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Why?
- Homo Sapiens (perhaps especially myself)
God gave humans the truth, then then devil came and said i'll organize it and call it religion
- Indian Proverb
One must always begin somewhere, remembering that the sages tell us our responsibility is to succeed in the world as we find it if it is ever to become the world we wish it to be.
- Dee Hock
I can't slow down enough to keep up with you
- an ex (11/16/1997)
You see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things and ask why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Every rational activity aims at some end or good.
- Aristotle, Ethics
A few guys with guns can spoil everything
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
And what good is self-denial if no one appreciates it?
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
The time is always right to do what is right
- The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
In America, intellectuals have no opinions; opinionists have no intellect
- Umberto Eco
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
The amazing thing about language is how imprecisely we use it and still manage to get away with it
- Douglass Hofstadter, Godel, Escher,Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
- Umberto Eco, Postcript to The Name of the Rose
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing
- Miguel de Unamuno
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together,
- Vincent Van Gogh
But that's the good part about the future: it doesn't have to contain any flaws until it becomes the present.
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
An explanation never explains everything, but becomes part of a landscape of explanations in reciprocal relationship
- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
There is always someone who takes ironic discourse seriously.
- Umberto Eco, Postcript to The Name of the Rose
Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.
- Adso on language, Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Reality has a tendency to be so uncomfortably real.
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
- William, on learning, Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just
- Abraham Lincoln
To silence an idea because it might offend a minority doesn't protect that minority. It deprives it of the tool it needs most-- the right to talk back.
- Norman Corwin
strange how you think you're hiding your feelings by not saying anything to someone, when the unguarded face is the most eloquent speaker of all.
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
So, I have learned that my precious integrity is no less than a precious luxury. I have been fortunate (and stubborn) enough to be able to be honest, to be uncompromising, to pursue excellence.
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
But I'd tried to be honest, and as is often the case, being honest didn't feel as good as it ought to.
- Neil Peart, The Masked Rider
...when she vanished, she took a large part of my past with her
- Caspar, Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
Sleepless I held her, and watched sleep steal her away from me
- Caspar, Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
The paintbrush had proved inadequate as an instrument of investigation, but I still had hopes for my penis.
- Caspar, Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
The problem of woman is the most marvelous and disturbing problem there is in the world
- Robert Irwin, Exquisite Corpse
Mirrors are so restrictive in what they allow you to see.
- Caspar, Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
There will be a last time I go to Paris, a last visit to the cinema, a last breakfast, a last breath, but it is unlikely that I shall identify these 'lasts' for what they are.
- Caspar, Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
...no one is ever where you think you leave them
- Puce
Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk to him?
- Chuang-tzu
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- H. L. Mencken
How dare you utilize your power to hurt me
- Lezlee Peterzell
words can enable us all to see more
- Isabella
The sky is not the limit. The ground is.
- Silence
A people hire A people, and B people hire C people.
- Evan Wilson
I sound more intelligent if you dont listen to what I say.
- name withheld
une femme est plus belle que la monde ou je vis; et je forme les yeux. (a woman is more beautiful than the world in which i live; and so i close my eyes)
- Paul Eluard
when was the last time you went wahoo?
- ed, IQ
i like other people even when they aren't licking me
- l.d.
Weak systems may appear perfectly healthy until neighboring systems break down.
- Joel Spolsky
You can't fix every problem, but the ones you can, you must.
- Bono
The gift is not enough. It's what you make with it.
- Bono
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