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Post by Tamrin on Jan 8, 2014 7:05:38 GMT 10
I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversityElvis PresleyUS rock and roll singer and guitarist. (Born this day 1935) My name's got 'evils' and 'lives.' It's probably better not to wonder too much about it
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 8, 2014 7:06:26 GMT 10
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to lightLord Robert Baden-PowellBritish founder of the Scouting movement (Died this day 1941) The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 8, 2014 7:07:35 GMT 10
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theoremStephen HawkingEnglish physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes) (Born this day 1942) For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:12:39 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:Nature is never so admired as when she is understood
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it
It is the passions that do and undo everything
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takesBernard le Bovier de FontenelleFrench science writer ( Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds) (Died this day 1757) Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble ourselves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:13:21 GMT 10
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle
There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty — the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by public opinion
This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by "the people" is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done in that country, whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming powerCarrie Chapman CattAmerican women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters (Born this day 1859) To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:14:31 GMT 10
I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civil- ization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error
One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. 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
I have seen greatness and power, wealth, prosperity and incomparable devel- opment. I was never sad that we are a small and unfinished part of the world. To be small, unsettled and uncompleted is a good and courageous mission
I've tried all isolating materials that might possibly prevent the Absolute from getting out of the cellar: ashes, sand, metal walls, but nothing can stop it. I've even tried lining the cellar walls with the works of Professors Krejci, Spencer, and Haeckle, all the Posit- ivists you can think of; if you can believe it, the Absolute penetrates even things like that
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
A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity
Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the windsKarel ČapekCzech author and playwright ( War with the Newts) (Born this day 1890) It was a great thing to be a human being. It was some- thing tremendous ... Gentlemen, it was a great thing
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:16:13 GMT 10
True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful
The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance
People who are stupid, unscrupulous, or hypocritical, think that others are just the same. And — this is the real pity — they treat them as if they were
It is easier to bustle about than to study, but it is also less effective
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence
The higher a statue is raised, the harder and more dangerous the impact when it falls
Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingnessJosemaría EscriváSpanish author and religious leader (Opus Dei) (Born this day 1902) The understanding that so many people demand of others is that everyone should join their party
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:17:18 GMT 10
I have seen criminals and whores and spoken with them. Now I inquire if you believe them made as now they are to drag their rags in blood and mire preordained, an evil race? You to whom all men are prey have made them what they are today
The first thing that must change is the relationship between the sexes. Humanity has two parts, men and women, and we ought to be walking hand in hand; instead there is antagonism, and it will last as long as the ‘stronger’ half controls, or thinks it controls, the ‘weaker’ half
The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to the people the intellectual means to revolt
I am ambitious for humanity: I should like that everyone were an artist, sufficiently poetic that all human vanity would disappear
If whichsoever power was ever able to do something, it was indeed the Commune, com- posed of men of intelligence, of courage, of an incredible honesty, and who had performed incontestable feats of devotion and energy. The power annihilated them, leaving them no other implacable desire than that of sacrifice. For power is cursed, that is why I am an anarchist
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions
Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeanceLouise MichelFrench feminist, school teacher and medical worker (Died this day 1905) Philanthropy is a lie
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:18:21 GMT 10
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact sub- ordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them
One is not born a woman, but becomes one
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded meSimone de BeauvoirFrench author ( Mandarins, The Second Sex) (Born this day 1908) If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2014 7:23:17 GMT 10
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means
North Vietnam cannot humiliate and defeat America — only Americans can do that
Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself
Well, when the President does it that means that it is not illegal
I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got
In any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office. I accept it. And I pledge to you tonight, from this office, that I will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after I have left this office
I leave you gentleman now and you will write it. You will interpret it. That's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know — just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with youRichard M Nixon, 37th US President (Born this day 1913) 1 in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! worth spending; not concerned; no involve- ment of embassy; $10,000,000 available, more if necessary; full-time job — best men we have; game plan; make the economy scream; 48 hours for plan of action(Notes taken down by CIA director Richard Helms on Nixon's orders for a plan against Bro. Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government of Chile)
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