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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. Woody Allen Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. - Robert Anton Wilson I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. - An English Professor Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown All the world's a cage. - Jeanne Phillips We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. - Aneurin Bevan I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill 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 Halsey Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. - National Lampoon The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - HL Mencken In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. - Mogens Jallberg Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary Nihilism is best done by professionals. Iggy Pop The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker (1925 - ) Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse 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. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. Robert Orben 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. Michael Pritchard No human thing is of serious importance. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. - Wernher von Braun If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Peter Ustinov Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. H. Mumford Jones A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. The things you own end up owning you. On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996 Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. - Gerald R. Ford We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb 18 Ik zeide in mijn hart van de gelegenheid der mensenkinderen, dat God hen zal verklaren, en dat zij zullen zien, dat zij als de beesten zijn aan zichzelven. 19 Want wat den kinderen der mensen wedervaart, dat wedervaart ook den beesten; en enerlei wedervaart hun beiden; gelijk die sterft, alzo sterft deze, en zij allen hebben enerlei adem, en de uitnemendheid der mensen boven de beesten is geen; want allen zijn zij ijdelheid. 20 Zij gaan allen naar een plaats; zij zijn allen uit het stof, en zij keren allen weder tot het stof. 21 Wie merkt, dat de adem van de kinderen der mensen opvaart naar boven, en de adem der beesten nederwaarts vaart in de aarde? Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome. Marion Parker "I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather... Not screaming, and in terror, like his passengers..." Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Evan Esar American Humorist (1899 - 1995) Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3 Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner! - Max Lucado No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. - Orson Welles Memorable Quotes from Europa (1991) [opening lines] Narrator: You will now listen to my voice. My voice will help you and guide you still deeper into Europa. Every time you hear my voice, with every word and every number, you will enter into a still deeper layer, open, relaxed and receptive. I shall now count from one to ten. On the count of ten, you will be in Europa. I say: one. And as your focus and attention are entirely on my voice, you will slowly begin to relax. Two, your hands and your fingers are getting warmer and heavier. Three, the warmth is spreading through your arms, to your shoulders and your neck. Four, your feet and your legs get heavier. Five, the warmth is spreading to the whole of your body. On six, I want you to go deeper. I say: six. And the whole of your relaxed body is slowly beginning to sink. Seven, you go deeper and deeper and deeper. Eight, on every breath you take, you go deeper. Nine, you are floating. On the mental count of ten, you will be in Europa. Be there at ten. I say: ten. We living in the Sims, if God don?t like us anymore He will press delete (Niels) "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast" Macbeth/Shakespeare Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ: Othello/Shakespeare A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Ralph Emerson, Nature: Addresses and Lectures ''They've got a wishbone where their backbone should have grown" (Worms - Beth Orton) Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity. Maria Irene Fornes Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605 Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness "just smile and act like you belong there." rick haiser Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?" Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea.
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