TagsTagsThe eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. -- Bill Hicks
Tanna: What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way? Eros: Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems. -- Plan 9 from Outer Space
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when ...
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths: [Item List] -- Will Durant, Declaration of Interdependence
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? -- Carl Sagan ...
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. -- Bart Simpson
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. -- Xun Zi
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly ...
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. -- Richard Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. -- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
Nobody living can ever stop me As I go walking my freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land is made for you and me. -- Woody Guthrie
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. -- Emily Dickinson
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music. -- Luciano Berio
Whoever we are, wherever we're from, we shoulda noticed by now our behaviour is dumb And if our chances expect to improve it's gonna take a lot more than tryin' to remove the other race or the other whatever from the face of the planet altogether - Frank Zappa, "Dumb All Over"
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Socrates
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. -- Dean Martin
When fascism comes to America, it will come with 0% financing for six months from date of purchase. -- Stinky Beaumont
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde
This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. Hints: remember, in chess, kings cancel each other out and cannot occupy adjacent squares, are therefore all-powerful and totally powerless, cannot affect each other, produce stalemate. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion; the sect of Atman ...
Lord, the day is at hand. We are in the last days. You are a Jehovah God. We know that the times are in your hands. And we give them to you...The day is at hand, Lord, when your return will come nigh. Nothing is more important than bringing sheep ...
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is. -- Wendell Berry