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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2013 6:51:35 GMT 10
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form
I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive
There is a fifth dimesion, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition
It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable
I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone
If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow manRod SerlingAmerican scriptwriter ( The Twilight Zone) (Born this day 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2013 6:52:37 GMT 10
Politics is a game of compromise
India is an ancient nation and not nation in the making. We are not to build a new nation but to make this ancient nation virile to face the challenge of modern times
Our National life is full of diversities. We have here a variety of languages, of faiths, of communities, of modes of living, and schools and styles of literature and art. This diver- sity reflects the abundance of our national life, and need to be preserved and promoted
A secular state does not mean an anti-religious state, nor even an irreligious state
The question is not of ‘right’ and ‘left’; the issue really is Democracy versus Totalitarianism. The choice is not between ‘progressivism’ and ‘reaction’; the people have to choose between forces uncompromisingly pledged in their loyalty to the nation with extra-territorial loyalties
All democracies, especially in developing countries that have considerable diversities and carry the burden of developmental imbalances, have had to grapple with one paramount challenge and that is : how to harmonies’ the legitimate self – assertion of communities that suffered deprivation and dis-empowerment in the past with imperatives of good governance
I am not afraid of defeat and victory, whatever comes my way of duty, I will accept it, because this is true and that is trueAtal Bihari VajpayeeIndian statesman and 10 th Prime Minister (Born this day 1924) We are committed to bridge the gap between the city and the village. We are committed to bridge the gap between capital and the labour. We are committed to bridge the gap between the citizen and the administration. We are committed to bridge the gap between the centre and the states. We are committed to bridge the gap between linguistic, religious and caste groups
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2013 6:53:41 GMT 10
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it
Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluidCarlos CastanedaUS plagiarist and fiction writer ( The Teachings of Don Juan) (Born this day 1931) A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 25, 2013 6:56:21 GMT 10
Art must not serve might
People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea – O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without endKarel CapekCzechoslovakian author and antifascist ( Bílá Nemoc) (Died this day 1938) It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:11:41 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms
Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, awaits alike th' inevitable hour, the paths of glory lead but to the grave
Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wiseThomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (Born this day 1716) "Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it" Christopher Smart
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:12:29 GMT 10
Education made us what we are
The man who believes he can do it is probably right
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it
To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man with- out passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemyBro. Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (Died this day 1771) Genius is nothing but continued attention
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:13:09 GMT 10
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessionsCharles BabbageEnglish inventor (calculating machine) ‘father of the computer’ (Born this day 1792) There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:17:56 GMT 10
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our inter- national relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment
War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy. The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent the decaying human element
The obstacles to peace are not obstacles in matter, in inanimate nature, in the mountains which we pierce, in the seas across which we fly. The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men … There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon
The normal purpose of police — to prevent the litigant taking the law into his own hands, being his own judge — is the precise contrary of the normal purpose in the past of armies and navies, which has been to enable the litigant to be his own judge of his own rights when in conflict about them with another
The conception that we can only protect ourselves if we are prepared to protect others surely ought to belong to the nursery stage of social education
Sir Norman Angell British economist, MP and Nobel laureate (Peace, 1933) (Born this day 1872)
I would not hesitate to say that nine out of ten of the critics of the peace movement get the argument turned upside down. "You cannot change human nature" has become a sort of incantation with those critics. Perhaps you cannot "change human nature" — I don't indeed know what the phrase means. But you can certainly change human behavior, which is what matters, as the whole panorama of history shows
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:18:37 GMT 10
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?Henry MillerUS author ( Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) (Born this day 1891) Everything that happened to me happened too late ... It was even so with my birth. Slated for Christmas, I was a half hour too late
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 26, 2013 9:19:24 GMT 10
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed
Learn from the masses, and then teach them
Women hold up half the sky
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contendMao Tse-tungChairman of the China People's Republic, mass murderer (Born this day 1893) In waking a tiger, use a long stick
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