Stars shone calmly in the deep blue sky, and I was amused to think that there were once wise men who imagined the stars took part in men's petty squables over a patch of land or somebody's "rights". While in fact these lamps, which they supposed had been lit for the sole purpose of shining on their battles and triumphs, shine on as bright as ever, while they, with all their passions and hopes, have long since vanished, like a fire lit by some carefree traveller at the edge of a forest.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Kierkegaard

The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
- author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship.

Well, some folks look back on a lifetime of yesterdays,
dreaming of what might have been.

And others they dwell on the thrill of today,
they don't care if they loose or they win.

But then there are those who remember those younger days,
living and learning and growing along...

Reason explains the darkness, but it is not a light
- Noah benShea, _Jacob the Baker_

You cried for night. It falls. Now cry in darkness.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you

The world is sacred. You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.

It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities. [Op. cit., p. 4.]

The Tao doesn't take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil. [Op. cit., p. 5.]

The great Tao flows everywhere.
All things are born from it,
yet it doesn't create them.

It pours itself into its work,
yet it makes no claim.

It nourishes infinite worlds,
yet it doesn't hold on to them.

Since it is merged with all things
and hidden in their hearts,
it can be called humble.

Since all things vanish into it
and it alone endures,
it can be called great.

It isn't aware of its greatness;
thus it is truly great. [Op. cit., p. 34.]

There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.

It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.

It is the mother of the universe.

For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.

The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.

These are the four great powers.

Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself. [Lao-tzu, op. cit., p. 25.]

Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.

The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.

If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.

...

The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them. [Lao-tzu, op. cit., p. 29.]

A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent on arriving.

A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.

A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.

[Lao-tzu, op. cit., p. 27.]

Practice a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer you that does it, but It that does itself through you. Not until then is that which is done well done.

I don't mind being put on a pedestal, but I do like being allowed down.

Being independent does allow me the right to voluntarily give up that independence.

"90% of EVERYTHING is crap"

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The more I think about it ... the more it looks as if I've been a cog in one thing or another since the day I was born. Whenever I get set to do what I want to do, something a whole lot bigger than me comes along and shoves me back into place.
- Anonymous WWII soldier

The autumn leaves are falling like rain.

Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,

There are always two cups at my table.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

Those who would give up essential liberty to gain temporary safety deserve neither.

What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy
- M. Corelli

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness.
But you fell for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire

Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins' gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known, I've had to make myself.
- Shel Silverstein

Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force. Like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- G. Washington

The demise of a regime which seeks to stifle the freedom of expression is as inevitable as the demise of a body which seeks to stifle its own breath.
Tyrants, sleep with one eye open.

I'm warped from pulling toy triggers, and irreversibly revengeful. No one understands me like a gun understands me, and no trust comes quicker than this.
- Transition

We do not own the earth, we are borrowing it from our children
- Amerind proverb

Nothing parties like a rental.
- Anonymous

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
- Guy Davenport

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe (1749-1832)

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones

The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Abba Eban (1915-)

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961)

Hell is paved with good samaritans.
- William M. Holden

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
- William Congreve (1670-1729)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
- G.K. Chesterton From _Orthodoxy_, 1908

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
- G.K. Chesterton

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, peoples souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
-Octave Mirbeau (1850-1917), French journalist, author. The Diary of a Chambermaid, "14 September" (1900)

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. -Octave Mirbeau (1850-1917), French journalist, author.
The Torture Garden, "The Garden," ch. 9 (1899)

"In our supposed idological rectitude, we sacrificed our compassion to the great god indifference. We protected the strong against the weak, and we perfected the art of the public lie. We made enemies of decent reformers and friends of the most disgusting potentates. And we scarcely paused to ask ourselves how much longer we could defend our society by these means and remain a society worth defending."
- "The Secret Pilgrim" by John LeCarre'

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
-Albert Camus (1913-60), French-Algerian philosopher, author. The Rebel, pt. 4 (1951; tr. 1953).

Rock and roll is the Esperanto of the Global Village
-Samuel Freedman

Somebody had to lose.
-graffito seen on the Berlin Wall

The bad news is, we may be lost; but the good news is, we're way ahead of schedule.
-David Lee Roth

Some revelations show best in a twilight.
-Herman Melville

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
- Bill Wulf

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.
- Rev. Martin Niemoeller

Four Quartets (Burnt Norton) - T.S. Eliot

"... human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present..."

"The censor" also appears in The Wasteland.

"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the wide road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
-But who is that on the other side you?"

Plus lots on reality:

"...What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images..."

"...Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed..."

"...Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key..."

"...Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited..."

"...Datta, Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih"

[Datta, dayadhvam, damyata = give, sympathize, control. The fable of the meaning of the Thunder is found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Shantih shantih shantih = the peace which passeth understanding - a formal ending to an Upanishad. (Oxford Anthology of English Literature Vol II)]

...she nodded without looking up from her slow telling out of cards. "I'm playing a game called Futility," she said. "Are you familiar with it?"
"How does one win?"
"You don't. You can only postpone losing. I've managed to keep this particular game going for years."

- Michael Swanwick, _Stations of the Tide_

(on the theory of sex-based reasons for war, ie- 'bad aggressive males')

At this point, I think it's time to inject a throwback to the 60's: way back then, there was talk about something called the *moral equivalent* of war. One might also consider that in the "primitive societies", *life* itself was incredibly chancy. As late as the American Revolution, I understand that only 1 out of 5 (or was it 7) children lived to have kids of their own.

Think, then, about prehistorical groups, where a bad harvest or failed hunt could mean one or more *whole villages* could die, to the last person (add disease to the list). There's a moral equivalent of war, as well: the fight to survive in an inhospitable ecosystem. Then there's the guys (generic) down the road, who have something to eat (never mind that you're ignorant of what roots to dig up & that you need to burn them to eat them): let's go get their food, I, and my kids, want to live.

Or even, those damn saberteeth are sleeping in the valley, and that's the only water around for tens of miles.

Charge!

The point of all this is that there obviously *was* a *good reason* for organized aggression. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. And I can't see *any* sex-based reason for this aggression, just the desire to stay alive.

Jesus was my son. Buddah was my son. Mohammed, Moses, the guy who charges $9 for a steak was my son...
- George Burns as God "Oh! God"

When I created them, eve was 13, Adam 14, 15 tops. Children can't fall from my grace, they're my greatest creations.
- ibid.

I know how hard it is in these time to have faith. But maybe, if you had the faith in the first place, maybe the times would change... you could change them.. I'm a God of very few words and Jerry has already given you mine. Just love each other and make the world work.
- ibid.

This was just an experiment. There IS no Hell. It was just something I created to see what would happen. A big mistake? Not really. It was an experiemnt. On other planets you will find stricted moralities, or no morality at all. Even where I didn't create morality, the civilization did. I was lonely, so I created life. I wanted to see what would happen in various situations. Sue me. I'm allowed.
- ibid.

The more corrupt the government, the greater the number of laws
- Tacitus

Dave Schaumann writes:
>>Perfection may be different than we think. Man might not be flawed.

>You don't seriously believe that, do you? By any definiton of "perfect"
>that I'm willing to entertain, the race of Man has a serious problem.

Well, maybe you should broaden your definitions.

Are children flawed? Children can do quite cruel and quite kind things. They have been taught that certain things are bad, yet they do them anyway.

I see Man not as being flawed, but simply en route developmentally.

Things have changed, knowledge has advanced, life is better. We simply STILL have problems to surmount and so forth.

You might be looking short term. 'god's' plan for us may be to wait for us to grow up.

Evolutionists hold that man arose by the same evolutionary process as other creatures, from early apelike ancestors. This belief follows from the principle that the same laws of nature apply to man as to the rest of the physical world.

Creationists believe that man was instantaneously created by God, based on an account in a book called "The Bible". Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly reshuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex and technical subject.

I watched the Robertson piece this morning. What I liked best was that after shaking his head about how *we* have to escape into a fantasy world to wield "occult power" the very next thing he did was to send up a prayer in which he exercised authority over Satan in the name of Jesus. At the risk of offending religious sensibilities, that seemed alot like a magic incantation to me.

Is it just me? When I read that a Christian can ask for anything in Jesus's name it seems like a terrifying responsibility of you believe that it's true. Like, if I were to bang on an apartment door and yell, "Open in the name of the law!" I could get into serious trouble (justifiably) if I weren't a cop with a warrant. "Open in the name of the One Living God," seems more serious.

But Robertson (and other fundamentalists) don't act like they take seriously the gravity of those kinds of invocations. "Ah Drahv out the foul demon of tooth decay in the name of GEE-zuss! Satan, I BIND you!" Reminds me of a great heroic saga I once read about a clueless sorcerer named Simon of Samaria."

Robertson has presented "troubled teens" before. They all tell basically the same story:

"I was a bonehead adolescent looking for some "system" that would provide me with a prefab identity and personality, tell me how to think and act, and generally relieve me of responsibility for having a life. When I tried to make D&D the focus of my life instead of a recreational pastime I became very unhappy for some reason. But now I've discovered that fundamentalism meets all those criteria admirably. Praise God."

A Persian Proverb

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not,
is a fool, shun him.

He who knows not, and knows that he knows not,
is ignorant, teach him.

He you knows, and knows not that he knows,
is asleep, wake him.

He who knows, and knows that he knows,
is a wise man, follow him.

We must accept truth even if it changes our point of view.
- George Sand

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Thoreau

There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long.
- Louisa May Alcott

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
- John F. Kennedy

Stupidity is the only sin in nature.
Judgement is swift; the punishment harsh.
And there is no appeal. You live and you learn, or you don't live long.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H.L. Mencken.

And now from Mr. Punch, by N. Gaiman

"One cannot lie if one writes in blood. There is too much responsibility: and the ghosts of those one has killed will rise up and twist the pen down true lines...That's why deals with the Devil must be signed in blood."

Cynic- a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- William James

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
- From an article on the growth of federal regulations in the Oct.24th issue of National Review

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams, _Last Chance to See_

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- F. P. Jones

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Money doesn't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.

Your conscience may not keep you from doing wrong, but it sure keeps you from enjoying it.

Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

When you're getting kicked from behind, that means you're in front.

Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.

Be careful what rut you choose. You may be in it the rest of your life.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

When you see the handwriting on the wall, you can bet you're in a public building.

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

The real reason you can't take it with you is that it goes before you do.

Advertisement: "Let me do your income tax. I'll save you time (about 20 years)."

Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it.

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

A man (or woman) who can smile when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on.

A modern pioneer is a woman who can get through a rainy Saturday with a television on the blink.

The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them.

Money isn't everything....there's credit cards, money orders, and travelers checks.

Some people are like blisters. They don't show up until the work is done.

She doesn't care for a man's company unless he owns it.

A true friend is one that lets his grass grow as tall as his neighbor's.

A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.

Ever notice...
...that no matter where you sit at a ballgame, you're always between the hot dog peddler and his best customer?
...that no matter how crowded a room is, there's always room for one bore.
...that the waitress always comes around to ask how your food is when you have your mouth full?

If you don't know where you're going, you're never lost.

Are we not threatened with a flood of information? And is this not the monstrousness of it, that it crushes beauty with beauty, and annihilates truth by means of truth? For the sound of a million Shakespeares would produce the very same furious din and hubbub as the sound of a herd of prairie buffalo or sea billows.
-Stanislaw Lem

Total Destruction will come to those who laughed at me and failed to heed my warnings
-Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
"Big Robot Dinosaur"

Be allies with no one, do business with everyone
-George Washington

On the other hand, what if there was a war and everyone came?

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