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"It's illegal and immoral to slay your enemies, but if you eat
nutritious food and outlive them, you can still dance on their
graves. There's nothing illegal or immoral about dancing."
- Scott Adams
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
- Aristotele
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."
- Lord Chesterfield
"Squeaky wheel gets the kick!"
- Minsc, Baldur's Gate
"I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things that our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful and at worst genocidal--but there's an incredible and a permanent culture of resistance in this country that I'm very proud to be a part of. It's not the tradition of slave-owning founding fathers, it's the tradition of the Frederick Douglasses, the Underground Railroads, the Chief Josephs, the Joe Hills, and the Huey P. Newtons. There's so much to be proud of when you're American that's hidden from you. The incredible courage and bravery of the union organizers in the late 1800's and early 1900's--that's amazing. People get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave."
- Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Conan Doyle
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
- Swedish Proverb
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us
love on another."
- Jonathan Swift
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all
your money."
- Anonymous
"Not all who wander are lost."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not
expect to sit."
- Nelson Henderson
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do
any business from there."
- Colonel Sanders
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on
Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
- Carl Sagan
"The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to
run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the
body is thirsty."
- Alain
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for
law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their
tyranny."
- James Fenimore Cooper
"If all mankind minus one were of one 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."
- John Stuart Mill
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the
established order that your ideas will upset."
- Anthony D'Angelo
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty
without any proof."
- Ashley Montague
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
"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."
- Linus Pauling