I'm hooked on Einstein's quotes. Many very timely to this day. Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes. The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. How about your favorites?
"But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places." --Stevie Ray Vaughan
Mr. Furious: Okay, am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right." It's... The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage... Mr. Furious: ...your rage will become your master? That's what you were going to say. Right? Right? The Sphinx: Not necessarily.
"Power Comes From the Barrel of a Gun" guess u can call me a realist, but history has demonstrated that whoever controls the means of violence has power.
After the Bucs lost to Cleveland one year, John McKay was asked about his team's execution: His reply: "I'm all for it."
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. Robert Orben
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, KINDNESS in another's trouble, COURAGE in your own . -- Adam Lindsay Gordon I think I got that quote from someone on this BBS, though.
Another from AE. "The significant problem we face today can not be solved by the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side... The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice--and always has been. - Mark Twain Off the top of my head. Twain has so many good ones it's hard to choose.
Q: "Do you still think of yourself Chinese or do you ever think of yourself North American" - Pierre Berton A: "You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to sounds like "As confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different." Bruce Lee.
My favorite coaches quotes: "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" -John Wooden "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure." -Tommy Lasorda "The key is not the will to win...everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." -Bobby Knight "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good." -Joe Paterno
Bill Walton. "John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!" "You know why the jump ball is great? The fate of the free world, every night is decided by the jump ball." "If Eric Piatkowski continues playing at this level, he's going to replace Jerry West on the NBA logo." "The patience of a coach. Rudy T... that guy's going STRAIGHT to heaven!"
