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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."-- Hermann Weyl
Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples' weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate.-- Mike Hermann
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."-- Hermann Goering (at the Nuremberg Trials, April 18, 1946)
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great machinery.-- Horace Mann
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.-- J. von Neumann
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destinesia: The act of entering a room and forgetting why.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Don't you think that with the proper amount of manpower, pliers, ropes, belts and duct tape, you actually COULD lead a horse to water AND make it drink?-- Andy Overman
There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life.
Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Uhh, yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?
Thermalophobia (thur muh lo fo' be uh), n: The fear when showering that someone will sneak in, flush the toilet, and scald you to death.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."-- Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.-- Goethe
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.-- Tom Stoppard
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Hermits have no peer pressure.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.-- William James
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
Elbonics, n: The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."-- Mark Twain
Practical or mean and sneaky? - getting a permanent heart tatoo on your arm and getting three-day temporary tatoos for the names.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.-- Goethe
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."-- Goethe
"When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home."-- Erma Bombeck
So where are all the lust-crazed engineering groupies that my college recruiter talked about ?-- James Knowles
Quality Of Life: What an industrialized nation is said to offer when enough of its citizens are suffering from terminal stress. (Cynic's Dictionary)
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."-- Norman Douglas