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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Money can't buy happiness.  But it sure makes misery easier to live with.

Psychiatrists say 1 in 4 people are mentally ill.  Check three friends, if they're ok, you're it.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it is.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

Law of Dispersal:  Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

-- ?                          

"It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case."    -- Sydney J. Harris

Ironic

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery, and died the next day.
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay.
It's a death row pardon two minutes late...
It's like rain on your wedding day.
It's a free ride when you've already paid.
It's the good advice that you just didn't take...
A traffic jam when you're already late.
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break.
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
It's meeting the man of my dreams,
And then meeting his beautiful wife.

-- Alanis Morissette                                               

"It has been said that poetry is a picture without form, and painting a poem with form."  -- Kuo Hsi

I followed you five years ago when you said your sister was abducted by aliens.  I didn't believe, but I followed... I followed because you said 'the truth was out there'.   -- D. Scully, The X Files

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There is a war going on and it has one rule: fight or die, believe or serve."   -- X Files

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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

"I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character...   With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood...  We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.                      

"Do, or do not, there is no try."    -- The Empire Strikes Back

"I will not go out like that, I choose to fight back!"   -- City Hall

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."    -- Samuel Palmer

"We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction."     -- General MacArthur

"I've found that it's not good to talk about your troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad your having trouble."   -- Tommy LaSorda

"When you get large even your friends will turn against you."    -- B.I.G

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."    -- J.F.K.

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

"Never let your schooling interfere with your education."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."

-- Mark Twain                                                                      

There was an important job to be done and everyone was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

-- ?                                                   

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."    -- Karl Marx

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.  -- Dante

"Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."   -- George Santayana

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change." 

-- Charles Darwin                  

"There is no right and no wrong, there is only popular opinion." -- The 12 Monkeys

"...the life of man [is] nasty, brutish, and short."    -- Hobbes

"...Girls who used to tease me, now give it to me nice and easy."   -- Will Smith

"...one man armed with a rifle can change history..."     -- 48hrs         

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

A politician is someone who can make waves and then make you think he's the only person who can save the ship. -- Ivern Bell

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion...  In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.    -- Alan Barth

"If Presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country."    -- Mel Brooks

"Never must we despair, never must we give in, but we must face facts and draw true conclusions from them."  

-- Winston Churchill              

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."    -- Benjamin Disraeli

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet."   -- Milton Friedman

"I should have conquered the world."

"Never interrupt an enemy while he's making a mistake."  

-- Napoleon Bonaparte                                                                             

"Never confuse motion with action."   -- Ernest Hemingway

Luck: when preparation and opportunity meet. -- Pierre Trudeau

"The measure of greatness is when you do something and it only reminds people of yourself." -- Ahmad Rashad                       

I've Learned That...

... sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.

... it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

... we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

... the clothes I like best are the ones with the most holes in them.

... it's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.

... two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

... you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

... no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.

... many things can be powered by the mind, the trick is self-control.

... your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

... the paradigm we live in is not all that is offered to us.

                                                                                                                        -- ?

Good Doctors do the correct thing, great Doctors have the guts to do the right thing.  If you could cure cancer by killing one person wouldn't you have to do that? 

...Maybe there isn't a point to the peoples [bums, homeless, junkies, & addicts] lives upstairs.  Maybe they are heroes but, they didn't choose to be.   [For the experiment] You didn't choose your wife, your daughter...  You didn't have volunteers.  You choose for them; and you can't do that.  Your a Doctor...you took an oath.  You don't have the right, your not God.  You tortured those men upstairs and I hope you go to jail for the rest of your life!

                                                                                                               -- Extreme Measures

"1500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe.  500 years ago, everybody 'knew' that the earth was flat.  And 15 minutes ago, you "knew" that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll 'know' tomorrow."

"You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by M.I.B. special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System.  You're above the System.  Over it.  Beyond it.  We're 'them.'  We're 'they.'  We are the Men in Black."

 -- Zed, M.I.B.                                              

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