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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 9:58:55 GMT 10
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form
There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old ageSinclair LewisAmerican novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (Born this day 1885) What is love? It is the morning and the evening star
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 9:59:35 GMT 10
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart
I founded Wang Laboratories to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad alsoAn WangChinese American computer engineer (Wang Laboratories) (Born this day 1920) Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 10:00:21 GMT 10
I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get poss- ession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self- interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injusticeElihu RootAmerican lawyer, statesman and Nobel Peace Laureate (Died this day 1937) The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 10:01:07 GMT 10
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps
You know what I hate? Indian givers ... no, I take that back
I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill
I got into a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well"
When I was a little boy, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized, the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them
People come up to me ... concerned ... that I'll reproduceEmo PhilipsAmerican comedian ( E=MO²) (Born this day 1956) People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will
In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure
It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, (which they are not)
Sex is not about reproduction, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not about persuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affection. Below the surface of every banality and cliché there lies irony, cynicism, and profundity
In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago. Computers have no effect on productivity because people learn to complicate and repeat tasks that have been made easier
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him
The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into viewMatthew (Matt) W. Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, FRSL, FMedSci, DL British zoologist and author (Born this day 1958) Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 10:01:50 GMT 10
Love one another means to help one another
We do not want to gain at someone else's loss; we want to gain while helping the other person to also gain
A human is not one who looks like one, it is one who acts like one
To qualify as humans we must take part in humanitarian acts
The discovery that human intelligence can learn to function, with awareness, at altered levels of mind, will go down in history as the greatest discovery of man. It is sure to change our concepts of psychology, psychiatry, mind, and the subconscious
We don't break the laws of physics. Laws don't break... people do. If you are ignorant of the law of gravity and jump off a building, you are going to suffer as a result
Sometimes when a person is too successful too rapidly, he goes off in all directions, and doesn't know how to cope with it. We say do not be ruined by your first failure, or spoiled by your first successJosé SilvaAmerican parapsychologist and author ( Silva Method) (Died this day 1999) The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2014 10:03:09 GMT 10
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable
By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony
Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them allAnne Morrow LindberghAmerican pioneering aviator (Died this day 2001) When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour … The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2014 7:47:00 GMT 10
Saturday’s Quotes:Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the booksSamuel “Hudibras” ButlerEnglish poet and satirist (Baptised this day 1612) Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so(proto-teaparty satire)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2014 7:47:48 GMT 10
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive
Laughter is forbearance; laughter is philosophy. The heavens clear when they laugh, and the great secret of divine omnipotence resides in an eternal smile!
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard
They are without fears and without desires, dominated by no falsehood, sharing no error, loving without illusion, suffering without impatience, reposing in the quietude of eternal thought — a Magus cannot be ignorant, for magic implies superiority, mastership, majority, and majority signifies emancipation by knowledge
We want to be clearly understood on this point. We are not trying to say that signs and rites are a big piece of humbug. They would be such if people did not need them; but we have to recognize that everyone has not the same degree of intelligence. Children have always had fairy stories told to them, and these stories will continue to be told as long as there are nurses and mothers. Children have faith and this is what saves them. Imagine a child of seven saying: 'I do not want to accept anything I cannot understand.' What could one teach such a monster? Accept what your teachers tell you to begin with, my fine fellow, then study it and, if you are not an idiot, you will understand it by-and-byBro. Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant) French magus, occultist and author (Born this day 1810) I come to bring you your lost [masonic] traditions, the exact knowledge of your sign and emblems, and in consequence to show you the aim for the attainment of which your association has been constituted
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2014 7:48:38 GMT 10
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes John RuskinEnglish writer, critic, artist and Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite) (Born this day 1819) Civilization is the making of civil persons
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2014 7:49:18 GMT 10
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world
How much further can we go? What are the final frontiers in this quest for travel? Will human- kind only be satisfied when journeys into space become readily available and affordable?
Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constitutedJules VerneFrench sci-fi pioneer sci-fi author ( From the Earth to the Moon) (Born this day 1828) Man is never perfect, nor contented
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