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The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. Anonymous It is
hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for
them. Is world trade law a barrier to saving our climate? No; but, our climate may be used as an excuse to bring down our trade laws. Anonymous Must we consider Democrats in support of Obama's policies of comstockery? Anonymous It takes a great deal of
bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our
friends.
In 1921,
Albert Einstein
presented a paper on his then-infant
Theory
of Relativity at the Sorbonne. He said then: "If I am proved correct, the Germans will call me a German, the Swiss will call me a Swiss citizen, and the French will call me a great scientist. "If relativity is proved wrong, the French will call me a Swiss, the Swiss will call me a German, and the Germans will call me a Jew." "If
a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning,
refute it. But for God s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose." "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970) "I
refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
"Anything too stupid to be said is sung." "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." John Kenneth Galbraith
"No grand
idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died
there." Gota a
gota el agua se agota "We
will only know the worth of water when the well is dry." "Till
taught by pain, men know not water's worth."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy
possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." "It's
easy to stay busy. The trick is to stay busy and make money." "It
is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, Ivan Goncharov,
"During times of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Every man thinks God is
on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
"Hypocrisy is the beginning of virtue."
"The democracy will cease to
exist when you take away from those "When plunder becomes a
way of life for a group of men living together
"The
American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the
name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist
program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened. I no longer need to
run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic
Party has adopted our platform."
Norman Mattoon
Thomas 1944
Those
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Society is like a stew.
If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. It is impossible to
enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Recent work on information processing (even kin recognition) in plants suggests that there may be more going on there than we now understand; as for birds and mammals, it has long been appreciated that they are perfectly capable of deception and subversion. For my part, I don't find these things odd or disturbing, as it's the continuity of all life that intrigues me most. Humans are not alone in their baseness -- though a few may be alone in their desire to rise above it. Mark Germer Sometimes you have to state the obvious for the benefit
of the oblivious! Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
expecting a different result. If you don't have new
ideas, you rely on old tactics to cover your derriere.
"Everyone has a bridge to nowhere! Many ultimately take it!" "The State Engineer of New Mexico is now involved in so much litigation that he has gone cross-eyed and is unable to argue consistently. His office has become the cornucopia of bad faith." "The State Engineer of New Mexico is so imbued in its own mythology it will not accept the reality of history and the courts commonly and invariably go along with him because of the inadequate intellectual capacity and mental lassitude of the judges or their plain unwillingness to work" Anonymous Attorney "The New Mexico State Engineer has been trying to petrify his own fictions for decades." Anonymous Attorney In war, the
first casualty is truth. Any simple problem can be
made insoluble if enough meetings Do the right thing. It will gratify
some people and astonish the rest. If you let
them construct the backbone, eventually they will build the whose fish. When asked what he thought of bureaucrats, Will Rogers replied that there was nothing wrong with them that a hanging a week wouldn't cure "Cream Rises" "Instead of your success, focus on
your significance in other's lives" "Bad debts are not like good
wine; they don't get better with age." "Those who stand up for what is
right must expect to be treated badly." Now that you have answered all of the questions, question all of the answers It is as
though it had never been, just a memory. "Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "To every human is given a key to the gates of heaven; the same key also opens the gates of hell." Buddhist Proverb "Between thinking and doing there is an ocean." Tuscan Proverb " No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless." Philippians 3:13 "The proper response to variability is insurance not denial." Anonymous "In life there are two kinds of people. There are those who do the work and then there are those who try to claim the credit. Always strive to be in the first group; there is much less competition." Ghandi Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but
by the moments that take our breath away - “Only the educated are free."
Epictetus 55AD-135AD "Those who say it cannot be
done should not interrupt the people doing it." Chinese Proverb "Thought and action must never part company." Hannah Arendt "He who faces no calamity gains no courage." Rudyard Kipling "Water is no longer perceived as a gift from God, but a commodity for which one has to pay. Water will become like oil one day, I have no doubt about it."
Dr. Isabel Al-Assar "Water drives men to drink with their enemies." Unknown
"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things;
they
pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property." "I can't understand why
people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." "Das Prinzip aller Dinge ist das Wasser. Aus Wasser ist alles, und ins Wasser kehrt alles zurück"
Thales von Milet, 600 v. Chr. "A promise is a cloud;
fulfillment is rain."
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