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All good work is done in defiance of management.-- Bob Woodward
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.-- Howard Zinn
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users.'-- Edward Tufte
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.-- Edward Abbey
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."-- Edward Gibbon
The reward for a job well done is more work.
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."-- Edward Abbey
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.-- Edward Flaherty
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."-- Edward O. Wilson
Since before the Earth was formed and before the sun burned hot in space, cosmic forces of inexorable power have been working relentlessly toward this moment in space-time -- you receiving this fortune.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.-- Sydney J. Harri
Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.-- Kin Hubbard
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."-- Mark Twain
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.-- Oscar Wilde
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.-- David G. Welton
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.-- Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.-- Kin Hubbard
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.-- Tom Stoppard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-- Elbert Hubbard
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.-- Gloria Leonard
Some people get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.-- Kin Hubbard
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.-- Kin Hubbard
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.-- Elbert Hubbard
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."-- Edouard Manet
The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture. They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world.-- Edward O. Wilson ("Biophilia")
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."-- Richard Nixon
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"-- Richard Nixon
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."-- Ursula K. Le Guin
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."-- Pablo Picasso
I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.-- Richard Moss
A penny saved is 2.5 grams of zinc alloy.