"The greatest thing in life is to take a hint when intended and not to take a hint when not intended."
-- Robert Frost
"The problem with looking backwards is your back is to the future."
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"Power corrupts; Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- ?
"The greatest thing in life is to take a hint when intended and not to take a hint when not intended."
-- Robert Frost
"The problem with looking backwards is your back is to the future."
-- Pam Popper
When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.
--"myhr.lyle"
"Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name."
--Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1950
"If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their
conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you
take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a
totalitarian society."
-- Whitfield Diffie of Sun Microsystems, world renowned cryptographer,
MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Thursday, 4/7/94
Gasp! - I actually maintain the fantesy that the body politic, given
adequate information on which to base reasoned deliberation, adequate time
for sound decisions, and adequately connected to empower and coordinate
irresistable citizen action, will - in fact - act responsibly.
It is the fundamental assumption of democracy. I don't know that it's
true, but the only alternative is a dictatorship to guide and direct
otherwise-incompetent peasant/citizens, and I distrust dictatorial
benovalence more than I distrust the People.
--jim
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." [via wes_psd@ix.netcom.com]
--Ben Franklin, Motto of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, 1759
"1. Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other
forms of expression are guaranteed. 2. No censorship shall be maintained,
nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated."
-- Article 21, Constitution of Japan
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Today's yo' lucky day, suckah -- you an' me is goin' trollin' fo some surf Nazis."
-- Marma Washington, Surf Nazis Must Die
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin, ~1784 [via farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu]
No, my life's not perfect. I don't like my friends.
---Heathers
My teen angst bull shit has a body count.
---Heathers
Are we going to the prom or are we going to hell?
---Heathers
Why can't you just be a friend? Why do you have to be such a mega-bitch?
Because I can.
---Heathers
Whether to kill yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make.
---Heathers
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
---John Dryden
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
---William Alger
All history is a lie.
---Sir Robert Walpole
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
---Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
---Anon
Nothing is less sincere than our modes of asking and giving advice.
---Francis Rochefoucauld
Nothing is harder to stop than a freely and fully united band of human beings.
---Milton Mayer
Rules are made for people whop aren't willing to make up their own.
---Chuck Yeager
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than lonliness, except gree.
---Thomas Harris
There is properly no history, only biography.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoeever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
---Rousseau
Some books, like the City of London, fare the better for being burned.
---Tom Brown
If Abu Nifdal is a terrorist, so is George Washington.
---Muammar Qaddifi
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and must be taken one step at a time.
--- LBJ
You are never too bad to win.
---Tom McElligott
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hit.
--- Casey Stengel
The worst vice of the fanatic is his/her sincereity.
---Oscar Wilde
War would end if the dead could return.
---Stanley Baldwin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
---Ben Franklin
The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
---Adolf Hitler
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
---Vince Lombardi
The most terrible of lies is not that which is uttered, but that which is lived.
--- W G Clarke
Putting oneself to the fullest possible use is all, I think, any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
---HAL 9000
Childhood is frequently as solemn business for those inside it.
---George Will
The guest is always right. . . even if you have to throw him out.
---Charles Ritz
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
---MLK
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
---Gen. George S. Patton
No one can make you feel inferior with out your consent.
---Eleanor Roosevelt
Take the time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
---Andrew Jackson
He who does not tire, tires adversity.
--Tuper (1810-1889)
Neither great poverty, nor great riches, will hear reason.
---Fielding
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere ist he man who manages to make no decision and escape all responsibility.
---Brooks Atkinson
We think that love and benevolence will cure anything. Whereas love and benevolence are our poison, poisn to the giver, and still more poison to the receiver.
---D H Lawrence
