A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement. ~ Deepak Chopra #quote

Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ~ Thomas Huxley

It is a most healthy and productive exercise to daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals. ~ Neville #quote

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ~ Joseph Joubert #quote

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... ~ Charles Dickens #quote

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honour and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner #quote, speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.  ~ Author Unknown #quote

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci  #quote

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. ~ Albert Camus #quote

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. ~ Honore de Balzac #quote

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.  ~ Tom Clark #quote

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. ~ Albert Camus #quote

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ~ Unknown #quote

If you’re from New York and you’re Catholic, you’re still Jewish. If you’re from Butte Montana and you’re Jewish, you’re still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish. ~ Lenny Bruce #quote




Enough research will tend to suppowhatever theory. ~ #MurphysLaws

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~ Mark Twain #quote

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way. ~ Bob Dylan #quote

A state of emergency declared by the Egyptian government has been in effect since 1981. #Factoids

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.  ~ William Ernest  #quote

Man cannot survive without air, water and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. ~ Thomas Szasz #quote

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. ~ Red Adair, when asked what his fee was for extinguishing oil well fires after the Gulf war. #OneLiners

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. ~ Michael Crichton #quote

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote


This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ~ Charles Dickens #quote

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ~ Honore de Balzac #quote

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me. ~ Fidel Castro #quote

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it. ~ Ogden Nash #quote

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a Guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. ~ Joseph Romm #quote

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content. ~ Bob Dylan #quote,  Brownsville Girl

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ~ Dante Alighieri  #quote

The final scene of the movie Casablanca was filmed on a sound stage too small to fit a real airplane, so the filmmakers built a half-sized prop plane and hired midgets to play the flight crew to ensure proper perspective. #Factoids

The only way to deal with an unfree world, is to become absolutely free, that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ~ Albert Camus #quote

Who hears music,
feels his solitude
Peopled at once. ~ Robert Browning #quote

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ~ Ayn Rand  #quote

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ~ Pearl Buck #quote

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ~ Saul Bellow #quote

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. ~ L. M. Montgomery #quote