o see ourselves as others see us is a most
salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see
themselves.
--Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within
a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863)
The fact that an opinion has been widely
held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
--Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get
away with it.
---Abbie Hoffman
That wretched alchemist called money can
turn a man's heart into a stone!
-Mehmet Murat Ildan, (1965- )
People only see what they are prepared to
see.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble with the world is that the
stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)
Few people are capable of expressing with
equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They
don't like it.
--Anonymous
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One
helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
--Sandra Carey
Once
we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it
begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
--Sydney J. Harris,
journalist (1917-1986)
A small
body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can
alter the course of history.
--Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.
--Margaret Mead
Are you a politician asking what your
country can do for you or a Zealous one asking what you can do for your
country?
--Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931 [The New
Frontier]
For every major problem in this nation
there is a simple solution--and it is wrong.
--H.L. Menken, (1880-1956)
The first human who hurled an insult
instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
--Sigmund Freud, (1856-1939)
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.
--H.L. Mencken, (1880-1956)
God comes to the hungry in the form of
food.
--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
This world is divided roughly into three
kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down;
those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their
next meal is coming from.
-David S. Landes, (1924- )
When a country is governed well, poverty
and mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is
governed poorly, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
--Confucius, Analects, iv, 16
A man may be very industrious, and yet not
spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who
consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
--Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
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