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A. email:peg:recv:16 May 03:"Rules to Live By" ...
1. not really a quote but vvv
2.
> > The most destructive habit
Worry
> > The greatest Joy
Giving
> > The greatest loss
Loss of
self-respect
> > The most satisfying work
Helping
others
> > The ugliest personality
trait
Selfishness
> > The most endangered species
Dedicated leaders
> > Our greatest natural resource
Our
youth
> > The greatest "shot in
the arm"
Encouragement
> > The greatest problem to
overcome
Fear
> > The most effective sleeping
pill
Peace
of mind
> > The most crippling failure
disease
Excuses
> > The most powerful force
in life
Love
> > The most dangerous pariah
A
gossiper
> > The world's most incredible
computer
The
brain
> > The worst thing to be
without
Hope
> > The deadliest weapon
The
tongue
> > The two most power-filled
words
"I Can"
> > The greatest asset
Faith
> > The most worthless emotion
Self-pity
> > The most beautiful attire
SMILE!
> > The most prized possession
Integrity
> > The most powerful channel
of communication Prayer
> > The most contagious spirit
Enthusiasm
> > The most important thing
in life
GOD
B. + endless quotes at "Common Sense 1996"/"Booklist/Quotes
..."
C. + massive quotes at Creating Wealth, Bob Allen
D. + massive quotes and quote references at Karbo/Nixon/1994
...
1. see list of quotes tbf at {quote} at notes
file csenai
E. + many exc quotes in "How to Want What You Have"
F. + a few quotes pages bookmarked @ bm.xls, ^s quotes
G. ---
H. history teaches us & "always a child" ...
1. "History teaches us that history teaches
us nothing." ...
a) --Voltaire
2. "History teaches us the mistakes we are going
to make." ...
a) --Dr. Laurence J. Peter
3. "Not to know what happened before one was
born is always ...
a) to be a child.", Cicero
b) similar: "He who knows
only his own generation remains
always a
child." -- unk
4. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned
...
a) to repeat it." --George
Santayana
5. "That men do not learn very much from history
...
a) is the most important of
all the lessons of history."
--Aldous
Huxley
I. "All I know is that I know nothing." --Socrates
J. "The more you know, the more you realise how much you
don't know ...
1. ... the less you know, the more you think
you know."
--David T. Freeman
K. ---
L. "Minds are like parachutes ...
1. they only function when open"
M. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro", Hunter
Thompson
N. "He who lives by the crystal ball, learns to eat broken
glass" ...
1. --Edgar R. Fiedler < questionable, likely
--unknown
2. orig appears to be: "He who lives by the
crystal ball soon
learns to eat ground glass."
O. thru the looking glass quote ...
1. "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen.
"Now, here, you
see, it takes all the running
you can do, to keep in the
same place. If you want
to get somewhere else, you must
run twice as fast as that."
2. in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"
3. quote is either from Alice or the Queen -
check it out!
P. "You don't stop learning because you grow old. You
grow ...
1. old because you stop learning."
2. -alt-
We do not quit playing because
we grow old,
We grow old because we quit
playing.
3. see also the Rio Grande Valley folder
4. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Q. "We have met the enemy and it is us!" -- Pogo, cartoon
character
R. "Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our
bed ...
1. and eats at our own table."
--W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh
Auden)
S. "The world isn't any worse off today than at any time
...
1. in history. The news coverage is just
better.
T. "Genius is 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration"
U. "Life is Difficult", M. Scott Peck from The Road Less
Traveled
V. gazelle lion carl mary wasson [] ref junka ...
1. Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes
up. It knows that
it must run faster than the
fastest lion or it will be
killed.
Every morning a lion wakes
up. It knows that it must
outrun the slowest gazelle
or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you
are a lion or a gazelle:
When the sun comes up you
had better be running.
W. ---
X. "God helps those who help themselves." --unk
Y. "As you sow, so shall ye reap." --(get source)
Z. "Trust in Allah but tie your camel." --unk
AA. "Be prepared." --Boy Scout Motto
AB. ---
AC. ref \dr\Einstein_Quotes.htm
AD. Einstein on comparing science to the workings of a watch ...
1. from The Evolution of Physics, c/1938, p
33
2. "Physical concepts are free creations of
the human mind,
and are not, however it may
seem, uniquely determined by
the external world.
In our endeavor to understand reality
we are somewhat like a man
trying to understand the
mechanism of a closed watch.
He sees the face and the
moving hands, even hears its
ticking, but he has no way of
opening the case. If
he is ingenious he may form some
picture of a mechanism which
could be responsible for all
the things he observes, but
he may never be quite sure his
picture is the only one which
could explain his
observations. He will
never be able to compare his picture
with the real mechanism and
he cannot even imagine the
possibility or the meaning
of such a comparison."
3. Continues in same para:
4. "But he certainly believes that, as his knowledge
increases, his picture of
reality will become simpler and
simpler and will explain a
wider and wider range of his
sensuous impressions.
He may also believe in the existence
of the ideal limit of knowledge
and that it is approached
by the human mind. He
may call this ideal limit the
objective truth."
AE. Albert Einstein on science ...
1. "One thing I have learned in a long life:
that all our
science, measured against
reality, is primitive and
childlike -- and yet it is
the most precious thing we
have."
AF. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking ...
1. we used when we created them." --A.E.
2. similar:
3. "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness
that
created it."
4. "The problems that we have created cannot
be solved at the
level of thinking that created
them."
5. "The significant problems we face cannot
be solved at the
same level of thinking we
were at when they were created."
6. "The world we have created is a product of
our thinking; It
cannot be changed without
changing our thinking." -- Albert
Einstein
7. ---
8. similar ones: Fuller, Burtynsky, Bohm
AG. Einstein, etc. on world government ...
1. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing
great
power, war is inevitable.
There is no salvation for
civilization, or even the
human race, other than the
creation of a world government."
--A.E.
2. "A world government with powers adequate
to guarantee
security is not a remote ideal
for the distant future. It
is an urgent necessity if
our civilization is to survive."
--Albert Einstein
3. "I advocate world government because I am
convinced that
there is no other possible
way of eliminating the most
terrible danger in which man
has ever found himself. The
objective of avoiding total
destruction must have priority
over any other objective."
--Albert Einstein, 1947
4. others on world government:
5. "I have long believed that the only way peace
can be
achieved is through world
government." --Jawaharlal Nehru
6. "Mankind's problems can no longer be solved
by national
governments. What is needed
is world government." --Jan
Tinbergen, Nobel Prize-winning
economist
7. Joseph George Caldwell, foundationwebsite.org,
also
advocates world government.
8. "We shall have World Government, whether
or not we like it.
The only question is whether
World Government will be
achieved by conquest or consent."
--James Paul Warburg, February
17, 1950, declared to the
United States Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations
AH. "Only a life lived for others is worthwhile." --Albert Einstein
AI. "I do not know what the third world war ...
1. will be fought with, but the fourth world
war will be
fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein
AJ. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." --Albert
Einstein
AK. "Your imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions."
...
1. --A.E.
2. alt: "Imagination is everything. It is the
preview of
life's coming attractions."
--Albert Einstein
AL. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--A.E. ...
1. or, "Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but
not simpler."
2. This one is like Occam's Razor.
AM. "Science without religion is lame, ...
1. religion without science is blind."
--A.E.
AN. "The splitting of the atom has changed everything ...
1. save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift
toward
unparalleled catastrophe."
--A.E.
AO. "Man must cease attributing his problems to his ...
1. environment, and learn again to exercise
his will - his
personal responsibility."
A.E.
2. This is similar to what Tim Miller is saying.
AP. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
A.E.
AQ. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten ...
1. everything he learned in school." A.E.
AR. "The only thing that needs changing is our consciousness."
A.E. < check
AS. "It has become increasingly obvious that our technology ...
1. has exceeded our humanity." A.E.
AT. "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;
...
1. everything that counts cannot necessarily
be counted." A.E.
AU. "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking ...
1. if mankind is to survive." A.E.
AV. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and ...
1. human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former." A.E.
AW. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is ...
1. that it is comprehensible." --Albert Einstein
AX. "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who ...
1. do evil, but because of those who look on
and do nothing."
A.E.
2. similar to the famous Burke quote below
AY. "Technological progress is like an ax in the hands ...
1. of a pathological criminal." --Albert
Einstein
AZ. ---
BA. R. Buckminster Fuller \\bucky fuller
BB. "You never change things by fighting the existing ...
1. reality. To change something, build
a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete."
--R. Buckminster Fuller
BC. "If the success or failure of this planet, and of human ...
1. beings, depended on how I am and what I do;
How would I be?
What would I do?" --R.
Buckminster Fuller
BD. "Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, ...
1. and do so promptly - right now." --R. Buckminster
Fuller
BE. "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature
...
1. does not depend on us. We are not the
only experiment."
--R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview,
April 30, 1978
BF. "The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: ...
1. An instruction booklet didn't come with it."
--R. Buckminster Fuller
BG. ---
BH. Mahatma Gandhi
BI. "Keep your thoughts positive ...
1. because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words
positive because your words
become your behaviors. Keep
your behaviors positive because
your behaviors become your
habits. Keep your habits positive
because your habits
become your values. Keep your
values positive because your
values become your destiny."
--Gandhi
BJ. "The great challenge of the Modern Age is ...
1. not to remake our world, but to remake ourselves.
Be the
change you wish to see for
the world." --Gandhi
BK. "First they ignore you; Then they ridicule you; ...
1. Then they attack you; Then you win."
--Gandhi
2. see similar quotes with Schopenhauer below
BL. "Speed is irrelevant if you're traveling in ...
1. the wrong direction" --Gandhi
BM. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." --Gandhi
BN. "The only devils in the world are those running around ...
1. in our own hearts - that is where the battle
should be
fought." --Gandhi
BO. ---
BP. ^^ related vv
BQ. "There are three steps in the revelation of any truth: ...
1. in the first, it is ridiculed; in the second,
resisted; in
the third, it is considered
self-evident." --Arthur
Schopenhauer, German philosopher
2. another version, need to ^s web for best
one: "New truths
go through three stages. First
they are ridiculed, second
they are violently opposed,
and then, finally, they are
accepted as self-evident."
BR. "And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing ...
1. more difficult to take in hand, more perilous
to conduct,
or more uncertain in its success,
then to take the lead in
the introduction of a new
order of things. Because the
innovator has for enemies
all those who have done well
under the old conditions,
and lukewarm defenders in those
who may do well under the
new." --Nicolo Machiavelli, The
Prince, c. 1515 (written c.
1505, pub. 1515)
BS. "For a wide door of opportunity for effectual service ...
1. has opened to me and there are many adversaries."
--1 Corinthians 16:9
BT. "A prophet is never known in his own country." --unk
BU. + Gandhi's "First they ignore you" quote above
BV. + Our Dinner With Michael (Moore) ...
1. @bm.xls, for Sally's comments about "criticism,
anger, not
popular at home either"
BW. ---
BX. Martin Luther King Jr
BY. "On the bleached bones of dead civilizations are written ...
1. the words: TOO LATE" --Martin Luther
King Jr
BZ. "We must learn to live together as brothers, or ...
1. perish together as fools." --Martin
Luther King Jr
CA. "We will remember not the words of our enemies, ...
1. but the silence of our friends." --Martin
Luther King Jr
CB. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the ...
1. creatively maladjusted" --Martin Luther
King Jr
CC. ---
CD. William Shakespeare
CE. "The school of ignorance is the most expensive school ...
1. but some will learn in no other." --William
Shakespeare
CF. "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose ...
1. the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt."
--William Shakespeare
CG. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than ...
1. are dreamt of in your philosophy."
--William Shakespeare,
Hamlet (I, v, 166-167), William
Shakespeare
CH. ---
CI. On energy, energy waste, Jevons Paradox, etc:
CJ. "Given cheap abundant energy, humanity will find ways ...
1. to waste it as quickly as possible.
Given expensive scarce
energy, humanity will find
ways to conserve it as
efficiently as possible."
--Tom Robertson
CK. "There's a strange irony in this business, because ...
1. the more efficient you are in producing the
stuff
[oil/fossil fuels], the more
skilled you are, all the good
things that one generally
sees as positive attributes, the
better you are at doing this,
..... all you're really doing
is accelerating the depletion
and making the situation
worse." --Colin Campbell
2. This is also explained in Matt Savinar's
site:
lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
CL. Alfred J. Lotka's Maximum Power Concept or Maximum Power Principle
...
1. rephrased by Howard T Odum, A Prosperous
Way Down, p 70:
"In the self-organizational
process, systems develop those
parts, processes, and relationships
that capture the most
energy and use it with the
best efficiency possible without
reducing power."
CM. Jay Hanson, page193.htm, Maximum Power Principle ...
1. "The Maximum Power Principle states that
all open systems
(Bernard cells, ecosystems,
people, societies, etc.) evolve
to degrade as much energy
as possible while allowing for
the continued existence of
the larger systems they are part
of."
CN. ---
CO. impossible, unthinkable, unmentionable, quotes:
CP. huge impossible quotes page @bm.xls ^s "Impossible" quotes
page ...
1. [\ps\impossible1.htm]
CQ. "To achieve the impossible it is precisely the unthinkable
...
1. that must be thought." --Tom Robbins
CR. "For six billion people deeply indoctrinated ...
1. in the ethics of growth, turndown and
descent of
civilization is unthinkable.
That this descent could be
prosperous is so inconceivable
that it is unmentionable."
--Howard T. Odum, A Prosperous
Way Down, 2001, pg 279
CS. "People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt ...
1. those who are doing it." --Chinese
Proverb
2. ^^ per Google search, this is the more prominent
version
3. also: --Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
(chicken soup
for the soul, c/93)
4. "Those who say it can't be done should get
out of the way
of those who are doing it."
--Joel Arthur Barker
CT. ---
CU. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.", --Thomas
Jefferson
CV. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." ...
1. Wendell Phillips 1852
2. saw on p 207 of The Secret Empire, but this
looks identical
to the Tom Jefferson quote!
CW. "Every generation needs a new revolution." --Thomas Jefferson
CX. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous ...
1. to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American
people ever allow private
banks to control the issuance of
their currency, first by inflation
and then by deflation,
the banks and corporations
that will grow up around them
will deprive the people of
all their property until their
children will wake up homeless
on the continent their
fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson
CY. "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms ...
1. of government those entrusted with power
have, in time, and
by slow operations, perverted
it into tyranny."
--Thomas Jefferson
CZ. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes,
...
1. exhausts, murders itself. There never
was a democracy yet
that did not commit suicide.
It is in vain to say that
democracy is less vain, less
proud, less selfish, less
ambitious, or less avaricious
than aristocracy or monarchy.
It is not true, in fact, and
nowhere appears in history.
Those passions are the same
in all men, under all forms of
simple government, and, when
unchecked, produce the same
effects of fraud, violence,
and cruelty." --John Quincy
Adams, 1735-1826, 6th President
of the United States. From
his letter to John Taylor,
Speaking of direct, not
representative, democracy.
April 15, 1814.
DA. "I hope we shall crush in its birth ...
1. the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare
already to challenge our government
to a trial of strength,
and bid defiance to the laws
of our country." --Thomas
Jefferson
DB. "A nation's best defense is an educated citizenry." --T.J.
DC. more: bm.xls ^s "Thomas Jefferson Quotations page"
DD. ---
DE. James Madison:
DF. "What becomes of the surplus of human life? ...
1. It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide,
as among the
Chinese and Lacedemonians;
or 2d. it is stifled or starved,
as among other nations whose
population is commensurate to
its food; or 3d. it is consumed
by wars and endemic
diseases; or 4th. it overflows,
by emigration, to places
where a surplus of food is
attainable." -- James Madison,
1791
DG. "A popular government without popular information, ...
1. or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue
to a farce
or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever
govern ignorance, and a people
who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves
with the power which
knowledge gives." --James
Madison
DH. ---
DI. Sir Winston Churchill:
DJ. "The destiny of mankind is not decided on material ...
1. computation. When great causes are
on the move in the
world, we learn that we are
spirits, not animals, and that
something is going on in space
and time, and beyond space
and time, which, whether we
like it or not, spells duty."
--Sir Winston Churchill
2. found in Freedom 2000, Ch of C, USA
DK. "The further backward you look, the further forward ...
1. you can see." --Sir Winston Churchill
DL. "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing ...
1. of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism
is the equal
sharing of miseries."
--Sir Winston Churchill
DM. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth ...
1. has a chance to get its pants on."
--Sir Winston Churchill
DN. "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of ...
1. government except all those other forms that
have been
tried from time to time."
--Sir Winston Churchill, from a
speech at the House of Commons,
November 11, 1947
DO. "Americans can always be counted on to do the right ...
1. thing...after they have exhausted all other
possibilities."
--Sir Winston Churchill
DP. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, ...
1. but most of them pick themselves up and hurry
off as if
nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill
DQ. ---
DR. Rockefellers:
DS. "It's good business to anticipate the inevitable, ...
1. and it seems to me inevitable, whether we
like it or not,
that we are moving toward
an economy which must be limited
and selective in its growth
pattern. The earth has finite
limits - a difficult idea
for Americans to adjust to."
--John D. Rockefeller III
2. ^^ note that he's a member of T.W.O., found
in The Future
of Money, a:Lietaer, pg 236.
Cannot confirm w/ Google.
DT. "The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: ...
1. find what it is that interests you and do
well, and when
you find it, put your whole
soul into it--every bit of
evergy and ambition and natural
ability you have."
--John D. Rockefeller III
2. ^^ this one is all over the Internet
DU. "Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal ...
1. working against the best interests of the
United States,
characterizing my family and
me as "internationalists" and
of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more
integrated global political
and economic structure-one
world, if you will. If that's
the charge, I stand guilty,
and I am proud of it."
--David Rockefeller, founder of the
Trilateral Commission, a Bilderberg
member and board member
of the Council On Foreign
Relations. Taken from his
Memoirs. (needs verification)
DV. "Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." ...
1. --John D. Rockefeller Jr.
DW. ---
DX. "What luck for rulers that men do not think." --Adolf
Hitler ...
1. (similar: ditto Albert Schweitzer in The
Strangest Secret)
2. Also: "do not read"
DY. "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. ...
1. He will end by destroying the earth."
-- Albert Schweitzer
2. Albert Schweitzer sorted here temp. due to
similarity to
the "do not think" quote.
DZ. "The great masses of the people will more easily fall ...
1. victims to a big lie than a small one."
--Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf, 1923
EA. "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, ...
1. people can be made to see paradise as hell,
and also the
other way around, to consider
the most wretched sort of
life as paradise." --Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
EB. "Rational people will go quietly and meekly into a gas chamber
...
1. if only you allow them to believe its a bathroom."
--Zygmunt Bauman < ? check
this one
2. sorted here due to similarity with Hitler
EC. ---
ED. "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't ...
1. do a thing, you're right." -- Henry
Ford
EE. "Thinking is the hardest work there is, ...
1. which is probably the reason so few engage
in it." --
Henry Ford
EF. "If money is your hope for independence you will never have
...
1. it. The only real security that a man
will have in this
world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability."
--Henry Ford (1863-1947 American
Industrialist)
EG. ---
EH. "Darwin dreamt of being beheaded or hanged; ...
1. he thought a belief that went so contrary
to biblical
authority was 'like confessing
a murder.'" --R. Milner,
Encyclopedia of Evolution.
2. \\confess to murder confessing to a murder
EI. "Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of
...
1. his lowly origin." -- Charles Darwin
EJ. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, ...
1. nor the most intelligent, but the ones most
responsive to
change." --Charles Darwin
EK. ---
EL. "The problem is, of course, that not only is economics ...
1. bankrupt but it has always been nothing more
than politics
in disguise ... economics
is a form of brain damage."
-- Hazel Henderson
EM. "Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on ...
1. forever in a finite world is either a madman
or an
economist." --Kenneth
E. Boulding
EN. ---
EO. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is ...
1. for good men to do nothing." --Edmund
Burke 1729-1797
2. I incorrectly wrote in csen: "All that is
necessary for
evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing."
EP. "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing ...
1. because he could only do a little."
--Edmund Burke
EQ. + similar: einstein quote copied from above:
ER. ["The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who
...
1. do evil, but because of those who look on
and do nothing."
A.E.]
ES. ---
ET. Aldous Huxley (there are others elsewhere in this file):
EU. "And it seems to me perfectly in the cards ...
1. that there will be within the next generation
or so a
pharmacological method of
making people love their
servitude, and producing a
kind of painless concentration
camp for entire societies,
so that people will in fact have
their liberties taken away
from them but will rather enjoy
it, because they will be distracted
from any desire to
rebel by propaganda, brainwashing,
or brainwashing enhanced
by pharmacological methods."
--Aldous Huxley, 1959
EV. "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --Aldous
Huxley
EW. ---
EX. "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." --Mark Twain
EY. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. ...
1. It's what you know for sure that just ain't
so." --Mark Twain
EZ. ---
FA. "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, ...
1. there is one striking at the root."
--Henry David Thoreau
FB. "How many a man has dated a new era in his life ...
1. from reading a book?" --Henry David Thoreau
FC. "We have become the tools of our tools." --Henry David
Thoreau
FD. --- Plan S, Paradigm Shift quotes:
FE. "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards ...
1. the rest." --Paul Simon, The Boxer
FF. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something ...
1. when his job depends on not understanding
it."
--Upton Sinclair
2. This was used in Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient
Truth.
FG. "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. ...
1. For those who don't believe, no proof is
possible."
--Stuart Chase
FH. "This world is full of people with the intelligence, ...
1. knowledge, skills, and energy to make heaven
on Earth, but
they can't even begin because
they would lose their jobs.
We're always arguing to change
each other's minds, but
nobody will change if they
think their survival depends on
not changing." --Ran
Prieur, How to Survive the Crash and
Save the Earth
FI. ---
FJ. "It is better to have struggled and lost, ...
1. than never to have struggled at all."
--Pete Seeger in the
film "Seeing Red"
FK. "Any darn fool can make something complex. ...
1. It takes a genius to make something simple."
--Pete Seeger
FL. "Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first"
--Pete Seeger
FM. ---
FN. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot ...
1. \\t.s. elliot
2. possibly misattributed to Jung by Kunstler
3. Although Carolyn Baker writes: "As Jung stated,
human
beings cant take hearing/seeing
too much reality." ???
4. However in several other articles, authors
writes: "As T.S.
Eliot said, humankind cannot
bear very much reality."
5. 05/03/07, surfing ...
a) I found it in Burnt Norton
or Buirnt Norton (is that an
intentional
misspelling?)
(No. 1 of
'Four Quartets'), T.S. Eliot, 1936
b) Carl Jung, one of the fathers
of psychology, famously
remarked
that "people cannot stand too much reality."
c) so when might Jung have
said this, and was it influenced by
Eliot?
FO. ---
FP. "I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000 ...
1. step process." --Thomas A. Edison
FQ. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
...
1. in overalls, and looks like work."
--Thomas A. Edison
FR. ---
FS. Sir Isaac Newton:
FT. Three laws of motion ...
1. Law of inertia: Objects remain at rest or
move in a
straight line until acted
upon by an external force.
longer, alt version:
Law of inertia: An object
at rest tends to stay at rest.
An object in uniform motion
tends to stay in uniform motion
unless acted upon by an external
force.
2. A force applied to an object is proportional
to and in the
same direction as the acceleration
of that object.
3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite
reaction.
FU. "If we do not change our direction, we are likely to ...
1. end up where we are headed." --ancient
Chinese proverb
2. like first law
FV. "Actions have consequences." (like third law)
FW. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because ...
1. I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
--Sir Isaac Newton
2. alt found in wiki article: Newton himself
was rather more
modest of his own achievements,
famously writing in a
letter to Robert Hooke in
February 1676: "If I have seen
further it is by standing
on the shoulders of giants."
FX. ---
FY. "A human being can alter his life by altering his ...
1. attitudes of mind." --William James
2. Full quote is ... "The greatest discovery
of my generation
is that ... (a human being
can ...)"
3. "Human beings can alter their lives by altering
...
a) their attitudes of minds."
--William James ? "minds"?
4. ^^ needs more research. what did earl
nightingale say?
FZ. "The most significant characteristic of modern civilization
...
1. is the sacrifice of the future for the present,
and all the
power of science has been
prostituted to this purpose."
--William James
GA. ---
GB. "The truth will set you free, but first it will ...
1. piss you off." --Gloria Steinem
GC. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
...
1. --Aldous Huxley
GD. ---
GE. "Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making ...
1. of action in spite of fear; the moving out
against the
resistance engendered by fear
into the unknown and into the
future." --M.Scott Peck,
The Road Less Travelled
GF. "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be ...
1. fearless in facing them." --Rabindranath
Tagore
GG. ---
GH. Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 Flight Director:
GI. "Failure is not an option." --Gene Kranz
GJ. "None of us is as smart as all of us." --Gene Kranz
GK. ---
GL. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, ...
1. but no one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
GM. "Save the Planet, Kill Yourself" --unknown ...
1. saw on bumper sticker in Englewood, Colorado,
2/98
GN. ---
GO. Abraham Lincoln:
GP. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds
...
1. to be."
GQ. "Human action can be modified to some extent, but human ...
1. nature cannot be changed."
GR. "I see in the near future a crisis approaching ...
1. that unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of
my country. . . . corporations
have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money
power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices
of the people until all wealth
is aggregated in a few hands
and the Republic is
destroyed." --A.L.,
November 21, 1864
2. details: @bm.xls ^s Abe Lincoln Quote
GS. ---
GT. "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single ...
1. step." --Lao-Tzu, Chinese Philosopher
GU. "Inch by inch it's a cinch. Mile by mile it's a trial." ...
1. variants:
2. "Life by the mile is a trial, by the inch
it's a cinch."
3. "By the mile it's a trial, by the inch it's
a cinch."
GV. ---
GW. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ...
1. will make violent revolution inevitable."
--John F.
Kennedy
GX. "All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. ...
1. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000
days, nor in the
life of this Administration,
nor even perhaps in our
lifetime on this planet. But
let us begin."
--John F. Kennedy said in
his 1961 Inaugural Address
GY. ---
GZ. Wavy Gravy, Hugh Romney:
HA. "There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area!"
...
1. --Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney), at Woodstock
2. alt: "There's a little bit of heaven in every
disaster area."
HB. "We are all the same person trying to shake hands with ...
1. our self." --Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney)
HC. ---
HD. Zig Ziglar:
HE. "The least effective people spend their time on ...
1. actions that are not productive but which
they are most
comfortable doing."
--Zig Ziglar
HF. "You are WHAT you are, you are WHERE you are, ...
1. because of what you put into your mind.
You can CHANGE
what you are, you can CHANGE
where you are, by changing
what you put into your mind."
--Zig Ziglar
HG. ---
HH. Benjamin Disraeli, PM, UK:
HI. "The world is governed by very different personages ...
1. from what is imagined by those who are not
behind the
scenes." --Benjamin
Disraeli
HJ. "How very seldom do you encounter in the world ...
1. a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience,
who
will unmask his mind, unbutton
his brains, and pour forth
in careless and picturesque
phrase all the results of his
studies and observation; his
knowledge of men, books, and
nature. On the contrary, if
a man has by any chance an
original idea, he hoards it
as if it were old gold; and
rather avoids the subject
with which he is most conversant,
from fear that you may appropriate
his best thoughts."
--Benjamin Disraeli
HK. ---
HL. E.O. Wilson:
HM. "The human mind evolved to believe in gods. ...
1. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
Acceptance of the
supernatural conveyed a great
advantage throughout
prehistory, when the brain
was evolving. Thus it is in
sharp contrast to the science
of biology, which was
developed as a product of
the modern age and is not
underwritten by genetic algorithms."
--E.O. Wilson
2. @bm.xls ^s believe in gods
HN. "The predisposition to religious belief is ...
1. the most complex and powerful force in the
human mind and
in all probability an ineradicable
part of human nature."
--E.O. Wilson
HO. ---
HP. Carl Sagan:
HQ. "We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial
...
1. elements profoundly depend on science and
technology. We
have also arranged things
so that almost no one understands
science and technology. This
is a prescription for
disaster. We might get away
with it for a while, but sooner
or later this combustible
mixture of ignorance and power is
going to blow up in our faces."
--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
2. This quote may be from his book: The Demon-Haunted
World:
Science as a Candle in the
Dark
HR. "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is ...
1. than to persist in delusion, however satisfying
and
reassuring." --Carl
Sagan
HS. ---
HT. "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
HU. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." --Proverbs
29:18
HV. On Change ref newsletter "Information Broker" ...
1. from Burwell, v 12 # 1, p 6
2. "When one door closes, another door opens;
but we often
look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that
we do not see the ones which
open for us." --Alexander
Graham Bell
HW. On Change & Creativity ref newsletter "Information Broker"
...
1. from Burwell, v 12 # 1, p 7
2. "Be brave enough to live life creatively.
The creative is
... What you'll discover will
be yourself."
3. use this to point out that common sense 1996
is really
personal development for the
human race - part of the
consciousness revolution that
peter russell spoke of in TGB
HX. "The history of man is the record of a hungry creature ...
1. in search of food."
2. Hendrik Willem van Loon in The Story of Mankind
(p. 22)
HY. "Fake it till you make it" AA
HZ. "In the times of rapid change, learners inherit ...
1. the Earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully
equipped to deal with a world
that no longer exists."
2. Eric Hoffer (former labor boss)
IA. "Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' ...
1. I dream things that never were and say 'why
not?' --
George Bernard Shaw
IB. "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only ...
1. when he sticks his neck out." -- James
Bryant Conant
IC. "The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world ...
1. where everyone is trying to make you be somebody
else."
-- e.e. cummings
ID. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, ...
1. it can achieve." --Napoleon Hill
IE. "Where attention goes, energy flows!"
IF. "Not to know what happened before one was born is always ...
1. to be a child.", Cicero
2. similar: "He who knows only his own generation
remains
always a child." -- unk
3. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned
to repeat
it." --George Santayana
IG. "Big ideas come from the unconscious. ...
1. This is true in art, in science and in advertising.
But
your unconscious has to be
well-informed or your idea will
be irrelevant." -- David Ogilvy
IH. "What plans would you make if you knew your plans could ...
1. not fail?" -- Rev. Robert Schuller
II. "People & nations behave wisely -- ...
1. once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
--
Abba Eban
IJ. "A nation that wishes to be ignorant and free, ...
1. wishes something that cannot be." -- John
Adams
IK. "To resist change is like holding your breath ...
1. - if you persist, you will die." --
Lao Tsu
IL. "In the time it takes for you to read this sentence ...
1. the world is burning up more than one million
dollars of
fossil and nuclear fuels for
use in electrical appliances,
heating, cooling, and transportation
systems."
-- Jeane Manning
IM. "New ideas are resisted ... But we must rapidly ...
1. explore these new technologies, because what
is at stake is
life." -- Adam Trombly,
Astrophysicist
IN. "A new scientific truth does not triumph ...
1. by convincing its opponents and making them
see the light,
but rather because its opponents
eventually die." -- Max
Planck, German physicist
IO. "Honest criticism is hard to take, ...
1. particularly from a relative, a friend, an
acquaintance, or
a stranger." --unknown (saw
in men's restroom of Old
Louisville Inn, Louisville,
CO)
IP. "All mankind is divided into three classes: ...
1. those that are immovable, those that are
movable, and those
that move." --Anonymous
IQ. "A Human Being should be able to change a diaper, ...
1. plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,
design a
building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall,
set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders,
cooperate, act alone, solve
equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program
a computer, cook a tasty
meal, fight efficiently and
die gallantly. Specialization
is for insects." --Robert
Heinlein.
IR. "I've done so much with so little for so long ...
1. that now I can do anything with nothing."
2. ^^ Saw on bumper sticker driving around Santa
Rosa, CA
3. Kara version: "I've been doing so much with
so little for
so long that I can now do
the impossible on a whim!"
4. Check Internet for a common version and author.
IS. Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of technology ...
1. When a scientist states that something is
possible, he is
almost certainly right.
When he states that something is
impossible, he is very probably
wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of
the possible is
to venture a little way past
them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficeintly advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.
IT. "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, ...
1. at the huge waves of the sea, at the long
courses of
rivers, at the vast compass
of the ocean, at the circular
motion of the stars, and they
pass by themselves without
wondering at all." --
St. Augustine, 399 A.D.
IU. "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat
...
1. it." -- Santayana
IV. "May your dreams only be exceeded by the magnificance ...
1. of your reality." -- saw at Tony Robbins
UPW seminar
A. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; ...
1. a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary
means to
achieve your ends; wisdom,
money, materials, and methods.
Third, adjust all your means
to that end." --Aristotle (BC
384-322 Greek Philosopher)
B. "A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man ...
1. follows the public opinion." --Chinese
Proverb
C. "Common sense is not so common." --Voltaire
D. "The credit belongs to the man ...
1. who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood, who knows
the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and spends
himself
in a worthy cause; who at
best, if he wins, knows the
thrills
of high achievement, and,
if he fails, at least fails
daring
greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold
and
timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat."
*I've seen this quote attributed to both FDR & JFK
sent by Chuck S
E. "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. ...
1. The most difficult thing to be is what other
people want
you to be. Don't let
them put you in that position."
--Leo Buscaglia (American
Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)
F. "He who builds no castles in the air, ...
1. builds no castles anywhere." --unknow
G. "If a path to the better there be, it begins ...
1. with a full look at the worst." --
Thomas Hardy, 1887
H. "The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."
...
1. -- Joseph Schumpeter, 1942
I. "The world is not given to us by our parents. ...
1. It is loaned to us by our children."
--Unknown
2. -- or --
3. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
...
a) we borrow it from our children."
--Unknown
File: quotes2.txt
A. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts ...
1. absolutely." --Lord Acton, 1834-1902
(confirmed 04/10/05)
B. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain ...
1. a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor
safety." --Benjamin
Franklin, 1706-1790, in his/the
Historical Review of Pennsylvania,
1759
2. "Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty
in the name of
freedom, deserve neither."
< saw in Amazon review of ZBig's
Grand Chessboard.
3. "Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase
a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor
safety." < saw in an email
4. "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security
deserve
neither." < saw in an email
C. "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk ...
1. nonsense." --John McCarthy, Professor
Emeritus, Computer
Science, Stanford University
2. \\mathematics innumerate numerically challenged
D. on specialists and generalists from Tim Wilken @ Synearth
...
1. A specialist is someone who knows more and
more about less
and less, until finally he
knows everything about nothing.
2. A generalist is someone who knows less and
less about more
and more, until he knows nothing
about everything.
E. "If you don't deal with reality, reality will ...
1. deal with you". --Dr. Colin J. Campbell,
World Renowned
Petroleum Geologist
F. "Let's be optimistic. Pessimism is for better times."
...
1. --author unknown
2. \\lets be optimistic
G. "We don't see things as they are. We see them as
we are." ...
1. --Anais Nin
H. "The modern crises are, in fact, man-made and ...
1. differ from many of their predecessors in
that they can be
dealt with." --Second
Report to the Club of Rome (from
Mankind Turning Point, a:Mesarovic,
c/74)
I. "Faced with widespread destruction of the environment,
...
1. people everywhere are coming to understand
that we cannot
continue to use the good of
the earth as we have in the
past. A new ecological awareness
is beginning to emerge,
which rather than being downplayed,
ought to be encouraged
and developed into concrete
programmes and inititatives."
--Pope John Paul II
J. "History is a race between education and catastrophe."
...
1. --H.G. Wells
K. "Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, ...
1. affirming a positive vision may be about
the most
sophisticated action any one
of us can take." --Willis
Harman (1918-1997)
2. ^^ exc for getting PDIA going!
L. "It is in the space of mastery over paradigms ...
1. that people throw off addictions, live in
constant joy,
bring down empires, get locked
up or burned at the stake or
crucified or shot, and have
impacts that last for
millennia." --Donella
Meadows
M. "Growing Old is inevitable; Growing UP is optional."
--unk
N. "The foundation of all mental illness is the ...
1. avoidance of ligitimate suffering."
--Carl Jung
O. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,"
...
1. --Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
P. "This is the poorest place I've ever been in my life."
...
1. --Mother Teresa, on a visit to the United
States to receive
an honorary degree
2. ref Affluenza, page 70, recounted by Robert
Seiple,
director of World Vision.
3. ref @bm.xls
Q. "You can't know if a species has gone extinct if you ...
1. didn't know it existed in the first place."
--Richard Pyle
R. "If you are all alone, you will be all yourself." ...
1. --Leonardo da Vinci
S. "There is no security on this earth. There is only
...
1. opportunity." --Douglas MacArthur
T. "Life can only be understood backwards, ...
1. but it must be lived forwards." --Soren
Kierkegaard
U. "People and nations behave wisely, once they have ...
1. exhausted all other alternatives." --Abba
Eban
V. "Nothing generates so much silence as ...
1. confronting a person with an undeniable truth
which is
contrary to that person's
beliefs." --unk
W. "Most people [species?] don't plan to fail, ...
1. they just fail to plan." --unknown
X. "One does not discover new lands without consenting to
lose ...
1. sight of the shore." --Andre Gide
+Peale/06/03
2. Found 12/12/04 while walking around Lamar,
CO in front
window of Quality Dry Cleaners.
3. alt:
4. One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose
sight of the shore for a very
long time.
Y. "Do not believe in anything ...
1. simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions
because they have been handed down for many
generations.
Do not believe in anything
because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything
simply because it is found written in your religious
books.
Do not believe in anything
merely on the authority of your teachers or elders.
But after observation and
analysis, when you find that anything agrees with
reason, and is conducive to
the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it
and live to it." --The
Buddha, in the Kalama Sutra (emailed by Janann
01/03/05)
Z. "The illiterate of the 21st century ...
1. will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn." --Alvin Toffler
2. ^^ verify this ... found inside a spam message
AA. "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, ...
1. you don't know what you're doing. --W.
Edwards Deming
2. ^^ verify this ... found inside a spam message
AB. "Every day, more and more people are leaving religion ...
1. and going back to God." --Lenny Bruce
2. alt: "Every day people are straying away
from the church
and going back to God."
AC. "Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, ...
1. is available ... a new idea as powerful as
any in history
will let loose."
2. Sir Fred Hoyle, 1948
3. ref Peter Russell for entire source as he
obviously edited
the quotation
AD. "At one time there was a Star where clever animals grew, ...
1. and reached for the skies.
The clever animals believed
themselves:
Masters of the Universe...
and conquered and destroyed
all manner of life...
and then the land, the seas
and oceans wide.
"We are Masters of the Universe"
they declared,
"And God is on our side!"
And then one day
as they gloried in their pride...
The Star grew cold,
and the clever animals
died." --Rhawn Joseph,
Ph.D.
AE. "It does not require a majority to prevail, ...
1. but rather an irate, tireless minority keen
to set brush
fires in people's minds."
--Samuel Adams
AF. "If I don't practice one day, I know it, ...
1. two days, the critics know it, three days,
everyone knows
it." --Jascha Heifetz
AG. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, ...
1. committed citizens can change the world;
indeed it is the
only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
2. alt: "Never underestimate the power of a
small group ...
a) of individuals to change
the world, in fact they're the
only ones
that ever have."
AH. "It is our duty, as men and women, to behave ...
1. as though limits to our ability do not exist.
We are
collaborators in creation
of the Universe." --Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, 1881-1955
AI. "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy,
...
1. but it's good, too, to check up once in a
while and make
sure that you haven't lost
the things that money can't
buy." --George
Lorimer (American editor and writer
1867-1937)
AJ. "For every problem, there is a solution which is simple, ...
1. neat and wrong." --H.L. Mencken
AK. "When you're addicted to drugs, you're told to cut off ...
1. the supply. But when you're addicted to oil,
you try to
find more." --Amory
Lovins
AL. "Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford ...
1. with money you don't have to impress people
you wish were
dead. And, unlike communism,
democracy does not mean having
just one ineffective political
party; it means having two
ineffective political parties.
...Democracy is welcoming
people from other lands, and
giving them something to hold
onto -- usually a mop or a
leaf blower. It means that with
proper timing and scrupulous
bookkeeping, anyone can die
owing the government a huge
amount of money. ... Democracy
means free television, not
good television, but free. ...
And finally, democracy is
the eagle on the back of a dollar
bill, with 13 arrows in one
claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13
tail feathers, and 13 stars
over its head -- this signifies
that when the white man came
to this country, it was bad
luck for the Indians, bad
luck for the trees, bad luck for
the wildlife, and lights out
for the American eagle."
--Johnny Carson
2. ^^ vet this!
AM. "When life gives you lemons, why not make lemonade?"
AN. James Watt on the environment ...
1. In his confirmation hearings, Watt really
did tell the
Senate "I do not know how
many future generations we can
count on before the Lord returns,"
but he insists his next
statement was "whatever it
is we have to manage with a
skill to leave the resources
needed for future
generations." From their environmental
policies, I infer
the Reagan and Bush I Administrations
assumed there
wouldn't be very many future
generations. Considering Bush
II, they may have been right.
2. research this one further
AO. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking ...
1. new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
--Marcel Proust
AP. \dr\dalai*.gif < need to be transcribed
AQ. "If we had lived then, we would have been like them. ...
1. They, if they were living now, would have
been like us."
--Fidel Castro
AR. "Evolutionary psychology managed to pull the rug out ...
1. from under the rug-pullers, and it did so
by showing that
evolutionary principles give
much more interesting and
compelling explanations of
human behavior than the standard
postmodern claim that all
behavior is culturally relative
and socially constructed.
Evolutionary psychology made it
clear that there are indeed
universals in the human
condition, that evolution
can be denied only by embracing
incoherence, and that, most
of all, postmodernism just
wasn't any fun any more."
--Ken Wilber, A Theory of
Everything
AS. "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, ...
1. I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child; when I
became a man, I gave up childish
ways."
--1 Corinthians 13:11
AT. "Be Prepared" --Boy Scout Motto
AU. "Is this the world that will be, or is there still time ...
1. to change our ways?" --Dickens: A Christmas
Carol
AV. "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
--R.E.M.
AW. "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, ...
1. not having." --Henry Miller
AX. "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the ...
1. object of life is happiness." --George
Orwell
AY. "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. ...
1. The people who count the votes decide everything."
--Stalin
AZ. "Physicists learned to realize that whether they like ...
1. a theory or they don't like a theory is not
the essential
question. Rather, it's whether
or not the theory gives
predictions that agree with
experiment."
--Richard Feynman, 1985
BA. "Tell people something they know already, ...
1. and they will thank you for it. Tell them
something new,
and they will hate you for
it." --George Monbiot
BB. "What concerns me is not the way things are, ...
1. but rather the way people think things are."
-- Epictitus
BC. "You are not here merely to make a living. ...
1. You are here in order to enable the world
to live more
amply, with greater vision,
with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are
here to enrich the world, and you
impoverish yourself if you
forget the errand." --Woodrow
Wilson
BD. "1st law of thermo. says: you can't win. ...
1. 2nd law of thermo. says: you can't break
even.
zeroeth law says: you can't
even get out of the game!
Similarly,
Capitalism is based on the
false premise that you can win.
Socialism -------------- that
you can break even.
Mysticism ------------- that
you can get out of the game.
--John Barrow
BE. "Human history more and more becomes a race between ...
1. education and catastrophe." --H. G.
Wells
BF. "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
--unk
BG. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something ...
1. when his salary depends upon his not understanding
it."
--Upton Sinclair
BH. "The illusion of freedom will continue ...
1. as long as it's profitable to continue the
illusion. At the
point where the illusion becomes
too expensive to maintain,
they will just take down the
scenery, they will pull back
the curtains, they will move
the tables and chairs out of
the way, and you will see
the brick wall at the back of the
theatre." --Frank Zappa,
circa 1984
BI. "Always leave the earth better than you found it." ...
1. --Rupert Stephens
BJ. "You can shit in your nest for only so long ...
1. before you're nesting in your shit."
--Udo Erasmus
BK. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
...
1. than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God."
--Matthew 19:24
BL. "Though you be rich like a king, eat like a pauper."
--unk
BM. "Western civilization will die of asphyxiation." ...
1. --Japanese prophecy (found p 219, footnote
#4 of Fats that
Heal)
BN. "People are just a gene's way of making more genes."
--Jay Hanson
BO. "Chance favors only those minds which are prepared." ...
1. --Louis Pasteur
BP. "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, ...
1. but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if
they were great and noble."
--Helen Keller
BQ. "Once I understand that my relationship to the earth is ...
1. that of a leaf to a tree, it's obvious that
the needs of
the tree have priority over
the leaf." --John Seed
2. ^^ check this one
BR. "Don't be afraid that your life will end, ...
1. be afraid that it will never begin."
--unk
BS. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." --FDR
BT. "We find ourselves facing two futures, ...
1. one unthinkable and the other currently unimaginable."
--Alex Steffen, worldchanging.org
BU. "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and ...
1. proving that there is no need to do so, almost
everyone
gets busy on the proof."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
BV. Re: We become what we think about ...
1. "We become what we think about." ...
a) --Earl Nightingale, The
Strangest Secret
2. "Man becomes what he thinks about."
--Morris E. Goodman
3. Here is a big pile I found on the Internet,
some of which
are dups:
"Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's
coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
"I will see it when I believe
it."
- Wayne Dyer
"What this power is, I cannot
say. All I know is that it
exists and it becomes available
only when you are in that
state of mind in which you
know exactly what you want."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"All that we are is a result
of what we have thought."
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
"As a man thinks in his heart,
so is he."
- Proverbs 23:7
"Thinking creates an image.
Images control feelings.
Feelings cause actions. Actions
create results." - Leland
Val Vandewall
"Within you now and always
is the unborn possibility of a
limitless experience of inner
stability and outer treasure,
and yours is the privilege
of giving birth to it."
- Eric Butterworth
"A man is but the product of
his thoughts. What he thinks,
he becomes."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"The moment one definitely
commits oneself, then providence
moves too... A whole stream
of events issues from the
decision, raising in one's
favor all manner of unforeseen
incidents and meetings and
material assistance."
- Goethe
"Seize this very minute! Boldness
has genius, power, and
magic in it. Only engage,
and then the mind grows heated.
Begin, and then the work will
be completed."
- John Anster
"The achievement of your goal
is assured the moment you
commit yourself to it."
- Mack R. Douglas
"A mental picturing of that
which we want, with the
complete acceptance and the
conviction that it is ours now,
will bring it quickly. See
it in its 'isness'."
- Lester Levenson
"Let a person radically alter
his thoughts, and he will be
astonished at the rapid transformation
it will effect in
the material conditions of
his life."
- James Allen
"Every moment of your life
is infinitely creative and the
universe is endlessly bountiful.
Just put forth a clear
enough request, and everything
your heart desires must come
to you."
- Shakti Gawain
"Cherish your visions and your
dreams, as they are the
children of your soul, the
blueprints of your ultimate
achievements."
- Napoleon Hill
"Every great work, every big
accomplishment, has been
brought into manifestation
through holding to the vision."
- Florence Scovel Shinn
"Go confidently in the direction
of your dreams. Live the
life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make
it happen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you turn it over to the
universe, you will be surprised
and dazzled by what is delivered
... This is where magic
and miracles happen."
- Bob Proctor
"Follow your bliss, and doors
will open for you that you
never knew existed."
- Joseph Campbell
"The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for
granted. As you begin to be
grateful for what most people
take for granted, that vibration
of gratitude makes you
more receptive to good in
your life."
- Michael Beckwith
"If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and
enthusiasm. Life does give
back in kind."
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
"Dreams come true; without
that possibility, nature would
not incite us to have them."
- John Updike
"Ask, and it will be given
you; Seek, and you will find;
Knock, and it will be opened
to you."
- Jesus Christ
"Visualization and belief in
a pattern of reality activates
the creative power of realization."
- A. L. Linall, Jr.
"Whether you think that you
can, or that you can't, you are
usually right."
- Henry Ford
"There is no element within
your focus that you may not be
creating. You merely believe
that you may not be creating."
- Elias
"The highest manifestation
of life consists in this: That a
being governs its own actions."
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
"All life is a manifestation
of the spirit, the
manifestation of love."
- Morihei Ueshiba
"There is so much love in the
Universe that we are
constantly attracting every
past, present and future
intention."
- Jordan Stevens
"There are no days in life
so memorable as those which
vibrated to some stroke of
the imagination."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To accomplish great things
we must not only act, but also
dream, not only plan, but
also believe."
- Anatole France
"It's the repetition of affirmations
that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes
a deep conviction, things
begin to happen."
- Claude M. Bristol
"Energy and persistence alter
all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
"You are today where your thoughts
have brought you; you
will be tomorrow where your
thoughts take you."
- James Allen
"Never, ever underestimate
the power of 'I'd like that'."
- John Mayer
"Life will give you what you
attract with your thoughts.
Think, act and talk negatively
and your world will be
negative. Think and act and
talk with enthusiasm and you
will attract positive results."
- Michael Lebeuf
"Success and happiness are
not matters of chance but-
choice."
- Zig Ziglar
"It is not the situation that
makes the man, but the man
who makes the situation."
- Frederick W. Robertson
"Our attitude toward life determines
life's attitude
towards us."
- Earl Nightingale
"It is wise to learn; it is
God-like to create."
- John Saxe
BW. "Be outrageous," someone once said. ...
1. "Its the only place that isnt crowded."
--unk
BX. "We must view with profound respect, the infinite capacity
...
1. of the human mind, to resist the inroads
of useful
knowledge." --Thomas
R Lounsbury, American Scholar and
Educator
2. from Nightingale, Twenty Minutes tape
BY. "Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered ...
1. by a delusional, illogical liberal minority,
and rabidly
promoted by an unscrupulous
mainstream media, which holds
forth the proposition that
it is entirely possible to pick
up a turd by the clean end."
--unk
BZ. "Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. ...
1. Chromosomes too are shuffled to oblivion,
like hands of
cards soon after they are
dealt. But the cards themselves
survive the shuffling. The
cards are the genes. The genes
are not destroyed by crossing-over,
they merely change
partners and march on. Of
course they march on. That is
their business. They are the
replicators and we are their
survival machines. When we
have served our purpose we are
cast aside. But genes are
denizens of geological time:
genes are forever."
--Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
CA. "I attribute the social and psychological problems of ...
1. modern society to the fact that society requires
people to
live under conditions radically
different from those under
which the human race evolved."
--The Unabomber, Ted
Kaczynski
CB. "Even the alarmingly large crowd of people who would rather
...
1. show off than conserve will change their
habits when energy
consumption becomes an instant
indicator of stupidity and
social indifference."
--Scott Burns, Dallas Morning News
2. original article @bm.xls
CC. "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. ...
1. Know when to walk away, and know when to
run. You never
count your money, when you're
sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for
countin', when the dealin's
done." --The Gambler,
Kenny Rogers/Don Schlitz
CD. "The world isn't any worse off today than at any time ...
1. in history. The news coverage is just
so much better."
--unk (Found in the 1970's
on a Celestial Seasonings tea
box.)
2. Could not find via Internet search.
See if Celestial has a
quotes page. Contact
Mo.
CE. "Success seems to be connected to action. ...
1. Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they
don't quit." --Conrad
Hilton Sr
CF. "Why does something have to be wrong, when it can be right?
...
1. Why does something have to be right, when
it can be great?
2. Why does something have to be great, when
it can be
magnificent?
3. --Shakira
CG. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, ...
1. the world will know peace." --Jimi
Hendrix
CH. "We are living in a material world, and I am a ...
1. material girl." --Madonna, Material
Girl
CI. "One path leads to despair and hopelessness. ...
1. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray
we have the
wisdom to choose correctly."
--Woody Allen
CJ. "But the meek shall inherit the earth; ...
1. and shall delight themselves in the abundance
of peace."
--Psalm 37:11, King James
Bible translation
CK. "I didnt say it would be easy. I just said it would be ...
1. the truth." --Morpheus, The Matrix
CL. "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, ...
1. and I care not who makes its laws."
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild,
Banker
2. Sometimes incorrectly attributed to Mayer
Anselm
Rothschild, however according
to Wikipedia, there never was
a Mayer Anselm Rothschild!
Also, Google hits confirm
overwhelmingly that it was
Mayer Amschel who made this
remark.
CM. "The time of the lone wolf is over. ...
1. Gather yourselves. We are the ones we have
been waiting
for." --Hopi Elders
??? check this one
CN. "People do not go to hell after death. ...
1. The designers and builders of hell are human
beings. The
designs and buildings are
almost completed. It is becoming
difficult to add more hell."
--Tamo-san
CO. "Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. ...
1. The more original move is to assume that
it has already
happened" --Jean Baudrillard
CP. "See things as they truly are without delusions or ...
1. distortions for all things change."
--Buddhist teaching
CQ. "Your pain is the breaking of the shell ...
1. that encloses your understanding."
--Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
CR. "United we stand, divided we fall." --Aesop
CS. "Be outrageous, its the only place that isnt crowded."
--unk
CT. "The world we know is like the Titanic. ...
1. It is grand, chic, high-powered, and it slips
effortless
through a frigid sea of icebergs.
It does not have enough
lifeboats, and those that
it has will be poorly employed.
If we do not change course,
disaster, perhaps catastrophe,
is almost inevitable. There
is a reason why interest in the
Titanic has been revived;
its the perfect metaphor for our
planet. On some level we know:
we are on the Titanic. We
just dont know weve been hit."
--John Brandenburg: Dead Mars,
Dying Earth
CU. "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are,
...
1. but in what direction we are moving."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
CV. "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
...
1. When many people suffer from a delusion it
is called
religion." --Robert
M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance
2. \\insane asylum
3. see also The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
CW. Ran Prieur's great words @ \ps\Ran Prieur, How to Survive ...
1. They will need the knowledge to say something
like:
"Your machine requires the
seed to be planted alone and not
interspersed with perennials
that maintain nitrogen and
mineral balance in the soil.
.........."
2. @bm.xls, saved locally
CX. "Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid." --Basil
King
CY. "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
--unk (web lu)
CZ. "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses ...
1. your understanding." --Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet
DA. "What goes up, must come down."
DB. "God is watching us from a distance." --Julie Gold, From
A Distance
DC. "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."
...
1. --Emile Coue, 1857-1926, French psychologist
DD. "Necessity is the mother of invention." --unk
DE. "We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by ...
1. the lights of every passing ship."
--General Omar Bradley
DF. "When all the world is in the flames of war, ...
1. we will keep this collection for the future
of all people."
--Dr Dmytry S Ivanov, Vavilov
Institute's rice specialist,
shortly before his death during
the Siege of Leningrad,
1942
DG. donut/hole quote: "As you ramble on through life, brother,
...
1. Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the donut,
And not upon the hole."
--unk (^s web for this one)
DH. "Things that can't go on forever, don't." ...
1. --Herbert Stein, Chairman of the Council
of Economic
Advisers under Richard Nixon
DI. "What really matters is what you do with what you have." ...
1. attributed equally to H.G. Wells & Shirley
Lord
DJ. "For those who believe, no proof is necessary, ...
1. For those who do not believe, no proof is
possible." --unk
(found at peterrussell.com)
DK. "We the people are not free. ...
1. Our democracy is but a name. We vote?
What does that mean?
It means that we choose between
two bodies of real, though
not avowed, autocrats.
We choose between Tweedledum and
Tweedledee. We elect
expensive masters to do our work for
us, and then blame them because
they work for themselves
and for their class."
--Helen Keller, 1911
DL. "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. ...
1. It's the transition that's troublesome."
--Isaac Asimov
DM. Mother Jones use to say, "Pray for the dead ...
1. and work like hell for the living."
vet this one
DN. Carl Sandburg has that line ...
1. "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and
nothing but the truth" and
he said: "No, I can tell you all
I can, but only the ever living
God can tell you the whole
truth and if he did, what
he'd tell you would freeze your
soul with the horror and pity
of it all." found in page
peteseeger.net/pickin76.htm
DO. "I am done with great things and big things, ...
1. great institutions and big success, and I
am for all those
tiny invisible molecular moral
forces that work from
individual to individual,
creeping through the crannies of
the world like so many rootlets,
or like the capillary
oozing of water, yet which
if you give them time, will rend
the hardest monumentos of
mans pride." --William James,
1899, found on Pete Seeger's
barn,
\dr\gifetc\PeteSeegerBarn.jpg
DP. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. ...
1. Fail again. Fail better." --Samuel
Beckett
DQ. "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve ...
1. the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it
hard to plan the day."
--E.B. White < vet this
DR. "The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote
...
1. your entire life to, something you bring
everything to,
every minute of the day for
the rest of your life. And the
most important thing is, it
must be something you cannot
possibly do." --Henry
Moore < vet this
DS. "I am only one, ...
1. But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do."
--Edward Everett Hale
DT. "Your failure to be informed does not make me a wacko."
--John Loeffler
DU. "It's not that hard times are coming, ...
1. it's that soft times are going." --Harpo
Marx
DV. "The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms ...
1. is not to think at all." --Sir
Peter Medawar
DW. "None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe ...
1. they are free." --Goethe
DX. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best ...
1. of the way things turn out." --Arthur Gordon
'Art' Linkletter
DY. "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth ...
1. For my part, I am willing to know the whole
truth; to know
the worst; and to provide
for it." --Patrick Henry, from
his famous "Give me liberty,
or give me death!" speech, St.
John's Church, Richmond, Virginia,
March 23, 1775
2. long version:
3. Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge
in the
illusions of hope. We are
apt to shut our eyes against a
painful truth, and listen
to the song of that siren till
she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise
men, engaged in a great and
arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be of the
number of those who, having
eyes, see not, and, having
ears, hear not, the things which
so nearly concern their temporal
salvation? For my part,
whatever anguish of spirit
it may cost, I am willing to
know the whole truth; to know
the worst, and to provide for
it.
DZ. "It's always darkest before the dawn."
EA. "I think many people today sit in that uncomfortable spot,
...
1. where we don't necessarily want to give up
what we have,
but we realize what we're
doing is creating problems that
run deep. It's not a simple
right or wrong, it needs a
whole new way of thinking."
--Edward Burtynsky,
Manufactured Landscapes, 2007
EB. "So one begins to wonder what is going to happen ...
1. to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing
with
greater and greater power,
either for good or for
destruction."
"What is the source of all
this trouble? I'm saying that
the source is basically in
thought. Many people would think
that such a statement is crazy,
because thought is the one
thing we have with which to
solve our problems. That's part
of our tradition. Yet it looks
as if the thing we use to
solve our problems with is
the source of our problems. It's
like going to the doctor and
having him make you ill. In
fact, in 20% of medical cases
we do apparently have that
going on. But in the case
of thought, it's far over 20%."
--David Bohm (found in his
wiki article, need better
attribution)