“I hate quotes. Tell me what you know.” - Emerson
“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” - Laurence van der Post
“The salvation of the world lies in the human heart” - Vaclav Havel
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?” - Mahatma Ghandi
“Man's natures are alike; It is their habits that carry them apart.” - Confucious
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones!” - John Cage
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” - Norman Cousins
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll
“Trust your crazy ideas.” - Dan Zadra
“It is never too late to be what you might have been or still want to be.” - George Eliot
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.” - Victor Hugo
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” - Adlai E. Stevenson
“It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” - Agnes Repplier
“We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” - Claude Bernard
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” - Aneurin Bevan
“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.” - Goethe
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” - George Bernard Shaw
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Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi,
"What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied,
"I don't know."
Wavy protested,
"But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
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“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history — a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.” - Willis Harman, Global Mind Change
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” - US President Eisenhower, Farewell Speach, 1961
“We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.” - US President Eisenhower, Farewell Speach, 1961
“We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do
Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now.” - Richard Perle, John Pilger, “The World Will Know The Truth,” New Statesman (London) (December 16 2002
“ The really dangerous American fascist,… is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. ”- US Vice President Wallace, The New York Times, April 9, 1944
“ They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ”- US Vice President Wallace, The New York Times, April 9, 1944
“Everyone is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.” - Buddhist proverb
“We are fortunate, those of us who have survived, for this time we have been given. We must use it well.” - Rawandan genocide survivor, Outsite the Gate
“Having heard all this, you may choose to look away, but you can never again say that you did not know.” - Wiliam Wilberforce (1759-1833), English member of Parliament; fought to abolish slave trade.
“We are moving to a world in which in the twenty-first century the most important activities that produce occur not in factories, and not by individual initiative, but in communities held together by software.” - Eben Moglen, http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2006/plone-keynote/plone2006-transcript.html
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