 Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1748
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1742
The morality of sacrifice lives on borrowed time.
Andrew Bernstein
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4433
Some hear with their ears, some with their stomachs, some with their pockets, and some hear not at all.
Kahlil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing...he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance...Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen… and he'll get all the great women.
James L Brooks (screenwriter)
Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks) to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) in Broadcast News (1987)
If you don't know what your goals are, don't be surprised when you don't attain them
Nathaniel Branden
"[Regard] language as a tool of honor, always to be used as if one were under oath--an oath of allegiance to reality."
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
There are no holidays in the fight against evil.
Don Adams as Maxwell Smart
Get Smart
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Edward Estlin Cummings
Disney censors their mouse ears. We all got these mickey ears, and they wouldn't put my nickname on mine, simply because it has the word "bun" at the end. Because "we don't want to offend our foreign visitors." What?!?!?! That makes no sense. It pissed me off, and disappointed me. Grumble. Disney's going to get an earful of all the names they aren't allowed to put on the hats by that logic, like Peter, and Willy, and Tina, and H, and Fanny, and Jimmy...the list goes on and on.
Lisa Palin
http://joanarc4.blogspot.com/
There are too many people spending money they haven't earnt buying things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith
Reader's Digest
That's one of the wonderful things about this great nation of ours...everybody is free to do what he wants to do...as long as it doesn't injure anybody else!
Stan Lee
"The Raving Maniac," Suspense #29, March, 1953
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I had to call my own bluff.
Sylvester Stallone
Sly had the choice of taking $300,000 for the Rocky screenplay and walking away, or risking everything to also star in the movie. He called his own bluff and got both.
The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.
Audrey Sutherland
"He secured from a Saudi sheik named Hamid bin Fahd a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans. Specifically, nuclear weapons," says Scheuer. "And the treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans." Scheuer says the fatwa was issued in May 2003, "and that's another thing that doesn't come to the attention of the American people."
Steve Kroft, in an interview with ex-CIA official Scheuer, an expert on Osama bin Laden
CBS News, August 21, 2005
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.
Rush
Anthem
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
Lindsay, While you know I value polite conversation and have taken you to task on several occasions for being less than...diplomatic, I'm starting to see your point of view. While I'll never sanction insulting people who don't deserve it, I take back any and all recriminations for dealing with assholes in as blunt terms as possible. You have my apologies
Ethan Dawe
http://solohq.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/0939_6.shtml#131
"I think a single man can accomplish in a day what a committee could accomplish in a month."
Bill Lear [Lear Aircraft]
The sophistry of passion outweighs all that reason can urge.
Robert Ingersoll
Jody, you asked James: "Then what exactly is your quarrel James?" Here is the response he attempted to post, but his posts are not being accepted (nor are mine):
Barbara Branden
private email
"Don't throw away wisdom because it is found in the company of folly; but do not say that folly is wisdom because it is found in its company."
Robert Ingersoll
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1739
A superstitious man suspects everything that is pleasant. It seems inbred in his nature, and in the nature of most people. You let such a man pull up a little weed and taste it, and if it is sweet and good, he says, "I'll bet it is poison." But if it tastes awful, so that his face becomes a mask of disgust, he says, "I'll bet you that it is good medicine."
Robert Ingersoll
Never underestimate the wrath of a patient man.
Anonymous
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
It's not who I am underneath, but what I do, that defines me.
Batman
Batman Begins
Everything has a price; there are no free rides. The price you pay for participating in a larger society of intelligent and passionate people is the intensity and passion of their flaws.
George Cordero
from Solo article, "A Letter to Cassandra," November 7, 2004
People don't care what you know until they know that you care.
Zig Ziglar
Ziglar on Selling
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Samuel Johnson
Johnson: Rambler #98 (February 23, 1751)
We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge. The very name given to the highest institutions of learning reminds us, that from antiquity and throughout many centuries the universal aspect has been the only one to be given full credit. But the spread in both depth and width, of the multifarious branches of knowledge in the last hundred odd years has confronted us with a queer dilemma. We clearly feel that we are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum-total of all that is known into a whole; but on the other hand, it has become next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small specialized portion of it.
Erwin Schrodinger
What is Life?
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Johan Huizinga
The Waning of the Middle Ages
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
Religion and war. Like mixing nitro and glycerin.
Pat Gorman
MAY 2005 Resource Consultants newsletter
"A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."
Bible
Ecclesiastes 8:15
If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1749
The trick is to listen to your 'inner grandmother.' She's got a little more wisdom than your inner child.
Loretta LaRoche
Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal
Where is it that I was reading about a man condemned to death who thought or said an hour before his death that if he had to live some where on a crag, on a cliff, on a narrow ledge where his two feet could hardly stand, and all around him there would be the abyss, the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, and an everlasting storm, and he had to remain like that—standing on a square yard of space—all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it would still be better to live like that than to die at the moment. To live and to live and to live and to live! No matter how you live, if only to live.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Amer. Bio Teacher 35:125-129 (1973)
What drives me to despair is not the dishonesty of the charlatans who peddle such tosh, but the dopey gullibility of the thousands of nice, well meaning people who flock to the cinema and believe it.
Richard Dawkins
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
Sister Mary Barbed-wire had been the Catholic equivalent of a Baptist hellfire preacher, always harping on the awful punishments awaiting sinners, all the horrors the God of Love would inflict upon those who disappointed Him. Everlasting suffering for missing mass on Sunday, or failing to make your Easter duty. Little Gia bought the whole package, living in terror of dying with a mortal sin on her soul.
F. Paul Wilson
The Haunted Air: A Repairman Jack Novel
I'm the type who needs to know. I didn't ask to be this way, but that's how it is. I am simply not capable of adjusting my whole existence to accommodate something that must be accepted on faith, on the word of people I've never met, people who've been dead for thousands of years. I can't live like that. It's not me.
F. Paul Wilson
The Haunted Air: A Repairman Jack Novel
Innocence is its own defense.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733
It took Chuck and me at least two hours of hard climbing to reach the top of the [Great Pyramid]. ... As the sun came up and we could hear the desert and the city below, I experienced one of the most incredible feelings I've ever had -- that feeling I so often describe as the 'peak of aliveness.' ... In life, it is possible to lose your money, your home, or your spouse, but the memories, the excitement, and the emotions associated with the accomplishment of any of your dreams can never be taken away from you.
Charles Givens
SuperSelf
You can't reason with a cold hard wind, all you can do is not let it in.
Jules Shear and Steve Booker
Cold Hard Wind
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
Random Internet E-Mail prankster
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