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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 7:42:18 GMT 10
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightropeEdith WhartonAmerican novelist, short story writer and designer (Born this day 1862) What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 7:45:34 GMT 10
Your Honor, the old woman who stands before you was arrested for reading the Declaration of Independence in America's Capitol Building. I did not raise my voice to do so and I blocked no hall
I am glad we were only reading from the Declaration of Independence — I shudder to think what might have happened had we read from the Bill of Rights
I was reading from the Declaration of Independence to make the point that we must declare our independence from the corrupting bonds of big money in our election campaigns
Your Honor, we would never seek to abolish our dear United States. But alter it? Yes. It is our constant intention that it should be a government of, by and for the people, not the special interests, so that people may use this government in service to each other's needs and to protect the condition of our earth
In my 90 years, this is the first time I have been arrested. I risk my good name — for I do indeed care what my neighbors think about me. But, Your Honor, some of us do not have much power, except to put our bodies in the way of an injustice — to picket, to walk, or to just stand in the way. It will not change the world overnight, but it is all we can do
There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear
Let us choose life and love, and happily use ourselves up in loving service to one anotherGranny D (Doris Haddock)American political activist (Born this day 1910) Aren't we privileged to live in a time when everything is at stake, and when our efforts make a difference in the eternal contest between the forces of light and shadow, between togetherness and division? Between justice and exploitation? Oh, be joyful that you are a warrior in this great time! Will we rise to this battle? If so, we cannot lose, for rising up to it is our victory. If we represent love in the world, you see, we have already won
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 7:49:10 GMT 10
1 of 2:As the ornithologist observes birds so the human observer observes people. But he is a student of human behavior, not a voyeur. For him, the wave of the hand with which an old man greets a friend is just as exciting as the way in which a beautiful girl crosses her legs. He is a specialist in the field of human action and its field is every- where: at the bus stop, to the supermarket, the airport, the street corner, at a party and football game. Wherever there are people performing actions, here the human observer has something to learn about his fellow man and then, ultimately, about himself
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones
A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific under- standing of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phe- nomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 'religion' of our time
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office
The caress rejected at a crucial time when it was desperately needed, can easily be the act, or rather the non-act that destroys a relationship and a smile unrequited, between two great powers, can lead to war and destruction
A push, a scratch, a blow can change the whole life of a person, and even a nation
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apesDesmond MorrisEnglish anthropologist and author ( The Naked Ape) (Born this day 1928) Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 7:54:35 GMT 10
2 of 2:What happened in the first apes? We know that the climate began to be unfavorable and that at some point, about fifteen million years ago, their forests shelter were significantly reduced in size. Then our ancestral apes or were forced to cling to what was left of their homes in the forests, or to deal in an almost biblical sense with their expulsion from Eden
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species
Much of what we do as adults is based on this imitative absorption during our childhood years. Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such be- havior accords with some abstract lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely imitative impressions.
Even when faced with exciting, brilliantly rational new ideas, based on application of pure, objective intelligence, the community will still cling to its old home-based habits and prejudices. This is the cross we have to bear if we are going to sail through our vital juvenile blotting-paper' phase of rapidly mopping up the accumulated experiences of pre- vious generations. We are forced to take the biased opinions along with the valuable facts
Luckily we have evolved a powerful antidote to this weakness which is inherent in the imitative learning process. We have a sharpened curiosity, an intensified urge to explore, which work against the other tendency and produce a balance that has the potential of fantastic success
Only if a culture becomes too rigid as a result of its slavery to imitative repetition, or too daring and rashly exploratory, will it flounder. Those with a good balance between the two urges will thrive
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium? The other primates are no help, so it means looking further afield ... At this point the zoologist is forced to the conclusion that either he is dealing with a burrowing or an aquatic mammal, or there is something very odd, indeed unique, about the evolutionary history of the naked ape
Desmond Morris (Born this day 1928)
Dr. Desmond Morris on the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (video clip = 7:18 minutes) It is difficult to see how all the points assembled to back the Aquatic Theory can be explained away
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 7:59:12 GMT 10
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world
By the time you get to the point where you have the power to run your own career — they call you a bitch
In Europe, everything is so much more liberal and open. So much more realistic. The whole freedom outlook over there is just fantastic. People aren't worried about what society is going to think — as long as the feelings are there ... and the feelings are honest
If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create
I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself
Sharon Tate American actor (Eye of the Devil) (Born this day 1943)
From now on I want something with character and substance. No more sexy roles. I want to do something good now, something that will really help my career
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 8:02:19 GMT 10
Except in dreams, you're never really free
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross
Send lawyers, guns and money. Dad, get me out of this
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it
From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave — nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence — helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay offWarren ZevonAmerican rock singer-songwriter and musician (Born this day 1947) We contemplate eternity beneath the vast indifference of heaven
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 8:03:13 GMT 10
1 of 2:I am easily satisfied with the very best
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time — a tremendous whack.
A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted scienceBro. Sir Winston ChurchillPM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55) (Died this day 1965) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 8:04:09 GMT 10
2 of 2:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult
Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your lifeBro. Sir Winston Churchill(Died this day 1965) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 8:05:37 GMT 10
1 of 2:Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion
Make money. Make more money. Make other people produce so as to make more money
When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe — never permit an "open-minded" approach ... If they enrolled, they're aboard, and if they're aboard they're here on the same terms as the rest of us — win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half-minded about being Scientologists ... When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare ... The proper instruction attitude is, "We'd rather have you dead than incapable"
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyedL. Ron HubbardUS science fiction author and self-confessed religious huckster (Died this day 1986 — Good riddance) Scientology ... is not a religion
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 24, 2014 8:07:44 GMT 10
2 of 2:ENEMY: SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP
People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear
Somebody someday will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not
This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace
Show me any person who is critical of us and I'll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate's hair on end
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the policeL. Ron Hubbard(Died this day 1986) Certainty, not data, is knowledge
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