Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela, 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
~Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
~H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi (attributed)
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
~Martin H. Fischer
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
~Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
~John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
~Yiddish Proverb
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
~Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
Facts are stupid things.
~Ronald Reagan '88, a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."
It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species.
~Doctor Who
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
~Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
~George Carlin (1937 - ), Napalm and Silly Putty
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
Chaos Theory: The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.
~Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141