Quotes Md-Mi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead "Here's to the future, fate, and hope, for the first is never set in stone, the second is never known, and the third binds the world together." -- AJ Melten "If knowledge is power, and power corrupts, what does absolute knowledge bring?" -- AJ Melten "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -- Mencius "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken "I like common sense, honesty, and decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." - H. L. Mencken "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." -- H. L. Mencken "Man becomes civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." --- H.L. Mencken "Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous." -- Yehudi Menuhin "Writers beware: when you write you allow others access to your mind and thoughts. Remember this." -- E. S. Michael �There is violence because we have daily honored violence. Any half- educated man in a good suit can make his fortune by concocting a television show whose brutality is photographed in sufficiently monstrous detail. Who produces these shows, who pays to sponsor them, who is honored for acting in them? Are these people delinquent psychopaths slinking along tenement streets? No, they are the pillars of society, our honored men, our exemplars of success and social attainment. We must begin to feel the shame and contrition we have earned before we can begin to sensibly construct a peaceful society, let alone a peaceful world. A country where people cannot walk safely in their own streets has not earned the right to tell any other people how to govern itself, let alone to bomb and burn that people.� �- Arthur Miller "We are afraid of ourselves because we have advertised and promoted and sloganized ourselves into a state of contentment, when we know that desperate people surround us everywhere and we do not know how to break out of our contentment." -- Arthur Miller "George W. Bush is 20 gallons of dumb in a 10 gallon hat." -- Dennis Miller "Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness." -- Margaret Miller "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -- A. A. Milne "Life hurts. Life is painful. Life is suffering. There is nothing in life that does not involve trial. There is nothing worthwhile that doesn't have a cost. Yet, we must go on, There is nothing great that does not require a series of small acts. We must persevere. If we do, good times are sure to follow. If we contantly seek, even in darkness, guidance is sure to come. If we strive against evil, no matter what the cost, righeousness is sure to triumph." -- Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living With Balance and Harmony Index