :American, poet, essay, journalist, col, writer esp biography, won 2 Pulitzers ¬;A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ¬;All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President. ¬;Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history."

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¬;As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so. ¬;By any precise definition, Washington is a city of advanced depravity. There one meets and dines with the truly great killers of the age, but only the quirkily fastidious are offended, for the killers are urbane and learned gentlemen who discuss their work with wit and charm and know which tool to use on the escargots. ¬;In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. ¬;Early in life, most of us probably observe an unhappy relationship between labor and wealth — to wit, the heavier the labor, the less the wealth. The man doing heavy manual work makes less than the man who makes a machine work for him, and this man makes less than the man sitting at a desk. The really rich people, the kind who go around on yachts and collect old books and new wives, do no labor at all. The economic reasons for dividing the money this way are clear enough. One, it has always been done that way; and two, it's too hard to change at this late date. But the puzzling question is why, since the money is parceled out on this principle, young people are constantly being pummeled to take up a life of labor. In any sensible world, the young would be told they could labor if they wanted to, but warned that if they did so it would cost them. ¬;Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ¬;It is quite extraordinary. Here we are, fully aware that we are being manipulated by image projectionists, yet happily asking ourselves how obligingly we are submitting to the manipulation. It is as though a rat running a maze were more interested in the psychologist's charts on his behavior than in getting the cheese at the goal line. ¬;Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. ¬;Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat. ¬;One may speculate whether the contemporary idea of American society in decay is not a false notion which has been created, at least partially, by this old movie portrait of a society that was once stable, orderly and governed by the immutable justice of the Hollywood censorship code. This is the ever-popular myth of a golden age which persuades so many generations that there was once a wonderful moment in the past when the world was sound and good people ruled and evil was justly punished. After Camelot came chaos and despair, except, of course, that Camelot never existed, any more than the world portrayed by those old Hollywood films existed. ¬;People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. ¬;President Reagan brought us to the ultimate: America As Total Television. During his governance the printed word simply ceased to matter. White House dynamos had once telephoned newspapers to complain about unfair reporting. Not anymore. Now they telephoned network bosses. Even then it wasn't poor reporting they complained about, but poor pictures. A network reporter who thought her report on shortcomings in Reaganland would anger the President's cadres was amazed when the man in charge of propaganda thanked her for doing them a good turn. But, she said, that was a tough piece of reporting. Oh, the words may have been, said the gentleman, but on television words didn't matter. What mattered were pictures. And the pictures had been wonderful. ¬;Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ¬;The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him. ¬;The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn.

Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. ¬;The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him ¬;The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep. ¬;The odd thing is not that we are in the business of overthrowing other people's governments, but that we can still be surprised when somebody reminds us of it. In Asia, in Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East we have been propping up and knocking down governments more or less openly for the past twenty-five years. It is an established policy. Everybody knows it. It is supposed to be done covertly, which is only sensible if you hope to succeed since publicity in matters of this sort can only make the natives restless and defeat the project. Imagine the chauvinistic rallying around President Nixon that would have occurred if Canada, say, had announced that her agents were going to destabilize United States society so that discontented Americans could heave the Nixon Administration out of office. ¬;The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality. ¬;The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ¬;There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have

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been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is. ¬;There seems to be a fear that if there is somebody around so low that it is all right to dump the garbage on him, and you hesitate, everybody will call you a sissy, and you will never be invited to lunch with Professor Kissinger. Strange values result. Great killers are esteemed for good citizenship. "Not afraid to use power," people say of them. ¬;Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Ruth Crowley – 1918-2002:American, nurse, journ, created Ann Landers column - then Esther Lederer ¬;All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. ¬;At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. ¬;Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ¬;Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' ¬;I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. ¬;If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. ¬;Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes. ¬;Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ¬;People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ¬;People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. ¬;The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ruth Elizabeth 'Bette' Davis – 1908-1989:American, actress, Pres Academy of Motion PA&S, 2 Oscars ¬;If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ¬;Sex is God's joke on human beings.

S Sacha Guitry – 1885-1957:Russian born French, actor, play, director inc RoyalAffairs in Versailles, screen ¬;You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Saint Ambrose–c.337-397:German born Roman, Aemilia-Liguria Gov, BishopOfMilan, Doctor of Church ¬;If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live there.

SaintAugustineofHippo akaSt.Austin–354-430:Algerian bornRoman, phil, BishopOfHippo, DocOfChurch ¬;Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Nor, again, is it necessarily true because rudely uttered, nor untrue because the language is brilliant. ¬;Hear the other side. ¬;Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. ¬;If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ¬;O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ¬;Patience is the companion of wisdom. ¬;Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ¬;The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. ¬;Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ¬;What are kingdoms but large-scale terrorist gangs?

SaintFrancis deSales–1567-1622:French, writer incDevoutLife, preacher,BishopOfGeneva, DocOf Church ¬;Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. ¬;If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success. ¬;Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

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Saint Thomas Aquinas–1225-1274:Italian, phil, theo, writer inc SummaTheologica, Doctor of the Church ¬;Beware the man of one book. ¬;He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez – 1966- :Mexican, actress, singer, director,producer, anti-violence activist ¬;Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ¬;Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. ¬;People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salvador Domingo F Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1stMarquis–1904-1989:Spanish, surrealist painter, sculptor ¬;Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ¬;So little of what could happen does happen. ¬;The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Sam Ewing – 1921-2001:American, journalist, radio announcer, writer, col, prod, advertising manager ¬;Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ¬;Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ¬;It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. ¬;Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ¬;The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. ¬;When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Samuel Adams – 1722-1803:American, maltster, essay, phil, Gov of Massachusetts, US Founding Father ¬;How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ¬;It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds ¬;It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. ¬;Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event. ¬;Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested. ¬;We cannot make Events. Our Business is wisely to improve them. There has been much to do to confirm doubting Friends & fortify the Timid. It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ¬;Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

Samuel Barclay Beckett – 1906-1981:Irish, poet, play, essayist, novelist, radio/TV broadc, won Nobel Lit ¬;Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.

Samuel Butler – 1835-1902:English, novelist inc Way of All Flesh, writer, translator, philosopher, lit critic ¬;A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. ¬;All eating is a kind of proselytising - a kind of dogmatising - a maintaining that the eater’s way of looking at things is better than the eatee's. ¬;All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ¬;An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. ¬;Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own.

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that it can understand anything whatever. ¬;Argument is generally waste of time and trouble. It is better to present one’s opinion and leave it to stick or no as it may happen. ¬;Critics generally come to be critics by reason not of their fitness for this but of their unfitness for anything else. ¬;Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive. ¬;How holy people look when they are seasick! ¬;Ideas and opinions, like living organisms, have a normal rate of growth which cannot be either checked or forced beyond a certain point. They can be held in check more safely than they can be hurried. They can also be killed; and one of the surest ways to kill them is to try to hurry them. ¬;Ideas are like shadows - substantial enough until we try to grasp them. ¬;If people like being deceived - and this can hardly be doubted - there can rarely have been a time during which they can have had more of the wish than now. The literary, scientific and religious worlds vie with one another in trying to gratify the public. ¬;If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ¬;Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. ¬;It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, exceptis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work. ¬;It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. ¬;Italians, and perhaps Frenchmen, consider first whether they like or want to do a thing and then whether, on the whole, it will do them any harm. Englishmen, and perhaps Germans, consider first whether they ought to like a thing and often never reach the questions whether they do like it and whether it will hurt. There is much to be said for both systems, but I suppose it is best to combine them as far as possible. ¬;Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ¬;Many, if not most, good ideas die young - mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. ¬;Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ¬;Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. ¬;Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus, it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. ¬;Most artists, whether in religion, music, literature, painting, or what not, are shopkeepers in disguise. They hide their shop as much as they can, and keep pretending that it does not exist, but they are essentially shopkeepers and nothing else. ¬;Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ - very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion. ¬;The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. ¬;The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it. ¬;The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ¬;The mere fact that a thought or idea can be expressed articulately in words involves that it is still open to question; and the mere fact that a difficulty can be definitely conceived involves that it is open to solution. ¬;The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. ¬;The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life. ¬;The written law is binding, but the unwritten law is much more so. You may break the written law at a pinch and on the sly if you can, but the unwritten law - which often comprises the written - must not be broken. Not being written, it is not always easy to know what it is, but this has got to be done. ¬;There are two classes of scientists, those who want to know and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing. ¬;There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large. The individual will

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not so much care how much he may suffer in this world provided he can live in men’s good thoughts long after he has left it. The world at large does not so much care how much suffering the individual may either endure or cause in this life, provided he will take himself clean away out of men’s thoughts, whether for good or ill, when he has left it. ¬;To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. ¬;We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not - and in the nature of things never can? ¬;We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one. ¬;When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse – 1791-1872:American, painter, inventor, inv Morse Code & 1wire telegraph ¬;It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa – 1906-1992:Canadian born American, psych, English Prof, Rep pol, Cal USSen ¬;If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Samuel Johnson–1709-1784:English, essay, poet, lit critic, lexicographer esp Dictionary of Engl Language ¬;A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. ¬;A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. ¬;Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. ¬;All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. ¬;Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ¬;Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. ¬;An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ¬;As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ¬;As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ¬;Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation. ¬;Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. ¬;Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony. ¬;Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. ¬;Example is always more efficacious than precept. ¬;Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ¬;Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies. ¬;How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? ¬;Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. ¬;I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. ¬;I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ¬;I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ¬;Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. ¬;In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ¬;Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ¬;It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. ¬;It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. ¬;It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them. ¬;It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call

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hunting one of them. ¬;It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. ¬;It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children. ¬;Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. ¬;Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. ¬;Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. ¬;No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ¬;No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ¬;OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. ¬;Nothing...will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. ¬;Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ¬;Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. ¬;Pleasure of itself is not a vice. ¬;Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ¬;Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. ¬;Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ¬;Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty. ¬;That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ¬;The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ¬;The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ¬;There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. ¬;There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going." ¬;There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. ¬;There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. ¬;Thousands and tens of thousands flourish in youth and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, and whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them. ¬;We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ¬;When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation ¬;When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. ¬;While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ¬;Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. ¬;You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain – 1835-1910:American, journ, humourist, novelist, lecturer ¬;A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ¬;A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself;

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who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him! ¬;A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. ¬;A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ¬;A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. ¬;A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. ¬;Against our traditions we are now entering upon an unjust and trivial war, a war against a helpless people, and for a base object — robbery. At first our citizens spoke out against this thing, by an impulse natural to their training. Today they have turned, and their voice is the other way. What caused the change? Merely a politician's trick — a high-sounding phrase, a blood-stirring phrase which turned their uncritical heads: Our Country, right or wrong! An empty phrase, a silly phrase. It was shouted by every newspaper, it was thundered from the pulpit, the Superintendent of Public Instruction placarded it in every schoolhouse in the land, the War Department inscribed it upon the flag. And every man who failed to shout it or who was silent, was proclaimed a traitor — none but those others were patriots. To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation? For in a republic, who is "the Country"? Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Who, then, is "the country?" Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Is it the school-superintendent? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it; they have not command, they have only their little share in the command. They are but one in the thousand; it is in the thousand that command is lodged; they must determine what is right and what is wrong; they must decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. ¬;All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ¬;All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ¬;Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. ¬;Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ¬;An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. ¬;Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ¬;Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. Also to strangers. And sometimes to others. If a person offend you are you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him. Acknowledge it like a man and say you didn't mean to. Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined. ¬;Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any. ¬;Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them. ¬;Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country. ¬;Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ¬;Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ¬;Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ¬;Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ¬;Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ¬;Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ¬;Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. ¬;Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ¬;Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. ¬;Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ¬;Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ¬;Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ¬;Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can ¬;Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ¬;George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even

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lie. ¬;Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ¬;Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ¬;Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life. ¬;Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. ¬;Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ¬;Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ¬;He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. ¬;Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ¬;History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. ¬;How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. ¬;[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ¬;Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. ¬;I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race.

That's bad enough for me. ¬;I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ¬;I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. ¬;I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ¬;I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ¬;I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. ¬;I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ¬;I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. ¬;I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. ¬;I have no special regard for Satan; but, I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English, it is unAmerican; it is French. ¬;I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. ¬;I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ¬;I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. ¬;was born intelligent, education ruined me. ¬;I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots. ¬;I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. ¬;If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian. ¬;If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ¬;If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. ¬;If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ¬;If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ¬;In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a republic it is the common voice of the people.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country — hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time. This Republic's life is not in peril. The nation has sold its honor for a phrase. It

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has swung itself loose from its safe anchorage and is drifting, its helm is in pirate hands. ¬;In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. ¬;In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. ¬;In the beginning of a change the PATRIOT is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot ¬;In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ¬;In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy. ¬;It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. ¬;It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ¬;It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ¬;It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ¬;It is easier to stay out than get out. ¬;It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ¬;It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. ¬;It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ¬;Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ¬;Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. ¬;Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ¬;Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. ¬;Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ¬;Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him. ¬;Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ¬;Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. ¬;Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ¬;Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal that has the true religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. ¬;Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. ¬;Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. ¬;Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. ¬;Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ¬;My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. ¬;Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ¬;Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ¬;Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. ¬;Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. ¬;Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. ¬;Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. ¬;Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. ¬;Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ¬;Sacred cows make the best hamburger. ¬;Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. ¬;So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent

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as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. ¬;Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite — but they all worship money. ¬;Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. ¬;Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ¬;The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ¬;The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him. ¬;The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me. ¬;The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. ¬;The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. ¬;The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ¬;The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. ¬;The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. ¬;The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ¬;The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. ¬;The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ¬;The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. ¬;The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities ¬;There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ¬;There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. ¬;There has never been a just one, never an honorable one — on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful — as usual — will shout for the war. The pulpit will — warily and cautiously — object — at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers — as earlier — but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation — pulpit and all — will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. ¬;There is nothing lower than the human race except the French. ¬;There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. ¬;Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. ¬;Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. ... 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shoemaker ... was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced. ¬;Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ¬;To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add sheep was a tautology. ¬;Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ¬;Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. ¬;Virtue has never been as respectable as money. ¬;We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God. ¬;We all have thoughts that would shame the devil. ¬;We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ¬;We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. ¬;We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. ¬;We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. ¬;We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ¬;When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim. ¬;When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ¬;When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all. ¬;When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ¬;When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. ¬;When I'm sad I sing, and then others can be sad with me. ¬;When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. ¬;When the smoke was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people ... it suddenly dawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar ... that the lives, blood, and money of the American people were used to protect the interest of the American capitalists. ¬;When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ¬;Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it's time to pause and reflect. ¬;Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. ¬;Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ¬;You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Samuel McChord Crothers – 1857-1927:American, Presb&Unitarian Min, writer inc Humanly Speaking ¬;Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel 'Sam' Levenson – 1911-1980:American, teacher, journ, writer inc Sex&SingleChild, wit, TV host ¬;It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. ¬;It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' ¬;The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Samuel Smiles – 1812-1904:Scottish, columnist, editor esp Leeds Times, writer, parliamentary reform act ¬;It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. ¬;Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ¬;Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up. ¬;Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 1772-1834:English, poet esp Romantic Movement, writer, philosopher, lit critic ¬;Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ¬;Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. ¬;If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Sandra Day O'Connor – 1930- :American, lawyer, Rep pol, Arizona State Senator, US Sup Court Justice ¬;Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ¬;I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like. ¬;Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. ¬;Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. ¬;The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Sári Gábor aka Zsa Zsa Gabor – 1917- :Hungarian born American, actress inc DeathScoundrel, socialite ¬;How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? ¬;Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. ¬;I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. ¬;I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? ¬;Macho does not prove mucho. ¬;One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears ¬;Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I've always been married ¬;There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash ¬;To a smart girl men are no problem -- they're the answer. ¬;We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Schmuel Gelbfisz aka Samuel Goldwyn – 1879-1974:Polish born American, prod, founded many film co ¬;A hospital is no place to be sick. ¬;A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. ¬;Destroy the old files, but make copies first. ¬;Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success. ¬;Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ¬;Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it. ¬;How come you did what I told you to do, when you know I don't know what I'm talking about. ¬;I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. ¬;I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years. ¬;I read part of it all the way through. ¬;I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. ¬;If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking. ¬;Tell them to stand closer apart. ¬;That’s our strongest weak point. ¬;What we need now is some new, fresh clichés. ¬;When I want your opinion I will give it to you. ¬;Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam! Scott Raymond Adams – 1957- :American, software dev, cartoonist, created Dilbert comic strip, satirist ¬;An optimist is simply a pessimist with no job experience. ¬;As you gain experience, you'll realise that all logical questions are considered insubordination. ¬;As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong. ¬;Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. ¬;Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. ¬;Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy. ¬;If an economist uses a complicated model to predict just about anything, you can ignore it. ¬;If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

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¬;If you think it’s easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you’ve probably never tried. ¬;Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. ¬;Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. ¬;Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ¬;Our salmon sandwiches are so good you’ll want to swim upstream to our kitchen and spawn. But please don’t. ¬;People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred. ¬;The biggest issue in this election is something called flip-flopping, and all candidates are accused of doing it.

A strong leader is expected to maintain steadfast resolve in his opinion even if the environment changes or he gets new information. In any other context, that would be considered the first sign of a brain tumor. When presidents do it, it's called leadership, and frankly, we can't get enough of it. ¬;The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation. ¬;They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it's at least partially because they don't have the Internet. ¬;"Why does it seem as though I am the only honest guy on earth?" - Your type tends not to reproduce.

Sebastian Franck – 1499-1543:Bavarian German, freethinker, humanist, radical reformer, translator ¬;The world loves to be deceived.

Sextus Aurelius Propertius – c.50-15 BC:Roman, elegiac poet esp 4 Elegies, inspired concept of romance ¬;Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ¬;Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Shakti Gawain – 1948- :American, writer esp personal development inc Awakening, publisher, env act ¬;We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Shana Alexander – 1925-2005:American, journalist, columnist inc Life Mag & Newsweek, editor, writer ¬;The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shang Yang – 390-338 BC:Chinese, administrator in Qin for ruler Qin Xiaogong, legalist phil & reformer ¬;He who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Shantideva–c.8thCent:Indian, Buddhist scholar, poet,writer espBodhicaryavatara/EnteringEnlightenment ¬;If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying Sharon Salzberg – 194?- :American, teacher esp Buddhism & meditation, founded Insight Meditation Soc ¬;Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. ¬;If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

Sheryl Suzanne Crow – 1962- :American, teacher, singer, musician, songwriter, lib act, won 9 Grammys ¬;When “news stories” are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in our history.

ShirleyMacLeanBeaty akaShirleyMacLaine–1934- :American, actress,dancer,writer,spirituality act,Oscar ¬;Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Shirley Schrift aka Shelley Winters – 1920-2006:American, actress inc Place in Sun, writer, won 2 Oscars ¬;I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shirley Temple Black – 1928- :American, child actress inc Bright Eyes, writer, Rep pol, dip, won Oscar ¬;I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Veronica Bassey – 1937- :Welsh, actress, singer inc 135 million records sold, TV entertainer ¬;It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Shunryu Suzuki–1904-1971:Japanese, Zen Buddhist priest, US Buddhist training monastery Abbot, educ ¬;In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. ¬;Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well. ¬;Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

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¬;The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. ¬;The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation. ¬;Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Siddhārtha Gautama aka Buddha – c.563-c.483BC:Lumbini Nepalese, prince, philosopher, monk, teacher ¬;A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. ¬;All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. ¬;As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens. ¬;Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. ¬;Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ¬;Do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. Do not be led by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by delight in speculative opinion, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea “this is our teacher”. But when you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome, wrong, and bad, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them. ¬;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. ¬;Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ¬;Don't associate with lowly qualities. Don't consort with heedlessness. Don't associate with wrong views. Don't busy yourself with the world. ¬;Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. ¬;Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. ¬;Focus, not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have & haven't done yourself. ¬;Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else. ¬;Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth. ¬;Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. ¬;He is able who thinks he is able. ¬;His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust. ¬;Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ¬;However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? ¬;Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease. ¬;I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. ¬;I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. ¬;In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ¬;In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected. ¬;In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. ¬;It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ¬;It is your mind that creates this world. ¬;Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ¬;Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A

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spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ¬;Life is dear to all beings. They have the right to live the same as we do. ¬;Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. ¬;Everything in moderation... even moderation ¬;Neither my life of luxury in the palace nor my life as an ascetic in the forest is the way to freedom. ¬;No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed. ¬;No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ¬;Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ¬;Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views. ¬;The mind is everything. What you think you become. ¬;The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. ¬;The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. ¬;The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. ¬;There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. ¬;There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. ¬;There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ¬;Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil. ¬;This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. ¬;Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ¬;Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup. ¬;Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared. ¬;To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas ¬;To understand everything is to forgive everything ¬;Victory breeds enmity; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, avoiding both victory and defeat. ¬;Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ¬;We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them ¬;We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything. ¬;Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse. ¬;Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. ¬;You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Sidney Madwed – 195?- :American, ent, lyricist, poet, writer incHowToUsePoetry, motivational speaker ¬;A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult. ¬;Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance. ¬;Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert.

What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value. ¬;It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. ¬;Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.

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¬;Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us and we spend so much of our time doing just that, it might be wise to ask if we can judge anything. To judge anything with any degree of clarity and accuracy we would need all the information past, present and future and how it will affect all concerned to make a perfect judgment. Since no one has that skill, ability or information, you might agree, it may be unwise to judge. This idea may be hard to accept, but when you look back over your life and the judgments you made, ask yourself. How many of your judgments, when you made them, were you perfectly sure they were correct, would you want to change now with the benefit of 20 20 hindsight? Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another. ¬;Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value.

A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ¬;The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets. ¬;The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century. ¬;The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. ¬;To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. ¬;You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true. ¬;We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of our lives. Wanting and liking many times are not the same thing. Many people have done what they say they didn't want to do at a particular moment. And that may be true until one looks deeper into the motivation behind the doing. What they are really saying is the price they will have to pay or the consequences they will have to endure, for not doing that something may be too high or onerous for them not to do it. Such as going to work.

Many people say they don't want to go to work and yet they go. Which means they don't want to risk losing their jobs and the negative hurting emotions associated with not having a job. It has been estimated about 90% to 95% of all people work at jobs which are unfulfilling and which they dislike and would leave in a minute if they only knew what they really wanted to do. ¬;When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.

Sidney Marshall Jourard – 1926-1974:Canadian, psych esp humanistic, psychotherapist, Psychology Prof ¬;Never take moderation to excess ¬;Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image. Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . . Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me. ¬;The family is the civilian equivalent of Marine boot camp. It is supposed to prepare people for the combats and joys of life. Let us look at it, however, in light of the fact that one out of every three spouses checks out of [their] first attempt at marriage. And let us view the family in light of the hypothesis that rigid conformity to the middle-class design for marriage and family life is the prime cause of physical and psychological breakdown in

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our time. ¬;We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. ¬;We live in a utopia-for-somebody. It is not utopia for intelligent young middle-class man and women who drop out and become hippies. They are not in dialogue with their elders, but commune if at all with their peer group. It is not utopia for the blacks. It is not utopia for the poor. It is not utopia for many women. For whom is America a utopia? Perhaps just for that minority of men--the power elite and those who are close to them--who profit from the status quo and resist social and institutional and educational change that might diminish their grip on the levers of power. And they are not in dialogue with the many they control rather than serve.

Sigismund 'Sigmund' Schlomo Freud – 1856-1939:Austrian, neurologist, psychologist esp psychoanalytic ¬;A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ¬;Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. ¬;Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ¬;Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? ¬;Religion is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. ¬;The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is: What does woman want?

Simeon Strunsky – 1879-1948:Russian born American, essayist, col inc New York Times, lit editor, writer ¬;Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. ¬;People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simon Cameron – 1799-1889:American, ent, journ, Rep pol, dip, Pennsylvania US Sen, US Sec of War ¬;An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Maximilian Südfeld aka Max S Nordau–1849-1923:Hungarian, physician, found WorldZionistOrg ¬;Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Simone Weil – 1909-1943:French, phil, teacher, writer inc Gravity & Grace, Christian mystic, social act ¬;All sins are attempts to fill voids. ¬;Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. ¬;Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ¬;Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ¬;The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics ¬;What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Smedley Darlington Butler–1881-1940:American, US MarineCorps Major-Gen, writer inc WarIsARacket ¬;My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. ¬;There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. ¬;War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Socrates – c.469-399 BC:Athenian Greek, phil esp on ethics & logic & dialectic methods, teacher, soldier ¬;All wars are fought for money. ¬;As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. ¬;Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ¬;Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. ¬;Envy is the ulcer of the soul. ¬;He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ¬;He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ¬;I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ¬;I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your

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properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. ¬;I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ¬;Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. ¬;One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. ¬;Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ¬;Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. ¬;The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. ¬;The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not. ¬;The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ¬;The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. ¬;The unexamined life is not worth living. ¬;There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ¬;Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ¬;True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. ¬;When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. ¬;Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. ¬;Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ¬;You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

Sofia Villani Scicolone aka SophiaLoren–1934- :Italian born French, actress incTwoWomen, singer, Oscar ¬;Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ¬;I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me. ¬;I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ¬;My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. ¬;Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. ¬;Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov aka Sol Hurok – 1888-1974:Russian born American, impresario&artists mgr ¬;Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Solon – c.638-558 BC:Athenian Greek, elegiac poet, trader, pol, pol legal econ moral & social reformer ¬;Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away ¬;Learn to obey before you command. ¬;Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. ¬;Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ¬;Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. ¬;You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, so now you groan beneath slavery's heavy rod.

SoniaKalish akaSophieTucker–1884-1966:Russian born American, actress, musician, singer, radio broadc ¬;From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.

From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Feldman aka Totie Fields – 1930-1978:American, singer, comedienne, writer inc I Think I'll Start ¬;I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Sophocles – c.497-c.406 BC:Athenian Greek, pol, play incOedipusKing-won 24Of30 dramatic competition ¬;A short saying oft contains much wisdom. ¬;Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. ¬;How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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¬;Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ¬;It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong. ¬;It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. ¬;Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. ¬;One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. ¬;Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. ¬;Reason is God's crowning gift to man. ¬;The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. ¬;The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. ¬;The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ¬;Time eases all things. ¬;To him who is in fear everything rustles. ¬;What you cannot enforce, do not command.

SophroniusEusebiusHieronymus aka SaintJerome–c.347-420:Croatian born Roman, trans, DocOfChurch ¬;Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?' ¬;The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ¬;The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. ¬;When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard–1813-1855:Danish, phil, psychologist, theo, writer, aka father of Existentialism ¬;Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ¬;I must find a truth that is true for me. ¬;Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ¬;Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ¬;Once you label me you negate me. ¬;People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ¬;The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. ¬;To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

Spider Robinson – 1948- :American & Canadian, musician, novel esp science fiction, won Hugo & Nebula ¬;Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliché -- a cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. ¬;Both fear and its cover identity, anger, are notorious for producing spectacularly bad decisions. ¬;Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure — which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior. Poll any hundred people at random and you'll find at least twenty or thirty who know all there is to know about psychological torture and psychic castration — and maybe two who know how to give a terrific back-rub.

Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, Baron aka Stanislaw Lec – 1909-1966:Polish, lyric poet, writer, aphorist ¬;Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait. ¬;Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. ¬;He who limps is still walking. ¬;If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ¬;In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. ¬;Is it a progress if a cannibal is using knife and fork? ¬;The first condition of immortality is death. ¬;Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. ¬;We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating. ¬;When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy. ¬;When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ¬;You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Lem – 1921-2006:Polish, novelist esp science fiction inc Solaris, satirist, phil, writer, essayist ¬;Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. ¬;Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ¬;Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

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¬;Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ¬;For moral reasons I am an atheist — for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally. ¬;I didn't know that there are so many idiots, until I began using Internet. ¬;If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ¬;Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind — as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will. ¬;The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. ¬;We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence — then we don't like it any more. ¬;You are only a puppet. But you don't realize that you are.

Stanisław Leszczyński – 1677-1766:Ukrainian born, nobleman, 2xKing Polish-LithuanianCommonwealth ¬;To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Stanley Kubrick – 1928-1999:American, dir inc 2001, prod, screen, film editor, photographer, won Oscar ¬;I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia—less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe—can you imagine the evolutionary development that much older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities—and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans. ¬;I'd be very surprised if the universe wasn't full of an intelligence of an order that to us would seem God-like. I find it very exciting to have a semi-logical belief that there's a great deal to the universe we don't understand, and that there is an intelligence of an incredible magnitude outside the Earth. It's something I've become more and more interested in. I find it a very exciting and satisfying hope. ¬;Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved—that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure. ¬;The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. ¬;The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. ¬;There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. ¬;What chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Stanton McCandlish – 197?- :American, web dev consultant, media relations strategist, web freedom act ¬;Let's get this straight: because there's, say, a .00001% chance of me being killed or otherwise abused by the mob, the corner dope pusher, kiddie porn freaks, or religious-nut bombers, I'm supposed to sacrifice my privacy, freedom of speech, security, and other civil liberties? I think not.

Starline Xiomara Hodge – 1983- :American, graphic designer, cartoonist, creator of webcomic Candi ¬;Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it.

StatiusCaecilius akaCaeciliusStatius–c.220-c.166BC:Gaul born Roman, freed slave, comic poet,stage prod ¬;Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ¬;He plants trees to benefit another generation.

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Stephen Butler Leacock – 1869-1944:English born Canadian, teacher, economist, novelist, writer esp econ ¬;Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ¬;Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. ¬;Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

Stephen Covey – 1932- :American, cons, motivational speaker, writer inc Mormons, Leadership Professor ¬;Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ¬;Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. ¬;One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. ¬;Seek first to understand, and then to be understood. ¬;The way we see the problem is the problem. ¬;Trust is the glue that holds everything together. ¬;We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen John Fry – 1957- :English, actor inc Wilde, comedian, radio&TV presenter inc QI, dir, col, novel ¬;All governments serve us. They serve the filth. ¬;Almost the whole of my text at the moment, in my head as I fall asleep, is summed up by the word "contempt". Contempt, in politics, for the hypocrisy, the double standards, the double dealing, the corruption and the moral suasion. It's almost impossible for me to explain just how deeply I feel contempt. I want to go into detail - and I think you'll be rather shocked, and I hope rather edified, by what I have to say. So who are these terrible hypocrites? Who are these double dealers? Who are these liars and fraudulent corrupt people? Well, you're listening to one of them: that's me. And I'm talking to millions of them: that's you. It's not the politicians, God bless them. Sexless, uninteresting, graceless and very often styleless people as they may be, it is we who are the problem in politics. We expect a very high standard of living. We expect food to be cheap and available.

We expect energy to be cheap and available. we also expect to be able to mouth off at parties about how terrible it is that the ozone layer is being eaten away and the glaciers are melting and how awful it is that people are starving in other countries. And we pay this group of styleless sexless people whom we call politicians a small amount of money in order to lay off our own guilt. Our own cant and hypocrisy is laid at their door. And apparently, it's they who are the hypocrites. It is they who are corrupt. it is they who refuse to solve the problems of the world. Well, it isn't. It's us. It's me, and it's you. ¬;An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ¬;I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish. ¬;I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me. ¬;I don't think we should ever allow religion the trick of maintaining that the spiritual and the beautiful and the noble and the altruistic and the morally strong and the virtuous are in any way inventions of religion or particular or peculiar to religion. It's certainly true that you could say the Christ who said "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" - that's a wonderful to have said. Anyone who said that would earn a great deal of respect and interest, you'd say that's one of most beautiful phrases ever, ever uttered. But there is no, absolutely no monopoly on beauty and truth in religion ¬;I genuinely believe that the Catholic church is not, to put it at its mildest, a force for good in the world. And therefore it is important for me to try and martial my facts as well I can to explain why I think that. But I want first of all to say that I have no quarrel, no argument and I wish to express no contempt for individual devout and pious members of that church. It would be impertinent and wrong of me to express any antagonism towards any individual who wishes to find salvation in whatever form they wish to express it. That to me is sacrosanct as much as any article of faith is sacrosanct to anyone of any church or any faith in the world. It’s very important.

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theory of the universe. Just imagine in this square mile how many people were burned for reading the Bible in English. And one of the principle burners and tortures of those who tried to read the Bible in English here in London was Thomas More. Now, that’s a long time ago, it’s not relevant. Except, that it was only last century that Thomas More was made a saint and it was only in the year 2000 that the last pope, the Pole, he made Thomas More the Patron Saint of Politicians. This is a man who put people on the rack for daring to own a Bible in English. He tortured them for owning a Bible in their own language. The idea that the Catholic church exists to disseminate the word of the Lord is nonsense. It is the only owner of the truth for the billions that it likes to boast about. Because those billions are uneducated and poor, as again it likes to boast about. ¬;I have always disbelieved that Sicilian saying about revenge being a dish best served cold. I feel that--don't you?--when I see blinking, quivering octogenarian Nazi war criminals being led away in chains. Why not then?

It's too late now. I want to see them taken back in time and punished then...Blame, certainly, is a dish only edible when served fresh and warm. Old blames, grudges and scores congeal and curdle and cause the most terrible indigestion. ¬;I mean it's perfectly obvious that if there were ever a God he has lost all possible taste. You've only got to look - forget the aggression and unpleasantness of the radical right or the Islamic hordes to the East - the sheer lack of intelligence and insight and ability to express themselves and to enthuse others of the priesthood and the clerisy here, in this country, and indeed in Europe, you know God once had Bach and Michelangelo on his side, he had Mozart, and now who does he have? People with ginger whiskers and tinted spectacles who reduce the glories of theology to a kind of sharing, you know? That's what religion has become, a feeble and anaemic nonsense, because we understood that the fire was within us, it was not in some idol on an altar, whether it was a gold cross or whether it was a Buddha or anything else, that we have it. ¬;I should say today that it's tragic that people lose faith in what was once an honourable profession but people will lose faith in journalists. There's nothing one can do about it. People no longer trust journalists - we'll have to turn to politics instead for our belief in people. I almost mean that. Although, of course, anybody can talk about snouts in troughs and go on about it, for journalists to do so is almost beyond belief. Beyond belief. I know lots of journalists - I know more journalists than I know politicians - and I've never met a more venal and disgusting crowd of people when it comes to expenses and allowances...Not all [of them] but then not all human beings are either. I've cheated expenses. I've fiddled things. You have, of course you have. Let's not confuse what politicians get really wrong - things like wars, things where people die - with the rather tedious bourgeois obsession with whether or not they've charged for their wisteria. It's not that important, it really isn't. It isn't what we're fighting for. It isn't what voting is for and the idea that 'Oh, we've all lost faith in politics' [is] nonsense. It's a journalistic made-up frenzy. I know you don't want me to say that. You want me to say "No, it matters, it's important." It isn't it. Believe me, it isn't. It's not the big deal; it's not what we should be worrying about. I know no one's going to pay any attention and newspapers will great joy over filling yards and yards of newsprint with tiny, pointless details of this politician's or that politician's squalid and sad little life as they see it. It's not the big picture, it really isn't. You know, we get the politicians we deserve, it's our fault as much as anybody else's. This has been going on for years and suddenly because a journalist discovers it it's the biggest story ever! It's absolute nonsense, it really is. ¬;I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God or faith in crystals. I very rarely have faith in God; I occasionally have little spasms of it, but they go away, if I think hard enough about it. I am incandescent with rage at the idea of horoscopes and of crystals and of the nonsense of 'New Age', or indeed even more pseudoscientific things: self-help, and the whole culture of 'searching for answers', when for me, as someone brought up in the unashamed Western tradition of music and poetry and philosophy, all the answers are there in the work that has been done by humanity before us, in literature, in art, in science, in all the marvels that have created this moment now, instead of people looking away. The image to me . . . is gold does exist, and for 'gold' say 'truth', say 'the answer', say 'love', say 'justice', say anything: it does exist. But the only way in this world you can achieve gold is to be incredibly intelligent about geology, to learn what mankind has learnt, to learn where it might lie, and then break your fingers and blister your skin in digging for it, and then sweat and sweat in a forge, and smelt it. And you will have gold, but you will never have it by closing your eyes and wishing for it. No angel will lean out of the bar of heaven and drop down sheets of gold for you. And we live in a society in which people believe they will. But the real answer, that there is gold, and that all you have to do is try and understand the world enough to get down into the muck of it, and you will have it, you will have truth, you will have justice, you will have understanding, but not by wishing for it. ¬;If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears. ¬;If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? ¬;It’s perhaps unfair of me as a gay man to moan this enormous institution, which is the largest and most powerful church on earth. It has over a billion, as they like to tell us, members, each one of whom is under strict instructions to believe the dogmas of the church, but may wrestle personally with them of course. It’s hard for

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me to be told that I am evil, because I think of myself as someone who is filled with love. Whose only purpose in life is to achieve love and who feels love for so much of nature and the world and for everything else. We certainly don’t need the stigmatisation, the victimisation that leads to the playground bullying when people say: “You’re a disordered, morally evil individual.” That’s not nice, it isn’t nice. The kind of cruelty in Catholic education and the kind of child abuse – let’s not call it child abuse, it was child rape – the kind of child rape that went on systematically for so long... Let’s imagine that we can overlook this and say it has nothing whatever to do with the structure and nature of the Catholic church and the twisted and neurotic and hysterical way that its leaders are chosen, the celibacy, the nuns, the monks, the priesthood: this is not natural and normal, ladies and gentlemen, in 2009. It really isn’t. I have yet to approach one of the subject dearest to my heart. I’ve made three documentary films on subject of AIDS in Africa. My particular love is the country of Uganda, it’s one of the countries that I love most in the world. There was a period when Uganda had the worst incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world. But through an amazing initiative called ABC: Abstinence, Be faithful, Correct use of condoms...

Those three – I am not denying that abstinence is a very good way of not getting AIDS, it really is, it works. So does being faithful, but so do condoms! And do not deny it! And this Pope not satisfied with saying: “Condoms are against our religion. Please consider first abstinence, second being faithful to your partner,” he spreads that lie that condoms actually increase the incidence of AIDS. He actually makes sure that AIDS is conditional on saying “no” to condoms. I have been to – there is a hospital in Bwindi in the west of Uganda where I do quite a lot of work – it is unbelievable, the pain and suffering you see. Now yes, yes it is true, abstinence will stop it.

It’s the strangest thing about this church, it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we “with our permissive society and rude jokes are obsessed.” No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly, because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell. Do you know who would be the last person ever to be accepted as a prince of the church? The Galilean carpenter, that Jew. They would kick him out before he tried to cross the threshold. He would be so ill at ease in the church. What would he think – what would he think of St. Peter’s? What would he think of the wealth and the power and the self-justification and the wheedling apologies? The Pope could decide that all this power, all this wealth, this hierarchy of princes and bishops and archbishops and priests and monks and nuns could be sent out in the world with money and art treasures to put the back in the countries that they once raped and violated. They could give that money away and they could concentrate on the apparent essence of their belief. And then I would stand here and say that Catholic church may well be a force for good in the world, but until that day, it is not. ¬;It's the ones who think they know what there is to be known that we have to look out for. 'All is explained in this text – there is nothing else you need to know' they tell us. For thousands of years we put up with this kind of thing. Those who said 'Hang on, I think we might be ignorant, let's see ...' were made to drink poison, or had their eyes put out and their bowels drawn out through their botties. We are perhaps now more in danger of thinking we know everything than we were even in those dark times of religious superstition (if indeed they have gone away). Today we have the whole store of human knowledge a mouse-click away, which is all very fine and dandy, but it's in danger of becoming just another sacred text. What we need is a treasure house, not of knowledge, but of ignorance. Something that gives not answers but questions. Something that shines lights, not on already garish facts, but into the dark, damp corners of ignorance. ¬;It seems these days the only people who spend time over things are retired people and prisoners. We bolt things, untasted. It's so easy to say, 'That'll do.' Everyone's in a hurry. People are intellectually lazy, morally lazy, ethically lazy...All the time. When people get angry with a traffic warden they don't stop and think what it would be like to be a traffic warden or how annoying it would be if people could park wherever they liked. People talk lazily about how hypocritical politicians are. But everyone is. On the one hand we hate that petrol is expensive and on the other we go on about global warming. We abrogate the responsibility for thought and moral decisions onto others and then have the luxury of saying it's not good enough. ¬;Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. ¬;On the subject of biblical texts and examples to why you can't do certain things with your body that you wish to, I find that absolutely absurd. I've always been extremely uncomfortable with the idea in any society that the belief is based on revealed truth, that's to say on a text like a Bible or a Qur'an, or whatever it is. It seems to me that the greatness of our culture, for all its incredible faults, is that we have grown up on the Greek ideal of discovering the truth, discovering by looking around us, by empirical experiment, by the combination of the experience of generations of ancestors who have contributed to our sum knowledge of the way the world works, and so on. And to have that snatched away and to be told what to think by a book, however great it may be in places, this is a book that says you can sell your daughter into slavery, it's a book that bans menstruating women from within miles of temples. The fact that it also says that for one man to lie with another man is an abomination, is no more made relevant or important than the fact that you can't eat shellfish. ¬;There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. ¬;You will hear things like, "Science doesn't know everything." Well, of course science doesn"t know

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everything. But, because science doesn't know everything, it doesn't mean that science knows nothing. Science knows enough for us to be watched by a few million people now on television, for these lights to be working, for quite extraordinary miracles to have taken place in terms of the harnessing of the physical world and our dim approaches towards understanding it.

Stephen Glenn 'Steve' Martin – 1945- :American, comedian, actor, play, novelist, screen, prod composer ¬;A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. ¬;Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity; naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do. ¬;Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town. ¬;I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. ¬;I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. ¬;It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything any more if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. ¬;Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! (audience repeats) I promise to be unique! (audience repeats) I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience laughs, repeats) Good! ¬;People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director." ¬;The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Stephen Grover Cleveland – 1837-1908:American, lawyer, Dem pol, New York Gov, 22nd& 24th US Pres ¬;A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out. ¬;A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality. ¬;A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Contented labor is an element of national prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the capital and the wage of labor the income of a vast number of our population, and this interest should be jealously protected. Our workingmen are not asking unreasonable indulgence, but as intelligent and manly citizens they seek the same consideration which those demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of the care and attention of those who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and needs of the employers and the employed shall alike be subserved and the prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, be advanced. ¬;Above all, tell the truth. ¬;Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.

He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. Any intermediary between the people and their Government or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen in the land makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delusion and the pretended boon of American citizenship a shameless imposition. ¬;Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ¬;The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman. ¬;What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something? ¬;Whatever you do, tell the truth StephenJayGould–1941-2002:American, paleontologist,evolutionary biologist, sci hist, Geology&Zoo Prof ¬;All versions written for nonscientists speak of fused males as the curious tale of the anglerfish—just as we so often hear about the monkey swinging through the trees, or the worm burrowing through soil. But if nature teaches us any lesson, it loudly proclaims life's diversity. There ain't no such abstraction as the clam, the fly, or the anglerfish. Ceratioid anglerfishes come in nearly 100 species, and each has its own peculiarity. ¬;Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people

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of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status. ¬;As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference. ¬;As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ¬;Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. ¬;Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. ¬;Evolution is a theory of organic change, but it does not imply, as many people assume, that ceaseless flux is the irreducible state of nature and that structure is but a temporary incarnation of the moment. Change is more often a rapid transition between stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. We live in a world of structure and legitimate distinction. Species are the units of nature's morphology. ¬;Former arbiters of taste must have felt (as so many apostles of “traditional values” and other high-minded tags for restriction and conformity do today) that maintaining the social order required a concept of unalloyed heroism. Human beings so designated as role models had to embody all virtues of the paragon—which meant, of course, that they could not be described in their truly human and ineluctably faulted form. ¬;Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality. ¬;I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms. ¬;I do not claim that intelligence, however defined, has no genetic basis—I regard it as trivially true, uninteresting, and unimportant that it does. The expression of any trait represents a complex interaction of heredity and environment. … A specific claim purporting to demonstrate a mean genetic deficiency in the intelligence of American blacks rests upon no new facts whatever and can cite no valid data in its support. It is just as likely that blacks have a genetic advantage over whites. And, either way, it doesn't matter a damn. An individual can't be judged by his group mean. ¬;I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgement of subtleties and intermediate positions—and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents. ¬;I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness. ¬;I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies—for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. ¬;If I choose to impose individual blame for all past social ills, there will be no one left to like in some of the most fascinating periods of our history. For example …if I place every Victorian anti-Semite beyond the pale of my attention, my compass of available music and literature will be pitifully small. Though I hold no shred of sympathy for active persecution, I cannot excoriate individuals who acquiesced passively in a standard societal judgment. Rail instead against the judgment, and try to understand what motivates men of decent will. ¬;If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. ¬;If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation.

Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated — and must not be condemned—by genetic speculation. ¬;In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ¬;My visceral perception of brotherhood harmonizes with our best modern biological knowledge.…Many

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people think (or fear) that equality of human races represents a hope of liberal sentimentality probably squashed by the hard realities of history. They are wrong. This essay can be summarized in a single phrase, a motto if you will: Human equality is a contingent fact of history. Equality is not true by definition; it is neither an ethical principle (though equal treatment may be) nor a statement about norms of social action. It just worked out that way. A hundred different and plausible scenarios for human history would have yielded other results (and moral dilemmas of enormous magnitude). They didn't happen. ¬;Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly—and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity). ¬;Nearly anyone in this line of work would take a bullet for the last pregnant dodo. But should we not admire the person who, when faced with an overwhelmingly sad reality beyond and personal blame or control, strives valiantly to rescue whatever can be salvaged, rather than retreating to the nearest corner to weep or assign fault? ¬;No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern. ¬;Our failure to discern a universal good does not record any lack of insight or ingenuity, but merely demonstrates that nature contains no moral messages framed in human terms. Morality is a subject for philosophers, theologians, students of the humanities, indeed for all thinking people. The answers will not be read passively from nature; they do not, and cannot, arise from the data of science. The factual state of the world does not teach us how we, with our powers for good and evil, should alter or preserve it in the most ethical manner. ¬;Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? ¬;Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by "knowing" the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science—or of any honest intellectual inquiry. ¬;The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents. ¬;The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the “liberal” rhetoric of “equal time.” But mistake it not. ¬;The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor—not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. ¬;The history of a species, or any natural phenomenon that requires unbroken continuity in a world of trouble, works like a batting streak. All are games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources. The gambler must eventually go bust. His aim can only be to stick around as long as possible, to have some fun while he's at it, and, if he happens to be a moral agent as well, to worry about staying the course with honor. ¬;The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. ¬;The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. ¬;The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ¬;The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. ¬;The progress of science requires more than new data; it needs novel frameworks and contexts. And where do these fundamentally new views of the world arise? They are not simply discovered by pure observation; they require new modes of thought. And where can we find them, if old modes do not even include the right metaphors? The nature of true genius must lie in the elusive capacity to construct these new modes from apparent darkness. The basic chanciness and unpredictability of science must also reside in the inherent difficulty of such a task.

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¬;The solution, as all thoughtful people recognize, must lie in properly melding the themes of inborn predisposition and shaping through life's experiences. This fruitful joining cannot take the false form of percentages adding to 100—as in “intelligence is 80 percent nature and 20 percent nurture,” or “homosexuality is 50 percent inborn and 50 percent learned,” and a hundred other harmful statements in this foolish format.

When two ends of such a spectrum are commingled, the result is not a separable amalgam (like shuffling two decks of cards with different backs), but an entirely new and higher entity that cannot be decomposed (just as adults cannot be separated into maternal and paternal contributions to their totality). ¬;The story of a theory's failure often strikes readers as sad and unsatisfying. Since science thrives on selfcorrection, we who practice this most challenging of human arts do not share such a feeling. We may be unhappy if a favored hypothesis loses or chagrined if theories that we proposed prove inadequate. But refutation almost always contains positive lessons that overwhelm disappointment, even when…no new and comprehensive theory has yet filled the void. ¬;The world is full of signals that we don't perceive. Tiny creatures live in a different world of unfamiliar forces.

Many animals of our scale greatly exceed our range of perception for sensations familiar to us.… What an imperceptive lot we are. Surrounded by so much, so fascinating and so real, that we do not see (hear, smell, touch, taste) in nature, yet so gullible and so seduced by claims for novel power that we mistake the tricks of mediocre magicians for glimpses of a psychic world beyond our ken. The paranormal may be a fantasy; it is certainly a haven for charlatans. But “parahuman” powers of perception lie all about us in birds, bees, and bacteria. ¬;The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. ¬;There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms—if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us.

So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us—the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus. ¬;True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights—and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well—magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? ¬;Truly grand and powerful theories …do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory.… If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly. ¬;We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information— not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise. ¬;We do live in a conceptual trough that encourages such yearning for unknown and romanticized greener pastures of other times. The future doesn't seem promising, if only because we can extrapolate some disquieting present trends into further deterioration: pollution, nationalism, environmental destruction, and aluminium bats.

Therefore, we tend to take refuge in a rose-colored past…. I do not doubt the salutary, even the essential, properties of this curiously adaptive human trait, but we must also record the down side. Legends of past golden ages become impediments when we try to negotiate our current dilemma. ¬;We inhabit a complex world. Some boundaries are sharp and permit clean and definite distinctions. But nature also includes continua that cannot be neatly parceled into two piles of unambiguous yeses and noes. Biologists have rejected, as fatally flawed in principle, all attempts by anti-abortionists to define an unambiguous “beginning of life,” because we know so well that the sequence from ovulation or spermatogenesis to birth is an unbreakable continuum—and surely no one will define masturbation as murder. ¬;We live in a capitalist economy, and I have no particular objection to honorable self-interest. We cannot hope to make the needed, drastic improvement in primary and secondary education without a dramatic restructuring of salaries. In my opinion, you cannot pay a good teacher enough money to recompense the value of talent applied to the education of young children. I teach an hour or two a day to tolerably well-behaved near-adults— and I come home exhausted. By what possible argument are my services worth more in salary than those of a secondary-school teacher with six classes a day, little prestige, less support, massive problems of discipline, and a fundamental role in shaping minds. (In comparison, I only tinker with intellects already largely formed.) ¬;We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness.

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Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous. ¬;We often think, naïvely, that missing data are the primary impediments to intellectual progress—just find the right facts and all problems will dissipate. But barriers are often deeper and more abstract in thought. We must have access to the right metaphor, not only to the requisite information. Revolutionary thinkers are not, primarily, gatherers of facts, but weavers of new intellectual structures. ¬;Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. And human beings evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered. ...Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ¬;Western field-work conjures up images of struggle on horseback …—toughing it out on one canteen a day as you labor up and down mountains. The value of a site is supposedly correlated with the difficulty of getting there. This, of course, is romantic drivel. Ease of access is no measure of importance. ¬;When puzzled, it never hurts to read the primary documents—a rather simple and self-evident principle that has, nonetheless, completely disappeared from large sectors of the American experience. ¬;Yet I also appreciate that we cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well—for we will not fight to save what we do not love (but only appreciate in some abstract sense). So let them all continue—the films, the books, the television programs, the zoos, the little half acre of ecological preserve in any community, the primary school lessons, the museum demonstrations, even … the 6:00 A.M. bird walks. Let them continue and expand because we must have visceral contact in order to love. We really must make room for nature in our hearts.

Stephen Vizinczey – 1933- :Hungarian born Canadian, poet, playwright, literary critic, editor, novelist ¬;Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. ¬;The most dangerous ideas are not the ones which divide people, but those on which they agree.

Stephen WilliamHawking–1942- :English, theoretical physicist, applied mathematician, Math Prof, writer ¬;As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change... There’s a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse. That would have catastrophic effects. Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat. ¬;For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. ¬;I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already! It could come in the next 20 years, but we might never find it. ¬;I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers. ¬;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. ¬;It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ¬;It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. ¬;Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant! ¬;The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ¬;The universe would have expanded in a smooth way from a single point. As it expanded, it would have borrowed energy from the gravitational field, to create matter. As any economist could have predicted, the result of all that borrowing, was inflation. The universe expanded and borrowed at an ever-increasing rate. Fortunately, the debt of gravitational energy will not have to be repaid until the end of the universe. ¬;The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary

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manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. ¬;The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological — technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. ¬;There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary? ¬;We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ¬;We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already! ¬;We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. ¬;What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. ¬;When I gave a lecture in Japan, I was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, because it might affect the stock market. However, I can re-assure anyone who is nervous about their investments that it is a bit early to sell: even if the universe does come to an end, it won't be for at least twenty billion years. By that time, maybe the GATT trade agreement will have come into effect.

Steven Alexander Wright – 1955- :American, actor, comedian esp stand up, producer, director, won Oscar ¬;Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. ¬;Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ¬;I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five. ¬;I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world... Maybe you've seen it? ¬;If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? ¬;If Dracula can't see his reflection in the mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? ¬;In school they told me "Practice makes perfect." And then they told me "Nobody's perfect," so then I stopped practicing. ¬;It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. ¬;Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. ¬;They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. ¬;You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Allan Spielberg – 1946- :American, actor screenwriter, dir inc Schindler's List, prod, won 3 Oscars ¬;I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. ¬;Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed.

But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

Steven DemetreGeorgiou aka CatStevens aka YusufIslam–1948- :English, singer, song, musician, philanth ¬;Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ¬;Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. ¬;The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. ¬;The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. ¬;While Islam is projected today as inimical and hostile to Christianity, Judaism and other Religions, the truth is that the Prophet was the great educator, teaching people the meaning and explanation of their own Religion, correcting and assisting them in following the right path, as taught by previous Prophets and messengers.

Steven Moffat – 1961- :Scottish, teacher, playwright, writer, TV screenwriter inc Coupling&DrWho, prod ¬;Do you know what would be the best way to wipe out all of human kind?... Make all women telepathic because if they suddenly found out about the kind of stuff that goes on in our heads they'd kill us all on the spot.

Men are not people. We are disgustoids in human form! ¬;How could you possibly enjoy a film like that? - Oh, because it's got naked women in it! Look, I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them, we're born like that! We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one! Halfway down the birth canal, we're already enjoying the view! Look, it is the 4 pillars of the

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male heterosexual psyche! We like: naked women, stockings, lesbians, and Sean Connery best as James Bond.

Because that is what being a boy is, and if you don't like it, darling, join a film collective! Look, I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there, but that does not stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die! Because that's what being a bloke is. When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!", he said, "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!". As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using to make pictures of... Wah-hay! Naked bottoms! We have turned the internet into an enormous international database of - naked bottoms! So you see, the history of male achievement throughout the years, feeble though it may have been, has been to get a better look at your bottoms. ¬;I've always wanted to date a gynaecologist. I want to know I'm special. ¬;It's a scientific fact that if you say "naked" three or more times, to any man, he has to cross his legs. ¬;Jane's breasts scare me. They're like Mickey Mouse's ears. No matter which way you turn, they're still facing you. ¬;Remember: every morning your face has slipped a little bit more. Since 30 I have had to put a daily limit on facial expressions. I only ever smile at single men, so I can justify the loss of elasticity. ¬;We are men! Throughout history, we have always needed, in times of difficulty, to retreat to our caves. It so happens that in this modern age, our caves are fully plumbed. The toilet is, for us, the last bastion, the final refuge, the last few square feet of man-space left to us! Somewhere to sit, something to read, something to do, and who gives a damn about the smell? Because that, for us, is happiness. Because we are men. We are different. We have only one word for soap. We do not own candles. We have never seen anything of any value in a craft shop. We do not own magazines fill of pictures of celebrities with all their clothes on. When we have conversations, we actually take it in turns to talk! But we have not yet reached that level of earth-shattering boredom and inhuman despair that we would have a haircut recreationally. We don't know how to get excited about... really, really boring things, like ornaments, bath oil, the countryside, vases, small churches. I mean, we do not even know what, what in the name of God's arse is the purpose of pot-pourri! Looks like breakfast, smells like your auntie! Why do we need that? So please, in this strange and frightening world, allow us one last place to call our own. This toilet, this blessed pot, this... fortress of solitude. You girls, you may go to the bathroom in groups of two or more. Yet we do not pass comment. We do not make judgement. That is your choice. But we men will always walk the toilet mile... alone. ¬;Women want somebody with command; with confidence. Somebody who won't take no for an answer. We want somebody arrogant and gorgeous, with a terrifying sexual appetite and an amazing range of sexual technique. But when it comes right down to it, d'you know what? We'll settle for a man. ¬;You've always got to send a man a book when you split up, to prove how you're a caring, giving person, and how they're going to die in a pit of their own filth.

Steven Paul 'Steve' Jobs – 1955- :American, ent, computer technician, founded Apple&NeXT, CEO Pixar ¬;Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ¬;Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? ¬;Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. ¬;I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do. ¬;I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. ¬;Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. ¬;It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ¬;Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ¬;Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ¬;Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. ¬;There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will. ¬;We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. ¬;What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

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¬;When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. ¬;You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting. ¬;Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary Steven Weinberg–1933- :American, physic esp electromagnetism&weakforce, Physics Prof, Nobel Physics ¬;Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing. ¬;One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. ¬;Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ¬;The god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god ... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way....he's a terrible character. I don't like him. ¬;The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless. ¬;There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.

Stewart Lee Udall – 1920- :American, lawyer, writer, Dem pol, Arizona US Cong, US Sec of Interior ¬;We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Sun Wu aka Sun Tzu – c.544- c.496 BC:Wu Kingdom Chinese, General, strategist, writer esp Art of War ¬;A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. ¬;All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. ¬;If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ¬;Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. ¬;The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Susan AntoniaWilliamsStockard akaStockardChanning–1944- :American, actress inc WestWing&Grease ¬;When are you going to understand that “normal” isn’t a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Susan Elizabeth Norris aka Elizabeth Moon–1945- :American, journ, novel esp SF&Fantasy, won Nebula ¬;No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic. ¬;People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Susan Ertz – 1894-1985:American & English, novelist inc The Proselyte and In the Cool of the Day ¬;Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Jeffers – 194?- :American, novelist esp children's inc 3 JovialHuntsmen, illust inc Forest of Dreams ¬;Feel the fear and do it anyway. ¬;We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Sontag – 1933-2004:American, essay, novel inc Volcano Lover, writer, play, lit theorist, liberal act ¬;All modern wars, even when their aims are the traditional ones, such as territorial aggrandizement or the acquisition of scarce resources, are cast as clashes of civilizations — culture wars — with each side claiming the high ground, and characterizing the other as barbaric. The enemy is invariably a threat to "our way of life," an infidel, a desecrator, a polluter, a defiler of higher or better values. The current war against the very real threat

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posed by militant Islamic fundamentalism is a particularly clear example. ¬;Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions ¬;I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. ¬;It is hard for people not to see the world in polarizing terms ("them" and us") and these terms have in the past strengthened the isolationist theme in American foreign policy as much as they now strengthen the imperialist theme. Americans have got used to thinking of the world in terms of enemies. Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always "over there," with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace to "our way of life." And terrorist is a more flexible word than communist. It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. ¬;People do these things to other people. Not just in Nazi concentration camps and in Abu Ghraib when it was run by Saddam Hussein. Americans, too, do them when they have permission. When they are told or made to feel that those over whom they have absolute power deserve to be mistreated, humiliated, tormented. They do them when they are led to believe that the people they are torturing belong to an inferior, despicable race or religion. For the meaning of these pictures is not just that these acts were performed, but that their perpetrators had no sense that there was anything wrong in what the pictures show. ¬;Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. It is common now for people to insist upon their experience of a violent event in which they were caught up — a plane crash, a shoot-out, a terrorist bombing — that "it seemed like a movie." This is said, other descriptions seeming insufficient, in order to explain how real it was. While many people in non-industrialized countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialized countries seek to have their photographs taken — feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs. ¬;Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds. ¬;So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ¬;Soldiers now pose, thumbs up, before the atrocities they commit, and send off the pictures to their buddies and family. What is revealed by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for unapologetic brutality. Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal. ¬;The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ¬;The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ¬;The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. ¬;The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible.

The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy. ¬;The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public.

Where is the acknowledgement that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. ¬;We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions. ¬;We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, sceptical, desimplifying.

Suzanne Gordon – 195?- :American, journalist, lit critic, writer inc Off Balance & Nursing Against Odds ¬;To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Suzanne Necker nee Curchod – 1737-1794:Swiss, salon hostess, founded Necker-EnfantsMalades Hospital ¬;Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Sydney J. Harris – 1917-1986:British born American, journalist, columnist, drama critic, lecturer ¬;Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about

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religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason; because, though rational argument may take us to the edge of belief, we require a "leap of faith" to jump the chasm. ¬;An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ¬;History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. ¬;Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. ¬;Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ¬;People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault. ¬;Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ¬;The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. ¬;The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. ¬;The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light--and the next tunnel ¬;The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it. ¬;We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.

Sydney Smith – 1771-1845:English, Anglican clergyman, col, editor, lecturer, preacher, reformist activist ¬;Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ¬;It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. ¬;It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ¬;Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death. ¬;Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ¬;Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. ¬;Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. ¬;No furniture so charming as books. ¬;Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient ¬;Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon. ¬;There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. ¬;To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ¬;You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Sylvain Larocque – 197?- :Canadian, journ, col, writer inc Gay Marriage:Canadian Social Revolution ¬;Women like men in uniforms because they know that they have learned to obey.

Sylvia Plath – 1932-1963:American, poet esp confessional, short story writer, novel inc children, Pulitzer ¬;Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Szymon Perski aka ShimonPeres–1923- :Polish born Israeli, pol, Israeli PM, Israeli Pres, won NobelPeace ¬;If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. ¬;Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.

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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead – 1902-1968:American, actress inc Royal Scandal, comedienne, socialite ¬;I'm as pure as the driven slush. ¬;I have tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. ¬;I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. ¬;It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ¬;Say anything about me, dahling, as long as it isn't boring. ¬;The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. ¬;There is less to this than meets the eye Teller Ede aka Edward Teller – 1908-2003:Hungarian born American, Physics Prof, aka father hyd bomb ¬;A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ¬;There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. ¬;Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

Terence David John 'Terry' Pratchett–1948- :English, journalist, novelist esp comic fantasy esp Discworld ¬;A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate. This discovery is from the same branch of culinary physics that determined that food eaten while walking along contains no calories ¬;A good plan isn’t one where someone wins, it’s where nobody thinks they’ve lost. ¬;A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. ¬;All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. ¬;Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. ¬;A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. ¬;An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. ¬;Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. ¬;As far as I'm aware I'm not specifically banned anywhere in the USA, and am rather depressed about it.

Surely some of you guys can do *something?* ¬;Bognor has always meant to me the quintessential English seaside experience (before all this global warming stuff): driving in the rain to get there, walking around in the rain looking for something to do when you're there, and driving home in the rain again... ¬;But you read a lot of books, I'm thinking. Hard to have faith, ain't it, when you've read too many books? ¬;"Do you know, humans think the world was made by a sort of big human?" "Get away?" "It took a week." "I expect it had some help, then,' said Dorcas. ¬;Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. ¬;Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. ¬;Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine – once. Like the Borg, they learn... ¬;Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' ¬;For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. ¬;Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government. ¬;Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. ¬;God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ¬;Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. ¬;He did of course sometimes have people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the overwhelming majority of citizens. [footnote:The overwhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit] ¬;Human beings must become ever more diverse, valuing and enjoying each other's differences rather than fearing them or suppressing them. ¬;I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

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¬;I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible. ¬;I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger -- chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high. ¬;I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ¬;"I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet!" he hissed. "I'm afraid of grounds." "You mean heights," said Conina. "And stop being silly." "I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!" ¬;"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." ¬;I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce ¬;I save about twenty drafts -- that's ten meg of disc space -- and the last one contains all the final alterations.

Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped. ¬;I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind... ¬;I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ¬;I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get *angry* when they lose a cow. ¬;I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them. ¬;Imagination, not intelligence, made us human. ¬;In these days of fundamental terrorists we would do well to understand why a few people hold beliefs that are so different from rational. These unexamined beliefs may be vitally important because the ignorant people who espouse them think that they provide a good reason for killing us and our loved ones, even though they have never considered alternatives. People Who Know The Truth by hereditary or personal revelation, or authority , are not concerned with logic or the validity of premises. ¬;In today's politics, changing your mind in response to new evidence is seen as a weakness. ¬;It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. ¬;It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was yone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be.

I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. ¬;Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean he's not a petty small minded jerk ¬;Keep 'em busy. That was one of the three rules of being chief that old Grimm had passed on to him. Act confidently, never say 'I don't know,' and when all else fails, keep 'em busy. ¬;Like e-mail chain letters that threaten you with punishment if you fail to send them on to many friends, and with 'luck' if you do send them on, the world's great religions have all promised pleasures for committed believers and transmitters, but pain for those who fail to adhere to the faith. Heretics, and those who leave the faith, are often killed by the faithful. ¬;Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ¬;Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants — the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl. ¬;Nanny Ogg quite liked cooking, provided there were other people around to do things like chop up the vegetables and wash the dishes afterwards. ¬;No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! ¬;No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. ¬;Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the streetcleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. ¬;Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange. ¬;Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a 12-bore repeater

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and a box of cartridges. ¬;"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged". ¬;Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow *cool*. Agnes thought that rules like "Don't fall into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose. ¬;Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. ¬;Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. ¬;Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. ¬;Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. ¬;Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. ¬;Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. ¬;Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. ¬;Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a *proper* exam before they're allowed to be parents.

Not just the practical, I mean. ¬;Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... ¬;Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. ¬;That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?" ¬;The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. ¬;The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. ¬;The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). ¬;The gods ... have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight. ¬;The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. ¬;(The pamphlet) was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. ¬;The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp ¬;The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. ¬;The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. ¬;The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ¬;The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. ¬;There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me?

Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! ¬;There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. ¬;They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker... ¬;This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. ¬;Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot". ¬;Waiting is the worst part,' said Pismire. 'No it isn't,' said Owlglass, who wasn't even being trusted to hold a sword. 'I expect that having long sharp swords stuck in you is the worst part.' ¬;Well ... welcome. My house is your house', his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, 'although only in a metaphorical sense, you understand, because I would not, much as I always admired your straightforward approach, and indeed your forthright stance, actually give you my house, it being the only house I have, and therefore the term is being extended in an, as it were, gratuitous fashion --' ¬;What you have here is an example of that well known phenomenon, A Bookshop Assistant Who Knows Buggerall But Won't Admit It (probably some kind of arts graduate). ¬;What your soldier wants-- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him. ¬;When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no

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terror. ¬;While it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions. ¬;Whose side are they on?' said Brocando. 'Sides? Their own, I suppose, just like everyone else.' ¬;Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. ¬;You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people.

Otherwise it's just a cage. ¬;You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'. ¬;You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was "but we've always done it this way." A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? ¬;"You're not one of us." "I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine." ¬;"Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it?" "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word.

Zoology is really quite short."

Terence James Stannus Gray aka Wei Wu Wei – 1895-1986:English, Egyptologist, Taoist phil, editor, prod ¬;All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. ¬;Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? ¬;There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. ¬;Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Thales of Miletus–c.624-c.546 BC:Miletus born Greek, phil, one of 7 Sages of Greece, aka 1st Western phil ¬;A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. ¬;Know thyself.

Themistocles – c.524-459 BC:Athenian Greek, pol, Archon, General, strategist, Gov of Persian Magnesia ¬;I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss – 1904-1991:American, cartoonist, novel esp children inc Cat in Hat ¬;Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ¬;Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ¬;Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Theodore Roosevelt–1858-1918:American, army officer, explorer, writer, Rep pol, 26thUSPres, NobelPeace ¬;A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ¬;Actions speak larger than word ¬;Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. ¬;Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy. ¬;Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. ¬;Do what you can where you are with what you've got ¬;Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who attacks with such foul slander and abuse any opponent of any other party. ¬;Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. ¬;Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground ¬;I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I

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should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor. ¬;I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." ¬;In our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations. There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships. ¬;It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. ¬;It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ¬;It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. ¬;Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ¬;No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor. ¬;No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ¬;Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. ¬;Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive ¬;Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth. ¬;Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. ¬;People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ¬;Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. ¬;Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare ¬;Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned. Second, equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable. No man who carries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service to which it is fairly entitled. ¬;That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. ¬;The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ¬;The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. ¬;The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ¬;This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. ¬;To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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¬;To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. ¬;We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. ¬;We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the businessman is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals. ¬;When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. ¬;When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' ¬;Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roszak – 1933- :American, hist, Professor of Hist, writer inc Making of CounterCulture, novel ¬;People try nonviolence for a week, and when it ‘doesn’t work,’ they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries.

Theophrastus P.A.B. VonHohenheim akaParacelsus–1493-1541:Swiss, physician esp toxicology, astrologer ¬;That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ¬;Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh – 1926- :Vietnamese, Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, writer, poet, int peace activist ¬;If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. ¬;In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. ¬;Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself – if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself – it is very difficult to take care of another person. ¬;People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ¬;The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Thomas Alva Edison – 1847-1937:American, scientist, inventor inc mass comm & mass production, ent ¬;A genius is just a talented person who does his homework. ¬;Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing ¬;Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ¬;Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. ¬;I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made. ¬;I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. ¬;I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ¬;If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, where as the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the userers and the other helps the people. ¬;If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ¬;Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ¬;Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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¬;Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.

If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions. ¬;Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ¬;Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ¬;Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work. ¬;There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ¬;To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ¬;We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.

What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. ¬;We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Andrew Bailey – 1902-1983:American, historian, Prof of History, writer inc American Pageant ¬;The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Andrew 'Tom' Lehrer – 1928- :American, songwriter esp comic, singer, musician, math, teacher ¬;I do have a cause though. It's obscenity. I'm for it. ¬;I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now. ¬;I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write.

That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. And that's not funny. ¬;I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that! ¬;If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. ¬;Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. ¬;Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. ¬;The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron – 1800-1859:English, poet, hist, Whig politician, MP, Sec of War ¬;An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ¬;It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. ¬;It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. ¬;The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. ¬;The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ¬;The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ¬;Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. ¬;To punish public outrages on morals and religion is unquestionably within the competence of rulers. But when a government, not content with requiring decency, requires sanctity, it oversteps the bounds which mark its proper functions. And it may be laid down as a universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. ¬;We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Carlyle – 1795-1881:Scottish, hist inc French Revolution, essay, satirist, writer, trans, teacher ¬;A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. ¬;Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise! ¬;Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one ¬;History a distillation of rumor. ¬;If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. ¬;It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. ¬;Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ¬;The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ¬;The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. ¬;War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts

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against each other. ¬;What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Edward Lawrence – 1888-1935:British, army officer esp MiddleEast, archaeologist, writer ¬;All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ¬;Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practising the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex.

Thomas Eugene 'Tom' Robbins – 1936- :American, novel inc EvenCowgirlsGetBlues, satirist, essay, journ ¬;A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised. ¬;Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. ¬;For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass ¬;Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. ¬;I’m acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society'll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn’t be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices. ¬;If by the last quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to re-evaluate our notions of godliness. ¬;If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ¬;Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. ¬;My lunar sign is in Virgo. Every month when the moon is full, I'm driven to balance my checkbook and straighten up my apartment. I can't help myself. Instead of a werewolf I turn into an accountant. ¬;"Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear." ¬;Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. ¬;She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. ¬;So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. ¬;Suppose the neutral angels were able to talk to Yahweh and Lucifer- God and Satan, to use their popular titlesinto settling out of court. What would be the terms of the compromise? Specifically, how would they divide the assets of their earthly kingdom? Would God be satisfied to take loaves and fishes and itty-bitty thimbles of Communion wine, while allowing Satan to have the redeye Gravy, eighteen ounce New York steak, and buckets of chilled champagne? Would God really accept twice-a-month lovemaking for procreative purposes and give Satan the all-night, no-holds-barred, nasty "can't-get-enough-of-you" hot-as-hell fucks? ¬;The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world. ¬;The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy. ¬;There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. ¬;There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. ¬;There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. ¬;There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance. ¬;There is no such thing as weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than

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others. ¬;To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ¬;To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line. ¬;We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ¬;What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. ¬;When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding Capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. ¬;When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on- series polygamy- until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfilment Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. ¬;Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Thomas Fuller–1608-1661:English, Anglican clergyman, preacher,poet,hist,writer incWorthiesOfEngland ¬;If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ¬;Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. ¬;Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. ¬;Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ¬;There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.

Thomas Haemerkken aka Thomas a Kempis – 1380-1471:Cleves German, monk, writer esp religious ¬;At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done ¬;Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ¬;Endeavour to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? ¬;First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas Hardy – 1840-1928:English, poet esp naturalist, short story & novel esp Wessex series inc Jude ¬;A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. ¬;Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons! ¬;It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Henry Huxley – 1825-1895:English, biologist esp comparative anatomy & evol, Natural Hist Prof ¬;Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. ¬;All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. ¬;Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. ¬;Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ¬;I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ¬;If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ¬;Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ¬;It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ¬;It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ¬;It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ¬;Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the

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"golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. ¬;Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ¬;Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. ¬;Missionaries, whether of philosophy or of religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal. ¬;My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ¬;My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ¬;No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. ¬;Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. ¬;Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. ¬;Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ¬;Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ¬;Science warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ¬;Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ¬;The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. ¬;The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ¬;The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. ¬;The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ¬;The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. ¬;The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. ¬;The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ¬;The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. ¬;The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it off me. ¬;The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. ¬;The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ¬;The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ¬;The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. ¬;There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. ¬;Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ¬;When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

Thomas Hobbes – 1588-1679:English, phil esp materialism, pol scientist, tutor, trans, writer inc Leviathan ¬;Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. ¬;Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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¬;For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. ¬;Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ¬;Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. ¬;In a state of war...no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ¬;In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. ¬;Knowledge is power. ¬;Leisure is the mother of philosophy. ¬;Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ¬;The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ¬;The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. ¬;To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

Thomas J. 'Tom' Peters – 1942- :American, management cons, lecturer, writer inc InSearch of Excellence ¬;Underpromise; overdeliver.

Thomas Jefferson – 1743-1826:American, lawyer, phil, polymath, dip, main author Dec of Ind, 3rdUS Pres ¬;A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ¬;Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, &c. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth. ¬;An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ¬;Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ¬;Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. ¬;Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ¬;Delay is preferable to error. ¬;Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. ¬;Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ¬;Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ¬;Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. ¬;He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. ¬;Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ¬;I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. ¬;I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. ¬;I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and

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blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. ¬;I cannot live without books. ¬;I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ¬;I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ¬;I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ¬;I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. ¬;I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night! ¬;I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. ¬;I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance ¬;I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ¬;I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision. ¬;I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ¬;I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ¬;I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ¬;If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be...if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed. ¬;If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ¬;If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. ¬;Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ¬;In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ¬;Information is the currency of democracy. ¬;It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead. ¬;It is in our lives and not from our words, that our religion must be read. ¬;It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquillity and occupation, which gives happiness. ¬;Locke say...'neither Pagan nor Mahomedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.' Shall we suffer a Pagan to deal with us and not suffer him to pray to his god? Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, it's genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions & destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from. ¬;Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, whigs and tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last appellation of aristocrats and democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all. ¬;My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. ¬;Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. ¬;Never spend your money before you have it. ¬;Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

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¬;No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms within his own lands ¬;Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. ¬;Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. ¬;Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ¬;Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ¬;Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. ¬;Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. ¬;Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. ¬;Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. ¬;Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. ¬;Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. ¬;That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; … that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; and therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust or emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religions opinion, is depriving him injudiciously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emolumerits, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminals who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty ¬;The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. ¬;The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. ¬;The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ¬;The man who looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ¬;The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. ¬;The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. ¬;The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. ¬;There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ¬;Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error. ¬;War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ¬;We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ¬;We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. ¬;We hold these truths to be self evident – that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ¬;We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. ¬;We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ¬;What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes,

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imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. ¬;Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights. ¬;When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. ¬;Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jeffrey 'Tom' Hanks – 1956- :American, actor, screen, prod, dir, comedian, social act, 2 Oscars ¬;I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Thomas John Watson – 1874-1956:American, salesman, Pres IBM, Dem pol, Pres Int Cham of Commerce ¬;Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ¬;Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. ¬;Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.

Thomas Kennerly 'Tom' Wolfe – 1931- :American, journ, found New Journalism movement, writer, novel ¬;A cult is a religion with no political power.

Thomas Kenneth 'Ken' Mattingly – 1936- :American, eng, pilot, Rear-Admiral, astronaut, V-P Lockheed ¬;It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams – 1911-1983:American, novel, play inc CatOnAHotTinRoof, Pulitzer ¬;All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Thomas M. Kasten – 1943- :American, ent, Vice President Levi Strauss, writer, Hillsborough local pol ¬;You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge – 1903-1990:English, journ, writer esp Christian, novelist, broadc, satirist ¬;The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfilment Thomas Merton – 1915-1968:French born American, Trappist monk, poet, essayist, literary critic, writer ¬;The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little. ¬;The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas More, Saint – 1478-1578:English, lawyer, writer inc Utopia, essayist, politician, MP, Lord Chan ¬;For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ¬;For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. ¬;I've oft been told by learned friars, That wishing and the crime are one, And Heaven punishes desires As much as if the deed were done. If wishing damns us, you and I Are damned to all our heart's content; Come then, at least we may enjoy Some pleasure for our punishment! ¬;I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. God has commanded us not to kill, and shall we kill so easily for a little money? ¬;If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. ¬;One rule observed in their council is, never to debate a thing on the same day in which it is first proposed ¬;They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge ¬;They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Thomas Overbury – 1581-1613:English, essayist, poet inc A Wife, Royal courtier - victim of a murder plot ¬;The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

ThomasPaine–1737-1809:English,radical phil,writer incRightsOfMan,MemFrenchConv, USFoundFather ¬;A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

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¬;A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. ¬;All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ¬;Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ¬;For what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say: Thou knowest not so well as I. ¬;Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. ¬;Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ¬;He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ¬;He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ¬;I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. ¬;I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. ¬;I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ¬;If Jesus Christ was the being which those Mythologists tell us he was, and that he came into this world to suffer, which is a word they sometimes use instead of to die, the only real suffering he could have endured, would have been to live. His existence here was a state of exilement or transportation from Heaven, and the way back to his original country was to die. In fine, everything in this strange system is the reverse of what it pretends to be. ¬;It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him. ¬;It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them. ¬;Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. ¬;It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ¬;It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ¬;It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. ¬;It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government. ¬;Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man. ¬;My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ¬;My mind is my own church. ¬;Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. ¬;Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid, or produces only atheists and fanatics. ¬;Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

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¬;Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. ¬;One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. ¬;People in general do not know what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty? ¬;Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ¬;Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. ¬;Such is the strange construction of the Christian system of faith that every evidence the heavens afford to man either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. There have been men in the world who believe that a pious fraud might be productive of some good. But the fraud being once established, could not afterwards be explained, and it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. It is next to impossible to account for the continued persecution carried out by the Church for several hundred years against the sciences, if the Church had not some record that it was originally no other than a pious fraud, or did not foresee that it could not be maintained against the evidence the scientific discovery of the structure of the universe afforded. ¬;That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ¬;That government is best which governs least. ¬;That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true ¬;The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. ¬;The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. ¬;The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ¬;There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. ¬;The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ¬;There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ¬;To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. ¬;War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. ¬;When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ¬;When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ¬;When the qualification to vote is regulated by years, it is placed on the firmest possible ground, because the qualification is such as nothing but dying before the time can take away ; and the equality of Rights, as a principle, is recognized in the act of regulating the exercise. But when Rights are placed upon, or made dependent upon property, they are on the most precarious of all tenures. ¬;When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. ¬;Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Thomas Reeve 'Tom' Pickering–1931- :American, sailor, career dip, US Amb to UN, USUnderSec of State ¬;In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon – 1937- :American, novelist inc Crying of Lot 49, short story writer, essayist ¬;If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers ¬;My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters." ¬;Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of

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Thomas Sowell – 1930- :American, economist esp free markets, Economics Prof, social activist writer, col ¬;Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise— whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team—is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated. ¬;As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote ¬;Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone. ¬;It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying.

There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock. ¬;Many of the dangerous things that drivers do are not likely to save them even 10 seconds. When you bet your life against 10 seconds, that is giving bigger odds than you are ever likely to get in Las Vegas. ¬;Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns. ¬;Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances. ¬;Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. ¬;One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason. ¬;People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance"? ¬;Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. ¬;There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. ¬;Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. ¬;What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. ¬;When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Thomas Stearns Eliot–1888-1965:American born British, poet, play, lit critic, teacher, pub, won Nobel Lit ¬;Humankind cannot stand very much reality. ¬;It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. ¬;Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. ¬;Men tighten the knot of confusion into perfect misunderstanding ¬;Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ¬;That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. ¬;The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ¬;Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Thomas StephenSzasz–1920- :Hungarian, psych esp antipsychiatry, PsychProf, writer-MythMentalIllness ¬;A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ¬;Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ¬;Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. ¬;Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ¬;Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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¬;If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic. ¬;In the natural sciences, language (mathematics) is a useful tool: like the microscope or telescope, it enables us to see what is otherwise invisible. In the social sciences, language (literalized metaphor) is an impediment: like a distorting mirror, it prevents us from seeing the obvious. That is why in the natural sciences, knowledge can be gained only with the mastery of their special languages; whereas in human affairs, knowledge can be gained only by rejecting the pretentious jargons of the social sciences. ¬;It is customary to define psychiatry as a medical speciality concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. This is a worthless and misleading definition. Mental illness is a myth. Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments. In actual practice they deal with personal, social and ethical problems in living. ¬;Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. ¬;Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. ¬;Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. ¬;Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. ¬;Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. ¬;People, especially liberals and psychiatrists, say that the two main causes of crime are mental illness and poverty. Insanity is therefore a defense in the criminal law. If we really believed that poverty caused crime, we would have a "poverty defense" as well, attorneys calling professors of economics to testify in court whether a particular defendant is guilty of theft or not by reason of poverty. ¬;Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. ¬;The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point — and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior — smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians. Can American society survive this legal-psychiatric assault on its moral and political foundations? ¬;The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ¬;The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ¬;When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

ThomasWoodrowWilson–1856-1924:American,Law&Pol Prof,PresPrinceton,Dempol,28thUSPres,N.Peace ¬;A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. ¬;A conservative is one who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. ¬;A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.

The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. ¬;A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. ¬;By 'radical' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary' one who won't go at all. I suppose I must be a 'progressive' which take to be one who insists on recognising new facts, adjusting policies to facts and circumstances as they arise. ¬;I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans, because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something. ¬;I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. ¬;If you want to make enemies, try to change something ¬;In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations. There was a time when corporations played a very minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

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¬;Is there any man here... who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? ... This war, in its inception, was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war. ¬;It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only when society is old, long settled to its ways, confident in habit, and without self-questioning upon any vital point of conduct, that study can affect seclusion and despise the passing interests of the day ¬;It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. ¬;Let me say again that I am not impugning the motives of the men in Wall Street. They may think that that is the best way to create prosperity for the country. When you have got the market in your hand, does honesty oblige you to turn the palm upside down and empty it? If you have got the market in your hand and believe that you understand the interest of the country better than anybody else, is it patriotic to let it go? I can imagine them using this argument to themselves. The dominating danger in this land is not the existence of great individual combinations, — that is dangerous enough in all conscience, — but the combination of the combinations, — of the railways, the manufacturing enterprises, the great mining projects, the great enterprises for the development of the natural water-powers of the country, threaded together in the personnel of a series of boards of directors into a "community of interest" more formidable than any conceivable single combination that dare appear in the open. ¬;Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions; with their individuality and independence of choice in matters of business they have lost all their individual choice within the field of morals. ¬;No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ¬;No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach ¬;No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... ¬;Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise. ¬;Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. ¬;One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. ¬;Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something.

They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose his own calling and pursue it just as far as his abilities enable him to pursue it; because to-day, if he enters certain fields, there are organizations which will use means against him that will prevent his building up a business which they do not want to have built up; organizations that will see to it that the ground is cut from under him and the markets shut against him. For if he begins to sell to certain retail dealers, to any retail dealers, the monopoly will refuse to sell to those dealers, and those dealers, afraid, will not buy the new man's wares. ¬;The great malady of public life is cowardice. Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life, if my observation is to be trusted, come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody. ¬;The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it ¬;The laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak. ¬;The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement? Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe. There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. ¬;We are at the parting of the ways. We have, not one or two or three, but many, established and formidable monopolies in the United States. We have, not one or two, but many, fields of endeavor into which it is difficult, if not impossible, for the independent man to enter. We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world — no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. ¬;We are citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. ¬;We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen – 1857-1929:American, sociologist, econ esp institutional, Prof of Econ, writer ¬;Invention is the mother of necessity. ¬;No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ¬;The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Thucydides – c.460-c.395BC:Athenian Greek, Gen, hist inc Hist Peloponnesian War, aka 1st sci historian ¬;A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools. ¬;Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. ¬;Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. ¬;The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ¬;The strong do what they will and the weak do what they must. ¬;When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Thurgood Marshall–1908-1993:American, lawyer,NAACPChiefCounsel,USSolicitorGen,USSupCourtJust ¬;A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ¬;If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ¬;Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. ¬;The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Timothy John 'Tim' Berners-Lee – 1955- :English, engineer, comp sci inc CERN, created WorldWideWeb ¬;Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ¬;Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. ¬;I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him. ¬;Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind. ¬;The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. ¬;The important thing is the diversity available on the Web. ¬;The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. ¬;The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. ¬;The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner. ¬;They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself. ¬;Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Timothy Francis Leary–1920-1996:American, psych, futurist, writer inc Psychedelic Experience, drug act ¬;Anything that affects your senses ... is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business. ¬;Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky. ¬;I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. ¬;If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. ¬;Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. ¬;The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people. ...The only control is self-control. ¬;Think for yourself and question authority. ¬;We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The

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problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. ¬;Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Tish Grier–197?- :American, social media strategist, community officer incPlaceblogger, webmag blogger ¬;Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like. ¬;There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color.

Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.

Titus Livius aka Livy – c.59 BC-c.17 AD:Padua born Roman, orator, hist, writer inc History of Rome ¬;Better late than never. ¬;Greater is our terror of the unknown. ¬;Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ¬;Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ¬;Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. ¬;The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Lucretius Carus – 99-55 BC:Roman, philosopher esp Epicurean, poet inc On the Nature of Things ¬;All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher ¬;If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocuspocus and intimidations of the prophets. ¬;Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. ¬;The falling drops at last will wear the stone. ¬;Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. ¬;What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

TitusMacciusPlautus akaPlautus–c.254-c.184 BC:Umbrian bornRoman,actor,play incGreek style comedy ¬;A word to the wise is enough. ¬;I am always afraid of your "something shall be done." ¬;Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ¬;Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. ¬;Practice yourself what you preach. ¬;There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. ¬;Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Todd Gitlin–1943- :American, sociologist, Prof of Sociology&Prof of Journalism, writer, novel, col, pol act ¬;Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. ¬;I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. ¬;Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. ¬;The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ¬;The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ¬;There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

Tomáš Straussler aka Tom Stoppard – 1937- :Czech born British, journ, drama critic, play, screen, Oscar ¬;A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it. ¬;An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ¬;Brave little Serbia...? No, I don't think so. The newspapers would never have risked calling the British public to arms without a proper regard for succinct alliteration. ¬;Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press..I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives. ¬;Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ¬;I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him. ¬;I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby — I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "Betrayal"... "Confrontation"...

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amoebas. ¬;I'd push the lot of you over a cliff myself. Except the one in the wheelchair, I think I'd lose the sympathy vote before people had time to think it through. ¬;It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ¬;Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. ¬;March here, march there, present arms, where's your cap?" — you've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers. ¬;Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ¬;Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. ¬;The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. ¬;War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted.

Tryon Edwards – 1809-1894:American, Congregationalist Min, theo, writer incNewDictionaryOfThought ¬;Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction". ¬;The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; To train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac–1971-1996 :American, musician, singer esp rap, poet, actor, prod, soc act ¬;If you walked by a street and you was walking on concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstances and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that. ¬;If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for,

U Umberto Eco – 1932- :Italian, phil, lit critic, hist esp medieval, semiotician, essay, writer, novelist, editor ¬;A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ¬;After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. ¬;Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. ¬;Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. ¬;Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. ¬;The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.

United Nations–1945- :UniversalDeclaration of HumanRights, from1948, drafter-JohnPHumphrey (Can) ¬;Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. ¬;Article 1 : All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ¬;Article 2 : Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,

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property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. ¬;Article 3 : Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. ¬;Article 7 : All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. ¬;Article 18 : Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. ¬;Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ¬;Article 29 : (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. ¬;Vaclav Havel - The history of the human race has generated several papers articulating basic moral imperatives, or fundamental principles, of human coexistence that — maybe in association with concurring historical events — substantially influenced the fate of humanity on this planet. Among these historic documents, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — adopted fifty years ago today — holds a very special, indeed, unique position. It is the first code of ethical conduct that was not a product of one culture, or one sphere of civilization only, but a universal creation, shaped and subscribed to by representatives of all humankind.

Since its very inception, the Declaration has thus represented a planetary, or global commitment, a global intention, a global guideline. For this reason alone, this exceptional document — conceived as a result of a profound human self-reflection in the wake of the horrors of World War II, and retaining its relevance ever since — deserves to be remembered today.

Upton Sinclair – 1878-1968:American, journ, novelist inc Jungle, writer, prod, political act, won Pulitzer ¬;American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France ¬;Fascism is capitalism plus murder. ¬;I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories ¬;I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces. I am not a giant physically; I shrink from pain and filth and vermin and foul air, like any other man of refinement; also, I freely admit, when I see a line of a hundred policeman with drawn revolvers flung across a street to keep anyone from coming onto private property to hear my feeble voice, I am somewhat disturbed in my nerves. But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country. ¬;It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. ¬;It would be instructive to take the leading newspapers of America and classify them according to the nature of their financial control, showing precisely how and where this control shapes the policy of the paper. There will be certain immediate financial interests – the great family which owns the paper, the great bank which holds its bonds, the important local trade which furnishes its advertising. Concerning these people you observe no impolite word is ever spoken. ¬;Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters. ¬;Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence? What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich? What are we to say when we see idealism become hypocrisy, and the moral and spiritual heritage of mankind twisted to the knavish purposes of class-cruelty and greed?

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¬;The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie ¬;The Devil...failed to get Jesus, but he came again, to get Jesus' church. He came when, through the power of the new revolutionary idea, the Church had won a position of tremendous power in the decaying Roman Empire; and the subtle worm assumed the guise or no less a person than the Emperor himself, suggesting that he should become a convert to the new faith, so that the Church and he might work together for the greater glory of God. The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world's greatest religion. ¬;The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. ¬;The methods by which the "Empire of Business" maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry. ¬;The reader will understand that I despise these "yellows"; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called "respectable" papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the "New York Tribune" and the "Boston Evening Transcript" and the "Baltimore Sun," which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are "kept" papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term "respectability" in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the "yellow" journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. ¬;The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence. ¬;There would be burning bushes and stone tablets on mountain-tops, and inspired words dictated to aged disciples on lonely islands. There would arise special castes of men and women, learned in these sacred matters; and these priestly castes would naturally emphasize the importance of their calling, would hold themselves aloof from the common herd, endowed with special powers and entitled to special privileges. They would interpret the oracles in ways favorable to themselves and their order; they would proclaim themselves friends and confidants of the god, walking with him in the night-time, receiving his messengers and angels, acting as his deputies in forgiving offenses, in dealing punishments and in receiving gifts. They would become makers of laws and moral codes. They would wear special costumes to distinguish them, they would go through elaborate ceremonies to impress their followers, employing all sensuous effects, architecture and sculpture and painting, music and poetry and dancing, candles and incense and bells and gongs.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin–1929- :American, poet, essay, writer, novel esp SF&children, 5 Hugo& 6 Nebula ¬;All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. ¬;Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live. ¬;How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met. ¬;If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ¬;Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ¬;It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ¬;The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ¬;Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. ¬;To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ¬;Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.

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¬;You have to help another person. But it’s not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you’re doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn’t enough.

V Vaclav Havel – 1936- :Czech, play, essayist, poet, writer, freedom act, pol, Czechoslovakian & Czech Pres ¬;A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemorality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ¬;A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. ¬;A state which calls itself a workers' state humiliates and exploits workers. Our obsolete economy is wasting the little energy we have available. ¬;A year ago, we all were united in the joy over having broken free of totalitarianism. Today we all are made somewhat nervous by the burden of freedom. Our society is still in a state of shock. This shock could have been expected, but none of us expected it to be so profound. The old system collapsed, and a new one so far has not been built. Our social life is marked by a subliminal uncertainty over what kind of system we are going to build, how to build it, and whether we are able to build it at all. ¬;An ordinary human being, with a personal conscience, personally answering for something to somebody and personally and directly taking responsibility, seems to be receding farther and farther from the realm of politics.

Politicians seem to turn into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible. ¬;Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ¬;As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ¬;Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single dimension of reality. And the more dogmatically science treated it as the only dimension, as the very essence of reality, the more misleading it became. ¬;Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history. The end of the era of rationalism has been catastrophic. Armed with the same supermodern weapons, often from the same suppliers, and followed by television cameras, the members of various tribal cults are at war with one another. ¬;Despite all the political misery I am confronted with every day, it still is my profound conviction that the very essence of politics is not dirty; dirt is brought in only by wicked people. I admit that this is an area of human activity where the temptation to advance through unfair actions may be stronger than elsewhere, and which thus makes higher demands on human integrity. But it is not true at all that a politician cannot do without lying or intriguing. That is sheer nonsense, often spread by those who want to discourage people from taking an interest in public affairs. Of course, in politics, just as anywhere else in life, it is impossible and it would not be sensible always to say everything bluntly. Yet that does not mean one has to lie. What is needed here are tact, instinct and good taste. ¬;Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ¬;Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. ¬;Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ¬;Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. ¬;I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.

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¬;If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. ¬;If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. ¬;Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. ¬;It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media...I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media. ¬;It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead... to a radically new insight into the mysterious gravity of my existence as an uncertain enterprise and to its transcendental meaning. ¬;It is not true that people of high principles are ill-suited for politics. High principles have only to be accompanied by patience, consideration, a sense of measure and understanding for others. It is not true that only coldhearted, cynical, arrogant, haughty or brawling persons succeed in politics. Such people are naturally attracted by politics. In the end, however, politeness and good manners weigh more. ¬;Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a desire to contribute to the happiness of the community rather than of a need to cheat or rape the community. ¬;Many people hardly ever see a politician as a person anymore. Instead, a politician is a shadow they watch on television, not knowing whether he is speaking impromptu or reading a text written for him by anonymous advisers or experts from a screen hidden behind the cameras. Citizens no longer perceive their politician as a living human being, for they never have and will never see him that way. They see only his image, created for them by TV, radio and newspaper commentators. ¬;None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ¬;People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go. ¬;Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt. ¬;The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. ¬;The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost. ¬;The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ¬;The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world. ¬;The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships — i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences. ¬;The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle. ¬;The previous regime — armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology — reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone...We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. In other words, we are all — though naturally to differing extents — responsible for the operation

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of the totalitarian machinery. None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators...It would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. On the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. Let us not be mistaken: the best government in the world, the best parliament and the best president, cannot achieve much on their own. And it would be wrong to expect a general remedy from them alone.

Freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all. ¬;The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ¬;The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. ¬;The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. We learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray greetings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships. ¬;There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance. Awareness of all the most dangerous kinds of vanity, both in others and in ourselves. A good mind. A modest certainty about the meaning of things. Gratitude for the gift of life and the courage to take responsibility for it. Vigilance of spirit. ¬;True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? ¬;Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate ¬;Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us. ¬;What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things. ¬;Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. ¬;Without the constantly living and articulated experience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust – 1871-1922:French, essay, novel inc InSearch of LostTime ¬;If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ¬;Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ¬;The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ¬;The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. ¬;The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ¬;There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible. ¬;We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Valerie Jane Morris Goodall, Dame – 1934- :English, primatologist esp chimps, ethologist, anthropologist ¬;Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. ¬;If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

Vannevar Bush–1890-1974:American, eng, Eng Prof, sci admin incManhattanProj, Dir Off ofSciRes&Dev ¬;A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted. ¬;Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something. ¬;If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our

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understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ¬;Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world. ¬;That the threat is now intense is not a reason to abandon our quest for knowledge. It is a reason to hold it more tightly, in spite of the need for action to preserve our freedom, in spite of the distractions of living in turmoil, that it may not be lost or brushed aside by the demands of the hour. We would not neglect our duty to our country and our fellows to strive mightily to preserve our ways and our lives. There is an added duty, not inconsistent, not less. It is the duty to so live that there may be a reason for living, beyond the mere mechanisms of life. It is the duty to carry on, under stress, the search for understanding. ¬;There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers— conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial...Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be startling. Those who conscientiously attempt to keep abreast of current thought, even in restricted fields, by close and continuous reading might well shy away from an examination calculated to show how much of the previous month's efforts could be produced on call. Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.

Vere GordonChilde–1892-1957:Australian,philologist,archaeologist,Arch Prof,writer-WhatHappenedHist ¬;Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress.

Vernon Sanders Law – 1930- :American, Major League Baseball pitcher esp Pittsburgh, coach, LDS Min ¬;Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Victor Gold – 1928- :American, journ, col, writer, PR consultant, Rep pol cons, HW Bush speechwriter ¬;Dick Cheney...is a vice president out of control ¬;George Bush (younger) is...the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times. ¬;The Republican Party had been transformed into...a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay ¬;The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Victor-Marie Hugo – 1802-1885:French, poet, play, novel inc Misérables, essay, artist, pol, civil rights act ¬;An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ¬;He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. ¬;Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ¬;The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. ¬;There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. ¬;To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ¬;Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Vidal Sassoon – 1928- :English born Israeli, hairdresser esp modernist, ent, writer inc Year of Beauty ¬;The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Viktor Emil Frankl – 1905-1997:Austrian, neurologist, psych esp existential therapy, found logotherapy ¬;Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson – 1879-1962:Canadian, Arctic explorer, ethnologist, Dir Polar Studies Dartmouth ¬;What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vincent Tomasevich-Thomas – 1907-1980:American, fishery operative, Dem pol, California State Cong ¬;Winning is not everything but wanting to win is.

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Vincent Willem van Gogh – 1853-1890:Dutch, painter esp Post-Impressionism, art dealer, preacher ¬;I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. ¬;If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced. ¬;One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

Vivian James aka Clive James – 1939- :Australian, editor, poet, lyricist, essay, lit & cultural critic, broadc ¬;Every week I watch Stuart Hall on It's A Knock-Out and realise with renewed despair that the most foolish thing I ever did was to turn in my double-0 licence and hand back that Walther PPK with the short silencer. ¬;Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. ¬;I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual, because it has so many syllables in it.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin–1870-1924:Russian, phil, writer, Bolshevik pol, 1stUSSR Head of State ¬;A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ¬;All extremes, of course, are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become — and beyond a certain limit is bound to become — bad and injurious. ¬;All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. ¬;Communism cannot be imposed by force. ¬;For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom—freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. ¬;We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people.

W Walter Bagehot – 1826-1877:English, journ, essay, writer inc EnglConstitution, editor inc Economist, ent ¬;A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature — a good bit, of course, but a bit only — in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence. ¬;All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man — the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" — will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ¬;I wish the art of benefiting men had kept pace with the art of destroying them; for though war has become slow, philanthropy has remained hasty. The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. Great good, no doubt, philanthropy does, but then it also does great evil. It augments so much vice, it multiplies so much suffering, it brings to life such great populations to suffer and to be vicious, that it is open to argument whether it be or be not an evil to the world, and this is entirely because excellent people fancy that they can do much by rapid action — that they will most benefit the world when they most relieve their own feelings; that as soon as an evil is seen "something" ought to be done to stay and prevent it. ¬;One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ¬;The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged. ¬;The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better. ¬;The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ¬;The mass of the old electors did not analyse very much: they liked to have one of their "betters" to represent them; if he was rich they respected him much; and if he was a lord, they liked him the better. The issue put before these electors was, which of two rich people will you choose? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich — whose plans were their plans. The electors only selected one or two wealthy men to carry out the schemes of one or two wealthy associations. ¬;The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ¬;The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and

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deadly afterwards. ¬;The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ¬;You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Carruthers Sellar – 1898-1951:Scottish, teacher, wit, col inc Punch, writer inc 1066 & All That ¬;For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

Walter Crawford 'Walt'Kelly–1913-1973:American, journ, poet, cartoonist esp Pogo, animator inc Disney ¬;We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ¬;We have met the enemy and he is us Walter Elias 'Walt' Disney – 1901-1966:American, screenwriter, prod, dir, animator, ent, won 26 Oscars ¬;A man should never neglect his family for business. ¬;All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. ¬;Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ¬;Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. ¬;Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world. ¬;I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. ¬;I believe in being an innovator. ¬;I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. ¬;I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin — how do we start answering this great challenge? Well, we're convinced we must start answering the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a special kind of new community that will always be in a state of becoming. It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world. ¬;I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true. ¬;I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will. ¬;I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. ¬;I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse. ¬;I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle. ¬;I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. ¬;If you can dream it, you can do it. ¬;It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young. ¬;It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ¬;Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. ¬;That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize. ¬;The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. ¬;There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ¬;We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

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¬;We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. ¬;We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ¬;Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Walter Hamilton Moberly – 1881-1974:English, philosopher, political scientist, Phil Prof, Univ Vice-Chan ¬;We need—and should encourage and honor—not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.

Walter Landauer aka Walter Landor – 1913-1995:American, graphic artist, designer, branding guru ¬;My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Leland Cronkite – 1916-2009:American, journalist, TV&Radio broadc, TV news anchor inc CBS ¬;Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation's conscience. They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! This small but well-organized group, has intimidated both the Republican Party and the Clinton administration. It has attacked each of our Presidents since FDR for supporting the United Nations.

Robertson explains that these Presidents were and are the unwitting agents of Lucifer. The only way we who believe in the vision of a democratic world federal government can effectively overcome this reactionary movement is to organize a strong educational counter-offensive stretching from the most publicly visible people in all fields to the humblest individuals in every community. That is the vision and the program of the World Federalist Association. ¬;For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another. While we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war, we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile, emphasizing the sloth in this regard, those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war. ¬;I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really. ¬;I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. ¬;In our country, third-party candidates throughout the years have said there is not a dime's worth of difference between the candidates from the major parties. Well, that is clearly a campaign canard. But it may appear to be true if the public's knowledge of the important differences between candidates is limited to what the public sees and hears on television. Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy. ¬;It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order...We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation. ¬;Our big corporate owners, infected with the greed that marks the end of the 20th Century, stretch constantly for ever increasing profit, condemning quality to the hindmost... compromising journalistic integrity in the mad scramble for ratings and circulation. ¬;The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. Democracy is in danger. Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign resources, who have the largest bank accounts or own riches. That, I submit to you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful. It is no less than a conspiracy of the powerful to deny access to government to those who literally cannot afford to run for public office with any realistic hope of getting elected. ¬;The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. ¬;Today, our nation is fighting two wars: one abroad and one at home. While the war in Iraq is in the headlines, the other war is still being fought on our own streets. Its casualties are the wasted lives of our own citizens. I am speaking of the war on drugs. And I cannot help but wonder how many more lives, and how much more money,

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will be wasted before another Robert McNamara admits what is plain for all to see: the war on drugs is a failure.

Walter Lippmann – 1889-1974:American, journ, writer, phil, founded New Republic mag, won 2 Pulitzers ¬;A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ¬;Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers' glory ¬;Among the really difficult problems of the world, [the Arab-Israeli conflict is] one of the simplest and most manageable. ¬;Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. ¬;Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ¬;Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. ¬;Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism ¬;Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. ¬;Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision.

But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man. ¬;For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate ¬;Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers.

The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it. ¬;I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away ¬;Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible ¬;In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ¬;In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. They are deprived of their independence. Democratic politicians rarely feel they can afford the luxury of telling the whole truth to the people. And since not telling it, though prudent, is uncomfortable, they find it easier if they themselves do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth. The men under them who report and collect the news come to realize in their turn that it is safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right ¬;In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and ….superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to ….get what it thinks it likes. ¬;It does not matter whether the right to govern is hereditary or obtained with the consent of the governed. A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats. ¬;It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and

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geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. ¬;It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ¬;It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most vitally from democracy. In a despotism there is no organized opposition which can take over the power when the Administration in office has failed. All the eggs are in one basket. Everything is staked on one coterie of men.

When the going is good, they move more quickly and efficiently than democracies, where the opposition has to be persuaded and conciliated. But when they lose, there are no reserves. There are no substitutes on the bench ready to go out on the field and carry the ball. That is why democracies with the habit of party government have outlived all other forms of government in the modern world. They have, as it were, at least two governments always at hand, and when one fails they have the other. They have diversified the risks of mortality, corruption, and stupidity which pervade all human affairs. They have remembered that the most beautifully impressive machine cannot run for very long unless there is available a complete supply of spare parts. ¬;It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ¬;Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ¬;No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ¬;Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. ¬;Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ¬;Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people ¬;Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. ¬;The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ¬;The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. ¬;The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naive self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want ¬;The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. ¬;The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary ¬;The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want ¬;The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. ¬;The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof. ¬;The news and the truth are not the same thing. ¬;The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask

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nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases ¬;The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about. ¬;The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. ¬;The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd. ¬;The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ¬;The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgement of some new authority. ¬;The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. ¬;The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ¬;The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ¬;The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit. ¬;There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great ¬;There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means to detect lies. ¬;There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ¬;There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral ¬;True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective ¬;Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles ¬;Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer ¬;We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. ¬;What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally. ¬;What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ¬;When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ¬;When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. 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The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society.

It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West ¬;Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration. ¬;While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important Walter Raleigh – c.1552-1618:English, landlord, explorer&colonizer, soldier, pol, poet, writer inc History ¬;All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered. ¬;All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. ¬;But it is hard to know them [flatterers] from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. ¬;He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. ¬;It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. ¬;Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Walter Scott, 1st Baronet – 1771-1832:Scottish, lawyer, novel esp hist, poet, trans, found Quarterly Review ¬;Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! ¬;Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it. ¬;Time will rust the sharpest sword Walter Whitman – 1819-1892:American, journalist, essay, poet, aka father of free verse, humanist activist ¬;Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ¬;The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ¬;The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ¬;To think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again — for that is what we certainly will, and before very long. I see all the little signs, getting ready in the hospitals, etc.; it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other.

Warren Edward Buffett – 1930- :American, stockbroker, securities analyst, investor, CEO BerkshireHath ¬;A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. ¬;Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ¬;Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ¬;I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children ¬;I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. ¬;I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner. ¬;I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. ¬;I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.' ¬;If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ¬;If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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¬;In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond. ¬;In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. ¬;Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. ¬;It (gold) gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head. ¬;It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. ¬;Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: `How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?' The answer: `Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg'. ¬;Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. ¬;Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. ¬;Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. ¬;Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ¬;Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ¬;Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ¬;The Berkshire board is a model: (a) every director is a member of a family owning at least $4 million of stock; (b) none of these shares were acquired from Berkshire via options or grants; (c) no directors receive committee, consulting or board fees from the company that are more than a tiny portion of their annual income; and (d) although we have a standard corporate indemnity arrangement, we carry no liability insurance for directors. At Berkshire, board members travel the same road as shareholders. ¬;The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. ¬;There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ¬;There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. ¬;Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. ¬;You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody Warren Gamaliel Harding – 1865-1923:American, newspaper pub, Rep pol, Ohio USSenator, 29th US Pres ¬;America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate ¬;Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Washington Irving – 1783-1859:American, essay, writer esp hist & bio, shortstory writer inc Rip Van, dip ¬;Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ¬;There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. ¬;There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Wayne Walter Dyer – 1940- :American, therapist, lecturer, writer inc Your Erroneous Zones, self help act ¬;The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about Wendell Johnson – 1906-1965:American, psychologist, speech pathologist, writer, General Semantics act ¬;Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Phillips – 1811-1884:American, lawyer, orator, writer, abolitionist Native Americans & rights act ¬;Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few. ¬;Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ¬;Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. ¬;Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. ¬;Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ¬;We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ¬;What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun–1912-1977:German born American, rocket physic, eng ¬;All of man's scientific and engineering efforts will be in vain unless they are performed and utilized within a framework of ethical standards commensurate with the magnitude of the scope of the technological revolution.

The more technology advances, the more fateful will be its impact on humanity. ¬;Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing ¬;I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ¬;We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Whitney MooreYoung–1921-1971:American, Dir NatUrbanL, Pres NASW, USPres adviser, civil rights act ¬;Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody. ¬;Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal. ¬;The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Willa Siebert Cather – 1873-1947:American, novelist, journ, col, essay, editor inc McClure's, won Pulitzer ¬;Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. ¬;Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. ¬;Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ¬;The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willem de Kooning – 1904-1997:Dutch born American, house painter, artist esp expressionist, sculptor ¬;The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think.

All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. ¬;The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

William A Feather – 1889-1981:American, journ, pub, found W Feather Mag, writer inc Business of Life ¬;An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get. ¬;Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it. ¬;Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. ¬;Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. ¬;Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ¬;If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ¬;Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. ¬;No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ¬;One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. ¬;One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ¬;Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ¬;Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. ¬;The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. ¬;The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men the man he is and the man he wants to be. ¬;The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ¬;When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. ¬;When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us. ¬;Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

William Albert Wirt–1874-1938:American, educ phil, superintendent of schools, ent, whole child educ act ¬;Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Arthur Ward – 1921-1994:American, religious teacher, poet, col, writer inc Fountains of Faith ¬;God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? ¬;It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

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¬;The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ¬;The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William B. 'Bill' Watterson – 1958- :American, cartoonist esp pol, created Calvin&Hobbes series, painter ¬;God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. ¬;I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. ¬;Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? It's a beautiful world all right. ¬;People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. ¬;Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ¬;The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. ¬;Unfortunately, we're all "someone else" to someone else.

William Bennet Munro – 1875-1957:Canadian, soc scientist, eugenicist, hist, Prof of Government, writer ¬;People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Blake – 1757-1827:English, poet esp prophetic, painter, printer, engraver, editor, essayist, writer ¬;A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ¬;Damn sneerers! ¬;Every Harlot was a Virgin once ¬;Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True. ¬;Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ¬;That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. ¬;The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ¬;The true method of knowledge is experiment. ¬;The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ¬;To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ¬;Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money ¬;You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue ¬;You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William 'Bourke' Cockran – 1854-1923:Irish born American, lawyer, Dem politician, NewYork US Cong ¬;Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

William Butler Yeats – 1865-1939:Irish, poet esp lyric, play, editor, politician, IrishSenator, won Nobel Lit ¬;Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ¬;Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought. ¬;I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal, — that is they have ceased to be self-centered, have given up their individuality.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

William Carleton – 1794-1869:Irish, novelist inc Traits & Stories of Irish Peasantry, short story writer, col ¬;Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William CharlesDement–1928- :American, researcher, inv Apnea/Hyponea Index, PresUSAcadSleepMed ¬;Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Clark Gable – 1901-1960:American, actor inc Gone With Wind, aka 'King of Hollywood, Oscar ¬;Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

William Claude Dukenfield aka W. C. Fields–1880-1946:American, comedian, juggler, actor, screenwriter ¬;Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do

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or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. ¬;Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ¬;Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. ¬;Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

William Cuthbert Falkner aka Faulkner–1897-1962:American, novel&short story, poet, screen, Nobel Lit ¬;Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ¬;Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. ¬;Because no battle is ever won, he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ¬;If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. Maybe the purpose of this sorry and tragic error committed in my native Mississippi by two white adults on an afflicted Negro child is to prove to us whether or not we deserve to survive. Because if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t. ¬;Mr. Khrushchev says that Communism, the police state, will bury the free ones. He is a smart gentleman, he knows that this is nonsense since freedom, man's dim concept of and belief in the human spirit is the cause of all his troubles in his own country. But if he means that Communism will bury capitalism, he is correct. That funeral will occur about ten minutes after the police bury gambling. Because simple man, the human race, will bury both of them. That will be when we have expended the last grain, dram, and iota of our natural resources.

But man himself will not be in that grave. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. ¬;No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors ¬;People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can’t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do — after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty. ¬;Some folks wouldn't even speak when they passed me on the street. Then MGM came to town to film Intruder in the Dust, and that made some difference because I'd brought money into Oxford. But it wasn’t until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn’t understand my books, but they could understand thirty thousand dollars. ¬;When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

William D. Tammeus – c.1945- :American, journalist, col esp religious, Pres Nat Society of Newspaper Col ¬;Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age ¬;Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

William David Ormsby-Gore, 5thBaronHarlech–1918-1985:English, dip, Con pol, Amb to US, found HTV ¬;It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ¬;The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

William Drummond ofLogiealmond–c.1770-1828:Scottish, phil, writer inc Academical Ques, dip, pol, MP ¬;He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

William E. 'Bill' Vaughan aka Burton Hills – 1915-1977:American, columnist inc Kansas City Star, writer ¬;A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ¬;A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ¬;An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. ¬;Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income--which he then spends sending his son to college. ¬;If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ¬;It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to

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see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. ¬;Muscles come and go; flab lasts. ¬;Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ¬;The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ¬;We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

William Edward 'Billy' Crystal – 1948- : American, comedian, actor inc WhenHarryMetSally, prod, dir ¬;Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

William Egan Colby – 1920-1996:American, lawyer, CIAFieldAgent, CIA Station Chief, Dir Central Intel ¬;The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

William Ernest Hocking–1873-1966:American, school principal, phil esp idealism, MoralPhil Prof, writer ¬;Law deals not with actual individuals, but with individuals artificially defined. We cannot say that law-makers are under an illusion to the effect that all men are equal. They do not even suppose them all alike in being reasonable, or in being well informed about the law, or in being morally sensitive about their own rights or the rights of others. Law-makers have probably never been blind about the conspicuous facts of human difference.

Nevertheless, the law in every community — and not alone in modern communities — proposes to treat certain large groups of individuals as were alike "before the law." ¬;Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. ¬;We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

William Gibbs McAdoo – 1863-1941:American, lawyer, Dem pol, California US Sen, US Sec of Treasury ¬;It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William Glasser – 1925- :American, psych esp reality therapy & choice theory, writer, found Glasser Inst ¬;Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. ¬;Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. ¬;Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. ¬;Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. ¬;I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. ¬;If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place. ¬;Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. ¬;Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first. ¬;The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned. ¬;There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. ¬;This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. ¬;To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ¬;We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. ¬;We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ¬;We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. ¬;When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

William Goldman – 1931- :American, novel, play, writer, screen inc ButchCassidy&Sundance, 2 Oscars ¬;Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all WilliamHartColeridge–1789-1849:English, Anglican priest, educ, BishopOfBarbados incWind&Leewards ¬;There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

William Hazlitt – 1778-1830:English, phil, writer inc Round Table, essayist, journ, lit&pol critic, painter ¬;A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ¬;Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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¬;Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ¬;Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. ¬;He changes his opinions as he does his friends, and much on the same account. He has no comfort in fixed principles; as soon as anything is settled in his own mind, he quarrels with it. He has no satisfaction but the chase after truth, runs a question down, worries and kills it, then quits it like a vermin, and starts some new game, to lead him a new dance, and give him a fresh breathing through bog and brake, with the rabble yelping at his heels and the leaders perpetually at fault. ¬;He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. ¬;He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ¬;I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ¬;Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. ¬;Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ¬;Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. ¬;Many a man has been hindered from pushing his fortune in the world by an early cultivation of his moral sense. ¬;No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ¬;Of the two classes of people, I hardly know which is to be regarded with most distaste, the vulgar aping the genteel, or the genteel constantly sneering at and endeavouring to distinguish themselves from the vulgar. ...

True worth does not exult in the faults and deficiencies of others; as true refinement turns away from grossness and deformity, instead of being tempted to indulge in an unmanly triumph over it. ... Real power, real excellence, does not seek for a foil in inferiority; nor fear contamination from coming in contact with that which is coarse and homely. ¬;Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance. ¬;Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ¬;Reflection makes men cowards. ¬;Rules and models destroy genius and art. ¬;So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. ¬;The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. ¬;The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. ¬;The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ¬;The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ¬;The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. ¬;The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. ¬;The public have neither shame or gratitude. ¬;The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side – the side of corruption and prerogative. ¬;The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ¬;The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. ¬;There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ¬;There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. ¬;Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ¬;To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ¬;Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ¬;To a superior race of beings the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem equally ridiculous. ¬;To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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¬;We all wear some disguise — make some professions — use some artifice to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom, though we may endeavour to keep some others that we think less to our credit as much as possible in the background… ¬;We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. ¬;We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ¬;We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ¬;We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ¬;When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ¬;You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Henry 'Bill' Cosby – 1937- :American, actor, comedian, writer, musician, prod inc Cosby Show ¬;A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice ¬;Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. ¬;I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ¬;If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it. ¬;No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. ¬;Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. ¬;Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. ¬;The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet ¬;The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ¬;Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

William Henry 'Bill' Gates – 1955- :American ent, computer scientist, founded Microsoft, writer, philanth ¬;As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ¬;I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. ¬;In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. ¬;Life is not fair; get used to it. ¬;People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ¬;Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ¬;The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ¬;Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. ¬;We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. ¬;Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

William Henry Bragg – 1862-1942:English, physic, chem, math, Prof Maths&Physics, won Nobel Physics ¬;The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

William Henry Harrison – 1773-1841:American, army officer, farmer, Whig pol, Ohio US Sen, 9thUS Pres ¬;A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

William Hepworth Thompson–1810-1886:English, ElyCath Canon, Greek Prof, MasterTrinityCambridge ¬;We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

William Hodding Carter – 1907-1972 : American, journalist, writer, editor, publisher, won Pulitzer Prize ¬;Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

William Hutton – 1723-1815:English, poet, historian, bookseller, businessman, writer inc HistRomanWall ¬;The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William JohnHenryBoetcker–1873-1962:German born American, PresbMin, motivational speaker, writer ¬;That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ¬;You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage

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payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

William James – 1842-1910:American, psych esp functionalism, phil esp pragmatism, writer, Phil Prof ¬;A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ¬;Alexander's career was piracy pure and simple, nothing but an orgy of power and plunder, made romantic by the character of the hero. There was no rational purpose in it, and the moment he died his generals and governors attacked one another. ¬;As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. ¬;Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ¬;Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose. ¬;He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ¬;Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ¬;I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. ¬;Inferiority is always with us, and merciless scorn of it is the keynote of the military temper. ¬;Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!! ¬;Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ¬;Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. ¬;Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting. ¬;The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ¬;The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ¬;The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. ¬;There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ¬;There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ¬;We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ¬;Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

William James Durant–1885-1981:American, headmaster, phil, hist, writer inc StoryCivilisation, Pulitzer ¬;A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within ¬;Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ¬;I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. ¬;If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. ¬;If the average man had had his way there would probably never have been any state. Even today he resents it, classes death with taxes, and yearns for that government which governs least. If he asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. In the simplest societies there is hardly any government. ¬;In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ¬;It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire. ¬;It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. ¬;Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ¬;Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ¬;One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ¬;Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ¬;Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts — between individuals in economic life, between groups in politics, between creeds in religion,

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between states in war. This is the more dramatic side of history; it captures the eye of the historian and the interest of the reader. But if we turn from that Mississippi of strife, hot with hate and dark with blood, to look upon the banks of the stream, we find quieter but more inspiring scenes: women rearing children, men building homes, peasants drawing food from the soil, artisans making the conveniences of life, statesmen sometimes organizing peace instead of war, teachers forming savages into citizens, musicians taming our hearts with harmony and rhythm, scientists patiently accumulating knowledge, philosophers groping for truth, saints suggesting the wisdom of love. History has been too often a picture of the bloody stream. The history of civilization is a record of what happened on the banks. ¬;Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. ¬;Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty ¬;Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ¬;The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. ¬;The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. ¬;The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ¬;The provincialism of our traditional histories which began with Greece and summed up Asia in a line,,,which is...a possibly fatal error of perspective and intelligence. ¬;The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ¬;To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ¬;Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ¬;Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

William Jefferson Blythe aka Bill Clinton–1946- :American, lawyer, Dem pol, Arkansas Gov, 42nd US Pres ¬;And I think America, if we're ever going to truly defeat terror without changing the character of our own country or compromising the future of our children, has got to not only say, "Okay, I want to shoulder my responsibilities, I want to create my share of opportunities" but we have to find a way to define the future in terms of a humanity that goes beyond our country, that goes beyond any particular race, that goes beyond any particular religion. ¬;Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. ¬;Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together. ¬;For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them'. Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us'. But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us. ¬;Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water. ¬;I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God. ¬;I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America. ¬;I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts. ¬;If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit ¬;Look beyond the stereotypes that blind us. We need each other. All of us—we need each other. We don't have a person to waste. And yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us. Them. Them, the minorities. Them, the liberals. Them, the poor.

Them, the homeless. Them, the people with disabilities. Them, the gays. We've gotten to where we've nearly "them"ed ourselves to death. Them and them and them. But this is America. There is no them; there's only us.

One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all. ¬;Look, half the time when I see the evening news, I wouldn't be for me, either. ¬;Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. ¬;People like you (media) always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are ¬;Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. ¬;Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. ¬;Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. ¬;Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. ¬;Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. ¬;The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

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¬;The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks. ¬;The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ¬;The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth ¬;The United States should....avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests. ¬;The world has always been more impressed by the power of our (America's) example than by the example of our power. ¬;There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America ¬;Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless ¬;We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. ¬;We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. We have found a third way. We have the smallest government in thirty-five years, but a more progressive one. We have a smaller government but a stronger nation. ¬;We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership ¬;We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it. ¬;When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. ¬;Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. ¬;You can give us a culture of values instead of a culture of violence. You can help us to keep guns out of the wrong hands. You can help us to make sure kids who are in trouble – and there will always be some – are identified early and reached and helped. ¬;You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

William John Haley–1901-1987:English, journ, new editor, editor EncyclopædiaBritannica, DirGen BBC ¬;Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William John Poulton Maxwell Garnett–1921-1997:English, pers mgr, Dir IndustrialSoc, employee rel act ¬;f you care about what they care about, they'll care about what you care about. ¬;Make it happen William John Reichmann – 192?-19??:American, mathematician, writer inc Use & Abuse Of Statistics ¬;Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

William Joseph Brennan – 1906-1997:American, lawyer, NewJerseySupremeCourtJust, US SupCourtJust ¬;Electrocution is nothing less than the contemporary technological equivalent of burning people at the stake. ¬;I cannot accept the notion that lawyers are one of the punishments a person receives merely for being accused of a crime. ¬;If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. ¬;The constitutional vision of human dignity rejects the possibility of political orthodoxy imposed from above; it respects the right of each individual to form and to express political judgments, however far they may deviate from the mainstream and however unsettling they might be to the powerful or the elite. ¬;The fatal infirmity of capital punishment is that it treats members of the human race as non-humans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded. ¬;The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. ¬;Those whom we would banish from society or from the human community itself often speak in too faint a voice to be heard above society's demand for punishment. It is the particular role of courts to hear these voices, for the Constitution declares that the majoritarian chorus may not alone dictate the conditions of social life. ¬;We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic,

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William Lewis Safir aka Safire – 1929-2009:American, journ, col, writer, Rep Pres speechwriter, Pulitzer ¬;Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ¬;Never assume the obvious is true.

William Makepeace Thackeray – 1811-1863:Indian born British, journalist, novel esp hist inc Vanity Fair ¬;A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

William Melvin 'Bill' Hicks – 1961-1994 : American, comedian esp stand up, social & pol critic, musician ¬;Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America.

Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you! ¬;"I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God." And I say no, it's not, Dad. "Well, I believe that it is."

Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth. ¬;I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit … left chocolate eggs in the night. Now … I wonder why we're fucked up as a race. I've read the Bible. I can't find the word "bunny" or "chocolate" anywhere in the fucking book. ¬;I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!" "Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer, you fucking morons." ¬;I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not superintelligent beings, man. ¬;I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, oddly enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book. The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] "What'chu readin' for?" I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?" Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress. ¬;People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left. ¬;Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him? ¬;That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you. ¬;The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people. ¬;They're putting the cart before the horse on this pornography issue. Playboy doesn't cause sexual thoughts.

Sexual thoughts exist and, therefore, there is Playboy. Do you see? … You know what causes sexual thoughts?

I'm gonna clear the air for you tonight. I'm gonna end this debate, hopefully once and for all while on this planet, 'cause outer space awaits our presence, we are better and more unique creatures than this and all eternity is our playground, so let me go ahead and clear this one issue up once and for all and let's move on to real issues. Can we? Great. Here's what causes sexual thoughts: having a dick. ¬;They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet. ¬;You ever look at their faces? "We're pro-life." Don't they look it? Don't they just exude joie de vivre? ¬;You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like He rushed it. ¬;You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know. During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons." "How do you know that?" "Uh, well … we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears, we're goin' in. What time's the

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bank open? Eight? We're going in at nine. We're going in for God and country and democracy and here's a fetus and he's a Hitler. Whatever you fucking need, let's go. Get motivated behind this, let's go!"

William Michael 'Bill' Taylor – 1929- :American, Major League baseball player inc New York Giants ¬;Players win games, teams win championships.

William Morley Punshon – 1824-1881:English, Methodist Min, preacher, Pres Wesleyan Methodist Conf ¬;Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? ¬;Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

William Orville Douglas–1898-1980:American, lawyer, writer, LawProf, ChairmanSEC, USSupCourtJust ¬;All executive power — from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators - has the outward appearance of efficiency. ¬;As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. ¬;Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom. ¬;Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience ... that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ¬;I worked among the very, very poor, the migrant laborers, the Chicanos and the I.W.W's who I saw being shot at by the police. I saw cruelty and hardness, and my impulse was to be a force in other developments in the law ¬;Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor. The great welfare scandal of the age concerns the dole we give rich people. ¬;Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ¬;The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger ¬;The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. ¬;The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. ¬;The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it. ¬;The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. ¬;The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ¬;These days I see America identified more and more with material things, less and less with spiritual standards.

These days I see America acting abroad as an arrogant, selfish, greedy nation interested only in guns and dollars, not in people and their hopes and aspirations. We need a faith that dedicates us to something bigger and more important than ourselves or our possessions. Only if we have that faith will we be able to guide the destiny of nations in this the most critical period of world history. ¬;These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man's life at will.

William Osler, 1st Baronet – 1849-1919:Canadian, physician, aka Father of Modern Med, Med Prof, hist ¬;A man must have faith in himself to be of any use in the world. There may be very little on which to base it — no matter, but faith in one's powers, in one's mission is essential to success. Confidence once won, the rest follows naturally; and with strong faith in himself a man becomes a local center for its radiation. ¬;A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. ¬;Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. ¬;Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education. ¬;Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. ¬;Literature is full of examples of remarkable cures through the influence of the imagination, which is only an active phase of faith. ¬;Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ¬;Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. ¬;Nationalism has been the great curse of humanity. In no other shape has the Demon of Ignorance assumed more hideous proportions; to no other obsession do we yield ourselves more readily. For whom do the hosannas ring higher than for the successful butcher of tens of thousands of poor fellows who have been made to pass

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through the fire to this Moloch of nationalism ? A vice of the blood, of the plasm rather, it runs riot in the race, and rages today as of yore in spite of the precepts of religion and the practice of democracy. Nor is there any hope of change; the pulpit is dumb, the press fans the flames, literature panders to it and the people love to have it so. Not that all aspects of nationalism are bad. Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is ? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood. ¬;No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ¬;One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ¬;One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. ¬;Surrounded by people who demand certainty, — and not philosopher enough to agree with Locke that "Probability supplies the defect of our knowledge and guides us when that fails, and is always conversant about things of which we have no certainty," the practitioner too often gets into a habit of mind which resents the thought that opinion, not full knowledge, must be his stay and prop. There is no discredit, though there is, at times much discomfort, in this everlasting perhaps with which we have to preface so much connected with the practice of our art. It is, as I said, inherent in the subject. ¬;The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ¬;The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ¬;The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest, and not inferior to either in her mission. ¬;To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle. ¬;Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. ¬;While in general use for centuries, one good result of the recent development of mental healing has been to call attention to its great value as a measure to be carefully and scientifically applied in suitable cases. My experience has been that of the unconscious rather than the deliberate faith healer. Phenomenal, even what could be called miraculous, cures are not very uncommon. Like others, I have had cases any one of which, under suitable conditions, could have been worthy of a shrine or made the germ of a pilgrimage.

William Penn – 1644-1718:English, essay, Quaker act & missionary, found Pennsylvania colony & Phila ¬;A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God's sake. ¬;All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. ¬;Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. ¬;If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him.

Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. ¬;It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in. ¬;Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. ¬;Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ¬;They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. ¬;True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ¬;Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn AdairRogers–1879-1935:Cherokee American, cowboy, vaudeville&film actor, comedian, col ¬;Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ¬;An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. ¬;Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ¬;Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. ¬;Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ¬;Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ¬;I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat. ¬;I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at

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everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. ¬;If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ¬;If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. ¬;If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. ¬;If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. ¬;Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ¬;Kid Congress and the Senate, don't scold 'em. They are just children thats never grown up. They don't like to be corrected in company. Don't send messages to 'em, send candy. ¬;Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ¬;Never slap a man who's chewin' tobacco. ¬;On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ¬;Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. ¬;Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. ¬;Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat. ¬;The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. ¬;The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. ¬;The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" ¬;The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ¬;The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ¬;The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. ¬;This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ¬;There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ¬;There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ¬;This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. ¬;Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. ¬;We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want. ¬;We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ¬;We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. ¬;When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." ¬;With Congress — every time they make a joke it's a law. And every time they make a law it's a joke ¬;You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ¬;You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

William Pitt, the Younger–1759-1806:English, Independent Whig pol, Chan of Exchequer, UK PrimeMin ¬;Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Ralph Inge – 1860-1954:English, Anglican priest, Prof of Divinity, Dean St Pauls Cath, writer, col ¬;A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ¬;It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ¬;The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born ¬;The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ¬;There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better." ¬;There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles.

'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

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¬;We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ¬;Worry is interest paid on a trouble before it is due.

William Robertson Davies – 1913-1995:Canadian, actor, play, journalist, essay, editor, pub, novel, Lit Prof ¬;A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it. ¬;Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. ¬;Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ¬;I have known far too many university graduates, in this country and in my own, who, as soon as they have received the diploma which declares them to be of Certified Intelligence, put their brains in cold storage and never use them again until they are hauled away to the mortuary. ¬;I was a frequent visitor at the London Zoo; in the lion house there were always ninnies who mocked the captive lions. I often wished that the bars would turn to butter, and that the great, noble beasts would practise their particular form of wit upon the little, ignoble men. ¬;In a time when the individual has lost significance (despite loud assertions to the contrary), an informed, rational, and intellectually adventurous individuality must take precedence over all else. In their seeming disunion lies their real strength. ¬;People marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. ¬;The idea that a wise man must be solemn is bred and preserved among people who have no idea what wisdom is, and can only respect whatever makes them feel inferior. ¬;The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. ¬;The really great eccentrics are all inimitable; they are not possessed by a single oddity; they are, in their deepest selves, unlike the generality of mankind. ¬;The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ¬;There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ¬;There is no reason to suppose that people today feel less than their grandfathers, but there is good reason to think that they are less able to read in a way which makes them feel. It is natural for them to blame books rather than themselves, and to demand fiction which is highly peppered, like a glutton whose palate is defective. ¬;We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. ¬;Why are so many people ashamed of having intelligence and using it? There is nothing democratic about such an attitude. To pretend to be less intelligent that one is deceives nobody and begets dislike, for intelligence cannot be hidden; like a cough, it will out, stifle it how you may. No man has ever won commendation for standing at less than his full height, either physically, morally, or intellectually.

William Rounseville Alger – 1822-1905:American, Unitarian Minister, essay, editor, writer, abolitionist act ¬;We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

William Schwenck Gilbert–1836-1911:English, soldier, lawyer, poet, play esp comic, librettist, illust, journ ¬;A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause. ¬;Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. ¬;If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. ¬;Let the punishment fit the crime ¬;Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. ¬;When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

William Seward Burroughs Jr – 1914-1997:American, journ, essay, novel, painter, soc critic, cultural icon ¬;After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." ¬;The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest. ¬;This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ¬;Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. Those

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individuals who cannot or will not mind their business cling to the victimless-crime concept, equating drug use and private sexual behavior with robbery and murder. If the right to mind one's own business is recognized, the whole shit disposition is untenable and Hell hath no vociferous fury than an endangered parasite.

William Somerset Maugham–1874-1965:English, play, essay, short story & novel inc HumanBondage, spy ¬;A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. ¬;American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. ¬;Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. ¬;Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. ¬;He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. ¬;I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. ¬;I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. ¬;I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ¬;I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ¬;I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ¬;If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ¬;If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie ¬;It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen. ¬;It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. ¬;It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. ¬;It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ¬;It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know." ¬;It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. ¬;Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. ¬;Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ¬;Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature ¬;Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. ¬;Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ¬;Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. ¬;Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ¬;People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ¬;Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi. ¬;Religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people ¬;Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way. ¬;She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. ¬;She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress. ¬;Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. ¬;Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. ¬;The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. ¬;The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. ¬;The nature of men and women -- their essential nature -- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a

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person as he really is, no one would believe you. ¬;The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. ¬;There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things. ¬;To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. ¬;Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ¬;Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. ¬;We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. ¬;What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ¬;When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ¬;When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right ¬;You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn. ¬;You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. ¬;You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ¬;You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ¬;You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.

William Tecumseh Sherman – 1820-1891:American, Union General, CommandingGen, banker, educator ¬;I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. ¬;I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve. ¬;I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. ¬;If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve. ¬;War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine. ¬;You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. ¬;You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell! ¬;You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better.

William Wrigley Jr – 1861-1932:American, confectionery ent, found Wm.Wrigley Co, Catalina Island dev ¬;When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Wilson 'Bill' Mizner – 1876-1933:American, ent, boxing manager, play inc Deep Purple, wit, swindler ¬;A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. ¬;A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. ¬;Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. ¬;Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ¬;Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. ¬;I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ¬;I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ¬;I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets. ¬;The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ¬;Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore. ¬;You can't be a rascal for 40 years and then cop a plea the last minute. God keeps better books than that.

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WinstonLeonardSpencer-Churchill–1874-1965:English,cavalry officer,journ,writer,Con pol,PM, NobelLit ¬;A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ¬;A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. ¬;A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ¬;A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ¬;Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed. ¬;Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ¬;Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an everlengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. ¬;Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. ¬;I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ¬;I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire. ¬;I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened. ¬;If you're going through hell, keep going. ¬;If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. ¬;I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ¬;In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left. ¬;It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ¬;It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses. ¬;It is the habit of the boa constrictor to besmear the body of his victim with a foul slime before he devours it; and there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile. To this end the Dervishes, from the Mahdi and the Khalifa downwards, have been loaded with every variety of abuse and charged with all conceivable crimes. This may be very comforting to philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth, instances of barbarity may easily be the outcome. This unmeasured condemnation is moreover as unjust as it is dangerous and unnecessary. ¬;It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. ¬;Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ¬;Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ¬;Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ¬;Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. ¬;One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. ¬;Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ¬;Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination. ¬;Success is never final. ¬;Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ¬;The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ¬;The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. ¬;The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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¬;The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ¬;The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness. ¬;The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. ¬;To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ¬;To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. ¬;Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share. ¬;Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess. ¬;What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man … the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights. ¬;Will the shutting out of foreign goods increase the total amount of wealth in this country? Can foreign nations grow rich at our expense by selling us goods under cost price? Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle? ¬;Why stand when you can sit? ¬;You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Wystan Hugh Auden – 1907-1973:English born American, poet, essayist, writer, lit critic, Prof of Poetry ¬;All poets adore thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. ¬;Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ¬;In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community. ¬;In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad. ¬;In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism. The virtue of patriotism has been extolled most loudly and publicly by nations that are in the process of conquering others, by the Roman, for example, in the first century B.C., the French in the 1790s, the English in the nineteenth century, and the Germans in the first half of the twentieth. To such people, love of one's country involves denying the right of others, of the Gauls, the Italians, the Indians, the Poles, to love theirs. ¬;In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister. ¬;It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. ¬;Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. ¬;The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. ¬;The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. A woman might spend twenty years nursing lepers without having any notice taken of her, but let her once exhibit the stigmata or live for long periods on nothing but the Host and water, and in no time the crowd will be clamoring for her beatification. ¬;To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? ¬;What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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Xaviera de Vries aka Xaviera Hollander–1943- :Indonesian born Dutch, prostitute, brothel owner, writer ¬;In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex ¬;You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.

Xenophanes of Colophon–c.570-c.475 BC:Colophon-Turkey born Greek. poet esp didactic, phil, soc critic ¬;For if one should by chance speak about what has come to pass even as it is, still he himself does not know, but opinion is stretched over all. ¬;Men create the gods in their own image. ¬;The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, while the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, and could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.

Xenophon – c.430-c.354 BC:Athenian born Greek, soldier, mercenary leader, hist pol philosopher, writer ¬;Every one of you is the leader. ¬;Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ¬;It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose; neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellow citizen rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion? ¬;That…is the road to the obedience of compulsion. But there is a shorter way to a nobler goal, the obedience of the will. When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves. You may prove this on all sides: you may see how the sick man will beg the doctor to tell him what he ought to do, how a whole ship’s company will listen to the pilot.

Y Yitzhak Rabin – 1922-1995:Israeli, army officer, Army Chief-of-Staff, Labour pol, PM, won Nobel Peace ¬;A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. ¬;Enough of blood and tears. Enough! ¬;Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. ¬;You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Yolande Cornelia 'Nikki' Giovanni – 1943- :American, poet, writer, essay, Professor of English, social act ¬;Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Yosef Ben Matityahu aka Titus Flavius Josephus–37-100:Palestinian born Roman, hist esp Jewish, writer ¬;Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent – 1936-2008:Algerian born French, fashion des, Head Dior Des ¬;It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion ¬;Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Z Zachary Israel 'Zach' Braff – 1975- :American, actor, screen, voice artist inc Chicken Little, dir, producer ¬;I've been learning a lot about myself from reading about all the stuff I've been up to, not based on any form of truth. I lead a pretty boring life — I sit at home, I'm on the Internet, I eat cereal — that's a typical night for me. I read online about all the places I've been out partying and all the women I've been out partying with. I'm like, "Wow, I should probably go to that place. It sounds like fun. It sounds like I had a good time there." I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

Zaraθuštra Spitāma aka Zoroaster aka Zartosht – c.628-c.551 BC:Persian, philosopher, poet, prophet ¬;A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. ¬;Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness. ¬;He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers ¬;He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed, He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper Zeuxis of Heraclea – c.5thCent BC:Cyclades born Greek, painter esp illusionism inc HelenTroy, sculptor ¬;Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

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Zhou Enlai–1898-1976:Chinese, journ, writer, Communist pol, party organiser, dip, 1st Premier PR China ¬;All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Zubin Mehta–1936- :Indian, conductor, OrchestralMusicDirector&Conductor inc NewYorkPhilharmonic ¬;Essentially, the (New York) Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.

QUOTES - NAME OF AUTHOR KNOWN BUT FURTHER IDENTITY UNCLEAR/UNAVAILABLE Allan Goldfein ¬;Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Bethania McKenstry ¬;I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bill Beattie ¬;The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Cecil Baxter ¬;I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ¬;When someone assures you not to worry -- worry! ¬;You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Chuck Reid ¬;In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Clemens Kirchner ¬;Peace: a short pause between wars for enemy identification.

Clyde B. Aster ¬;When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.

Dan Bennett ¬;An elected official is one who gets 51 percent of the vote cast by 40 percent of the 60 percent of voters who registered ¬;Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier. ¬;One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ¬;Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ¬;Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ¬;Repartee: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee ¬;When temptation knocks, imagination usually answers.

Dan McKinnon ¬;Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. ¬;Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Dan Parker ¬;Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'

Dandemis ¬;Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Daniel Knode ¬;You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

David H. Comins ¬;People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David Russell ¬;Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are. ¬;The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ¬;We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David T. Wolf ¬;Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Frances Rodman ¬;Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

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¬;Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. ¬;Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else Frank A. Clark ¬;A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. ¬;Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ¬;Every adult needs a child to teach, it's the way adults learn. ¬;If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ¬;The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. ¬;We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ¬;We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ¬;Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Frank Kingdom ¬;Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

George Cordell ¬;Ideology offers a great insight into a society if you know how to approach it. Most people commit the mistake of studying its tenets. Tenets are just false advertising. A better approach is to study ideology like murder: who benefited? Which small group filled its pockets using some or other ideology as a justification for crime?

History and the evening news will make suddenly a lot more sense. Ideology exists to justify crime.

George Winters ¬;If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

Glaser and Way ¬;The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Grant Frazier ¬;Life is full of obstacle illusions.

H. E. Martz ¬;He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.

Henry J. Tillman ¬;If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. ¬;The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

J. Stile ¬;Fuck the status-quo. Live for yourself. Be independent from what the mainstream dictates what you should and shouldn’t do. Above all, survive. ¬;Why can’t I just do what I want to do and live my life the way I want without people pulling me in a hundred different directions? Maybe I’m just an ungrateful shithead … 99% of the world’s population are intellectual mutants void of any sense of individualism. We are all good consumers though. ¬;Worrying about being cool and how you look is just not worth it in the long run. If people spent all the time that they do worrying about how they look and instead used that time to educate themselves the world would be a far better place.

J. W. Eagan ¬;A good scare is worth more than good advice. ¬;Never judge a book by its movie.

Jacob Levin ¬;It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it.

James Dent ¬;A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ¬;Late night TV is very educational. It teaches you that you should have gone to bed earlier.

James Thorpe ¬;Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

Jeffrey R. Heiman ¬;Like other instruments of the power structure, the mass media imparts a message of enormous value to those at the top of our society: that the greatest danger to the average citizen comes from below him on the economic ladder, not from above.

Jerome Blattner ¬;A person who trusts no one can't be trusted John J. Plomp ¬;Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ¬;If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin"

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and "Keep away from children". ¬;The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ¬;You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John Quinton ¬;Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

John S. Coleman ¬;The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

John Tudor ¬;A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ¬;Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation ¬;Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology John Wilmot ¬;Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

Joshua R. Poulson ¬;As a free society matures it becomes more permissive, because the converse is too horrible to contemplate Josiah Quincy ¬;When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

Kathleen Casey Theisen ¬;Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

King Whitney Jr. ¬;Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

Lane Olinghouse ¬;Bumper Sticker – There are no cheap politicians ¬;Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare ¬;Imagination is something that sits up with Dad and Mom the first time their teenager stays out late. ¬;The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ¬;Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ¬;To Err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane ¬;We may reduce highway speeds just to save a few drops of fuel - a thing we never would do just to save a few lives.

Larry Hardiman ¬;The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Marchioness Townsend ¬;Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Marie Fraser ¬;Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Martin Myers ¬;First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

Marty Indik ¬;Confusion is always the most honest response. ¬;Half of analysis is anal Mary Ellen Kelly ¬;Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

Matt Barry ¬;It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.

Mogens Jallberg ¬;In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

Norman G. Shiddle ¬;A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.

Olin Miller ¬;You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do

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¬;If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. ¬;If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date. ¬;If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. ¬;It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ¬;One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. ¬;To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ¬;What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ¬;You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do Robert A Humphrey ¬;An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

Roger Allen ¬;Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees. ¬;In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Sally Koch ¬;Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Stephen Dooley ¬;A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.

Thomas Neill ¬;Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Wynn Catlin ¬;Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

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