TagsTagsIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. -- Alfie Kohn
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten ...
But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second ...
There is very little difference between men and women in space. -- Helen Sharman
In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind...All of us - a little bit - we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human ...
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. -- Rachel Carson
You are right, Mr. Bond. That is just what I am, a maniac. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania that drives them towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs. -- Dr. No
It’s when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I’m afraid that’s what’s going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, “Oh, it’s not really religion”. I mean ...
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'. -- Leonard Cohen
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant. -- ...
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. -- George Bernard Shaw
As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? -- Nick Lowe
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous, everyone hasn't met me yet. -- Rodney Dangerfield
We go to gain a little patch of ground That hath in it no profit but the name. -- William Shakespeare
Positive vibrations man. That's what makes it work. That's reggae music. You can't look away because it's real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there's no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that's all. -- Bob Marley
Here's an open thread, with a suggested theme: political slogans for the upcoming Sarah Palin-Glenn Beck presidential campaign. My contribution to kick it off: Palin-Beck 2012! Because it STILL isn't weird enough.
Every burned book enlightens the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing. -- Tao Te Ching
Evolution: don't knock it if you haven't tried it. -- Stinky Beaumont
Once again the forces of virtue have triumphed over the forces of rottenness. -- Maxwell Smart
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. -- George Bernard Shaw
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. -- Sydney J. Harris