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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” — Turkish Proverb “Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.” - Seneca “The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.” - Thomas Jefferson “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” - Henry Mencken, journalist, circa 1950 “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue, street, and building renamed, every date altered. And the process continues day by day... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.” - George Orwell, from the book "1984" “Everything that can go wrong, might not go wrong. Let's hope for the best.” - Anonymous Russian Proverb illustrating their famed fatalism “Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.” - Gustav Mahler “There are three classes of people: Those
who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
- Leonardo da Vinci "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell on the Nazi movement in Germany, from his 1933 book "The Triumph of Stupidity" "The more honest men are, the less he suspects others of dishonesty. A low soul always presupposes the lowest motives for noble deeds." - Cicero, circa 55 BC "When God is forgotten, the creature itself becomes
unintelligible." - Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et
spes "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark. It would be like sleep without dreams." - Werner Hetzog "People who look for the bad in people will surely find it." - Abraham Lincoln “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Socrates "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein "The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment." - Hermes Trismegistus, circa 150 AD "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius, circa 160 AD "The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands." - Proverbs 14:1 "Next time, it'll all be different." - Twister_Ken "This tail-waggin' mother better not go
WA-WA again!" - Discovered scrawled on the interior of an upholstery panel
during an overhaul of David Valaer's
Luscombe 8A "One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised." - Chinua Achebe "...in America, the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism'." - Sinclair Lewis, 1935, from the book "It Can't Happen Here" "The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair "Entertainment is Satan's substitute for joy." - evangelist Leonard Ravenhill “It didn’t look like the stereotypical tornadoes you see on TV. It was just a wall of crap coming at you.” - James Purvis, aged 84, on the Vilonia, Arkansas tornado of 4/27/2014 "You become what you do." - Anon "The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water." - Sophocles, circa 466 BC "Adversity doesn’t primarily build character; it reveals it. " - An Ancient Truism "If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United
States, we would rightly consider it an act of war." - Nobel Prizewinner
Glenn T. Seaborg "No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare, "All's Well that Ends Well," Act 3, Scene 5 "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Martin Heidegger "Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends." - Robert South "If I am not for myself then who will be for me? And if I am only for
myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" - Anon "The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them." - Mark Twain "Beware of the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out
what they want and advise them to do it." - Harry S. Truman "The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government of the next." - Abraham Lincoln "Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions." - Sir James Mackintosh "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us." - George Orwell "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare "Fear - Death = Fun" - old amusement park proverb, "There is pleasure in being on a ship beaten about by a storm, when we are sure that it will not founder." - Pascal "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller "It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not." - Andre Gide "One is punished most for ones virtues." - F. Nietzche "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a
flash of a firefly in the night." - Chief Crowfoot, shortly before his
death in 1890 “A 2000-pound bomb, no matter where you drop it, is a significant emotional event for anyone within a square mile.” - USAF Pilot, Afghanistan "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie "...to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful, and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." - Anon "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel, and incompetent comes naturally to me." - John Cleese "The show is over, the monkey is dead, and they've folded the tent." - Security Guard at Power Computing, commenting on the closure of the company, 2/9/98 "Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers." - Aristotle, circa 350 BC "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I finally became that person. Or he became me." - Cary Grant "Hope is not a method." - General Gordon R. Sullivan, US Army "Do what's right, no matter the cost." - Arthur MacArthur, father of
Douglas MacArthur. "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." - Helmuth von Moltke, Prussian Army Chief of Staff, 1857 |
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny." - Aristotle, circa 308 BC