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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:27:34 GMT 10
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence
Men now monopolize the upper levels ... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence
A man convinced against his will is not convinced
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about themLaurence J Peter, Canadian-American educator (Died this day 1990) Against logic there is no armour like ignorance
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:06:37 GMT 10
Monday’s Quotes:Each goodly thing is hardest to begin
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor
For of the soul the body form doth take, for soul is form, and doth the body make
For take thy balance if thou be so wise and weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
And all for love, and nothing for rewardEdmund SpenserEnglish poet ( Faerie Queene) (Died this day 1599) Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:07:18 GMT 10
Justice Bennet of Derby, was the first that called us Quakers, because I bid them tremble at the word of the Lord
Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you
You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?
When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them
Keep within. And when they say, 'lo here', or 'lo there' is Christ; go not forth; for Christ is within you. And they are seducers and antichrists, which draw your minds out from the teachings within you
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darknessGeorge FoxEnglish founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (Died this day 1691) Why should any man have power over any other man's faith?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:08:16 GMT 10
Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who under- stands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machineGeorge Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian-Russian mystic (Born this day 1866) Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:08:56 GMT 10
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed
You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I careCarolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (Born this day 1926) The journey is over. Love to all
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:10:47 GMT 10
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable — it was the birth of molecular biology
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular bio- logy have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system
I learnt very quickly that the only reason that would be accepted for not attending a committee meeting was that one already had a previous commitment to attend a meeting of another organization on the same day. I therefore invented a society, the Orion Society, a highly secret and very exclusive society that spawned a multitude of committees, sub-committees, working parties, evaluation groups and so on that, regrettably, had a prior claim on my attention. Soon people wanted to know more about this club and some even decided that they would like to join it. However, it was always made clear to them that applications were never entertained and that if they were deemed to qualify for membership they would be discreetly approached at the appropriate time
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent
Have you tried neuroxing papers? It's a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than XeroxingSydney Brenner, FRSBritish Biologist and Nobel Laureate (Born this day 1927) Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2014 9:11:52 GMT 10
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for cent- uries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way homeJames JoyceIrish novelist and poet (Ulysses) (Died this day 1941) A man's errors are his portals of discovery
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2014 7:13:12 GMT 10
Tuesday’s Quotes:Neglected by Congress below; pinched with every want here; distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army — which may rather be called a great rabble — our late unhappy retreat from Quebeck, and loss of the Cedars; our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us; are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them
My whole thoughts are now bent on making a safe retreat out of this country; however, I hope we shall not be obliged to leave it until we have had one bout more for the honour of America
I think we can make a stand at Isle-aux-Noix, and keep the Lake this summer from an invasion that way. We have little to fear; but I am heartily chagrined to think we have lost in one month all the immortal Montgomery was a whole campaign in gaining, together with our credit, and many men and an amazing sum of money
The commissioners this day leave us, as our good fortune has long since; but as Miss, like most other Misses, is fickle, and often changes, I still hope for her favors again; and that we shall have the pleasure of dying or living happy together
We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter
We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water
What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?Bro. Benedict Arnold VUS traitor / UK patriot (Born this day 1741) Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2014 7:14:13 GMT 10
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought beginsAlbert SchweitzerAlsatian doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952) (Born this day 1875) A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint that we must obey God rather than man
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2014 7:15:02 GMT 10
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them
A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get reliefJohn dos PassosUS artist and novelist ( One Man's Initiation) (Born this day 1896) What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?
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