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"Saying you're going to sue OPEC, that's kind of like saying you're going to sue God. That'd just be ... difficult." - Geoff Pigman
"Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender their selves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them." - Nathaniel Branden
"Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives."
--Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
"The truth is out there" -Fox Mulder
Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. (Perfection is the enemy of good.) — Voltaire
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done." -Thomas Carlyle
Life: It's all in the wrist.
"I am large and in charge."- oscar wilde
"Vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves." Milan Kundera
"Bagels" Griffin Epstein
"Seas of Lemonade, my ass." Charles Babbage
“I write to find out what I think.” Rebecca West.
“But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through the transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise forever.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick, p. 157.
"If there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads." Thomas Pynchon
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime." - Theodor Adorno (1903–1969)
"One repays a teacher poorly if one remains a disciple." - Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher, 1844-1900)
“[Regarding Terri Schiavo] So if you were wondering just how sick you have to be for Congress to improve your health care...” — Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (Actor, 1962-)
“All periods of history appear as manifestations of a single existence, or as episodes in a single drama – without our knowing whether it has an ending. Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French philosopher, 1908-1961)
“Every happy man should have an unhappy man in his closet, with a hammer, to remind him that not everyone is happy.” — Anton Chekhov (Russian writer, 1860-1904)
“Please ensure that your hairstyle does not infringe copyright, or represent anyone’s prophet.” — Momus (Scottish writer, 1960-)
J: "Didn't your grandmother teach you to finish what you started?"
S: "She died before I was born."
J: "I'm sorry to hear that. Now get to work!"
- Jet and Spike, Cowboy Bebop Episode #1
In corporate religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
— Antony Jay, Management and Machiavelli, 1968
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." (President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1953 speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors)
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." T.H. White, "The Once and Future King"
"Learning is not fun. And it’s a pity that somewhere along the way we told you otherwise."
--Jim Josefson
Associate Professor of Political Science and History
Bridgewater College
"Learning is Not Fun: Reflections on the Liberal Arts and Living Your Best Life"
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
--Ayn Rand
“2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." --Ronald Reagan
"Yeah, that would buy us M&M's for the rest of the semester, that's about it." --Amie Jo McClellan, on the remaining Biochemistry budget of $33
"What?" Richard Nixon
UNTAR TO WAR!
