Quotes

"...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength."
~Hedrick Smith ~

After the havoc that I’m gonna wreak
No more words will critics have to speak
— Weezer

"Some luxury hotels are running with a single-digit occupancy rate, sharply down from the average 70 per cent rate recorded in the same period last year."

~Prakit Chinamourpong, president of Thai Hotels Association~

"It's not right for the good person who desires happiness to pray for it. Instead the good person who desires happiness should walk the path of practice leading to happiness."

~The Anguttara Nikaya 5.43~

'sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye'

....like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals

'there was never a good war, or a bad peace'

'I never let schooling interfere with my education'

.....to tell the truth is revolutionary

' A man is but the product of his thoughts...what he thinks, he becomes'

'That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach'

'You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist'

"Asia’s two big beasts are shivering. India’s economy is weaker, but China’s leaders have more to fear"

~ The Economist~

"The pound has fallen to a record low against the euro. The two currencies could soon reach parity for the first time. That's good news for some but bad news for others."

~Ursula Errington, Sky News~

Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
— John Wayne

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
— Carl Sagan

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
— Dave Barry

“"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
-- Ronald Reagan

HOW MUCH EASIER IT IS TO BE CRITICAL THAN TO BE CORRECT

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing it's end.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing on behalf of religious or political ideas.

Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

A. Huxley

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There, the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.....