Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you ain't.

Jesse Carr

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Cindy

Why is everybody always more afraid to live than die?
It seems we have the strength to fail, but not the will to try...

- Lucie Silvas

an enlightened person - by perceiving God in all - looks at a learned person, an outcast, even a cow, an elephant, or a dog with an equal eye. unknown

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

Carl Sagan

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Someone once said, Paul Goodman I think, that stupidity was a character defense and had little to do with intelligence, one reason the so-called best and brightest got us into Vietnam and why people who are smart enough to accumulate huge piles of wealth persist in doing things that get them major jail time.

Michael Gruber


Beverly

discrimination is the act of treating differently two persons or things, under like circumstances.  herman broch

"Life is never easy for those who dream."   -Robert James Waller

Even sorrow or sympathy for the afflicted, or grief for the passing of loved ones, unbalances the body cells and makes one vulnerable to infections or destructive toxins, for such emotions have no relation to love or the inner joyousness of love-inspired man, nor are they within the God-Mind which alone knows unchanging ecstasy.
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature.
The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion – ECSTASY – the ecstasy of Love – the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

Walter Russell


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one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.  martin luther king Jr

President Bush says he's going to fight global warming. He announced today that he is sending 20,000 troops to the sun.

David Letterman

Editorial from Bev: The sad truth is that's about his level of intelligence.

Beverly

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."    - Albert Schweitzer

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.  Isaac Newton

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." - W. C. Fields

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking

Cindy

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.  - Groucho Marx

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.  -Groucho Marx again

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a person playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.  Isaac Newton

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush


Beverly

You [humans] find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million.

Mr. Spock

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"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "
-Yogi Berra