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- “There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
James Joyce
- “He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
Rudyard Kipling
- “I carry a gun, ’cause a Cop is too heavy.”
Bruce J. Emmott NYPD Ret.
- The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
Dave Grossman
- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
- When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
- Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
- The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes De Mille
- It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Silvan Engel
- I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
- The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moving forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
- The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Willa Cather
- In order to discover new lands, one must first lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide’
- If you’re not actively involved in getting what you want, you don’t really want it.
Peter McWilliams
- He that lives upon hope, dies fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
- A grain of sand has an architecture; but the desert shows the structure of the wind.
Proposition II, Kenneth Walker
- Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans.
John Lennon
- You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
Umberto Eco, FOCAULT’S PENDULUM
- Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
- We must remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg
- The world is my idea.
Kant
- O something unprov’d! something in a trance!
To escape utterly from others’ anchors and holds!
To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!
To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
To rise thither with my inebriate soul!
To be lost if it must be so!
To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom!
With one brief hour of madness and joy.
Walt Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS
- What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Adolph Hitler
- We can’t keep recounting until Al Gore likes the outcome.
Kathyrn Harris
- It is a poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
- If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
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