Quotes

 

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow

 

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.

- Reverend Lovejoy

 

 

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok

 

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

 

 

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.

 

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.  Apply in that order.

—Unknown.

 

..... My other computer is YOUR computer.

—Unknown.

 

 

"If Windows XP is the answer, Then you didn't understand the question."

—Unknown.

 

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.

 

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

— President Thomas Jefferson.

    1743-1826

 

 

Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.

— Senator Barry Goldwater.

    1909-1998

 

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Make the other fool die for his country.

— General George S. Patton.

    1885-1945

 

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

— George Bernard Shaw.

    1856-1950

 

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

— President Thomas Jefferson.

    1743-1826

 

 

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

— Vice President John C. Calhoun.

    1782-1850

 

If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.

— President Thomas Jefferson.

    1743-1826

 

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine.

    1737-1809

 

Great fleas have little fleas

Upon their backs to bite them

And little fleas have lesser fleas

And so on ad infinitum.

-Agustus De Morgan

 

 

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that enough good men do nothing.

-- Edmund Burke

 

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

 

The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

-- William Gibson

 

"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov

 

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it - Voltaire

 

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein

 

As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.

Buckaroo Banzai

 

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov

 

 [Vader] I find your lack of faith disturbing [/Vader]

 

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Pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. -- George Orwell, 1941

 

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of the nation, must begin by subduing the freedom of speech..." -- Cato Letters

 

beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master

—Unknown.

 

"No...no, you can't get away...from hell's heart, I stab at thee...for hate's sake, I spit my last breath...at thee..." -- Khan, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

 

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill

 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

 --Aristotle

 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

 

It is easy to be a liberal if you are very very rich, or very very poor –—Unknown

 

Help a man get a Mac, help him for a day. Help a man get a Windows PC, help him the rest of your life

—Unknown

 

 

"Even if you are on the right track, if you just sit there you will get run over."

- Will Rogers

 

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)

 

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

—Unknown

 

---- It won't be as bad as you fear or as good as you hope, but it will take twice as long as you plan.

—Unknown

 

 

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

—Unknown

 

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

-- James Baldwin

What’s up?

The direction diametrically opposed to the nearest apparent gravitational force. (Why do you ask? ;-)

--Brian Costello

 

“Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on”

Thomas A. Edison

 

Fascism begins when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the Rights of the People.

—Unknown

 

The quickest way to become an atheist is to study the Bible thoroughly.

—Unknown

 

A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a

—Unknown

 

The ability to communicate well does not directly correspond to the ability to communicate intelligently.

—Unknown

 

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd

 

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

-Benjamin Franklin

 

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

-       Benjamin Franklin

 

It's understandable when a child is afraid of the dark;
 Not so for a grown man to be frightened of the light.

--Plato

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." 


-Samuel Adams

 

 

"Your biggest challenge isn't that you've been intentionally making bad choices.....Your biggest challenge is that you've been sleepwalking through your choices. Become aware. Choose wisely. Take action. WAKE UP and make empowering choices. " 


-Darren Hardy

 

 

"Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups."

-       Nietzsche

 

“ Live your Happiest life by Accepting that some people and some things should only Remain in your Life as Lessons and/or Memories. ”

- Author Unknown