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Political
'It is said an Eastern monarch once charged
his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view and
appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him
the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much
it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling
in the depths of affliction.'
Abraham Lincoln, in an address to the
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in 1859
It's always darkest just before it's totally
black.
Mao Tse Tung
Nothing is more important than independence
and freedom.
Ho Chi Mihn, Communist Leader
of North Vietnam
Trust is a beautiful thing, but control is
much better.
Dzierzynski, KGB Founder
The purpose of the Senate is to protect the
rights of the minority,
however, the rich are always fewer in number that the poor.
John A. MacDonald first Canadian Prime Minister
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
"Truth uncommunicated, is useless".
Mahatma Ghandi
Science
"They laughed at Galileo, they laughed
Charles Darwin,
but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Carl Sagan
"Art is a passion pursued with discipline,
science is a discipline pursued with passion."
Arthur Sackler, Smithsonian contributor
"Two things are infinite: the universe
and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices
acquired by age 18."
Albert Einstein
"A new scientific truth does not triumph
by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new
generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent
on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
"The Internet will have a larger effect
on civilization
than the invention of the printing press!"
Bill Gates
"In science, it doesn't matter if you're
wrong, as long as you're not stupid.
In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as
you're not wrong.''
Unknown
Self
Improvement
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small
minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good judgment is usually the result of experience.
And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment.”
Barry LePatner,
testifying before a House subcommittee
on science and technology (1982)
Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts
Unknown
It's not what happens to you that counts, it's
how well you handle it. It's not how far you fall, but how
well you bounce.
Unknown
Each day affirm that you are the type of person
with whom you would like to spend the rest of your life.
Unknown
People are in greater need of praise when they
try and fail than when they try and succeed.
Unknown
What do you stand for? What do you want your
children to tell their children about you.
Unknown
People need love most when they deserve it
the least.
Unknown
If you truly expect to realize your dreams,
abandon the need to be liked by all. Conforming to everyone
else's expectations sacrifices your uniqueness and, therefore,
your excellence.
Unknown
Be assured that you can get everything you
want out of life -- if you just help enough people get what
they want out of life.
Unknown
Are you the kind of person with whom you'd
like to spend the rest of your life?
Unknown
Remember, no matter where you go, there you
are.
Unknown
Never mistake ignorance for stupidity. Ignorance
is curable; stupidity is not.
If you continue to confuse ignorance with stupidity, you are
being stupid, not ignorant.
Unknown
"I have always wanted to be somebody,
but I see now I should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin
Problem
Solving
Hofstadter's Law, 'It always takes longer that
you think it will,
even after accounting for Hofstadter's Law.'
Douglas Hofstadter
Every problem contains it's own solution.
Mr. Collins, Kevin Arnold's math teacher in
the Wonderyears
Whenever you undertake a new project, make
as many mistakes as rapidly as possible in order to learn
as much as you can in the shortest period of time.
Unknown
Climate is what we expect. Weather is what
we get.
Unknown
Miscellaneous
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send
someone to jail.
You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at
Johns Hopkins.
Dr John Money, Child Psychologist
Tobacco, the Indians revenge.
Doug Hurd
Choose a job you love and you'll never work
a day in your life.
Confucius
...like trying to fine tune an anvil.
Ken Dye, referring to the Canadian economy
(Mark) Twain's Rule: "Only kings, editors,
and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial
'we'."
Mark Twain
Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly.
An aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this
week what he had said just last week. The great man replied
that it was because this week he knew better.
Unknown
In the information economy, our ability to
create wealth is not bound by physical limits, but by our
ability to come up with new ideas - in other words, it's unlimited.
Wired Magazine, Jan 1998
I'd rather be skeptical than gullible.
Unknown
"The mind wobbles."
Kelly Bundy
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