“The people of your culture cling to the specialty of man with fanatical tenacity. They are keen to perceive a great gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies them to do as they please with the world, just as the Aryan superiority of Hitler's mythology justified him doing as he pleased with Europe. But in the end, this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a deeply lonely people. The world is enemy territory to them, and they live in it as an occupying army, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary expertise."
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- The four levels of scientific acceptance
- The three laws of robotics.
- small and hot
- Native American prayer
- Apache Wedding Blessings
- Salish Marriage Blessings
-- Ismael von Danial Quinn p. 146
"You must teach your children that the earth beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandparents. To make them respect the earth, tell your children that the earth is rich in the lives of our relatives. Teach your children what we teach our children teach - - that the earth is our mother. What happens to the earth will happen to the children of the earth. When people spit on the earth, they spit on themselves.
We know this. The earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the earth. We know this. All things are connected like the blood that unites a family. All things are connected to each other.
Everything that happens to the earth will happen to the children of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is but a thread in it. Everything he does on the internet, he does himself..."
- Chefe Seattle
"A society grows when older people plant trees from whose shade they will never sit down."
- Greek proverb
“Here I can concentrate on the land of remembrance.
-- N. Scott Momaday (filmt Remembered Earth)
“The character of the landscape changes hour by hour, day by day, season by season. Nothing on earth can be taken for granted, you can feel how creation is happening before your eyes. You see things in the air that I can't see down in the flatlands. In the highlands, all objects weigh on you and you touch the earth with violence. From my house I can see the huge billowing clouds; they come closer to me and merge with my life.
-- N. Scott Momaday (filmt Remembered Earth)
“For once in our lives we must turn our thoughts to the land of remembrance. We have to surrender to a certain landscape in our experience, look at it from every conceivable angle, marvel at it, dwell in it. We must imagine that we can touch it with our hands in all seasons and listen to the sounds that are made about it. We have to imagine the creatures there and all the slightest movement of the wind. We must remember the splendor of noon and all the colors of the sky at sunrise and sunset.
-- N. Scott Momaday (filmt Remembered Earth)
“I'm interested in how we look at a certain landscape and appropriate it in our blood and brain. None of us lives completely separated from the earth, such isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral understanding of land, earth, and air as perceived over the long course of seasons and years."
-- N. Scott Momaday (filmt Remembered Earth)
“There is much good in returning to a landscape that held exceptional significance in one's life. It turns out that we irresistibly return to those places in our minds. Even if it's just for a day, we'll keep her in our thoughts forever. They become indispensable." for our well-being, they define us and we say I am what I am because I was there or have been there".
-- N. Scott Momaday, "Revisiting Hallowed Ground", en Man Made of Words
"What awakens in my soul when I smell the rain, when I see the sun and moon rise and set in all the colors of the earth, when I approach the heart of the desert? my spirit, something that defines my own being in the world, I recognize my humanity by noticing my reflection in the landscape around me. That was always so."
-- N. Scott Momaday
"But only the stillness of the outer spheres surrounds him; in all this wondrous expanse of great abysses we hear no sound but our own voices and the whisper of the wind that comes and goes, that breathes with the sound of centuries."
-- Frederick S. Dellenbaugh at Zion Canyon in 1904
The important places my son come as you grow In youth you will learn the secret places The cave behind the waterfall The arms of the oak tree that hold you The stars so close to a deserted edge The important places And with age choose you your own i walk between the many faces of a busy world you always remember the path that leads you back to the important places
-- From the movie entitled "The Important Places"
We cannot pluck a flower without disturbing a star.
-- Loren Eiseley (makes Sky Island movies)
"The only thing that does not obey majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee
"It's not enough to escape the mob, it's not enough to go somewhere else: we have to free ourselves from the mafia attributes that are in us. We need to isolate and reclaim ourselves.”
– Michel de Montaigne
"Ohana means family. Family means no one is left behind. Or forgotten."
-- Make the movie "Lilo & Stitch"
"This is my family. I found it alone It's small and it's broken, but it's still good. Yes, it's still good."
-- Stitch im Film "Lilo & Stitch"
"I hope I never tire of seeing the night sky, the storms, the galaxies stirring my coffee. I hope I never become someone who can't see the little beautiful things anymore."
- Anonymous
“Here I am, returning safely over these peaks from a journey far more beautiful and stranger than anything I expected or imagined. How come this safe return brings with it so much pain?”
- Peter Matthiessen
"The dialectical method is the discourse between two or more people with different points of view on a subject who wish to establish the truth of the matter, guided by reasoned arguments."
-- Wikipedia topic dialectics related to Plato's Republic
"The law must be honest, just, reasonable, and in accordance with the usages of men. It must meet their needs and speak clearly so that all people can know and understand what the law is. It must not be done for the benefit of anyone one thing, but for the needs of all who dwell on earth: no one shall judge [condemn] the law which the king has given and the chosen land, nor shall he [the king] do it without override the will of the people. "
-- From the Danish Jutland Code of 1241
“All life and all human endeavors have a beginning and an end. Species evolve and die. Empires rise and then fall. . indigenous cultures. It saddens me to see the plight of our own species; We seem unable to solve our problems.
“The reason we don't address our environmental issues is because we are the problem. It's not corporations, it's not governments, it's us. As cheap and disposable as possible. We are no longer citizens. We are consumers. That's what they call us. It's like being an alcoholic and denying that you are an alcoholic. One of us is the problem. And until we deal with it, nothing will happen. So there's a movement to simplify your life: buy less stuff. have some very high quality things that last a long time and are multifunctional."
"To do good, you have to really do something."
- Yvon Chouinard
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
--Simone Weil
"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She only did it backwards and in heels.”
-Ann Richards
I don't care what you do for a living. I want to know what you want and if you dare to dream of fulfilling your heart's desire.
I don't care how old you are. I want to know if you risk making a fool of yourself for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
...I don't care where or what or with whom you studied. I want to know what sustains you inside when all else collapses. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you really enjoy the company you have in your empty moments.
-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer aus "The Invitation"
By the time he reached the edge of the forest the creek had grown, almost a river, and as an adult he ran and jumped and sparkled no longer as he used to when he was younger. , but it moved slowly. Because he already knew where he was going and he said to himself: "There's no hurry, one day we'll get there."
-- Benjamin Hoff, "Poohs Tao"
"I for one welcome our new computer lords."
-- Ken Jennings writes about the definitive answer to the risk question in his game against the IBM Watson computer (2011)
"Normal people think if it ain't broke don't fix it. Engineers think if it ain't broke you don't have enough resources yet."
– Scott Adams
"Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I die and have fun. And I will continue to have fun every day because there is no other way to play."
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
"Nobody is pure evil. Find the best in everyone. Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you."
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
“Brick walls are there for a reason. "
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
"It's not about fulfilling your dreams, it's about living your life. If you live your life right, karma will take care of itself. Dreams will come to you.”
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
"We can't change the cards we're dealt, only how we play the hand.
-- Randy Pausch about his "last lecture"
"To have fought, to have struggled, to have stayed true to certain ideals, that alone is worth it. We are here to add what we can, not to take what we can from life.”
-- Sir William Osler, 1849-1919, Canadian physician, medical historian
“When you seek evil with pleasure, the pleasure disappears and evil remains; if you seek the good in your work, the work will pass but the good will remain.”
- Cicero
“And yet I watch as an audience that used to be deeply moved by the imposing austerity of the music of Livy and Naevius now stands, cranes their necks and rolls their eyes to the beat of our modern melodies.”
- Cicero c. 50 ac
Professor Farnsworth:“Amy, technology is not inherently good or bad. It depends on how it's used. Like Death Ray."
-- Futurama See more
"Voilá! To behold, a humble vaudeville veteran indirectly transformed by the vicissitudes of fate into a victim and a villain. That face, nothing more than a facade of vanity, is a remnant of the vox populi, now vaguely gone .The visit of a past irritation revives and swears to conquer this venal and virulent vermin, to press on vice, and to give day to the fiercely malignant and insatiable transgression of the will, to vindicate the vigilant and virtuous Let me add that it is a great Honor is to meet you and you can call me V."
-- V from the movie "V for Vendetta"
"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
-- V from the movie "V for Vendetta"
Gustavo:“You have to be resourceful and have a strong heart. You have to try things that might not work, and you can't let anyone set your boundaries because you're here. Your only limit is your soul. What I say is true, whatever it is can be." They can cook... but only the fearless can be great."
-- Making is filming: "Ratatouille"
Gustavo:"If you focus on what's behind you, you'll never be able to see what's ahead."
-- Making is filming: "Ratatouille"
"The approach is to say no."
--Steve Jobs
“There's no point in hiring smart people and then telling them what to do; we hire smart people to tell us what to do.”
--Steve Jobs
WEST:People think haute cuisine is snobbish, so chefs have to be snobbish too. But it is not like that. Lalo there... he ran away from home when he was twelve, the circus hired him as an acrobat, they fired him because he messed with the ringmaster's daughter. Horst has already taken his time.
Flat spaghetti noodles:Therewith?
WEST:Nobody knows for sure. He changes the story every time you ask him.
JUMP CUT: HORSTI ripped off a big corporation. (CUT) I robbed the second largest bank in France using only a pen. (CUT) I created an ozone hole over Avignon. (CUT) I killed a man with - (holds up) - this thumb.
WEST:Never play cards with Pompidou. He was banned from Las Vegas and Monte Carlo.
WEST:La Rousse surrendered arms to the resistance.
Flat spaghetti noodles:What resistance?
WEST:He won't tell. Apparently they didn't win. So you see, we are artists. Pirates We are more than cooks.
-- Making is filming: "Ratatouille"
"Name is Ash. Housewares."
-- Produktion des Films: "The Army of Darkness" (1992)
"Come to the edge," he said. They said, 'We're scared.' "Come to the edge," he said. They came.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage."
--Thukydias (460-400 v. Chr.)
"Happiness is an address, not a place."
-- Sydney J. Harris
"Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it."
- Herbert Marcuse
"Let your life speak!"
-- Quaker proverb
"Don't Tickle a Sleeping Dragon"
(don't tickle a sleeping dragon)
-- Hogwarts school motto (from the Harry Potter book series)
"Don't get involved in kite deals because you're crunchy and good with tomato sauce."
- Anonymous
"A statesman is a politician who puts himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who puts himself at the service of the nation."
–Jorge Pompidou
"True talent is a mystery and the people who have it know it."
- George Cukor, Director
“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It is customary to love the beautiful, but it is beautiful to love the ordinary.”
- MJ Korvan
“In the heating and cooling industry, the point on the thermostat where neither heating nor cooling is desired (around 72 degrees) is called the 'comfort zone'. It is also known as "The Dead Zone".
- Russell Obispo
"Obstacles are those scary things you see when you stop thinking about your goals."
--Then
"Setting goals is basically planning celebrations."
"You can only win a certain amount with your hands, but it's unlimited with your mind."
--Kal Seinfeld's advice to his son Jerry
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the breaking of the habit through originality, trumps everything."
-George Lois
"Custom is a stranger that supplants reason in us."
-- Sully Prudhomme (alias René-Francois-Armand Prudhomme)
"I lived to thank God that all my prayers went unanswered."
-Jean Ingelow
"The invisible and the non-existent are very similar."
-- Delos B. McKown
"I think we're both atheists. I only believe in one less god than you do. When you understand why I exclude all other possible gods, you will understand why I reject yours.”
- Stephen Roberts
"Success to the strongest, who always end up being the wisest and the best."
- Emerson
"Why do strong arms tire of frivolous weights? Digging a vineyard is a more rewarding exercise."
-- Marcus Valius Martial (AD 40-AD 102)
"The purpose of a jungle trek is not to get from one end of the trail to the other, but to enjoy the scenery and adapt to your ever-changing moods."
- Bill Mason
"A short life is better for mankind, since a long life would deprive man of his optimism."
--Karel Tired
“Research is formalized curiosity.
- Zora Neale Houston
"To examine is to see what everyone else has seen and to think what no one else has thought."
--Albert Szent-Gyorgi
"This will only be the land of the free as long as it is the home of the brave."
- Elmer Davis
"It makes me angry to be wrong when I know I'm right."
- Moliere
"Trees that grow slowly bear the best fruit."
- Moliere
"Always give them the old fire, even if you feel like a cake made of crushed ice."
- Ethel Merman
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
– Anton Chekhov
"Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to try."
- William Van Horne
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
- Gothold Lessing
“Television, a medium. So called because it's not weird or well done."
– Ernie Kovacs
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
"The fox knows a lot, but the hedgehog is one of the greats."
-- Archilochos, Greek poet (680 BC-645 BC)
"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."
– Roberto Motherwell"Life without love is a waste. 'Should I seek spiritual love, material love, or physical love?' Don't ask yourself that. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love needs no name, category or definition. Love is a world unto itself. You're inside, in the middle... or you're outside and wishing".
"By killing desires, you kill the mind."
-- Claude-Adrien Helvetius
"Every successful revolution takes on the cloak of the tyrant it removed in time."
– Barbara Tuchmann
"If you torment the dates long enough, they will confess to almost anything."
- Fred Menger
"The greatest human temptation is...to settle for very little."
-Thomas Merton
“Only indifference is free. The discriminating is never free, it is sealed with its own seal, conditioned and chained.
– Thomas Mann
"If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
--Tomas Pynchon
"Worry doesn't eliminate tomorrow's problems, but today's peace does."
- Anonymous
"If we want to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year... Today should always be our best day."
-Thomas Dreier
"...Lack of foresight and an almost childish choice not to worry about the future seem to be timeless human traits. Ultimately, these psychological foibles may be more responsible for the failure of civilizations than the scarcity of resources."
-- Stephen Leeb, American economist and wealth manager
"An approximate answer to the right question is worth much more than an exact answer to the wrong question."
- John Tukey
"If you put nonsense in a computer, nothing but nonsense comes out. But this nonsense, which has gone through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no one dares to criticize it."
--Pierre Galés
"Eppur si muove" (Italian for "yet it moves" (meaning the earth moves around the sun))
-- Galileo (attributed as his commentary after being forced to retract his theory in 1633)
"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
– Boris Yeltsin
"No matter what side of an argument you're on, you'll always find some people on your side who you wish were on the other side."
- Jascha Heifetz
"Modern man has lost the possibility of silence."
- William Burroughs
“There are all kinds of silences, and each one means something different. There is the stillness that comes with morning in a forest, different from the stillness of a sleeping city. It's not the same stillness of emptiness, the stillness of fear, the stillness of doubt... There is a certain stillness that can emanate from an inanimate object like a newly used chair or a piano with old dust on the keys or anything other response to a man's needs, for pleasure or work. That kind of silence can speak. His voice can be melancholic, but this is not always so, because the chair may have been vacated by a laughing child, or the last notes of the piano "They may have been loud and cheerful. Regardless of the mood or circumstances, the essence of their quality remain in the silence that follows. It is an echo without sound."
- Beryl MarkhamNo man is an island, Every man is part of the continent, Part of the continent. If the sea drags a lump with it, Europe will become smaller. as if it were thy friend's fief or thy own: the death of every man belittles me, for I am clothed in humanity, and therefore never broadcast to know whose hour tolls; They fold for you.
-- John Donne, MEDITATION XVII, Devotions to New Occasions
"I was excited. It was like thinking that all there is in your family is your parents and brothers and sisters, and then you realize there's a whole extension of the story that's an extension of who you are. "
-- Loreena McKennitt on how her travels have influenced her
"You can't get there from here if you don't know where here and there are."
-- Thom Hogan (Photographer)
"I want to go as unprepared as possible to soak up what the world has to offer."
-- Jay Maisal (Photographer)
“Come out, come out, please, and enjoy the beauty of nature. Here is the wonder of the earth.
With all the wonder of a child."
- Edna Jaques
"Charm is more valuable than beauty. Beauty can be resisted, but charm cannot."
– Audrey Tautou, actress
“No human being has the right to dictate what other human beings should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build trust in the creative mind.”
– Ansel Adams
"I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say otherwise, things I didn't have words for."
-Georgia O'Keefe
"Sometimes I get to places where God is willing for someone to click the trigger."
– Ansel Adams
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance is subtly different."
– Ansel Adams
"A good photo is knowing where to position yourself."
– Ansel Adams
"The only things in my life that are compatible with this great universe are the creative works of the human mind."
– Ansel Adams
"There are no rules for good photography, there are only good photographs."
– Ansel Adams
"A great photo is one that expresses, in the deepest sense, how you feel about what is being photographed."
– Ansel Adams
"To me, Doug-o's photo is more than just a still from a great day. It embodies the freedom, adventure, skill and competition that sport offers and demands. Only a photo can do that. A video provides a lot of information and leaves little to the imagination; a photograph invites the viewer to project and speculate on the subject, landscape, mood and energy of the day.
- Jeffery Bergeron
"A brave heart is a mighty weapon."
- Anonymous
"Experience isn't what happens to you, it's what you make of what happens to you."
– Aldous Huxley
"Travelling is finding out everyone is wrong about other countries."
– Aldous Huxley
"Waking up alone in a strange city is one of the most pleasant feelings in the world. You are surrounded by adventures."
--Freya Stark
"The heart wants what it wants."
-- Do the TV show "Life is Wild"
"It's another beautiful day at the Red Pony Saloon and the evening continues."
-- Henry Standing Bear from the TV program "Longmire"
"Never fight a pig. You two get dirty and the pig likes it."
- Anonymous
"The problem with life is that you're in the middle of it before you realize it's something you have to do yourself.
- Anonymous
"God created the desert so that man could find his soul."
- Anonymous
"Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood."
- Maria Curie
"In youth we learn, in old age we understand."
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Anyone who believes in free will has never loved and never hated."
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
-- Aus dem Film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"...and I swear, in that moment we were infinite."
-- Aus dem Film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
--Omar Jayyam
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
-- Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle)
"Little harm would be done in the world if evil could never be done in the name of good."
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. After a few years, it can show a long streak of success."
-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Our own life is the instrument with which we learn the truth."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Your entire base is ours. They are on the way to destruction. You have no chance of survival.
Take your time.
-- Mistranslation of an opponent's threat in a video game
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose a single voter."
– Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign
"Life is a verb."
- Anonymous
"I think there's nothing wrong with following Napoleon's maxim, which is that if your opponent self-destructs, don't interrupt him."
- Paulo Begla
"The Heisenberg uncertainty principle does not limit what we can know about reality; it describes that reality."
– Barbara Burke Hubbard
"Beauty is the first test: There is no fixed place in the world for ugly mathematics."
- G. H. Hardy
"An equation has no meaning to me unless it expresses a thought of God."
-- Srinivasa Ramanujan
"God created the whole numbers, everything else is man-made."
“God made the whole numbers, everything else is man’s work”
-- Kronecker speaks out against the use of Cantor sets as the basis of mathematics
"If we can truly understand the problem, the answer will come from the problem, because the answer is not separate from the problem."
--Krishnamurti Ver más
"Everyone knows what a curve is until they've studied enough math to be confused by the myriad of possible exceptions."
--Felix Klein
"Primes are what's left when you remove all the patterns. I think prime numbers are like life. They're very logical, but you could never figure out the rules even if you spent all the time thinking about them."
— Mark Haddon, "The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Night"
"Tired and full of mathematical ideas, happy to have discovered something that cannot be found in books, we would return to Moscow in the evening."
-- BV Gnedenko, comments on visits to Kolmogorov's house
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if you only have an idea."
--Emile-Auguste Chartier
Skull:If God didn't want them to be heard, he wouldn't have made them sheep.
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
kris:I work for six men protecting a town south of the border.
O’Reilly:How big is the resistance?
kris:Thirty guns.
O’Reilly:I admire your idea of fair odds, sir.
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
Wein:Reminds me of the guy at home who fell off a ten story building.
kris:Is he?
Wein:Well, as he fell, people on every floor heard him say, "So far, so good. Tch... So far, so good!"
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
[Calvera has just captured the seven.]
Skull:What I don't understand is why a man like you even took the job, huh? Why huh?
kris:I wonder.
Skull:No, come on, tell me why.
Wein:He's like this guy I met in El Paso. One day she took off all her clothes and jumped into a mess of cacti. I asked him the same question, why?"
Skull:¿MI?
Wein:He said: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
Village boy 2:We are ashamed to live here. Our parents are cowards.
O’Reilly:Don't ever say that about your parents again, because they're not cowards. You think I give up because I carry a gun; Well, your parents are much braver because they are responsible for you, your brothers, your sisters and your mothers. And that responsibility is like a big stone that weighs a ton. He bends and twists them until he finally buries them underground. And no one says you have to. They do it because they love you and because they want to. I've never had so much courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantees that anything will happen. That's bravery.
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
kris:The old man was right. Only the peasants won. We lose. We always lose.
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
[The villagers tell Christ that they have gathered everything of value in their village to hire gunmen]
Cris Adams:I was paid a lot for my work, but never everything.
-- from the movie "The Magnificent Seven"
"If you really enjoy your job, you never have to work again."
- Saying
"The world moves away for those who know where it leads."
- Saying
"The older we get, the better we get."
- Saying
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
- Saying
"Laziness is fools' party."
- Saying
"Don't look for the sages of the past. Look for what they've been looking for."
-- Said
"Most things still need to be done!"
-- Ingvar Kamprad, Gründer des Möbelunternehmens IKEA
"The secret of life is to enjoy the passage of time."
-- James Taylor (from a song)
"A man must know his limits."
-- Dirty Harry (Regie des Films Magnum Force)
"I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire six shots or just five? The most powerful revolver in the world, and it would blow your mind, you have to ask yourself: do I feel lucky? And you, punk ?
-- Dirty Harry (from the movie Dirty Harry)
“I willingly share all the sights and sounds of nature that I know of with those who have the grace to enjoy not man-made materialism but God-made beauty.
I bequeath the beautiful Arizona sunsets I have watched from my property to all who see not only with their eyes but also with their hearts. To the weary, troubled, or discouraged, I leave the stillness, majesty, and peace of our great American desert. To those who walk the paths I leave the morning song of the birds and the splendor of the wildflowers in spring. For the children who have enjoyed watching me, hearing me purr and seeing my somersault, I offer the precious gift of laughter and joy. The world really needs these things. And finally, I bequeath my own joyful spirit and affection for others to all who remember me and my museum, where for three years I did everything I could to show people I really care about.
-- Epitaph of George L. Mountain Lion (February 1952 - March 1955) Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
“Nature is not a place to visit. She is a home.”
– Gary Snyder
“The enjoyment of the finest natural landscapes in the country and the associated recreational opportunities is therefore in a very special way the monopoly of a very few, very wealthy people. a higher benefit is excluded. Given the nature of the matter, private parks can never be used by the masses of the people of any country, even by a considerable number of the wealthy, unless with the favor and dependence of a few.
Unless the government takes measures to keep them out of the reach of individuals, all the favorable places on the stage for the creation of minds and bodies will be closed to the masses of the people. For the same reason that river water must be protected from private appropriation and use for navigational purposes and from engineering, parts of the natural landscape can be duly protected and cared for by the state. Simply reserving them for the monopoly of individuals, obvious as it may seem, is not all that is required. It is necessary that they are open to the use of the body politic.”
-- from Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect
"I don't want the DVD, I want the film that it comes with. I don't want a clunky answering machine, I want the message it stores, I don't want the CD, I want the music that's playing, in other words, I don't want things, I want to fulfill the needs or experiences that are."
-- Rachel Botsman on collaborative consumption
"We don't want the drill, we want the hole."
-- Rachel Botsman on collaborative consumption
"Dawn, like the first morning,
Blackbird spoke like the first bird"
- Gato Stevens
"If I had words to brighten your day, I would sing you a golden new morning. I would make this day last forever, I would give you a deep moonlit night."
-- annon, sung by Farmer Hoggett in the film Babe, suspicious folk song
"Adults are outdated children and damn."
--Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"A human is a human, no matter how small."
-- Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss and Horton hears a who)
"Promise me you'll remember, you're braver than you think, stronger than you think, and smarter than you think."
-- A.A. Milne (but probably from a Disney Winnie the Pooh movie)
"You have a brain in your head. You have your feet in your shoes. You can turn in any direction you choose. You are on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who decides where it goes."
--Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows which the world does not know; and often we call a man cold when he is only sad."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."
– Groucho Marx
"Sometimes life is so beautiful that it surprises you."
- Anonymous
"Beauty is ruthless. You don't look at her; she looks at you and doesn't forgive."
-- Nikos Kazantzakis, Author of "Zorba, o Grego"
"Morning is such a beautiful time of day. Too bad it's so early."
– Debra Applin
"The American Dream is the dream of a country where life should be better, richer, and more fulfilling for everyone, with opportunities for everyone according to their ability or achievement."
– James Truslow Adams
"Obviously there are two educations. One must teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Certainly these must never be confused in the mind of a man who has the slightest idea of what culture is. For most of us, earning a living is imperative... In the complications of modern life and our increasing accumulation of knowledge, it certainly helps a lot to compress a few years of experience into far fewer years of study for a particular profession or profession at an institution, but this fact should not blind us to another, namely that we learn a profession in the process, but do not receive a liberal education as human beings.
– James Truslow Adams
"Life is hard, but it's even harder when you're stupid."
-- Anonymous employee of the hospital emergency department
"The morning is the rudder of the day."
- Anonymous
"Live with intention. Push yourself to the limit. Play with passion. Listen well. Choose without regret. Do what you love. Appreciate your friends. Pretend that's all."
-- JNKemsley
"Should we have 'mermaid cancer survivors'?"
-- a user outraged by America Online's censorship policy
"We may not be the only species on the planet, but we certainly behave as one."
- Anonymous
"The devil never asks you to do evil. He says what you are doing is necessary.”
- Anonymous
"Evil begins when you start treating people as things."
– Terry Pratchett von „I Shall Wear Midnight“
"Beware of the wild man, for he is the devil's pawn. Only among God's primates does he kill for fun, lust, or greed. Yes, he will kill his brother to possess his brother's land. May he not breed in large numbers because it makes your house and your house a desert, avoid it because it is an omen of death.
-- dr Zaius, Minister of Science and Chief Defender of the Faith (Planet of the Apes)
"It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"
-- Taylor (from the movie Planet of the Apes)
"Get your stinky paws off me, you filthy damn monkey!"
-- Taylor (from the movie Planet of the Apes)
"One death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a statistic."
- Anonymous
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are terrible actors."
- Anonymous
"Watch out for errors in the code above - I only tested it to be correct, I didn't test it."
-- last line of "Van Emde Boas' Notes on Priority Deck Construction: An Instructive Use of Recursion", a personal communication from Donald Knuth to Peter van Emde Boas
"A supercomputer is a device to turn a CPU problem into an I/O problem."
- Ken Batcher
"A supercomputer is one that is just a generation behind what you really need."
– Neil Lincoln
"All generalizations are wrong."
- Anonymous"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
– William „Toro“ Halsey
"Lottery: A Tax for People Bad at Math".
- Anonymous
"Time is what makes everything happen at the same time."
- Anonymous
"Crazy. I'll be back in five minutes."
- Anonymous
"Sometimes I wake up grumpy, sometimes I let him sleep."
- Anonymous
"There was never a great genius without a mixture of madness."
Latin for "Never was a great mind without a touch of madness".
- Anonymous
"I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying every minute."
- Anonymous
"Time is a great teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students."
- Heitor Berlioz
"Warning: Calendar dates are closer than they appear."
- Anonymous
"Give me ambiguity or give me something else."
- Anonymous
"Always remember that you are unique, just like everyone else."
- Anonymous
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't."
- Anonymous
"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't."
- Anonymous
"May you live in interesting times"
-- Chinese curse
pinkie finger:"What are we doing tomorrow night, Brain?"
Brain:"Same thing we do every night, Pinky....Try to control the world!"
-- From Pinky and the Brain
“Winter is good for reading the classics as the mind is more controlled. Summer is good for reading history as we have plenty of time. Autumn is good for reading ancient philosophers because of the great variety of thoughts and ideas. Finally, spring is apt for modern writers to read, for in spring the mind expands."
-Chang Chan
October in New England And I'm not there to see the shine of the goldenrod, The flame maple!
October in my own country... I know what glory fills the mountains of New Hampshire and the hills of Massachusetts.
Vermont, in rich robes, sings with the Maine woods Alternating hallelujahs of spots of gold and purple.
I know what opal tones the Rhode Island breeze blows and how Connecticut touches the colors of Hindustan.
-- Odell Sheppard 1884-1967 # remembered by Patty Zachman
"A conversation with an educated friend is like reading a remarkable book; with a romantic friend, like reading good prose and poetry; with an honest friend, like reading the classics; with a humorous friend, like reading fiction."
-Chang Chan
"Hoyle and Wickramasing dispensed with the spontaneous generation [of life] because the probability of the event was comparable to the probability that a tornado passing through a junkyard could assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials there."
-- Stuart Kaufman on "At Home in the Universe"
"Take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I'll show you down the rabbit hole. "
-- Morpheus in "Die Matrix"
"Neo, sooner or later you will realize, like me, that there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
-- Morpheus in "Die Matrix"
"I want to share a revelation I had during my time here. It came to mind when trying to classify your species and realizing that you are not actually mammals. All mammals on this planet instinctively develop a natural balance with the environment that surrounds them. surrounds., but not people. They move into an area and it multiplies and multiplies until all natural resources are exhausted and the only way to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. You know what it is: "A virus. Man is a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague and we are the cure."
– Agent Smith in „Matrix“
"Orange dump truck wheels turned orange."
- From the elementary school poem
"To infinity and beyond!"
-- Buzz Lightyear
“You open it with the key of imagination. Beyond is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of seeing. A dimension of the mind. You move into a land of shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've landed entering the Twilight Zone."
-- One of the introductions to the Twilight Zone TV show.
“There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension as big as space and as timeless as infinity. She is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and lies between the abyss of human fears and the pinnacle of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It's an area we call the Twilight Zone.
-- One of the introductions to the Twilight Zone TV show.
"You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and hearing but also of the mind. A journey into a wonderland whose limits are those of the imagination. That is the sign before you. : Your next stop, the Twilight Zone! "
-- One of the introductions to the Twilight Zone TV show.
"When you eliminate the impossible, the truth must remain, however improbable it may be."
– Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of the Four”
"The absence of evidence is not evidence of the absence."
- Anonymous
"I'm learning to be content".
-- Inscription on the stone fountain of Ryoanji Temple
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"If you want to build a ship, don't beat men for wood to give instructions or distribute the work, but teach them to long for the wide, endless sea."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
- John A. Shedd
"The weak heart never conquered the fair lady."
- Saying
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?"
-- John Wooden (Basketballtrainer)
"What is his thought in his heart, so is he."
-- Proverbs 23:7, The Bible
"Three things are too wonderful for me, yes four that I do not know: the way of the eagle in the air, the way of the serpent on the rock; the path of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl."
-- Proverbs 30:18-19, The Bible
"Two souls, but with a single thought;
Two hearts that beat as one."
--By Münch Bellinghausen
"The only way to pass a test is to take the test. It's inevitable."
-- Majestic Elder Black Swan
"I can't imagine anyone succeeding without giving this game of life everything they have."
- Walter Cronkite
“War itself is, of course, a form of insanity. It's hardly a civilized activity. It's amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time achieving peace.”
- Walter Cronkite
"We have reached the end of the tunnel and there is no light."
-- Walter Cronkite about the end of the Vietnam War
"If everyone thinks the same way, nobody thinks."
– Walter Lippmann
"...sometimes it's the people no one can imagine doing things no one can imagine."
-- From the movie "The Imitation Game"
"Only after the last tree has been felled. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you discover that money cannot be eaten."
-- Prophecy of Indiana Cree
"I was born empty-handed, I died empty-handed. I experienced life in its fullness empty-handed."
- Marlo Morgan
Valvert's Viscount:Ah...Your nose...A coat! Your nose is pretty big!
Valvert (smiling):Oh good--
Cyrano (called):That's all?
Valvert (walks away with a shrug):Very clearly--
Cyrano:Oh no, young sir! you are very simple Well, one could have said: Oh, many things! Mon dieu, why are you wasting your chance? For example like this: AGGRESSIVE: I, sir, if this nose were mine, I would amputate it - right now! FRIENDLY: How do you drink with that nose? You must have a custom made mug. DESCRIPTION: "Is it a rock - a cliff - a cape - a cape? say yes peninsula! CURIOUS: What is that container, razor box or briefcase? FRIENDLY: Oh, you love the little birds so much that they come and sing to you, do you give them that to sit on? INSOLENT: Sir, if you smoke, the neighbors must assume your chimney is on. CAUTION: Be careful: a weight like this can scare you. THOUGHTFUL: Someone fetch my parasol... Such delicate colors fade in the sun! PEDANIC: Aristophanes doesn't mention a mythological monster called the elephant camel hippocampus? We definitely have the original here! FAMILY MEMBERS: Well, old torch! Hang your hat on the chandelier, my eyes hurt. ELOQUENT: When it blows, the typhoon howls and the clouds darken. Dramatic: When it bleeds - the Red Sea! BUSINESSMAN: What a mark for a perfumer! LYRIC: Listen - Roldán's horn calls to invoke Charlemagne! – EASY: When will the monument be inaugurated? RESPECTING: Sir, I recognize you as a man of many qualities, a man of distinction - RUSTIC: Eh? The? is that what you call a nose? Well, well-- I'm not as stupid as you think-- There's a blue cucumber! MILITARY: Aim for the cavalry!
PRACTICE: Why not a lottery for the big prize? Or, to parody Faust in the play, "Was this the nose that launched a thousand ships and burned down the roofless towers of Ilium?"
These, my dear sir, are things he might have said if he had had any inflection or wit to color his speech.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (translated by Brian Hooker)
Roxanne:I've never loved just one man in my life
And I lost it - twice...
-- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (translated by Brian Hooker)"... A kiss, what's that? An oath reinforced, a promise sealed, a sincere confession demanding confirmation, a pink dot on the 'i' of 'worship'; a secret that covers the mouth, it is not heard, it is whispered
...
-- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world - in fact, it's the only thing that's ever happened."
--Margaret hidromiel
"In the midst of change, we often discover wings we didn't even know we had."
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"There are no straight lines in nature."
-- Person using sonar to search for the remains of the EgyptAir 990
"Because time changes the nature of the whole world and all things must pass from one state to another, nothing stays the same."
-- Lucretia 99 v. Chr. - 55 years
"It's not that important to know how you feel."
– Rachel Carson
"The frog does not drink from the lake in which it lives."
- Indian proverb
"Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
- Joe Lewis
"If people don't want to go to the park, nobody will stop them."
- Yogi Berra
"No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
- Yogi Berra
"Why buy good bags? You only use them when you travel."
- Yogi Berra
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
- Yogi Berra
"We got lost, but we're making good progress!"
- Yogi Berra
"Make pairs of three."
- Yogi Berra
"Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.”
- Yogi Berra
"You see a lot when you look."
- Yogi Berra
"Better one man in the house than two in the street."
--Mae West in Nineties Beauty
"When I have to choose between two evils, I always like to choose the one I've never tried."
-- There is Oeste
"It pays to be good, but it doesn't pay much"
-- There is Oeste
"My brain is open."
– Paul Erdös
"A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems."
– Paul Erdös
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and as difficult as sleeping afterwards."
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Sciences don't try to explain, they hardly try to interpret, they mainly make models. A model is a mathematical construction that describes observed phenomena with the addition of specific verbal interpretations. The justification for such a mathematical construction is solely and precisely that if I hope it works."
--John von Neumann
"All models are wrong. Some are useful."
-- George E. P. Box
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to him; he studies her because he delights in her, and he delights in her because she is beautiful. It wouldn't be worth living."
--Henri Poincaré
"It's not just the order, but the unexpected order that has value."
--Henri Poincaré
"Anyone who considers arithmetic methods to generate random digits is obviously in a state of sin."
--John Von Neumann 1951
"3 billion BC: Earth is a whirling ball of burning gases. Fishing is extremely poor, especially in August."
--Cliff Hauptman on the complete history of fishing
"One of the toughest battles in intelligence is the battle against conventional wisdom."
-- Former CIA director Robert Gates on why they couldn't predict the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, nuclear tests in India,...
"History repeats itself. That's one of the bad things about history."
– Clarence Darrow
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Good guys finish last."
-Leo Durocher
"An oral contract is not worth the paper it is written on."
--Samuel Goldwyn
"Below all the lyrics, all the psalms and sacred chants, these watery variations of sounds and stillnesses, terrifying, mysterious, swirling and sometimes pregnant and gentle, must somehow be felt in the pulse, the ebb and flow of life." music that sings in me My only new song will float like a feather on the breath of God.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen (12th century)
“These voices that you hear are like the voice of a crowd lifting up their sound; for joyful praises, offered in simple harmony and love, lead believers to that unity where there is no discord, and make those who yet live on earth subscribe with heart and voice to heavenly reward."
-- Hildegard of Bingen (12th century)
“A lake is the most beautiful and expressive feature of the landscape. He is the eye of the earth in which the viewer measures the depth of his own nature.”
– Henry David Thoreau
"I'm terrified when I've physically walked a mile in the woods without getting there in spirit. On my evening walk, I would like to forget all my morning preoccupations and obligations to society. But sometimes it happens that I'm no, I'm where my body can't bring it, I'm out of my mind. In my walks I want to come to my senses. What am I doing in the forest when I think of something outside the forest?”
– Henry David Thoreau
"Influencing the quality of the day is the highest of the arts."
– Henry David Thoreau
"It is better to die like a lion than to live like a sheep"
- Saying
"Trust me: nothing is as unnatural as the mundane."
-- Sherlock Holmes "The Case of Identity"
"It's natural for the average American, when they see something wrong, to feel not only that there should be a law against it, but that an organization should be formed to fight it."
-- Myrdal Gunner
"First gather your facts, and then you can twist them to your heart's content."
--Mark Twain
"Thunder is good, thunder is great, but it's the lightning that gets the job done."
--Mark Twain
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a big question: It's the difference between the firefly and the lightning bolt."
--Mark Twain
"Facts are like stuffed animals in a glass box, only vaguely indicative of the wild and unsafe environment in which they were formed."
– Michael Hawkins
"Science and art share an intense vision, a wide-eyed observation that generates empirical information."
--Edward R. Tufte
“Power corrupts. PowerPoint absolutely corrupts.”
--Edward R. Tufte
"Treat a virus with antibiotics and you'll be better in 7 days. Do nothing and you'll be better in a week.”
- Anonymous
"It's a capital mistake to theorize before you have the data. You start callously twisting the facts to fit the theories instead of the theories fitting the facts.”
-- Sherlock Holmes "A scandal in Bohemia"
"The store seemed to be full of all sorts of odd things, but the weirdest part was that every time I looked closely at a shelf to see what exactly was on it, that particular shelf was always empty, despite the others around it around were empty ." around were crowded . as much as they could."
-- A closer look
"I'm only one, but I'm still one. I can't do everything, but I can still do something; and because I can't do everything
I will not refuse to do anything I can do."
– Edward Everett Hale
"I will love the light because it shows me the way, but I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
-- And Mandino
"I only sing for women who think they can't speak. No man alive can mistreat me because I know who I am.”
-- Alberta Hunter, blues singer
"I don't want [women] to have power over men, I want power over themselves."
– Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
"Tell me, what are you going to do with yours
a wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't."
– Walter Bagehot
“I believe that one of the happiest moments in human life is to embark on a distant journey to unknown lands. With great effort to shake off the shackles of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of excessive worry and the bondage of home, man feels happier for once".
-- Richard Burton (discoverer)
"Routine is the enemy of time."
– Jedidiah Jenkins
"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and I remember more than I have seen."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"A good traveler has no set plans and no intention of arriving."
--Lao Tzu
"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
--Lao Tzu
“Travelling is not always nice. It's not always convenient. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But it is okay. , and in your body. you take something with you I hope you leave something good behind."
--Anthony Bourdain
"When you're depressed, you're living in the past. If you're afraid, you're living in the future. When you are at peace, you live in the present.”
--Lao Tzu
“In the search for learning, something is acquired every day. looking for the way
Something gets thrown away every day."
- Take care
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe yields."
- Take care
"The verse also has a verse."
- Japanese proverb
"What you are speaks so loud I can't hear what you're saying."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"End each day and be done. You did what you could. Undoubtedly, some mistakes and absurdities have occurred; forget them as soon as possible. Tomorrow is a new day. You must start with serenity and also with a spirit. " great "to carry your old nonsense".
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hate dating."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You're not in Kansas anymore. You are in Pandora, ladies and gentlemen. Respect that fact every second of every day. If there is a hell you might want to go there to sit back and relax after a walk on Pandora. Out there, more beyond that fence, every creature crawling, flying, or perching in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for gummy bears. We have an indigenous population of humanoids called Na'vi. They're like darts dipped into them - a neurotoxin that will stop your heart for a minute - and they have bones reinforced with natural carbon fibers. They are very difficult to kill. As security chief, it's my job to keep him alive. I won't make it Not with all of you. If you want to survive, you must develop a strong mental attitude. You have to follow the rules: Pandora's rules. Rule number one..."
-- Colonel Quaritch (from the movie Avatar)
"That's the mark of perfect character: living each day as if it were your last, with no fuss, no sleepiness, and no pretense."
- Marcus Aurelius
"We don't learn through experience, but through our ability to experiment."
- Buda
"Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make peace with it and everything will be fine."
-- Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Textbook
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things that weren't meant for you."
- Buda
"The truth of a thing is feeling it, not thinking about it."
-- Stanley Kubrick
"Look, my son, with how little wisdom the world is ruled."
- Conde Axel Oxenstierna
"The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps his cool."
--William McFee
"The world is ruled by letting things take their course."
--Lao-Tse
"A wise man never loses anything when he has himself."
- Montaigne
"'Well, in OUR country,' said Alice, still a little out of breath, 'you usually get somewhere else when you've run as fast as we did for a long time.'
"'A slow country guy!' said the Queen. 'Well, HERE, you see, you have to run as fast as YOU can to stay in the same place. If you want to go somewhere else, you have to run at least twice as fast!'"
-- Lewis Carroll
"...The name of the song is called 'HADDOCKS' EYES'."
'Ah, that's the name of the song, isn't it?' said Alice, trying to be interested.
"No, you don't understand," the knight said, looking a little annoyed. "That's the name. The name is actually "THE AGED MAN".
'So I should have said 'That's the name of the SONG'? Alice corrected herself.
"No, you shouldn't: that's another matter! THE SONG is called "WAYS AND MEANS": but that's what it's called, you know?
"Well, what's the song then?" said Alice, who was completely confused by this point.
"It came to that," said the knight. 'The music is really 'SITTING ON A DOOR': and the music is my own invention'".
-- Lewis Carroll
"Alice laughed. 'There's no point in trying,' she said, 'you can't believe in impossible things.'
"'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. Breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
-- Lewis Carroll
"I can't tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that I generally find them insanely dark and haunted considering how they achieve it.” Onslaught of the human herd, unable to stop or change direction. Now they claim to be on the verge of happiness."
- Chuang-Tse
"The best plans of mice and men crouch behind a gley"
– Roberto Burns
"If I bow my head, let it be to a high mountain."
- Maori proverb
"Water is good, it benefits all things and does not compete with them."
--Lao Tzu
"Better to wear out than to rust"
--Jorge Whitefield
"You have to do what you think you can't do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (branch of Teddy Roosevelt)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You wouldn't care so much about what other people think of you if you knew how little they do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"It was different in my time. When I knew the wind was strong I attacked myself to make the race as difficult as possible."
- Eddy Merckx
“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you see fit.
- Eddy Merckx
“There is a crucial threshold that every cyclist must reach and cross in order to be successful. But I'm not talking about a lactate threshold or anything like that; This threshold is more difficult to define because it is actually a combination of physiological, psychological and environmental factors. At the same time, any rider who has crossed what I call the "competition threshold" knows what that is, even if they can't describe it.
When your fitness is below a certain point (compared to your competition) you are struggling to survive and have little hope that if you survive long enough you can place an all-or-nothing bet on victory. But once you exceed your competitive threshold, survival is no longer an issue and a whole new world of opportunity opens up. Instead of fighting for wheels to avoid falling, you fight for wheels based on strategy. Instead of looking at the squad as a haven, you're starting to see it as a tool to increase your chances of winning. You start acting like a hunter instead of a scavenger."
- Cris Carmichael
"It's never easier, you just go faster."
- Greg LeMond
"Pain is a big, fat creature that rides on your back. The harder you pedal, the heavier it feels. The harder you press, the harder he presses on your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper its sharp claws sink, crashing into "your muscles." Scott Martin
– Scott Martin
“Being a cyclist is studying pain… at the heart of cycling is pain, hard and bitter like the stone in a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're chasing an Olympic medal, a place sign, starting a trail, or kicking back with homemade brownies. If you never face pain, you are missing the essence of the sport. No pain, no adversity. No adversity, no challenge. No challenge, no improvement, no deep joy. It's like playing tiddly winks.
– Scott Martin
“Sometimes I go for a walk in the morning and it's a beautiful sunrise. I live. I am looking. I look around. I feel good. I am very happy. I have so many gold medals and ribbons and stuff and that's not all. It counts. What matters is going out there and doing my best and showing people what they can do."
- Carl Grove, 91-year-old cyclist
“The Ventoux is a god of evil who must be sacrificed.
-- Roland Barthes talks about climbing Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France
"There are many factors that you have to take into account that you have no control over... The most important factor that you can control yourself is yourself. That's something I've always put a lot of emphasis on."
- Eddy Merckx
"Beware of places where they have names for the wind."
-- Dr. Jane Kelly, The Anchorage Daily News im Juli 1998
"The wonderful things in life are what you do, not what you have"
-- Reinhold Messner, alpinist
"It's always further than it seems. It's always higher than it seems. It's always harder than it seems."
-- Reinhold Messner, alpinist
"I don't take anything for granted. Now I only have good days and great days."
-- Lance Armstrong, cyclist who had cancer and won the Tour de France
"Wobegone Lake, where the women are strong, the men are handsome and all the children are above average"
-- Garrison Kiellor en "A Parire Home Companion"
"I think women are stupid to pretend to be equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Home, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she will give you her heart. She multiplies and magnifies what you give her. So if you give her any shit, be prepared to get a lot of shit!”
– William Golding, British writer
"You can't scare me. I have children."
- Anonymous
"Don't think you're on the right path just because it's a beaten path."
- Anonymous
“We travel because we have to, because distance and difference are the secret tonics of creativity. When we come home, home is still the same. But something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything. Several new scientific papers suggest that running away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place where we spend most of our time, the mind suddenly becomes aware of all those wandering ideas that we were previously suppressing. We start thinking about dark possibilities that never crossed our minds. would have happened if we had stayed at home."
--Professor Jonas See more
"Home is where you leave everything you love and never question what will be there when you come back."
- Leo Christophe
"Often, most people miss an opportunity because they're wearing overalls and it looks like they're working."
--Thomas Edison
"Misfortune puts man before himself"
- Anonymous
"If you're playing for more than you can afford to lose, then you really know the game."
--Winston Churchill
"We grew up basing our dreams on the endless promises of American advertising."
– Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
"I could circumnavigate my empire in a few words and be content if there weren't dreams."
-- James Foster misremembers Hamlet
"Oh god, I could just say a few words and think I was a king of infinite space if I didn't have nightmares."
- Hamlet der Shakespeare
"All men dream, but not equally. Make it happen."
– T.E. Lawrence, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”"...for a moment, in clubs and bars across the country, people put their glasses down and thought of their old best dreams."
-- Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald about Lindbergh
"Never name your dog Nipper or your horse Buck!"
-- Linda Taylor (on the Corgi-L mailing list)
"A good reputation with husband and wife, sir, is the immediate jewel of their souls. Whoever steals my bag steals rubbish; he is something, nothing; he was mine, he is his and he was the slave of thousands: but he who takes my good name from me takes from me what does not enrich it and really impoverishes me.
Shakespeare - Iago from Othello, Act 3, Scene 3
"Lord, what fools these mortals are!"
-- Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
"To be or not to be: that is the question: Is it nobler in spirit to suffer the slings and arrows of fate, or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and face them to the end? Die? : sleep; No longer; and for a dream to say we're finished The pain in the heart and the thousand natural shocks That the flesh is heritage is a cherished accomplishment. die, sleep; sleeping: maybe dreaming: yes, there is trouble; for in that sleep of death, which dream may come as we crawl out of this mortal shell, we must pause: there is the respect that makes a life's unhappiness so long; Love's cares despised, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the rejections That the patient merit of the unworthy receives, When he himself could make his silence with a naked stiletto of something after death, The unknown land, whose ancestry No traveler returns, confuses the will and makes us prefer to endure the bad Do we have to fly to others we don't know? So conscience makes cowards of us all; of thought and enterprise of great intensity and momentum, in this respect their currents stray and lose the name of action. - Smooth now! The beautiful Ophelia! Nymph, remember all my sins in your prayers."
– Shakespeare, Hamlet
This day is called Crispian's Feast: Whoever survives this day and returns home safely, Will stand on tiptoe when the day is called, And wake him at Crispian's name. Who shall live this day and see the old age, Annually at the vigil to celebrate his neighbors, And say, "Tomorrow is Saint Crispin": Then he will pull off his sleeve and show his scars. And say, "I had these wounds on Crispin's day." everything will be forgotten, But he will remember with advantage What he did that day: so our names. recently removed cups. This is the story the good man will teach his son; And Crispin Crispian will never die, From this day to the end of the world, But we'll be remembered in it; happy few, we are a group of brothers; For whoever sheds his blood with me today will be my brother; Abominable as it is, that day will ease their condition: and the now bedridden gentlemen of England will feel cursed that they are not here, and retain their cheap manhood so long as any one speaks to us on St. Crispin's day fought.
-- Henry V from Shakespeare's Henry V, ato 4 Abendessen 3
"Oh, forgive me, bleeding earth, for being gentle and gentle with these butchers! You are the ruin of the noblest man who ever lived in the tide of time. Woe to the hand that shed this precious blood! Upon thy wounds now I prophesy - That like dumb maws open their ruby red lips To supplicate the voice and expression of my tongue - A curse shall fall on men's limbs; parts of Italy; Blood and destruction will be so needed and terribly its object so familiar that mothers will smile as they see their children slaughtered at the hands of war, with Ate at their side, hot out of Hell, coming in these borders with a monarch's voice they will shout "chaos" and let the children escape... dogs of war;
-- Antony from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
“Cowards die many times before they die; The brave taste death only once. Of all the wonders I've heard ."
-- Caesar from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2
"His wisdom is consumed in trust."
- Calpurnia from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2
Petrucius:...Good morning Kate; because that's his name, as far as I've heard.
Katarina:Well, you heard it, but something difficult to hear: they call me Katharina, they talk about me.
Petrucius:you lie in faith; because they call you Kate the Simple and Kate the Pretty and sometimes Kate the Miser; I, Kate, my consolation; When I hear that in all cities your gentleness is extolled, your virtues praised, and your beauty proclaimed, though not as deeply as it is yours, I feel compelled myself to woo you as my wife.
Katarina:touched! in time: leave the one who put you here
Remove here: ...
-- from Shakespeare's Taming of the Screw, 1 act 1 supper
"Wow, there's a girl! Come kiss me Kate."
-- Petruchio from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Screw
"Have no fear of greatness: some are born great, some attain greatness, and others are forced to be great."
-- aus Shakespeares Twelfth Night, Akt 2, Szene 5
ROMEO: [to a servant]What lady is this that enriches the hand of this gentleman?
Servo:I don't know sir.
ROMEO:Oh, she teaches the torches to light! She seems to hang over the face of night like a precious jewel in an Ethiopian's ear; Beauty too rich to use, for earth is too expensive! Lady about her exhibition partners. When I have made the measure I will watch its base, and when I touch it I will bless my rough hand. Has my heart loved so far? Excuse me! Because I've never seen real beauty until tonight.
-- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5
"But sweet! What light comes in through that window? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun, fairer than she: do not be her girl, for she is jealous; her Vestal robe is only sickly green, and only fools use it to She's my lady, oh she's my love!, oh that she knew it was her! She talks but says nothing: so what? Her eyes run, I answer. They come back. And if your eyes were there, in thy head? The luster of thy face would put these stars to shame like daylight makes a lamp; bright, That the birds would sing and think it was no night. Look how she lay her cheek in his hand! Oh , that would I be a glove on this hand, that I could touch this cheek!
-- Romeo from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
"What's in a name? What we call a rose by any other name would smell the same."
- Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
All the world is a stage, And all men and women except actors: they have their exits and their entrances; And a man of his time plays many roles...
-- Jaques in Shakespeares As you like, Akt 2 Szene 7
"A fool thinks himself wise, but a wise man knows he is a fool."
-- Touchstone, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I.
"I dare to do all that a man can become; he who dares more is nobody."
-- Macbeth de Macbeth von Shakespeare Ato I cena VII
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow That little step creeps from one day to the next To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays fools have lighted the way to dusty death. Extinguish, extinguish, little candle But life is a walking shadow, a poor actor who struts on the stage in his hour and worries and is heard no more: it is a story told by an idiot full of sound and fury will mean nothing.
-- Macbeth de Macbeth von Shakespeare Acto V cena 5
"Sono Weaves the Frayed Sleeve of Nursing"
-- Macbeth from Shakespeare's Macbeth Act II dinner 2
Number 6:Where am I?
Voice:Die Ville.
Number 6:What do you want?
Voice:Information.
Number 6:On which side are you?
Voice:That would be revealing. We want information.
Number 6:you won't make it
Voice:For better or worse, we will.
Number 6:Who are you?
Voice:The new number 2.
Number 6:Who is number 1?
Voice:You are number 6.
Number 6:I'm not a number, I'm a free man!
-- from the TV show "The Prisoner"
"Revenge is best served cold."
-- Klingon proverb from the movie Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
"Only a fool fights in a burning house."
-- Klingonisches Sprichwort, Star Trek "Day of the Dove"
"Four thousand throats can be cut in one night by a running man."
-- Klingonisches Sprichwort, Star Trek "Day of the Dove"
"By the thumbstick, something bad is coming here. Up, to, who is calling!”
-- Second witch from Shakespeare's Macbeth Act IV, Scene 1
AT:duplication, duplication and problems; Burning fire and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch:Fenny Snake Fillet, Boil and Bake in the Cauldron; Newt eye and frog finger, bat wool and dog tongue, adder pitchfork and blind worm sting, lizard foot and owl wing, For a spell of great fear, Like a broth from hell simmering and simmering.
AT:duplication, duplication and problems; Fire blight and cauldron bubble.
Third Witch:Dragon scales, wolf teeth, witch mummy, mouth and gulf of the ravenous shark of the salty sea, hemlock root dug in the dark, liver of a blasphemous Jew, goat bile and bits of yew silver in the lunar eclipse, Turk's nose and Tartar lips, baby fingers strangled from birth, ditch- Delivered for a Grau, Make the thick, thick porridge: Add a tiger caudron, To our cauldron's ingredients.
AT:duplication, duplication and problems; Fire blight and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch:Cool with baboon blood, then the enchantment is firm and good.
-- Shakespeares Macbeth Witches Act IV Szene 1
"The rose doesn't have to, it blooms for no reason, forgetting itself and out of sight."
-- Angelus Silesius "Oh wandering Cherub"
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
- Gertrud Stein
"There is no such thing as good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-- Shakespeare's Hamlet, ato 2 Dinner 2
See your character. Give no language to your thoughts, nor any disproportionate thoughts, to your deeds. Be familiar, but definitely not vulgar. Entertainment From any newborn comrade, inexperienced. Be careful when getting into a fight, but when inside, tolerate that the opponent might distrust you. , but not expressed in imagination; rich, not fussy; Because dress often proclaims the man, and those of better position and rank in France are of a more exquisite and generous chief. And the loan blunts the edge of the crop. This above all: Be true to yourself, and it must follow like night to day that you cannot be wrong with any man.
-- Shakespeares Hamlet, Polonius von Laertes, Acts I Supper III
"Match action to word, word to action; with that special observation that you do not transgress nature's modesty."
- Hamlet der Shakespeare
"A touch of nature makes the whole world related."
-- Troilus and Cressida, Ato III Dinner 3, Shakespeare
"Time is out of place; oh cursed malice that I was born to mend it!"
-- Shakespeare's Hamlet, at 1 dinner 5
Cleopatra: "As honest as it is, it's never good. It brings bad news: there is a friendly message. Various tongues; but let the bad news be told.
even if they feel."
-- Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 5
"I don't understand the white man. He doesn't seem to know where the center of the earth is."
- from the movie "Little Big Man".
"By the Abyss, I forgot how GOOD it is to conquer a universe!"
-- The Fear Dormammu, Doctor Strange #3
"Things are more like now than ever!"
-- Dwight Eisenhower, sometime in the 1950s
“In Governing Councils, we must guard against the acquisition of undue influence by the military-industrial complex, intended or not. The potential for the catastrophic rise of misplaced power exists and will remain.”
– Dwight Eisenhower
It is this awareness and awareness of beauty, of aliveness, of physical fulfillment, that, despite its inevitable periods of drudgery and nagging discomfort, elevates adventure from an exercise in masochism to a much more inclusive experience. and expansive. rich ."
– Chris Bonnington
"If there is peace, it comes through being, through not having."
– Henrique Miller
"The same boiling water that softens the potato will harden the egg."
- Russian proverb
"Outside of time, we cut off 'days' and 'nights', 'summer' and 'winter'. We say what each part of the perceivable continuum is, and all these abstract things are concepts.
Man's intellectual life consists almost entirely of substituting a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally occurs.
- "The World We Live In" by William James
- Anonymous
"Her life was fine. Sometimes she wished she was sleeping with the right man instead of her dog, but she never felt like she was sleeping with the wrong dog."
-- Judith Collas in "Changing Life"
“He is your friend, your defender, your dog. You are your life, your love, your leader. He will be yours, faithful and faithful, to the last beat of your heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
- Anonymous
To keep its importance in mind, everyone should have a dog that loves them and a cat that ignores them.
– Derek Bruce
Mullroy: Have you seen a ship with black sails, crewed by the damned and commanded by a man so bad Hell itself spat him out?
Murtogg:NO.
Mullroy:NO.
Murtogg:But I saw a ship with black sails. [Jack slipped by unnoticed]
Mullroy:Oh, and no ship not manned by the damned and ruled by a man so evil Hell itself spat it out could have black sails, so it couldn't be any ship other than the Black Pearl. Is that what you tell me?
Murtogg:NO.
Mullroy:Like I said, there's no real ship quite like the Interceptor.
-- aus dem Film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
Barbosa:First of all, your return to shore wasn't part of our negotiations or our agreement, so I don't have to do anything. And second, you have to be a pirate for the Pirate Code to apply, and you're not. And third, the Code is more what you would call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Mrs. Tornero.
-- aus dem Film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
Murtogg:...But there is no ship that can match the speed of the Interceptor.
Jack Sparrow:I've heard of one, supposedly very fast, almost unattainable: the Black Pearl.
-- aus dem Film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
The average dog is a nicer human than the average human.
--Andrew A. Rooney
And now, to all the good dogs, the special ones you loved most, the ones we still miss, goodbye until they run back on a brighter day, in a nicer place, to welcome us.
- George Papshvily
"A true friend is the medicine of life."
- Anonymous
"Pain is the price of love."
- Anonymous
"Keep going and faith will catch up to you."
-- Jean d'Alembert (1717 - 1783) (mathematician)
"A friend is someone who knows your heart's song and can sing it to you when you forget the words"
- Anonymous
“Words can destroy. What we call each other becomes what we think of each other, and that matters.”
– Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick
It was night all afternoon. It snowed and it would snow. The blackbird sat on the branches of the cedars.
– Wallace Stevens
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor the darkness of the night prevent these messengers from quickly completing their assigned round."
-- Herodotus, Greek historian 5c. BC also on the facade of the New York Post Office
"Faster Higher Stronger"
-- Motto of the Olympic Games
"...the most important thing in life is not victory, but struggle".
-- Part of the Olympian Creed
"A dog has more fun with a man than a man with a dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that man is the more ridiculous of the two animals." He saw men singing and fighting together in the same night. going to bed when it was time to get up and getting up when it was time to go to bed. He watched as the earth was broken up in wide areas and tended in small patches. He waited while the men built strong, solid homes for peace and quiet, then filled them with lights, bells, and machinery. A sensitive nose, capable of discerning what was going on in the neighboring town, simultaneously picked up the unsettling smells hospital and the munitions factory.
– James Thurber
"'Sensitivity Test' is a test in which an increasing percentage of items will fail, explode, or die as the severity of the test increases."
-- From the "Handbook of Statistics" by Crow, Davis and Maxfield
"Brilliance is usually the work of an individual, but incredible stupidity can often be attributed to an organization."
- Anonymous
"You are Elastigirl! Show him that you remember he's Mr. Incredible and you'll remember him for who you are! Well you know where he is. go! Face the problem! Fight!
-- Edna Mode in the movie "The Incredibles"
"I never look back, darling. It distracts me from now.”
-- Edna Mode in the movie "The Incredibles"
"The bitterest words ever spoken over graves are for deeds undone and words unspoken."
- H. B. Stowe
"Sometimes man stumbles upon the truth, but usually he picks himself up and keeps going."
--Winston Churchill
"Success is when you try to reach your inner vision from the outside and express it as you see it. Then YOU feel successful; that's how success is measured."
--Jorge Lucas
"Everyone has their price, they say, but some have offers."
- Camden County Georgia Tribune
"Save a life and you will be a hero.
Save 100 lives and you'll become a nurse."
- Anonymous
"Pride outlasts the pain"
-- Seen on the back of a cycling jersey
"Live to travel, travel to live."
-- Slogan on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle
"If we don't have it, you don't need it."
-- Lema da McGuckin Hardware in Boulder, CO
"To be a fringe cyclist, you have to make pain your closest friend."
-- Unknown cyclist
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Do you believe in God, sir? Robert Langdon: Dad, I only believe in this religion... Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I didn't ask you if you believe what people say about God. I asked him if he believed in God. Robert Langdon: I'm an academic. My mind tells me that I will never understand God. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: And your heart? Robert Langdon: Tell me I shouldn't do it. Faith is a gift I haven't received yet.
-- Conversation in the movie "Angels and Demons"
“Jesus was not killed by atheism and lawlessness. He was overthrown by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware of those who claim to know the mind of God and are willing to use force if necessary conforming others Beware of those who cannot discern God's will from their own.
- Rev. Dra. Barbara Brown Taylor
“A powerful programming language is more than just a means of instructing a computer to perform tasks. Language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.”
-- Abelson und Sussman aus "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
"An idea in the highest sense of the word cannot be conveyed by a symbol."
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"In Xanadu, Kubla Khan issued a mighty joydom edict: Where Alph, the sacred river, flowed through caves immeasurable to man, to a sunless sea of sun-drenched patches of vegetation".
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first stanza of Kubla Khan's poem
"If you speak a new language, you should try to translate all the poems from your old language into the new one."
– Dana Scott
"The power of any language is the power to organize thoughts."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"It's not that nature is evil, nature just doesn't care."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"Often the problem is not that the system is too complicated, but that the interface to the system is too complicated."
– Roberto Heckendorn
Rule #1: Physics always wins
Rule #2: If you think man has conquered nature, look at rule #1.
– Roberto Heckendorn
"No tool was ever made that could not be abused forever."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"Never underestimate the ability of those in power to automate oppression."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power absolutely corrupts."
-- JEE Dalberg Acton
"People...group habits."
- Edward Sapir, 1929; in Mandelbaum, 1958, S. 162
"...as young and as old as spring..."
-- JRR Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
"No language can stop the bad programmer from writing bad programs unless it stops him from writing some."
--David Second
"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity."
-- E.W. Dijkstra
"The question of whether computers can think is like asking whether submarines can swim."
-- E.W. Dijkstra
"Computer science has as little to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes."
-- E.W. Dijkstra
“Computers are boring and boring; Humans are smart and resourceful. We humans make computers exciting. Armed with computing devices, we use our intelligence to solve problems we never dared to tackle before the computer age, and we build systems with limited functionality with our imaginations."
- Ala de Jeanette
"Computer science is the only discipline in which we regard the addition of a building wing as maintenance."
--J. horns
“The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I suggest going a step further and considering elegance as an essential part of mathematics: if it's clumsy, it's not mathematics.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
“For me, the first challenge in computer science is to figure out how to maintain order in a finite but very large and discrete universe that is tightly intertwined. And a second challenge, but no less important, is how to shape what you have Solve the first problem in a teachable discipline: it is not enough to improve your own intellect (which will follow you to the grave), You must teach others to improve theirs. The more you focus on these two challenges, the more you will see that they are just two sides of the same coin: to teach yourself is to discover what is teachable.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
"We must arrange the calculation in such a way that our limited powers are sufficient to ensure that the calculation achieves the desired effect."
-- E.W. Dijkstra
“Imagination has been given to man to compensate for what he is not. A sense of humor was given to comfort him for who he is.”
-- Horace Walpole, man of letters (or was it Francis Bacon?)
"Man generally avoids attributing intelligence to another person unless he is an enemy."
-- Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is a childhood disease. It's the measles of humanity."
-- Albert Einstein
"I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
"The fundamental difference between a common man and a warrior is that the warrior sees everything as a challenge, while the common man sees everything as a blessing or a curse."
-- Carlos Castaneda, Anthropologe
"Every storm runs out of rain."
– Maya Angelou
"Keep humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature; direct reproduction wisely - enhance fitness and diversity; unite humanity with a new living language; rule passion, faith - tradition - and all things with moderate reason; protect individuals and nations with just laws and just courts; let all nations govern internally, settle external disputes before a world court; avoid petty laws and useless officials; balance personal rights with duty values; cherish truth-beauty-love seeking harmony with the infinite ; don't be a cancerous tumor on earth - leave room for nature - leave room for nature".
-- From Guidingstones, erected anonymously near Elberton, Georgia
"My compassion for someone is not limited by my assessment of their intelligence."
-- to the movie "Star Trek IV"
Captain Malcolm Reynolds:But it's not all buttons and graphics, little albatross. Do you know what the first rule of flight is? Well, I think so, since you already know what I'm going to say.
Rio day:I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds:Love. You can learn all the math in verse, but if you take to the air a boat you don't love it will rock you as sure as the worlds spin. Love sustains her when she should fall, tells you she's hurt before she cries. let it be a home
Rio day:The storm is getting worse.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds:We will review it shortly.
-- from the TV show "Firefly""You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere and I go everywhere.”
-- Mister Universe, make the movie "Serenity"
Ava: "Why can't I just tell him?
-- Warrior Nun (S1 E5)"The signal is the truth. The noise distracts us from the truth."
– Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight
"In the end, time is all you have and the idea is not to save it but to enjoy it"
– Ellen Goodman"The central struggle of parenting is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears."
– Ellen Goodman
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
-- from the poem "For Rhoda" by Delmore Schwartz, quoted in the movie "Star Trek: Generations"
"Give a man a hammer and he begins to see the world as a collection of nails"
Alternatively: "Everything looks like a nail to a man with a hammer."
- Anonymous
"We see what we know."
- Saying
"The Land of Canyons doesn't always inspire love. To many it seems arid, hostile, repulsive: a terrifying land, almost without water, rocks and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cacti, thorns, scorpions, rattlesnakes and agarophobic expanses. For those who see our landing in this light, the best answer is yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrifying place. Enter at your own risk. Drink water. Avoid the midday sun. Try to ignore vultures. Pray often."
– Edward Abbey, “The Journey Home”, 1977
"Fire. The smell of burning juniper is, in my honest estimation, the sweetest scent on earth; I doubt that all the incense burners in Dante's Paradise can match it Rain, conjured up in magical catalysis, like certain music, space, light, clarity and the ever-present strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn".
– Eduardo Abadia
"What draws us to the desert is the search for something intimate in the distance."
– Eduardo Abadia
"Believe? What do I believe in? I believe in the sun. In the rock. In the dogma of the sun and the teaching of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, women, rivers, eagles, storms, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses ..."
– Eduardo Abadia
"And insects, crawling across the face of the planet, are calling upon humanity...lost in time and lost in space...and lost in meaning."
-- Narrator at "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
"The sci-fi double-movie Doctor X will build a creature. Watch androids fight. Brad and Janet. Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh. In the late-night double-movie, footage will be released shown.
"
-- Refrain des Songs "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
“On a sunny Wednesday afternoon [mother] took me to Peel Park. We sat on a high esplanade and gazed at the horizon past the myriad chimneys of north Manchester. The Pennines loomed green and far away on the horizon. he said, pointing. "Mountains!"
-- Robert Roberts, "An Irregular Upbringing"
"Give me books, fruit, French wine, good weather, and outdoor music played by someone I don't know."
- Keats
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only improper clothing."
– Alfredo Wainwright
"Truly, of all the wonders of the world, the greatest is the horizon."
--Freya Stark
"A book lover never goes to bed alone."
- Anonymous
"I feel like our imagination is our greatest superpower... if you think about it. And books are food for the imagination.”
-- Kendall Joseph is involved with Reading Rainbow
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
--Haruki Murakami
"If you only do what you can, you will never be more than you are now."
-- Mestre Sifu, de Kung Fu Panda
“Bad people never have time to read. That's one of the reasons they're bad."
--Lemony Snicket
"The first step to knowledge is the admission of ignorance."
-- old Chinese proverb
"Our ignorance is not as great as our inability to use what we know."
-- M. Rey Hubbert
"There is no better test of a man's integrity than his conduct when he is wrong."
– Marvin Williams
"The greatest obstacle in discovering the shape of the earth, continents and oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
--Daniel J. Boorstin
“We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
-- John A. Wheeler, Scientific American, 1992
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't people happier?"
- Anonymous
"How rich the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger."
–Jean de La Fontaine
"When I see wildlife, even lions and leopards, I feel healthy."
-- a native African whose tribe has set itself the task of protecting wild animals
"Maybe he and I didn't know the earth was round, so we couldn't see very far."
-- Isak Dinesen from the book "Out of Africa"
"The death of an old man is like a burning library."
- African proverb
"[The library is] the ideal model of society, the best possible common space, [because there] everyone pursues his own goal (education, entertainment, affection, rest) in relation to others, through the best possible means of conveying ideas, feelings and knowledge – the book”.
-- Sophie Mayer, Journalist
"Feelings are something you have, not something you are."
- Shannon L. Alder
"My paranoia wasn't always right, but in any case, I've never slept with a clown in my bedroom."
-― Mark Henwick, Trump Oculto
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little bit about what's going on."
-― William S. Burroughs
"Being a little bit paranoid is like being a little bit pregnant, it tends to make things worse."
– Molly Ivins
"The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us crazy things, but that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us... His stubbornness, even his defiance, the facts ('stupid things'' he once called them in a memorable slip) were nothing short of magnificent... This is the man , who proved that ignorance is not a handicap to the presidency.
– Molly Ivins
"When politicians start talking about large groups of your fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a gentle wake-up call.
– Molly Ivins
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
--Woody Allen
"Don't insult the crocodile until you've crossed the water."
- African proverb
"The rain hits the leopard's skin, but it doesn't remove the spots"
- African proverb
"No one measures the depth of a river with both feet."
- African proverb
“A gazelle wakes up every morning in Africa. She knows that she must outrun the fastest lion or she will die. A lion wakes up every morning. He knows that she has to outrun the slowest gazelle or she will starve to death. No, it doesn't matter if you're a lion or a gazelle... when the sun comes up you better run."
- Anonymous
"You're less likely to die sitting in your chair at home. You're also less likely to live."
- Anonymous
"When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, logician Raymond Smullyan replies that he is a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology."
— John Allen Paulos
"All it takes for the forces of evil to triumph in this world is for many good men to do nothing."
– Edmund Burke
"If you were born where they were born and learned what they learned, you would believe what they believe."
- Anonymous
"Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't stop you from doing what you shouldn't do, it just stops you from enjoying it."
-Salvador de Madariaga.
"Humanity can't take reality very much"
-- T.S. Eliot
“Ultimately, however, the conflict is not in objective reality, but in people's minds. The truth is a simple argument, maybe good, maybe not, to deal with the difference. The Difference Itself It exists because it exists in your mind.
-- Martin Luther
"Hope is the feathered thing that sits on the soul and sings the melody without the words,
And it doesn't stop at all."
– Emily Dickinson
"Life is so amazing that it leaves little time for anything else."
– Emily Dickinson
"Every morning when I wake up I feel a supreme pleasure, the pleasure of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself in amazement: 'What else will Salvador Dalí do today?'".
-Salvador Dali
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The chariot contained only us AND immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
"memento mori" (Latin for "remember that you must die")
-- Language
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence, summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance, autumn passes and one remembers one's awe, winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
-- Yoko Ono, Season of the Crystal
“Anyone who looks at the beauty of the earth will find reserves of strength that will last a lifetime. There is something infinitely healing in nature’s recurring refrains: the certainty that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.”
– Rachel Carson
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
– Rachel Carson
“…But I heard Rosa Parks. And I heard Martin Luther King Jr. I met RosaParks in 1957 when I was 17 years old. In 1958 I got Dr. I've been in good trouble, in necessary trouble ever since.
- Congressman John Lewis
"I have a dream that one day my four young children will live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by their character."
-- DR. Martin Luther King jr. (28. August 1963)
"Rebellion is the language of the unknown."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
"It is far better to risk great things, to achieve glorious triumphs even if one fails, than to ally with the poor in spirit, who neither enjoy much nor suffer much... in the gray twilight, which knows neither victory nor defeat knows ."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
“Here is your country. Treasure these natural wonders, cherish natural resources, cherish history and romance as sacred heritage for your children and grandchildren your romance".
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Failure is not in falling, but in not getting up."
- Anonymous
"Do what you can with what you have where you are."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"If you can't say anything nice about someone, sit here next to me."
-- Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (Fila von Theodore Roosevelt)
"I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats."
– Graham Chapman
"The older I get, the less I pay attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
--Andrew Carnegie
"As we get older, beauty creeps in."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."
-Maurice Chevalier
"Those who love you expect more from you."
- Anonymous
"How bold is one when one is sure of being loved."
--Sigmund Freud
"Our planning tends to confuse the unknown with the improbable."
-- Jeffery Goldberg (editor and editor of The Atlantic)
“Everyone has a plan. Until you take the first turn.” (referring to skiing)
- Jack Walicki
Roy:Quite an experience living in fear, isn't it? That's what it's like to be a slave. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack burning ships over Orion's shoulder. I observed rays of light shining in the darkness near the Tanhauser Tor. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. Time to die.
Cheap:I don't know why he saved my life. Perhaps in those final moments he loved life more than ever. Not just his life, someone's life, my life. He just wanted the same answers as the rest of us. Where am I from? Where am I going? How much time do I have? I could only sit there and watch him die.
-- Filming of Blade Runner
I must go back down to the seas, to the lonely sea, to the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to guide her, And the sound of the oar and the song of the wind and the flapping of the white sail, and a gray mist on the sea-side, and a gray dawn
- John Masefield
"You can't say anything about the sea."
- Señor. Selvam, Akrapattai, Indien 2004
"If you refuse, you die, she dies, everyone dies!"
-- Ard to Den no filme Heavy Metal
"We can only hope to bury him secretly so his grave is not disturbed."
-- Legal advice for Captain Stern from the film Heavy Metal
"The law of the Creator, which gives every human being an inalienable title of liberty, cannot be revoked by any domestic law affirming human property."
- Salmon P. Chase
“There is a space between the stimulus and the response. In this space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
- Victor E. Frankl
Law of the Shattered Shovel O people, honor your God; Respect [the rights of] great and low alike; Let everyone, from the elderly and women to children, go out and lie down on the road (i.e., next to the path or path) without fear of harm. Break that law and die.
-- Proclaimed by King Kamehameha I
„ Mal:I am bad. I existed before God. When I have the map I will be free and the world will be different. I have understanding
Roberto:understanding of which teacher?
Mal:digital watches. And soon I will know about VCRs. And if I understand them, I will have computer skills. And if I understand computers, I will be the Supreme Being. God is not interested in technology. He knows nothing about the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time. 43 parrot species! nipples for men!
Roberto:snails.
Mal:snails! He created the snails. You can't hear. You can't speak. They cannot operate heavy machinery. If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started the lasers at 8am the first day!"
-- Make the movie "Time Bandits"
Mal:Robert, we must plan a new world together. This time we start properly. Tell me about computers.
-- Make the movie "Time Bandits"
"A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
- Segal's law
“If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat runs into his boat, even if he is a hot-tempered man, he will not be very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and scream and curse the man for staying away. If you can empty your own boat across the river of the world, no one will resist you, no one will try to harm you. This is the perfect man: his boat is empty.
- Chuang-Tse
"No matter what, time and hour pass the hardest day."
-- Macbeth de Macbeth von Shakespeare Acto I cena 3
"Civilization advances by expanding the number of critical operations we can perform without thinking."
– Alfredo North Whitehead
"Seeing the general in the particular and the permanent in the ephemeral is the end of scientific thought."
– Alfredo North Whitehead
"We were two men in a land of stone, walking towards the same star. I was glad to be in Drus, but here as everywhere I was lucky to bring a partner. What would a leader be without someone to lead them? Good weather, bad weather, easy, hard, I had to sing the same song as him. That was the most beautiful gift from our mountains. When you climb to the top, one man does his job, another goes on vacation, and the luxury of his endeavors is friendship."
- Spender
“His life as a climber had a big impact on his approach. When you climb, you do the best you can with what you have, from where you are. You're just concentrating on figuring out the next step. , this next move. . You don't say, 'Arg, that shouldn't have happened. Why does this rift end here?' If you do that, your creativity ends."
“When you are open to possibility, you stay in the present moment and keep moving. You can make the best decisions possible when you keep your creativity open and embrace reality. Instead, Jeff calls it 'embracing reality' to resist "reality."
-- Connie Self (Jeff Lowe's partner, about Jeff when he was terminally ill)
“You have to do the things you want when you have that desire — because things change. In fact, you will lose desire for certain things. If you don't do them when you want, you may never have that experience because what you want changes over time."
- Jeff Lowe
"My eyesight is failing, but my eyesight is slowly getting clearer."
- Jeff Lowe
"Do it now. Tomorrow may never come."
- Jeff Lowe
"There are two ways to get rich: make more or want less."
- Sherpa saying
"When life gets tough, there's something very comforting about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unmistakable.”
- Stacy Allison
“Tekieli talks about the unique concentration required to climb a Himalayan peak in the middle of winter. The universe shrinks to a meter or two. 'There is something mystical about it. It's not the mountain that's sluggish discover something about yourself in all those hours of concentration.'"
-- Interview by Michael Powell with Polish climber Kacper Tekieli
"There are many paths that lead to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one peak."
-Morihei Ueshiba
“Of course, ordinary people don't want war, but they can always submit to the leadership. Tell them they are under attack and condemn the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for threatening the country. It works the same for everyone. Countries. .”
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
“Common sense is just unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning done without instruments and proven scientific knowledge. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hover 36,000 kilometers above a point on the Earth's surface, but they remain..."
- E. O. Wilson
"Magnificence awaits you in minimal proportions."
- E. O. Wilson
"Destroying a rainforest for financial reasons is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook with."
- E. O. Wilson
"Don't feel alone. The whole universe is within you."
- Rumi
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go."
- Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn in silence by what you truly love.
It won't mislead you."
- Rumi
"In bad times, paint the canteen counter"
-- Russell Tru, co-owner of White Stallion Horse Ranch
"Nature is the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
- E. O. Wilson
“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science"
- E. O. Wilson
"People would rather believe than know."
- E. O. Wilson
“Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farms, the mazes that people imposed on one another at some point in the past. I appreciate the green enclaves they accidentally left behind.”
- E. O. Wilson
"The great challenge of the 21st century is to ensure that people around the world achieve a decent standard of living while getting as much out of the rest of life as possible."
- E. O. Wilson
"You are capable of more than you realize. Choose a goal that feels right for you and strive to be the best, no matter how difficult the path. Aim high. Conduct yourself with honor. Prepare to be alone at times and endure failure. Hold on! The world needs everything you can give.”
- E. O. Wilson
"Adults forget the depths of languor to which the youthful mind easily sinks. They tend to underestimate the spiritual growth that occurs during daydreaming and goal-seeking."
- E. O. Wilson
"In the end we will only keep what we love, we will only love what we understand and we will only understand what we are taught."
-- Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist
"The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is to call things by their right names."
-- E. O. Wilson, in The Variety of Life
“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was just one ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just like I never thought to wonder what Tarzan can do on the shore. I found the closer I got to sport, the closer I got to science, and the closer I got to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness."
- Peter Croft
“As I lay on my back and looked at the huge corners and ledges, I wondered if we were going to make it. But not knowing was our greatest pleasure.”
– Scott Cosgrove
"When life gets tough, there's something very comforting about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unmistakable.”
- Stacy Allison
"After all, the best poets only show a peaceful and civilized side of nature. They have never seen the west side of a mountain."
– Henry David Thoreau
"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
"Life was not meant to be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a beautiful, well-preserved body, but to slip away on a puff of smoke, utterly exhausted, utterly exhausted and loudly proclaiming... 'Wow! Trip! "'
-- Hunter S. Thompson
"The cave you fear to enter contains the treasure you seek."
– Joseph Campbell
"Find a place inside where there is joy, and joy will burn out the pain."
– Joseph Campbell
“Love need not be a command and faith need not be a proverb. We are here to laugh against all odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us away.”
-- Attribute. Charles Bukowski
"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."
- A. E. Newman
"If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything."
- Maxwell Inteligente
"Be careful of those in whom the urge to punish is powerful."
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill me postpones the inevitable."
--desespero.com
"It's always darkest just before sunset."
--desespero.com
"Insanity is the exception in individuals, the rule in groups."
-- a paraphrase of Friedrich Nietzsche by Irving Janis
"It amazes me how few oil people really understand that the only way to find oil and gas is to drill wells!"
- Anonymous
"Be brave enough to suck on something new."
- Anonymous
"So you think you're a failure, right? Well, you probably are. And we make up for our losses. Keep going, fail. as a mediocre success. accept failure. track it learn to love it This is possibly the only way each of us will be free."
– Tom Robbins
"... the most dangerous myopia is to underestimate the mediocre".
-George Bernanos
"You are standing at the end of a street in front of a small brick building. It is surrounded by a forest. A small stream comes out of the building and makes a hole."
-- opening words in the game Colossal Cave Adventure (circa 1977)
“YOU ARE AT THE END OF THE MIND. PASSAGES LEAD IN ALL DIRECTIONS.”
-- Witt's End from the game Colossal Cave Adventure (around 1977)
"Today people die of some kind of weird common sense and find out when it's too late that the one thing they never regret is their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde
"Life is too important to take seriously."
--Oscar Wilde
"We only die once. We live every day."
-- I give
"I didn't recognize you. I've changed a lot."
--Oscar Wilde
"The pure and simple truth is seldom pure and never simple."
--Oscar Wilde
"If you don't fail regularly, you're not trying hard enough."
-- atr. for Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
"The only people who really fail are those who never try."
- Anonymous
"Forever and ever there is but one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."
--Erwin Schrödinger
"Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."
-- Schopenhauer, Other Psychological Observations, 1851
"It's fun to do the impossible"
--Walt Disney
"I'm Moana from Motunui. You will board my ship, sail the seas and restore the heart of Te Fiti.”
-- Moana is doing the movie "Moana"
"Indeed it is 'Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of wind and sea, hero of men'"
-- Maui for the movie "Moiana"
"The little things in life are just as interesting as the big ones."
– Henry David Thoreau
"It's not the same talking about cops as being in the ring."
- Spanish proverb
"Oh, tell me, can you see in the first light of dawn what we so proudly salute in the last gleam of twilight? What broad streaks and bright stars flowed through dangerous battles over the walls we watched, so gallantly? And the red The glow of the rockets, the bombs that exploded in the air, testified in the night that our flag was still there.The house of the brave?
-- the first verse of the US national anthem.
"Do your job, then retire. The only way to serenity.”
- Take care
"What is subversive today will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow."
- Lucius Beebe
"You don't have to discover your worth, you just have to remember it."
- Anonymous
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching.
- Anonymous
Many eyes wander over the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey."
--p. (Sin novel S de Thirst)
"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things."
– Jack Kornfield
"The problem is that you think you have time..."
-- Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Textbook
A monk asked, "What is the fact of my nature?"
- Chao-chou
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place
in the pasture
-- Said
Spring wind combs here and there
weeping willow hair
-- Said
"Just as my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
--Bufferfly McQueen (Atriz)
"Religion is considered true by the common people, false by the wise, and useful by the rulers."
- Lucius Seneca
“Practice must be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we ask for (and even get) ends up disappointing us. This discovery is our teacher.”
– Charlotte Joko Beck
Where does a wise man kick a stone? At the beach. Where does a sage hide a leaf? In the forest
- G. K. Chesterton
I saw people coming my way, but they were all the same man, they were all me.
--Sokei-an
"I've seen the future and it's like the present, just longer."
- Dan Quisenberry
"We cannot stop the arrival of the flowers or the descent of the brook; sooner or later everything bears fruit."
-- Loy Ching-Yuen
"We never remember the days, only the moments."
Cesar Pavese
“When night comes, you regret not having practiced early in the morning. The worldly pleasures you enjoy now will become sufferings in the future. Then why are you attached to this pleasure? A moment of practice turns into an enduring pleasure, don't you practice?"
-Gewonnen Hyo
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
- Anonymous
"Enjoy today and trust as little as possible tomorrow."
-- Horacio
"I know what the greatest remedy is: it is surrender, resignation, surrender, so that our little hearts are in tune with the greater part of the world."
– Henrique Miller
Rose:But what do I do every day mom? Lift. go to work Take the bus, eat chips and go to bed.
Micky:It's what the rest of us do.
Rose:But I can not.
Micky:Why are you better than us?
Rose:No I did not mean that. But it was a better life. I'm not talking about traveling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things like that. It does not matter. The doctor showed me how to live your life better. [to Mickey] You know, he showed you too. You don't just give up. You just don't let things happen. you position yourself you say no." You have the guts to do the right thing when everyone else is running away and I just can't...!
-- dr Rose Tyler Who (Episode: Parting of the Ways)
"Look at life. Don't just look at it."
– Anne Baxter
"So if you strive to make your own way, you will help others...until you make your own way, you can't help anyone, and no one can help you."
- Shunryu Suzuki
"If you don't know how to fix it, stop damaging it."
-- Severn Cullis-Suzuki (12 years old, speaking to children at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil)
"You become what you think about all day."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most people are so concerned about their safety that they are afraid to take the risks that will allow them to truly enjoy life."
- Paul Krapf
“René Char wrote somewhere about poetry that there are creators and discoverers, they are also very different worlds. Photography also has two faces and thank God I'm only interested in discoverers, I feel a certain connection with those who set off with a spirit of discovery; I think there is a much greater risk in that than in trying to create images; and in the end, reality matters more."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
"The painter builds, the photographer reveals".
-Susan Sunday
“Progress is always associated with risks. You can't put your first foot in second place."
- Anonymous
"You can only perceive beauty with a calm mind."
– Henry David Thoreau
“We take care of difficult things immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”
- Motto of the United States Armed Forces
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
-Thomas Fuller
"Okay, so it's impossible, how long will it take?"
-- J.J. Adams, commander of the United Planets cruiser C57D
From the movie Forbidden Planet
Shadowless twilight growing colder - steaming cauldron
-- Mike Garofalo, excerpts
I will reach my lofty goal in time - let the punishment match the crime - the punishment match the crime; And may every unwittingly oppressed prisoner be a source of innocent joy! of innocent joy
"Oh Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan."
Two birds were fighting over a grain when a third swooped down and took it away.
- Congolese proverb
A raven perched in a withered tree on an autumn evening.
-- Said
Sweet bird! your bow always green, your sky always clear; You have no sadness in your song, nor winter in your year.
- Juan Logan
"Don't trip over what's behind you."
- Callie King, Amazons
"A garden is a testament to faith. It connects us to all the misty figures of the past who also planted and ate the fruits of their plantation."
– Gladys Taber
The sun's kiss for forgiveness, the birdsong for joy, in a garden you are closer to God's heart than anywhere else on earth.
– A plaque in the gardens of Bok Tower in Florida
"Find a place in the shade of the garden, away from the noise of the playground; the sun is warm, the air is sweet: stay until I call you."
I spent a long, pleasant afternoon in those green arbours, all quiet and peaceful and just birds and bees and flowers.
However, when I heard my Master's voice out the window, "Jane!" I entered happily with the word: The house is inhabited again.
--Charlotte Bronte (from The Professor)
"An apple never falls far from the tree."
- Anonymous
"A weed is just an unloved flower."
- Anonymous
“Weeds as a species are mobile, productive, genetically diverse. They aren't fussy about their habitat, adapt quickly to environmental stress, use different strategies to get what they want... It's funny that it took us so long to realize that the species they most closely resemble, we are".
-- de "Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants" by Richard Mabey
"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me is an invincible summer."
–Alberto Camus
"I believe that no matter how old or ill I am, I will always plant a great garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one feels as one participates in nature’s rebirth?”
- Eduardo Giobbi
"Spring is when you want to whistle even with muddy shoes."
-Doug Larson
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
–Alberto Camus
"Listen! the wind is increasing and the air is thick with leaves, we've had our summer nights, now for October evening!"
- HumbeIt Wolfe
“But now, in September, the garden has cooled and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of hitting my head... The crop has dwindled and I've moved away from the intense summer relationship he created. "
--Robert Finzon
"Delicious autumn! My soul is married to it, and if I were a bird I would fly over the earth in search of successive autumns."
- Jorge Eliot
There is a harmony in autumn and a glow in your sky that cannot be heard or seen in summer, as if it couldn't be, as if it hadn't been!
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Out there, in the uncharted backwaters of the old-fashioned end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies an unkempt little yellow sun. They're so incredibly primitive that they still think digital clocks are a good idea.
This planet has, or rather had, a problem and it is this: Most of the people who lived on it were unhappy most of the time. Many solutions have been proposed for this problem, but most have mainly involved the movements of small pieces of green paper, which is strange because it was generally not the small pieces of green paper that were unfortunate.”
-- the opening of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the eastern edge of the galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great galactic encyclopedia as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for although it has many omissions and contains much apocryphal orate, at least vaguely, it beats the older, more profane work in two ways: first, it's a bit cheaper, and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC in big, friendly letters on its cover.
-- the opening of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Arturo DentAt times like these, when I'm stuck in a Vogonair airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to suffocate in space, I really wish I'd listened to what my mom told me when I was little .
I'm going AlcaldeWhy, what did he tell you?
Arturo DentI don't know, I didn't hear it!
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply connecting the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-MesonBrain to an atomic matrix suspended in a strong generator of Brownian motion (e.g. a nice cup of hot tea) has been demonstrated obviously well understood.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Life," Marvin said sadly, "hate it or ignore it, you can't like it."
-- Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Oh god," muttered Ford, flopping against a bulkhead and counting to ten. He was desperately worried that someday the sentient life-forms would forget how to do it. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence from computers.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
“The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive sunglasses are specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude towards danger.
-- Zaphod Belbebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Well, you're obviously completely naive," said the girl, "if you've been in marketing as long as I have, you know that a new product needs thorough research before it's developed. We have to find out what people want from fire, how they deal with it, what image it has for them. 'People want to make fire that you can put nasally?' 'And the wheel,' said the captain, 'what about that wheel thing? Sounds like an incredibly interesting project.” “Oh,” said the marketing woman, “well, we're having a bit of a hard time here.” What do you mean by hard? It's the simplest machine in the whole universe! look. should be.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
“The place is big. Very large.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an absolutely remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable book, certainly the most successful, ever published by the major Ursa Minor publishers that no one on earth has ever heard of. More popular than The Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better seller than Fifty-Three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where Did God Go Wrong, plus Some of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Anyway? , for two important reasons, it's slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC printed in big, friendly letters on the front page."
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Ah, the paranoid android," he said. "Yes, let's take it."
"But what to do with a manic depressive robot?"
"You think you're in trouble," Marvin said, as if addressing a newly filled coffin, "what are you supposed to do when you're a robot with manic depression? smarter than you and even I don't know the answer. My head hurts just thinking about your level.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
The Galactic Encyclopedia defines a robot as a mechanical device designed to do a human's job. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's marketing department defines a robot as "your plastic friend who's fun to be around."
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Herr McGuire:I want to say a word to you. Only one word.
Benjamin:Yes indeed.
Herr McGuire:You hear?
Benjamin:Yes, I am.
Herr McGuire:Plastic.
-- "The Graduate" 1967
"Lo siento, dije algo malo?" Marvin said and got up on his own. "Forgive me for breathing which I never do anyway so I don't know why I even bother to say this oh god I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-gratifying doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
“Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, New York City is doomed.”
-- Morbo the Destroyer from Futurama
The fool. The interfering idiot! As if your monkey's brain could hold the secrets of the Krell.
-- dr Morbius from the movie "Forbidden Planet"
"The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself."
– Paul „Oso“ Bryant
"Sometimes I feel like a more rational explanation for everything that's happened in my life is that I'm only thirteen years old, Jules Verne or H.G. Wells and fell asleep."
--Stanislaw Ulam in "The Adventures of a Mathematician"
"Mathematics is in many cases an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in activities detached from external affairs. Some practice it as if on drugs. Chess sometimes plays a similar role. In their dissatisfaction with the events of this world, some sink into a kind of mathematical self-sufficiency (some have embraced it for that reason alone).
--Stanislaw Ulam in "The Adventures of a Mathematician"
"Any good idea can be expressed in fifty words or less."
--Stanislav's fire
"Anyone can get hit on the head."
--Aristotle
"Geometry draws the soul to truth."
– Plato
"In all things of nature there is something wonderful."
--Aristotle
"If you meet a swordsman along the way, show him your sword. If you meet a man who isn't a poet, don't read him your poem."
--Lao Tzu
"Using the mind to think conceptually means giving up substance and clinging to form"
-Huang Po
"From the distinction between this and that arises a multiplicity of demons"
-Huang Po
"Don't be angry if the dancing elephant steps on your feet. Be happy because the elephant can dance.”
- W. L. Kennedy
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
– Elvis Costello
“We live in a lightning-lit world. After the lightning strike we are blind again.”
--T-Bone Burnett
“I said to my soul: Stand still and wait without hope, for hope would be the hope of falsehood; wait without love, because love would be the love of the wrong person; there is still faith, but faith, hope and love await. Wait without thinking, because you are not ready to think: then the darkness will become light and the silence will dance.”
-- T.S. Elliott on "Four Quartets"
"I haven't seen a problem, no matter how complicated, that, if you look at it right, doesn't get any more complicated."
- Poul Anderson
"Nothing exists but atoms and empty space: everything else is opinion"
- Democritus of Adbera
"Men need some kind of external activity because they are internally inactive."
-- Schopenhauer, Other Psychological Observations, 1851
“Chopping wood and carrying water before enlightenment.
Chop wood and carry water after enlightenment."
-Wu Li"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul in the smallest deeds. That is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda
“Men never do evil so completely and happily as when they do it out of religious conviction”
- Blais Pascual
"I can't do that, it's against my religion" is freedom of religion. "You can't do that, it's against my religion," it's not.
--ACLU
"I'm a virgin, I'm just not very good at it."
-- Valeria Golino, "Hot Shots"
"You will do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm."
-- Colette See more
"Youth is not a moment in life, it's a state of mind, no one grows old by living a few years. We grow old by giving up our ideals. The years can wrinkle the skin, but enthusiasm wrinkle the soul. sixty or sixteen, at the heart of every human being lies the lure of wonder, the incorruptible childish appetite for what comes next, and the joy of life's game.
–Samuel Ulman
"The more we leave the world, the less we will get out of it, and in the long run we will have to pay our debts at a time that can be very inconvenient for our own survival."
-- Norbert Wiener or the human use of humans
"One of the main duties of the mathematician as an adviser to scientists is to keep them from expecting too much from mathematics."
- Norbert Wiener
"A teacher is someone who can talk for exactly fifty minutes on any subject."
- Norbert Wiener
“The advantage is that mathematics is an area where the mistakes are usually very obvious and can be corrected or erased with the stroke of a pencil. It's an area that's often been compared to chess, but it differs from the latter only in that it's a person's best moments that count, not their worst. A single lack of attention can lose a game of chess, while a single successful approach to a problem will earn a reputation among many that have been relegated to the trash can. . "
-- Norbert Wiener en Ex-Wunderkind: My childhood and youth.
"The best material model for a cat is another cat, or preferably the same cat."
-- Norbert Wiener und The Rosenblueth in Philosophy of Science 1945
"Scientific discovery consists in interpreting, for our own convenience, a system of existence made without concern for our convenience."
- Norbert Wiener
"You can never step into the same river twice because fresh water is always pouring over you."
- Anonymous
"The tree in which the sap stagnates remains fruitless."
-Ossea Ballou
"When the student is truly ready to learn, a teacher appears."
-- is Zen philosophy
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
-- Western Zen saying
"The greater the truth, the simpler it is."
-Abraham Isaac Cook
"Words are the fog you have to see through."
-- Zen Diktat
"Sometimes inaction is the highest form of action."
--Jerry Brown
"Mind is the killer of the real."
- The Voice of Silence
“Think of zen, emptiness, good and evil, and you will be bound hand and foot. Just think deeply about what you are doing and you will be free as a bird.”
- R. H. Blyth
"I don't think I can really give up teaching."
- Richard Feynman
"Study diligently what interests you in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original way."
- Richard Feynman
"The first principle is that one should not deceive oneself, and one is the easiest to deceive."
- Richard Feynman
"I have the advantage of having discovered how difficult it is to really know something. How careful you have to be when checking experiments. How easy it is to be wrong and deceived. I know what it means to know something ."
- Richard Feynman
"I'm not afraid of not knowing things."
- Richard Feynman
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. It used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economic numbers."
- Richard Feynman
"Another thing I should point out is that a vague theory cannot be proven wrong."
- Richard Feynman
“Feynman is a man for whom I develop considerable admiration; he is the brightest of the young theorists here and he is the first example of that rare breed of Indian scientist I have met. His most valuable contribution to physics is Like a Moron, when he bursts out with his latest idea and starts explaining it with fancy sound effects and waving his arms, at least life doesn't get boring.
- Freeman Dyson
"You only really understand what you can create."
Giambattista Vico
"Science is a process of learning about nature by comparing competing ideas about how the world works with observations."
- Richard Feynman
“I came to the terrifying conclusion that I am the determining factor in the classroom. It's my personal approach that sets the mood. It's my daily vibe that sets the mood. As a teacher, I have tremendous power to shape the life of an unhappy child I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration I can humiliate or please, hurt or heal In all situations, my reaction determines whether a crisis escalates or subsides and a child is humanized or dehumanized.
– Haim Ginot
“Raising a child is like building a skyscraper. If the first few floors get out of line, no one will notice. But if the building has 18 or 20 floors, everyone will see that it leans.”
- Jim obispo
The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, the *great* teacher inspires.
--William A. Ward
"If we expect students to be winners and perform well, they will rise to the occasion."
–Jaime Escalante
“We can talk all we want about awards and raises, but the true reward of teaching is teaching. The personal satisfaction you get from doing it effectively is just phenomenal.”
--David W. Pratt
"The only zen you find on the top of the mountains is the zen you bring there."
--Roberto Pirsig
"Zen in the Symbolization of the World".
- R. H. Blyth
We dance in circles and guess, but the secret is in the middle and he knows it.
-- Robert Frost von "The Secret Sits"
This is how the leaf becomes the leaf. So Eden sank in pain, so dawn became day. Nothing gold can stay.
- Roberto Frost
And those who say, "I'll try everything once," often try nothing twice or thrice, and arrive late at the door of dreams worth dying for.
- Carl Sandburg
"Write in the sand what people do to you
but write on a piece of marble the good things that happen to you."
- Arabic proverb
"The wind from heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
- Arabic proverb
“It's not about finding your dream horse. It's about being your horse's dream person.”
- Anonymous
"Your hands are not there to control the horse, only to feel its thoughts."
- Anonymous
"No one can teach you to ride like a horse."
-- C.S. Lewis
"...but what if I fall? Oh but darling, what if you fly?"
- Erin Hanson
“Who said paper worlds are an escape from what is real? As if the lives caught in their bonds aren't the ones that make you feel. Because sometimes our best lessons come from those inked for skin that transcend the paper.
To take our hand and pull us."
- Erin Hanson
"Many of the problems we see in the horse world today stem from riders demanding performance rather than valuing effort."
Karen Rohlf
"Horsemanship is the art of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions and behavior. Not the horses."
- Mark Rashid
"Somewhere...somewhere in the course of time there must be a sweet pasture where brooks sing and trees grow tall, a paradise where horses go. Because in love my pen leads
I know great horses live again."
– Stanley Harrison
"Smooth, smooth, rhythmic movement, absolute and unique purpose, movement for the pleasure of the movement itself. It was terrible in its beauty, the horse's flight."
-- Larry Niven, Rainbow Mars
"The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us into contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom."
--Sharon Rall's Lemon
"No paradise can exist unless my horse is there to welcome me."
- Anonymous
"To see the strength of the wind, the cleanliness of the rain, and the radiant life of the sun, just look at the horse."
- Anonymous
"Half the failures in life result from pulling the horse while jumping."
- Anonymous
"When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head against yours, and when you look at him and you feel a tingling sensation down your back... you know you are loved."
- John Lyons
"A horse gallops with its lungs, perseveres with its heart, and wins with its character."
- Federico Tesio
"I've spent most of my life riding horses. I wasted the rest.”
- Anonymous
"The horse, with beauty unmatched, strength immeasurable, and grace like no other, is still humble enough to carry a man on his back."
- Mirada is said
"All horses deserve to be loved by a girl at least once in their life."
- Anonymous
"A true rider doesn't look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at that horse with his heart."
- Anonymous
"You can see what man has done from the seat of a car, but the best way to see what God has done is from horseback."
--Charles M. Russell (1864-1926)
"Wherever man has left his footprints in the long climb from barbarism to civilization, we find the footprints of a horse alongside."
– John Trotwood Moore
"Understanding the soul of a horse is the best that humans can achieve to recognize perfection."
- Anonymous
"To fly, just take the reins."
– Melissa James
"The horse. Here is nobility without vanity, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, but never a slave."
– Ronaldo Duncan
"When you sit on a big horse, you have the best seat you have ever had."
– Sir Winston Churchill
"We kept him until he died... and we sat with him for those last long minutes, when a horse comes closest to human appearance."
- C. J. Mullen
"When a horse greets you with a whinny and looks at you with one big, liquid eye, the question of where you want to be is answered."
- Anonymous
"No philosopher understands us so completely as dogs and horses."
--Herman Melville
"At best, rider and horse are connected not by bond but by trust. Each is completely dependent on the other. Each is the selfless custodian of the other's well-being."
- Anonymous
"If your horse says 'no' then you either asked the wrong question or you asked the wrong question."
-- Pat Parelli See more
"I heard a whinny. Oh, such a bright, melodious whinny. My heart skipped a beat at the sound.”
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"No secret is as intimate as that between a rider and his horse."
-- RS MPs
“And indeed, a proud horse is so beautiful and amazing that it draws the gaze of all who see it. Nobody gets tired of looking at it while it is displayed in all its glory.”
-- Xenophon (430 v. Chr.-354 v. Chr.)
"The history of mankind is carried on horseback."
- Anonymous
"It's easy to conquer the world on horseback."
--Gêngis Khan
“You led me to adventure and love. We both shared great joys and great sorrows. next to me. Page."
– Pam Brown
"He knows when you're happy. He knows when you're comfortable. He knows when you're confident. And he always knows when you eat carrots.”
- Anonymous
“You can get in a car and see what the human has done. You must ride a horse to see what God has done.”
- Anonymous
"Not an hour of life is wasted by spending it in the saddle."
--Winston Churchill
"When the Almighty put hoofs to the wind and bridle to the lightning, he called it a horse."
- Anonymous
"A man on horseback is greater mentally and physically than a man on foot."
-- John Steinbeck
"To see a horse is to see an angel on earth."
- Anonymous
"A dog looks at a man. A cat looks at a man. But a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal."
- Anonymous
"Riding a horse is flying without wings."
- Anonymous
"By riding a horse, we borrow freedom."
- Anonymous
"In the horse's steady gaze shines a quiet eloquence that speaks of love and loyalty, of strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to us how willing his spirit is, how generous his heart is.
- Anonymous
"His hooves beat to the beat, his heart sings the song."
--Jerry Shulman
"Somewhere something amazing is waiting to be known."
--Carl die Saga
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
--Carl die Saga
"Sometimes a concept is confusing, not because it's profound, but because it's wrong."
- E. O. Wilson
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the clown.
--Carl die Saga
“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes: openness to new ideas, no matter how odd or counterintuitive, and the most unrelenting skeptical examination of all ideas, old and new. sifted with deep nonsense."
--Carl die Saga
"You go to kindergarten or first grade, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. And they ask deep questions! They ask, 'What is a dream? Why do we have toes? Is the moon round? What is the birthday of the World, why is the grass green? Those are deep and important questions! They just pop up. You will be speaking to 12th graders and there is none of that. They were disinterested. Between kindergarten and 12th grade something terrible happened.
--Carl die Saga
“I have a glimpse of an America of my children's or grandchildren's time, when the United States was an economy of services and information; when almost all manufacturing industries were relocated to other countries; as incredible technological powers in the hands of few and no one representing the public interest, only when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda or knowingly challenge authority can the problems even be understood when our crystal clutches and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what sounds good and what is true, we almost unknowingly slip back into superstition and obscurity.), programming on the lowest common denominator, gullible presentations of pseudoscience and superstition, but a kind of exaggeration of ignorance over everything".
- Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1997)
"Calm seas do not make good seafarers."
- Saying
"The crisis is over. Plus, they've taken the first step towards true friendship.
-- from the book "2010"
"Friendship is comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person who needs neither to ponder thoughts nor to measure words, but puts everything away as it is, grain and chaff together, sure that a faithful hand will pluck and sift it will keep what is worth keeping and, with a touch of comfort, do the rest."
- Anonymous
"Progress is not about replacing a wrong theory with a right one. It is about replacing a wrong theory with a more subtle wrong one."
- Anonymous
"The only gift is protection from yourself...therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a jewel; the sailboat, coral and shells; the painter, his painting; the girl, a self-sewn handkerchief".
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The earth is our mother; our nine months are over."
- Anonymous
"Never ascribe to malice what can be amply explained by stupidity."
- Anonymous
"Remember, one treats others with courtesy and respect, not because they are gentlemen or ladies, but because you are."
- Garth Henrichs
"Be excellent to each other!"
--Bill and Ted
"Be useful to one another!"
-- Usability-Mann
„Alicia:'Where do I go from here?'
The laughing cat:"That depends on where you want to go."
-- Alice in Wonderland
"If I could start my life over again, I would dare to make more mistakes. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I might have more real problems, but I would have fewer imaginary ones. Hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I would try to have nothing else, just moments, one at a time, instead of living so many years ahead of each day, I was one of those people who never go anywhere without a thermometer, hot water bottle, raincoat, and parachute if I had to. If If I did it again, I would travel lighter than before. If I had to live my life over again, I would start barefoot in the spring and stay barefoot later in the fall. I would go to more balls. I would ride more carousels. I would pick more daisies.”
-- Nadine Stair, 85 years old
"Sit up straight in your chair, keep your head up, keep your eyes fixed where the road meets the sky and live like you're not afraid to die and don't be afraid, just enjoy your ride."
-- Chris Ledoux-Song "The Ride"
"I think the highest and lowest points are the most important. Any points in between are, well, in the middle."
-- Jim Morrison
"When you understand, things are exactly as they are; when you do not understand, things are exactly as they are."
-- to Zen
"In peace children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children."
- Herodotus“Walk peacefully amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there can be in silence. Stand on good terms with all people as far as you can without giving up. Speak your truth in a low, clear voice and listen to others, Even the stupid and ignorant have their stories. Avoid loud and aggressive people, they are a nuisance to the mind. Comparing yourself to others can make you a vain orbiter because there will always be people who are superior or inferior to you. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Be interested in your own career, however humble it may be; it is a real possession through the ages. Be careful in your business dealings because the world is full of deceit. That blinds what virtues there are; many people strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Above all, don't feign affection. Do not be cynical about love, for above all dryness and lust ncanto is as constant as grass. Kindly keep the advice of the years and gracefully give up the things of youth. Nurture the spirit's power to protect you in sudden calamity. But don't worry about dark imaginations. Many fears arise from fatigue and loneliness. Besides healthy discipline, be kind to yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; You have the right to be here. And whether you realize it or not, the universe is undoubtedly unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive of Him and whatever your endeavors and aspirations, in life's noisy confusion, keep peace with your soul. With all its charades, drudgeries, and broken dreams, it's still a beautiful world. Be happy. striving to be happy"
-- Max Ehrmanns Desiderate
"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
-- Benjamin Franklin
For lack of a nail, a horseshoe was lost For lack of a horseshoe, a horse was lost For lack of a horse, a rider was lost For lack of a rider, an army was lost For lack of an army, a battle was lost For lack of battle die the war was lost, for lack of war the kingdom was lost, and all for lack of a little horseshoe nail.
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The war [in Vietnam] that we cannot win, lose or give up shows an instability of ideas."
-- Senator Scott?, from the film The Fog of War"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the benefit of people who know each other but don't kill each other."
- Paul Valery
“Forgiveness has freed me from hate. I still have a lot of scars on my body and a lot of pain most days, but my heart is pure. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness, and love are far more powerful. We wouldn't be at war if we could all learn to live with true love, hope, and forgiveness.
-- Kim Phúc, naked girl, photographed running in street after napalm attack in Vietnam, NPR, 2008
"The war does not determine who is right, but who remains left."
- Anonymous
“Peace is not a relationship between nations. It is a state of mind brought about by the serenity of the soul. Peace is not just the absence of war. It's also a state of mind. Lasting peace can only happen to peaceful people.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be achieved through understanding."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
-- Mike Tyson
"If we don't have peace, it's because we forget that we belong to each other."
-- Mutter Teresa
"All we're saying is to give peace a chance."
- John Leon
“The world will never have lasting peace as long as people save the best of human qualities for war. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a just and dynamic faith.”
– John Foster Dulles
"The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the judge is good and honest, and have an understanding wife and intelligent children."
--Chang Chao
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
--Bruce Lee
“Be like water making its way through the cracks. Don't be self-conscious, but conform to the object and you will find a way around or through it. When nothing stays rigid within you, things will reveal themselves on the outside.
Empty your mind, let yourself go. Formless, like water. When you put water in a glass, it becomes the glass. You put water in a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now the water can flow or it can fall. Be water, my friend".
--Bruce Lee
"A man's first duty is to think for himself."
- Jose Marti
“If you make people think, they will love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
- Harlan Ellison
"Confidence is the biggest obstacle to performance in physical activity"
--Bruce Lee
"When you're totally defeated, you start appreciating the little things around you again." Voytek later explained. "Just go back to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or to enjoy good people. If you always succeed, you will enjoy the admiration of many people. To be defeated is to be limited in options be." of life If one can enjoy the quiet hours of the night because they are beautiful, a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy those things.
-- Wojtek Kurtyka, Polish high-altitude climber for Climbing Magazine, 9-8/89,"Between Hammer and Anvil"
"Sure victory can't be an honor, but sure defeat can squeeze a lot."
-- TE Lawrence, "Revolt in Desert", Kap. 19
“Authority is never the same as responsibility. This is one of the great myths and delusions of all time. Successful managers and individuals at all levels know that being effective means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those that are successful will always go well beyond formal delegation. They take the initiative and absorb the heat when things go wrong. This is true for the military in wartime, for manufacturing companies with 200 employees and for giant car manufacturers or software companies.
– Tom Peters“He is not the most miserable man or woman, but he has a deeply secret mythology that he uses to struggle with the material world and to overcome and overcome it. He's not the most pathetic of people, but he does have his share of creative energy. that builds the world We are all creators. We will create our own mythological world out of certain formless materials."
- John Cowper Powys
"I'm using myself to the maximum, which is all I can think of for a sentient being to hope for."
-- HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
David Bowmann:Open the cabin compartment doors, HAL.
HAL:Sorry Dave, unfortunately I can't.
-- HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you live with it for the rest of your life."
– Michael Sinz
"We are what we keep doing. So excellence isn't an act, it's a habit."
--Aristotle
"The whole thing is more than the sum of its parts."
-- Aristotle (metaphysics 330 BC)
"If you want to say something in politics, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
– Margaret Thatcher
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
-- Louis Armstrong
“Soon the child's clear eye will be clouded by ideas and opinions, prejudices and abstractions. The simple and free self, encrusted with the ego's heavy armor, is withdrawn from him "The sun shines through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment by strange beauty and pain, like a memory of paradise. After this day .. . we became seekers."
- Peter Matthiessen
"You know I write slowly. Mainly because I'm never satisfied until I've said all I can in a few words, and short writing takes a lot longer than long writing."
- Gauss
"Theory attracts practice like a magnet attracts iron."
- Attributes. Gauss
"I know the lion by the paw."
-- Jacob Bernoulli recognizes an anonymous solution by Isaac Newton
"If you can't solve a problem, there's an easier problem you can't solve: find it."
- Panos
"This sentence has no verb"
--Douglas Hofsteader
"I've got a mind of steel...err...little thing."
--Patrick Logans Blog
"Hofsteader lions:It always takes longer than expected, even considering Hofsteader's Law.
--Douglas Hofsteader
"If Jesus comes out of his tomb at Easter and sees his shadow, do we still have six weeks of Lent?"
- Anonymous
"Television is about seeing life rather than having one."
--Beth Mazur
"Not everyone can be a hero, someone has to sit on the sidewalk and clap as they go"
- Will Rogers
"I'm not kidding, I'm just observing the government and reporting the facts."
- Will Rogers
"You know that everyone is ignorant, just in different matters."
- Will Rogers
"Suffering is inevitable. Misery is a choice."
- Anonymous
"Men are always afraid of things that move by themselves."
-- The Ghola (Frank Herberts Dune Messiah)
"Nothing sticks forever like the memory of power."
--Isaac asimov
"A man without a woman is like a kite without a wind."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"The meat gives up. it occurred to me. I'm not. However, it occurred to me."
-- Maud 'Dib (Dune Messiah von Frank Herbert)
“Talk about death because it is necessary, style. It's a tension that lets the living know they're alive.
-- Ghanima (Sons of Dune by Frank Herbert)
"Balance is what separates a people from a crowd."
-- Maud 'Dib (Frank Herbert Dune-Trilogie)
"The joy of life, its beauty, everything has to do with the fact that life can surprise you."
-- Leto Atrides (Frank Herberts The Dunes-Trilogie)
"Most deadly mistakes come from outdated assumptions."
-- Relato Bene Gesserit (Dune Trilogy von Frank Herbert)
“I was often discouraged but never hopeless; I consider our game of hide-and-seek to be a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my journal, I treat all hardships as fun. I have now decided to live a different life other girls and later , as opposed to ordinary housewives. My beginnings were so interesting and that's the only reason I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
- Ana Frank
"Man's life is nothing but a series of vain hopes and unfounded fears."
-Montequieu
"Communism is just a big telephone company."
– Lenny Bruce
“Often the most important characteristic of good work is that it prevents bad things from happening to the company. How can we measure the bad things that don't happen?”
-- Robert M. Tomasko
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
– Bill Cosby
"Nothing in the world is as powerful as an idea whose time has come."
--Victor Hugo
"Be like the bird that, after flying over very weak branches for some time, feels them give way under them, and still sings because it knows it has wings."
--Victor Hugo
"The cost of living is going down."
-- Seen on a t-shirt
“There is a fine line between courage and madness”
– Roberto Heckendorn
"A chicken is just an egg to make another egg."
- Anonymous
“A chaotic office is a happy office. This office is disruptive.”
- Anonymous
"There's only one real animal in the bullring, the crowd."
- Anonymous
“Those who really know need not shout.
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Nothing strengthens authority like silence"
- Leonardo da Vinci
"In rivers, the water you touch is the last of what has happened and the first of what is to come; so it is in the present."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Some people think the glass is half full. Others think it's half empty. I think the glass is too big."
- Jorge Carlin
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy your hunger by stuffing sandwiches all over your body."
- Jorge Carlin
“I keep six honest men (You taught me everything I knew); their names are what, why and when
And how and where and who."
-- "The Boy with the Elephant", Rudyard Kipling [1865-1904]
"Every time I see an adult riding a bicycle, I no longer despair of the future of mankind."
- H. G. Wells
"The bike is a big part of the future...it has to be...something is wrong with a society that drives a car to go to the gym."
-- Bill Nye, the scientist
“It's very dangerous to come into a place with preconceived notions and expectations of what you're going to get out of it. Because maybe you actually achieve exactly what you found there. Far greater rewards than you would otherwise be able to feel and that can change and improve your life in ways you never thought possible.
-- Guy Tal, Photographer
"Rock is the great equalizer and the great liberator, the great admonisher, the great prioritizer and the great unmasker of illusions, dissonance and megalomania."
-- Guy Tal, Photographer
"A place isn't a place isn't a place. Places gain meaning when we interact with them; when we have experiences and memories in them; when we feel comfortable in them. There's a huge difference between a place as a couple in a permanent one Relationship and a place that is considered only as a photographic subject. I'm not very interested in the latter. I discovered a long time ago that my work is more meaningful to me as an expression of my life and my relationships with the world. Without such relationships, aesthetics alone, although it's beautiful to look at sometimes, it doesn't drive me to create. To create, I need more than beauty; I need a good story, and I need to be a character in that story. And my story unfolds here."
-- Guy Tal, Photographer
“Cycling is in itself a safeguard against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to movement. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two bullets and a straight line and I'll show you how far I can go." Take them away... Voltaire himself could have invented the bicycle, since it does so much for the well-being of man and nothing for his harm. It's healthy, doesn't emit noxious fumes, and only emits the most decent speeds. How can a bicycle be an instrument of evil?"
– Angela Carter
“There is beauty in stillness and stillness in beauty, and you can find both on a bike!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Bike means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!"
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to keep moving."
-- Albert Einstein
“When I ride my bike, I repeat a mantra of the feelings of the day: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay song, melting ice and soon. It helps me beat the traffic, ignore the noise of work, leave everyone in the cinema in my head and focus on nature. I still have to abide by the rules of the road, cycling, and gravity. But I'm mentally far from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart."
- Diane Ackermann
"A bike will get you there and more... And there's always a thread of danger that keeps you on your toes and makes you pleasantly anxious. Dogs will become dogs again and chew through your raincoat; Potholes get personal. And getting there is all the fun.” .
– Bill Emerson, „On Bicycling“, Saturday Evening Post, 1967, 29. Juli
“It is strange that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Maybe people like the world they see from a bike or the air they breathe when they ride a bike. Either they like the bike's simplicity and the precision with which it's made, or because they like the feeling of being flying through the air one minute and riding through a park the next, leaving choking clouds of exhaust in their wake, not one Step back.
-- Gurdon S. Leete
"Cycling is the best approximation I know of bird flight. The plane simply carries a human on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives them no wings of their own."
--Louis J. Helle, Jr., Frühling in Washington
“When the mood is low, when the day seems dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope is not worth it, just hop on a bike and ride down the street thinking of nothing but the ride it will take to do. "
--Arhur Conan Doyle
"...She'll never know what it's like to be the first to pump at the top of the hill with the others dangling behind her like beads slipping off a broken necklace.
-- anon (about bike racing)
"¡Klaatu barada nikto!"
-- Aus dem Film "The Day the Earth Stand Still"
"If you get a second chance at something, do it."
– Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour de France after battling cancer
"Other than 100,000 lines of code, you should probably program in Ada."
--BOOK PAGE J. Plauger
“Lately I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I find no redeeming feature in our particular superstition (Christianity). They are all based equally on fable and mythology.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“God, who gave us life, gave us freedom. Can a nation's liberties be secured if we give up the belief that those liberties are a gift from God?”
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I distrust these people who know so well what God wants from them because I know it always coincides with their own desires."
--Susan B.Anthony
"Lord, what have you got there?...(to)...It was what we call a focused, non-terminal, repetitive mind, or a full Class 5 roving vaper..... really mean too!"
-- Ray Stantz (from the movie Ghostbusters)
"For people who like that kind of thing, that's exactly what they like"
-- Abraham Lincoln
"We can lament because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because rosebushes have roses"
-- Abraham Lincoln"Just as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master either. That expresses my idea of democracy. Anything other than what concerns difference is not democracy."
-- Abraham Lincoln"A house divided within itself cannot survive. I believe that this half-slave and half-free government cannot last forever. I don't expect the union to disintegrate, I don't expect the house to collapse, but I hope it stops being divided. become one or the other."
-- Abraham Lincoln"There is no complaint that is an adequate remedy under mafia law."
-- Abraham Lincoln“It is the eternal struggle between two principles, good and evil, around the world. It's the same spirit that says, "You work and earn your bread, and I eat." No matter what form it comes in, whether it comes from the mouth of a king trying to ride the people of his own nation and live off the fruits of their labor, or from a race of people as an excuse to enslave another race, it's the same tyrannical principle".
-- Abraham Lincoln“Dear fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal importance or insignificance can be forgiven one or the other of us. The litmus test we have passed will illuminate us, honor or dishonor for the last generation. We, including here, have the power and the responsibility."
-- Abraham Lincoln“The principles of the calm past do not fit the stormy present. Opportunity is fraught with difficulty and we must rise with opportunity. Since our case is new, we need to think anew and act anew. We must break free, and then we will "Save our country."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"You are not a statesman! A statesman is a dead politician. God knows we need more statesmen!"
- Milo Bloom, Bloom County
"Politicians like to see cranes on the horizon."
-- Kevin Stanley of the planned new tallest building in the world, the Grollo Tower.
"Good tea. Beautiful house."
- Leutnant Worf
Guanan:It's a drink of the earth. plum juice.
Lob:"Warrior Drink!"
--Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Yesterday's Enterprises"
"Darmok and Jalad in Tanagra" "Shaka when the walls fell." "Sokath! open your eyes!”
--Star Trek: The Next Generation, Metáforas der Episode "Darmok"
“A union makes sense to me. Deep down I'm a peaceful man, but I'm sick of all these beatings. I hit Krako, Krako hit Teppo, Teppo hit me. There are too many bosses! We can't do anything I thought: if there was only one boss, maybe someone like you, then we could do something!
--Bela Oxmyx aus der Star Trek-Episode "A Piece of the Action"
"A question. Even before your sun set in space and before your race was born, I've been waiting for a question."
- The Guardian of Eternity from Star Trek
Rocket Raccoon:[on Drax] You people are absolutely literal. Metaphors are overwhelming.Drax the Destroyer:I can't think of anything...! My reflexes are very fast. I would like.
- Protector of the galaxy
"The only subject I don't take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me. the bullet But come back to me empty-handed… And I will bathe the stars in your blood.”
- Thanos an Ronan den Ankläger, Guardians of the Galaxy
"Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. So do it."
- Langer Lazarus
"In the mind of the beginner there are many possibilities, but in the mind of the expert there are few."
- Shunryu Suzuki
"If one really wants to be a master of an art, the technical knowledge of it is not enough. It is necessary to transcend the technique so that the art becomes 'art without art', growing from the unconscious."
--D.T. Suzuki Breakthrough for "Zen in the Art of Archery"
Rollo Lee:Now there are your meerkats, right? (point out)
Lauderbiene:Don't do that, please sir, please! They go straight to the throat!
Rollo Lee:Well, your new dish, Lauderbee, says it's the piranha of dessert. That's right?
Lauderbiene:You can undress a human corpse in 3 minutes, sir.
Rollo Lee:According to my encyclopedia, they are easy to tame and are often kept as pets.
Lauderbiene:No, it wasn't attacked by one, sir.
Rollo Lee:No one was attacked by one...or if they were, they never noticed.
-- make the film Ferocious Creatures
"I think ordinary people in this country are tired of being told that ordinary people are tired. I certainly am not, and I am tired of being told I am!”
-- Monty Python
"And by then, there's going to be rumors that things have gone off course, and there's going to be a lot of confusion as to where things really are, and nobody's really going to know where these little things on the bast base job- Guys who have attachments they don't want... At that point, a friend will lose his friends' gavel, and the youngsters will not know where their parents' things are, which their parents put there last night . ..."
-- A Life of Brian from Monty Python
Man 1: "... I think it was 'Blessed are the cheesemakers'. Woman: “What is special about cheese makers?
Man 2: "Well, not literally, of course. You mean some dairy company."
-- A Life of Brian from Monty Python
Just remember that you are on a planet that is evolving and spinning at 1900 miles per hour, orbiting at 19 miles per second, which is why it is considered the sun, which is the source of all our power. The sun and you and I and all the stars we can see move a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm, forty thousand miles an hour, from the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our own galaxy contains a hundred billion stars. It is 100,000 light-years across. It bulges out at the center, is sixteen thousand light-years thick, but outside of us it's only three thousand light-years wide. years away from the galactic center. We rotate every two hundred million years, and our galaxy is just one of millions and billions in this amazingly expanding universe.
The universe itself is expanding and expanding. It can zoom in all directions. As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. You feel very small and unsure of how incredibly unlikely your birth is, and you pray that there is intelligent life somewhere in space. Because there are insects here on earth.
– Monty Python, from "O Sentido da Vida", sung by Eric Eidel
Chapman:*I* don't know - Mr. Wentworth said to come over and say there was trouble at the factory, that's all. I wasn't expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
(JARRINGENT AWAKENS) (The door opens and Cardinal Ximinez of Spain (Palin) enters, flanked by two young cardinals.)
Ximinez:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our main weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency... our three weapons are fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency. ..and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no...*Under* our arms.... Under our arms...there are elements of fear, surprise... I'm going back in. (go and go)Chapman:I wasn't expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
(DISTANT CORDON) (cardinals join in)
Ximinez:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our weapons include various elements such as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope and beautiful red uniforms - oh my god! (To Cardinal Biggles) I can't say it, you have to say it.-- Monty Python
Chapman diagram:We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; We had to live by a lake!
Terry Gilliam:You were lucky to have a SEE! We were one hundred and sixty living in a shoebox in the middle of the street.
Michael Palin:cardboard box?
Terry Gilliam:Sim.
Michael Palin:You were lucky, we lived in a brown paper bag in a septic tank for three months. We got up at six in the morning, cleaned our bags, ate a piece of stale bread, worked fourteen hours a day, week after week. When we got home, dad would beat us to sleep with his belt!
Chapman diagram:Lux. We had to get off the lake at three in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the sawmill every day for twopence a month, come home and Dad would beat us in the head and neck with a broken bottle if we were lucky!
Terry Gilliam:Well, we've had a hard life. We used to get out of the shoe box at lunchtime and lick the street with our tongues. years, and when we came home, our father would cut us in two with a bread knife.
Eric idle:Good. I had to get up at ten o'clock in the morning, half an hour before bedtime (laughter pause), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day at the mill and pay the owner of the mill asked for permission to work, and if When we got home our father killed us and danced on our graves and sang Hallelujah.
Michael Palin:But you're trying to say that to today's youth... and they don't believe you.
AT:No no..
-- Monty Python (last part of "You Got Lucky" sketch)
King: "One day, boy, this will all be yours."
Son: "What are the curtains?"
-- Monty Python in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
"I don't want to talk to you anymore, you stupid feed cleaner! I farted in your direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled like elderberry.”
-- French soldier in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
"Listen, strange women lying in ponds handing out swords are no basis [interrupt] for a system of government!
-- from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
"Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like to be English? Being so decent all the time, so smothered by this fear of...doing the wrong things, saying to someone, "Are you married?" and to hear "My wife left me this morning" or "Do you have children?" and tell me they all burned on wednesday. Look, Wanda, we're all going to be afraid of shame. that's why we are like this...dead. Most of my friends are dead, you know, we have a lot of corpses for dinner. But you're alive, bless you, and I want to be, I'm done with it all. I want to sleep with you, Wanda. I'm a good lover, at least I was in the early 1400's. Shall we go to bed?
-- Archie in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda"
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
-- George Bernard Shaw attribute (but not found in his writings)
"The Americans are identical to the British in every respect except, of course, the language."
--Oscar Wilde
“Giving an American English is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important, but he doesn't know what to do with it."
– Adam Cooper
"We (the British and the Americans) are two countries separated by a common language."
- George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
"One difference between ants and humans is that ants send their elders to war, humans send their young."
-- EO Wilson (ant expert)
“We practiced a lot, but it seemed like we reorganized every time we started building teams. I learned later in life that we tend to approach any new situation by reorganizing; and this can be a wonderful way to create the illusion of progress while creating confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
-- Petronius referee about 60cc
"Wisdom and beauty are a very rare combination."
-- Petronius referee about 60cc
"This project is so important that we cannot let more important things interfere with it."
- Anonymous
"If it can be destroyed by truth, it deserves to be destroyed by truth."
-- anon (often misattributed to Karl Sagan)
"Getting it right is no excuse for missing the schedule."
- Anonymous
“All decisions must be made as low down in the organization as possible.
-- Robert Townsend "Improve the organization"
"If I hear from anyone compromising shipping quality, I will personally fire them.
- Dave Packard
"But of course it's not really a goodbye, because the forest will always be there....and anyone who is kind to bears can find it."
- A. A. Milne
“The government [sic] is very fond of collecting large amounts of statistics. These are raised to the power of n, the cube roots are taken, and the results are arranged in elaborate and impressive representations. However, the following should be noted: is that in all cases the numbers are first written down by a city guard, and he writes what he likes!
-- Sir Josiah Stamp, Her Majesty's Tax Collector
"If you've always done it this way, you're probably wrong."
– Charles Kettering
"Doing no more than average keeps average low."
--William M. Winans
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
- Anonymous
"Don't worry about what other people are going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable resources can do anything that doesn't violate many of Newton's laws!"
- Alan Kay
"School is basically about one point of view: that of the teacher or the textbooks. They don't like the idea of having different points of view..."
- Alan Kay
"Americans need the phone, we don't. We have many messengers.
-- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British General Post Office, in 1876
"2^30 (2^31-1) is the largest perfect number ever discovered, as it is unlikely anyone would try to find a number beyond that, as they are just curious, not useful."
- Peter Barlow
"The telephone has too many flaws to be seriously considered as a means of communication"
-- Executive von Western Union, 1876
"Computers of the future must not weigh more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanix Magazine, 1949
"I think there is a world market for about 5 computers."
-- Thomas J. Watson, President of IBM, 1943
"There's no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, President of DEC in 1977
"640 KB [memory] should be enough for everyone."
– Bill Gates, 1981
The first casualty of war is truth.
- Anonymous
Hawkeye: War is not hell. War is war and hell is hell. And of the two, war is much worse. Father: How do you imagine Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Simple dad. Tell me who the hell is coming? Father: Sinners, I think.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is full of them: children, cripples, old women.
-- From M*A*S*H, the TV show
"There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are fabricated truths."
-- Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington DC
"'They have not forgotten the mysteries,' he said, they find them very difficult. They want a God who will take care of them, who will not require them to fight for enlightenment, but who will accept them for who they are, with all their sins, and take away your sins with repentance. It is not so, it never will be, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their gods.'"
-- Marion Simmer Bradley as Brumas of Avalon
"I'm not undecided. I'm undecided?"
-- Mayor of St. Louis Paul, Minnesota
"You can't see the semantic wood of the syntactic trees."
– Christopher Strachey
"Thank God number theory is unaffected by any application."
-- Leonard E. Dickson, number theorist
Sr. Wabash:I will go even further. Ten years after the Great War we named it before we knew enough to count them.
Higgins:Do you miss such actions?
Sr. Wabash:I miss that clarity.
-- from the movie "Three Days of Condor"
Higgins:It's simple economics. Today is oil, right? Essen in ten or fifteen years. Plutonium. Maybe even before. Well, what do you think people will expect from us then?
Turner:Ask her?
Higgins:So not now! Ask them when they're running low. Ask them when there is no heat in their house and they are cold. Ask them when the engines stop. Ask them when people who have never been hungry start starving. Do you want to know something? They don't want us to ask. They're just gonna want us to give it to them!
-- from the movie "Three Days of Condor"
"You have good eyesight. They're not nice, but they don't lie and they don't look away too much and they don't miss anything. I could use eyes like that.”
-- from the movie "Three Days of Condor"
"Mechanical rules never replace clarity of thought."
--Kernighan y Plauger
"...It is a fundamental principle of testing that you should know in advance what response each test case should produce. Otherwise, don't test; you experience."
--Kernighan y Plauger
"Generating random numbers is too important to leave to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou (Mathematiker am Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Using TSO [an old operating system] is like kicking a dead whale on a beach."
--Steven C. Johnson
"Using RTE [an old operating system that had a limited number of individually connected terminals -ed in our setup] is like standing in line to drag a dead whale off the beach."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"Counting octal is like counting decimal when two fingers are missing."
- Tom Professor
“The few took advantage of the many ignorant. They pretended to have received messages from the stranger. They stood between the defenseless crowd and the gods. They were the bearers of armistice flags. Before the heavenly court they defended the cause of men, and they lived by the labors of the deceived.” “We find today that the prosperity of nations depended neither on their religion nor on the goodness or providence of any god, but on soil, climate and commerce, of the ingenuity, industriousness and courage of men, of the development of the spirit, in the spread of learning, in freedom of thought and action, and that in this mighty panorama of national life reason builds and superstition destroys has.” “I believe in the religion of reason—the gospel of this world; in the development of the spirit, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, so that man may be freed from superstitious fear, so that he may use the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world".
– Robert Ingersoll
"Who the hell wants to hear the actors talk?"
-- Harry Warner (1927) from Warner Brothers comments on sound films
"The stocks seem to have reached a permanent high plateau."
– Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, five days before the 1929 crash
"We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe, while still not understanding the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace."
- D. Helbing
"All the important fundamental laws and facts of science have been discovered and are now so firmly established that the possibility that they will be supplemented by new discoveries is extremely small."
-Albert Michelson, 1903
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are not possible."
- Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Planes are interesting toys, but they have no military value."
-- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, School, 1912 War College
"You do not fight with people against materials, you wage war with the materials that people serve."
Marschall Petain
"My cross is deviating, my right is behind, great situation, I'm attacking."
-- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superiore del Guerre
"No matter what you do, you will never achieve anything."
-- Professor Albert Einstein
"As a circle of light increases, so does the amount of darkness around it."
-- Albert Einstein
"When the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-- Albert Einstein
"The world as we create it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
-- Albert Einstein
"He never learned anything and he can't do anything with a decent style."
-- Beethoven's master
"Anything that can be invented has already been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, United States Patent Office, 1899
"They couldn't hit an elephant at that range----"
-- General John B. Sedgwick, Union Army Civil War officer
"The first 90% of the code represents the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code represents the other 90% of the development time."
– Tom Cargil
"The aim of war is not to die for your country, but to let the other bastard die for his."
- General George S. Patton
"Solid fortifications are monuments to human stupidity."
- General George S. Patton
"Molon labe" (Greek for "come and take them with you")
-- Leonidas (Spartan leader in the battle of Thermopylae)
"Love is a fire. But whether it will heat your home or burn down your house, you never know."
– Joan Crawford
"It's never far to a friend's house."
- Saying
"He who walks in another's wake leaves no footprints."
- Saying
"People who were born after Sputnik grew up shaped by the fact that reality is changing dramatically."
-- Paco Xander Nathan, editor of BOING BOING magazine
"It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason."
-- Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop asking."
-- Albert Einstein
“A man's ethical conduct must indeed be based on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is required. The man would be in a bad way really if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of a reward after death."
-- Albert Einstein
"A shy question will always get a sure answer."
--Lord Charles Darling
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-- Albert Einstein
"The gods themselves fight against stupidity in vain".
--Schiller See more
"A designer achieves perfection not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."
- Anonymous
"It has become frighteningly evident that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
-- Albert Einstein
“Reading from the Book of Arms, chapter 4, verses 16 to 20: Then he held up the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and said: “Bless this, O Lord, that you may crush your enemies with it, in your mercy . "And the people rejoiced and feasted on lambs and frogs and sloths and flying foxes and orangutans and breakfast cereals....Now the Lord said, “First you pull out the Holy Needle. Then you have to count to three. Three will be the count, and the count will be three. Five is out. Once the number three, which is the number of the bead, is reached, hurl the Holy Hand Grenade at your enemy who, being mischievous in my eyes, will extinguish it.
– Monty Python, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Timo: Stop! What is your name?Arthur: You are Arthur, King of Britons.Tim: What is your mission?Arthur: Quest for the Holy Grail.Tim: What is the flight speed of an unloaded swallow?Arthur: What are you trying to say? ? ? An African or European swallow? Tim: what? I do not know! Bedemir: "How do you know so much about swallows?" Arthur: "Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
– Monty Python, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Who cares who's captain after the wings fall off."
-- Scott McNealy, President of Sun MicroSystems, on IBM's new CEO
"Oh God, let the people put an enemy in their mouths to steal their brains! May we become beasts with joy, feast and applause!"
- Cassius aus Shakespeares Othello
“Remember that theory and practice are the same...At least in theory, but not in practice.
- Anonymous
"The difference between theory and practice in practice is greater than the difference between theory and practice in theory."
- Anonymous
"Not only did it look like he had an ace up his sleeve, but it looked like God put him there."
- Anonymous
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is."
- Yogi Berra
"I want to do 1,500 or 2,000 meters, whichever comes first."
-- Commentary by a professional soccer player
"We're all pretty weird. Some of us are better at hiding it, that's all."
-- make the film The Breakfast Club
"Everyone has to die, but I've always believed that in my case an exception would be made. What now?"
-- The last words of author William Saroyan
"I can't see the war the way historians see it. These smart guys study all the facts and see the war as something big, one of the greatest events in the legend of mankind, something general involving many people. I see it as one big thing too, it's just that I break it down into small chunks man by man and see it as one big monstrous thing for every man involved. I see war, in one way or another, as death for men dressed as soldiers, and all the men who survived war, myself included, I see as men who died with their brothers, dressed as soldiers. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in a person's brain and senses, and I cannot view a person's death as a factor in the success or failure of a campaign.
-- The last words of author William Saroyan
"It's just a job. The grass is growing, the birds are flying, the waves are beating the sand. I bump into people."
Boxer Muhammad Ali
"The universe is not only stranger than we think, it's stranger than we can imagine"
– Lord Rutherford
“There are innumerable suns; innumerable earths revolve around these suns, much like the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.”
-- from About the infinite universe and the worlds, Giordano Bruno, 1584
"I'm going to tell you something about the universe. The universe is a very big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has dreamed of before.
-- From the movie "Contact"
"If they're inhabited, what a space of madness.
When unoccupied, what a waste of space.
-- Thomas Carlisle talks about the planets in the universe
"Experiences are the only tools we have. The rest is poetry and imagination."
– Max Planck
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
"The satisfaction of curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
– Linus Pauling
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-- Albert Einstein
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it feels like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and that's longer than any hour. That is relativity.”
-- Albert Einstein
"I will never believe that God plays dice with the world."
-- Albert Einstein (attributed by Philipp Frank in "Einstein, His Life and Times")
"The Lord God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
-- Albert Einstein (attribute on inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton University)
"For what is time? . . . Who can even imagine them, to say a word about them? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I want to explain to a questioner, I don't know..."
-- Augustine (The Confessions)
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
- Anonymous
"Life has meaning only in battle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the gods...So let's celebrate the fight!"
-- Swahili warrior song
"All science is just a refinement of everyday thinking."
-- Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality
"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of a system cannot be discovered by breaking it down into its component parts and examining each part individually... We must direct our attention to the whole and the connection between the parts. intellectual life. A clear separation between science, religion and art is not possible. The whole is never simply equal to the sum of its different parts."
– Max Planck
"If we are to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, we must also teach stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction."
– Judith Hayes
"...Science is nothing but the study of a miracle that we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
- Ray Bradbury
"If art is the way we decorate space, music is the way we decorate time."
- Anonymous
"so that others feel the same. To realize it! That is the point of art."
- Paul Cézanne
"If we listened to our intellect, we would never have a love affair. We would never have a friendship. We would never do business because we would be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You have to be jumping off cliffs all the time." And build your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury
"'Why did you do all this for me?' asked he. "I do not deserve this. I never did anything for you.” “You were my friend,” Charlotte replied.
-- E. B. White, Charlottes Web
"Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
– Lois McMaster Bujold, „A Civil Campaign“
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are also fairies in the background?"
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is underestimating the ingenuity of idiots."
-- Douglas Adams, mostly harmless.
"Reality is often inaccurate"
-- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
"Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."
-- Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe That Won't Fall Apart Two Days Later"
"Faith takes practice."
-- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
"So many people desperately need this message: 'I feel and think as much as you do, I care about many of the things that matter to you, even when most people don't. You're not alone.'"
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent."
"Never let your sense of morality stop you from doing the right thing."
-- Two epigrams by Salvor Hardin, the first mayor of Terminus, in The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
"Everyone should leave something in their room or leave something behind when they die, my grandfather said. A child, or a book, or a painting, or a house, or a wall, or a pair of shoes. Or a planted garden. Touched something by your hand in any way so that when you die your soul will have a place to go and when people see the tree or flower you planted you will be there. No matter what you do, he said, as long as you change something that wasn't before you touch something similar to you after you let go of your hands. The difference between the man who just mows the lawn and a real gardener is the touch, he said. The lawnmower might not be there; the gardener will be there all the time. his life".
- Granger in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"When a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, you can admire its bravery, but not its judgment."
- Farnham Mansion by Robert A. Heinlein
"It's our choices, Harry, that show who we really are, far more than our abilities."
-- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
"If you want to see a man's true measure, see how he treats his subordinates, not his peers."
-- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
"Everything good in the world is made by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces."
– Marcel Proust
“In theory you know that the earth rotates, but in practice you don't realize it, the ground you walk on doesn't seem to move and you can live undisturbed. This is the time in life."
– Marcel Proust
“Wisdom is not given to us; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or make without us.”
– Marcel Proust
“We expect similar effects from causes that appear similar. This is the sum of all our experimental conclusions.”
-- David Hume, An Inquiry into Human Understanding
"It is unfortunate that the word 'utility' is historically associated with Victorian utilitarians such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, because modern economists do not follow them in equating utility with how much pleasure or how little pain a human being can experience. Philosopher David Hume explains how people behave in relation to what is on their mind. Rather, it is a virtue not to make psychological assumptions... Hence we do not argue that some preferences are more rational than others. as a "slave of passions". As he flamboyantly pointed out, it would not be unreasonable to choose the destruction of the universe over scratching your finger. Instrument to avoid contradictory behavior. Any consistent behavior is therefore considered rational."
-- Ken Binmore, Game Theory: A Very Brief Introduction
"Roads were made for travel... not destinations."
– Confucius
"Conservatives aren't necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
-- Johannes Stuart Molino (1806-1873)
"The thoughtless are seldom at a loss for words."
- Howard W. Newton
"A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experiences."
-- Nils Nilsson, Learning Machines
"A computer is a machine for creating mappings from input to output."
– Michael Kirby
"A computer spends most of its time doing the things it is worst at."
- Jim Parry
"Look for simplicity and distrust it."
- Alfredo North Whitehead, 1861-1947
The four levels of scientific acceptance
- This is worthless nonsense.
- This is an interesting but perverse view.
- That's right, but unimportant.
- I've always said that.
--J. BS Haldane
"The problem with a rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
"No matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up."
- Lily Tomlin
"The war novel marks a failure of the imagination."
- Anonymous
"Hey, you can't fight here! This is the war room!"
-- From the movie Dr. strange love
"Sir, you can't let him in here. He will see everything. He will see the bigger picture!”
-- General "Buck" Turgidson im Film Dr. Strangelove
"He said the war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today the war is too important to be left to the politicians. You have neither time nor time.” The training nor the inclination through strategic thinking I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and international communist conspiracy to dehydrate and pollute all our precious bodily fluids.
-- General Jack D. Ripper im Film Dr. Strangelove
"Well folks, I think that's it: nuclear warfare, face to face with the Russians"
-- Major Kong directs the film Dr. Strangelove
"There's more to life than increasing your speed."
Gandhi
"Remember, we're all just big kids."
-Hugo Preto
"We have to be the change we want to see in the world."
Gandhi
"Abstract truth has no value unless it is embodied in the people who represent it and demonstrate their willingness to die for it."
Gandhi
"God brought me here with certain things and now I'm so late that I'll probably never die."
– Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes
"The surest sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that it has never attempted to contact us."
– Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes
"You know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but soon… everything will be different.”
– Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes
"It is better to burn than to disappear."
- Anonymous
"The dearest of all follies is to believe passionately in what is patently wrong. It is the main occupation of mankind.”
- H. L. Mencken"...the name Meraki comes from a Greek word that means to create something with passion..."
-- Yiren Lu in der New York Times
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I consider invincible: courage, clarity of thought, honesty, justice and, above all, a love of truth."
- H. L. Mencken
"The tent is much better for living: always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move... The Indians and the beasts know better how to live than the whites; none can have good health if they do don't always have time: fresh air, sun and good water".
-- Chief Flying Eagle of the Oglala Sioux, commentary on his age
"For a woman, the odds are good, but the odds are strange."
-- the same when we talk about men in Alaska
"Until a person loves an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."
- Anatole France
"Because war is only for those for whom war is necessary, and arms are just when there is no hope but in arms."
- Anonymous
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to stir up patriotic zeal among the citizens, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. When seething with hatred and the mind closed, the leader will have no need to seize civil rights. How should I know, because that's what I did and I'm Caesar.
-- Julius Caesar
“America, as the world knows, will never go to war. We don't want war. We don't expect war now. This generation of Americans has had enough, more than enough, of war, hatred and oppression. We have to be prepared when others want us to. We will be vigilant to try and stop it. But we will also do our part to build a world of peace, where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We do not face this task helplessly and without hope of success, but work on it confidently and fearlessly - not on a strategy of annihilation, but on a strategy of peace.
-- John F. Kennedy
"We decided to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon and do the other things this decade, not because they are easy, but because they are difficult, because this goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies. and capacity, because it's a challenge that we're happy to take on, that we don't want to put off and that we want to win, and so do others."
-- John F. Kennedy, 12. September 1962
“If the Soviet Union were to sink into the ocean tomorrow, the American military-industrial establishment would have to carry on essentially unchanged until another adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
-- George F. Kennan, 1987. Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study and former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
"The national government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revitalize the spirit of unity and cooperation in the nation. They will uphold and defend the fundamental principles on which our nation was built. Consider Christianity the foundation of our national morality. and the family as the basis of national life.
-- Adolph Hitler, My new world order, proclamation to the German nation in Berlin, February 1, 1933
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
-- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies and his opponents are not always his enemies."
- Richard Nixon
"Almost all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, empower him."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it's easier for them to get new ideas into their heads."
-- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"A lot of people think they're thinking if they just rearrange their prejudices."
– William James
"Any incorrectly formulated assumption can be modeled and validated with simulation"
- Patricio Reilly
“Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor peasant farmer risk his life in a war when at most he can return to his farm in one piece? Russia, not England, not even Germany.
But after all, the country's leaders determine politics, and it's always easy to get people swayed, whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Vote or no voice, the people can always be under the command of the leaders.
That's easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack and denounce the peacekeepers for their lack of patriotism and expose the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
- Hermann Goerring
I'm on the side of peace, not war.
I'm on the side of justice, not revenge.
I stand by those people, no matter where they live, who will experience violence; not the leaders, no matter where they live, who will plan it.
And above all, I stand on the side of hope, not despair.
We don't have the luxury of despair right now. The stakes are too high for too many people
– Roberto Jensen
“Apart from the people, I know of no safe depositary of the supreme power of society.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The goal of education is to die satisfied with life."
- A. Oscar Kawagley
"How can factual arguments prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?"
– Michelle Goldberg (Hall, „The Blind Leading the Blind“, 21. Okt. 2004)
"It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's almost impossible to win an argument with a stupid person."
– Bill Murray
"We must not believe the many who say that only free men should be educated, but we must believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-- Epicteto
"The world owes all its impetus to restless people. The happy man is limited to ancient limits."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The only way to discover the limits of what is possible is to go beyond them and reach for the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"I like to be on the edge of the possible."
-- Jorn Utzon (Original Architect of the Sydney Opera House)
“Society does not need more children; a jaguar embryo. But society as a whole should be alarmed when it learns that an unwanted baby is about to be born.
- Garret Hardin
"[The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem] underscores how stable mathematics is over the centuries, how mathematics is one of mankind's long and ongoing conversations with itself."
--Barry Mazur of Harvard
"The series is divergent, so we could do something with it."
--O. heavy side
"The job of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more subtle reasons."
– David Butler
"On the other hand, it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a bi-square into two bis-squares, or in general any power but a square into two powers with the same exponent. I have found truly wonderful evidence of this, but there is not enough scope to accommodate it."
-- Pierre de Fermat (translated from his notes into Latin in the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetic) c. 1637
“Perhaps the best way I can describe the experience of computing is like walking into a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, pitch black. You stumble, you bump into the furniture. Little by little you learn where each piece of furniture is." And finally, after about six months, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly everything lights up and you see exactly where you've been. They then go into the next dark room...."
-- Andrew Wiles (who proved Fermat's last theorem)
"Thousands of weary, nervous, and over-civilized people are beginning to discover that the journey to the mountains is a homecoming, that wildlife is a necessity, and that parks and mountain reserves are useful not only as sources of timber and irrigated rivers, but also as sources of life." .
- John Muir
"The mountains are calling and I have to go."
- John Muir
"The imagination makes us infinite."
- John Muir
“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray where nature can heal, cheer and strengthen body and soul.
- John Muir
"Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human needs."
-- Robert A. Millikan - Nobel Laureate in Physics
"Politics is the science of who gets what, when and why."
-- Sidney Hillman - Union leader
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know is useful or that you think is beautiful."
-- William Morris - Poet, artist and interior designer
"Audacity is a crucial element of genius."
– Horacio Freeland Judson
"No art, however small, requires less than total dedication if one is to excel at it."
- Alberti
"Genius is one of the many forms of madness."
-- Cesare L. Lombroso, Italian physician and criminologist
"I hate these computers. They are so cheeky and so complex....I could pinch her!"
-- Marvin der Marsianer im Bugs-Bunny-Cartoon
“So given the overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option. I have to do science with this shit!”
-- from the movie "The Martian"
"It was such a beautiful day that I decided to stay in bed."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"But enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?"
- Bette Midler
"For God, Country and Yale."
- The American-Heritage Dictionary provides this as the only example under the definition of the word "anticlimax".
Tempus edax rurum." ("The time that devours everything").
-- ovidio
"Either this wallpaper goes or I do."
– The last words of Oscar Wilde
"It's not that I'm scared of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
--Woody AllenLenny: Have you ever been afraid that if a guy comes to your house and pays you... he's going to tie you up and kill you?
Linda Ash: I always get paid in advance.
--Woody Allen"Trust is what you have before you understand the problem."
--Woody Allen
"Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering, and it all ends way too soon."
--Woody Allen
Alan:He's a handsome Jackson Pollack, isn't he?
museum girl:Is if.
Alan:what does that tell you
museum girl:It reinforces the negativity of the universe. The terrible, lonely emptiness of existence. anything. The plight of man forced to live in a desolate and godless eternity, like a small flame flickering in a vast void of nothing but refuse, terror and humiliation, forming a useless and gloomy straitjacket in a black and absurd cosmos . .
Alan:What are you doing on Saturday night?
museum girl:commit suicide
Alan:How about Friday night?
-- Woody Allen aus "Play It Again Sam"
Bogart:"I've never met a lady who didn't understand a slap in the face or a .45."
-- Woody Allen aus "Play It Again Sam"
"I'm sorry to say that unless you've somehow impeded interstate commerce, we at the FBI are powerless to handle cases of oral-genital intimacy."
--J.Edgar Hoover
"The CEO salary of a large corporation is not a market reward for achievement. It often has the character of a warm personal gesture from the individual to themselves."
– John Kenneth Galbraith
"What does 'tame' mean?"
"That is often a careless act," said the fox. "It means making connections."
"To tie?"
"That's all," said the fox. "You're still just a little boy to me, just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I don't need you And you, for your part, don't need me. For you I'm just a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But if you tame me we will need each other. For me you will be unique in the whole world. For you I will be unique in the whole world. ."
..
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"My life is very monotonous," he said, "I hunt chickens, men hunt me. All chickens are equal and all people are equal. With me it will be as if the sun came to illuminate my life knowing the sound of a footstep that will be like no other. Other steps make me run underground. Yours will call me like music from my cave. And then look: do you see the wheat fields below? Don't eat bread... Wheat is no use to me. And that's sad. But you have golden hair. Think how wonderful it will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring back the thought: And I would love to hear the wind in the wheat...” The fox looked at the little prince for a long time. "Charm me!" he says.
-- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Old friends cannot be made instantly. Nothing can surpass the treasure of shared memories, shared trials, struggles and reconciliations, and generous feelings. The oak."
-- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"People have forgotten this truth," said the fox. But one must not forget it. You will always be responsible for what you have tamed.
-- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I had nothing in the world here. I was just a mortal, lost between the sand and the stars, aware of the only blessing of breathing. And yet I was full of dreams.”
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"What is a great life but a youthful purpose realized in maturity?"
-- Alfred de Vigny - French Romantic poet
“They told us they [Federal troops] only wanted to cross our country...Panning for gold in the west...But before the ashes of the Council fire cool, the Great Father builds his strongholds among us. You heard the sound of the white soldier's ax over Little Piney. Your presence here is...an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Shall we then surrender their holy graves to be plowed for corn? Dakotas, I'm pro-war."
-- Mahpiua Luta (Red Cloud), Chief of the Oglala Sioux at Fort Laramie, Rat von Wyoming
"The reason most people get lost in thought is that this is uncharted territory."
- Paul Fixx
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together....."
- Carl twenty
"The truth can't hurt, it's like the dark, it scares you, but it's time you saw the cold, hard things."
– Elvis Costello
"Truth is reality as you perceive it."
- Anonymous
"If the gates of perception were free, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
– William Blake
"Seeing a world in a grain of sand and a sky in a wild flower, having infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
...
-- William Blake (Omen of Innocence)
Tiger
Tiger! Tiger! shining in the woods of night What immortal hand or eye could shape your terrible symmetry?
In what depths or distant skies burned the fire of your eyes? On whose wings does he dare to aspire? Which hand dares to seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art could twist the tendons of your heart? And when your heart started beating, what terrible hand? And what fearsome feet?
What's the hammer? What current, what oven was your brain in? What is an anvil? What fear seizes? Will its deadly terrors close?
When the stars threw their spears and watered the sky with their tears, did he smile when he saw his work? He who made the lamb made you?
Tiger! Tiger! shining bright in the woods of night, what immortal hand or eye would dare to frame your terrible symmetry?
– William Blake
And these feet walked upon the green hills of England in olden times? And was the holy Lamb of God seen in the pleasant pastures of England?
And the Divine Face shone upon our cloudy hills? And was Jerusalem built here in the midst of these dark satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of fiery gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O unfolded clouds! Bring me my chariot of fire.
I shall not cease to fight in my thoughts, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, until we have built Jerusalem in the green and pleasant land of England.
– William Blake
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
- Master Eckhart
"American football combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."
--Jorge Will
"I spend most of my money on wine, women and music; I spend the rest foolishly.
- Dean Martin
"Money doesn't buy happiness. But it can rent it."
- Anonymous
"When I make some money, I buy books; and when I have extra money, I buy food and clothes."
-- Desiderio Erasmus
"Put your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
-- aus "Time Enough to Love" von Robert A. Heinlein
"It could be that your purpose in life is just to be a warning to others."
- Anonymous
“I doubt he would have advised you to carry a gun. By reputation, Dr. Matson a practical man. Look, kid, on this trip, you're the rabbit trying to escape the fox. You are not the fox.”...Your only purpose is to stay alive. Don't be brave, don't fight, don't rule the jungle, just keep breathing. Once in a hundred, a gun can save your life; the other ninety-nine will only drive you insane....Carrying a gun makes you feel arrogant; will not have adequate coverage. If you don't have one, you know it's the rabbit."
-- Helen (Sirmã de Rod) from "Tunnel in the Sky" by Robert A. Heinlein
"I know how good a gun is. She leaves you with button eyes and a bushy tail, 10 feet tall and covered in fur. You're ready for anything and only half expecting to find her. And that is precisely what is dangerous – because you are neither. You are a weak, hairless embryo, remarkably easy to kill. You could carry an offensive weapon with an accuracy of 2,000 meters and isotope charges that would blow up a hill, but you don't have the back of your head like a Janus bird, nor can you see in the dark like the Pygmies of Thetis. Death can snuggle up behind you while you draw a bead on something in front of you.”
-- Helen (Sirmã de Rod) from "Tunnel in the Sky" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Wherever they burn books, they will end up burning people."
-- H. Heine
"The trees, the stars and the blue hills ache with a meaning that can never be put into words."
– Rabindranath Tagore
"Without the lawyers, we wouldn't need them."
- Anonymous
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
- John Leon
"Bullfighter pants make big feet too"
-- Albert Einstein
"What good is the heat of summer without the chill of winter to sweeten it."
-- John Steinbeck
"Just open your mouth to switch feet."
- Anonymous
"Don't speak unless you can improve the silence".
- Anonymous
"The trouble with explanations is that friends don't need them and enemies don't believe in them!"
- Anonymous
"A drop of water is a small thing, but when will it dry up if it flows into a lake?"
-- Tibetan script
"An ambassador is an honest man who is sent abroad for the good of his country."
-Henrique Wotton
“We knew the world would never be the same again. Some people laughed, some cried, most were silent. I was reminded of the line from the Hindu scriptures, the Bhagavad-Gita... 'Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds... Physicists have realized sin and this knowledge they cannot lose.'
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1945
If the splendor of a thousand suns suddenly exploded in the sky, it would be like the splendor of the mighty... I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
-- do the Bhagavad Gita
"Little Miss Muffet was sitting on a tuff eating cottage cheese and buttermilk. A glider came up, dropped an atomic bomb next to her,
and scared little Miss Muffet to death.
- Anonymous
"Anyone who is not appalled by quantum theory has not understood it."
--Neils Bohr
“I remember discussions with Bohr that lasted many hours, late into the night, almost ending in despair, and walking alone to the neighboring park at the end of the discussion, I repeated the question to myself several times: "Is it possible that nature is as absurd as it appeared to us during these nuclear experiments?"
-Werner Heisenberg
"A pragmatist is interested in results, not reality."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Pragmatism is an intellectually secure but ultimately sterile philosophy."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
"The 'paradox' is just a conflict between reality and your sense of how reality 'should be'.
- Richard Feynman
"No elementary phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon."
– John Archibald Wheeler
"What we learn is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our questioning methods."
- Werner Heisenberg
"Muddy water level
stay clear."
- Take care
"One of the greatest illusions in the world is the hope that the ills of this world will be cured by law."
- Thomas Reed
"Morals and criticism are less objects of understanding than taste and feeling."
– David Hume
"Insert in every contract a clause that can be easily breached, so that the entire agreement can be broken if the interests of the state make it convenient."
-- Ludwig XIV
"Anyone who says it can't be done should avoid those who do"
-- Joel Barker, Futurist „Discovering the Future“ (Video)
"Those who can give up basic liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security."
-- Benjamin Franklin 1759
"Write something worth reading or do something worth writing about."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Television is gum for the eyes."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"No house should stand on any hill... It should stand on the hill."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"A house is a living machine".
--Le Corbusier
"The absence of ornament is a sign of spiritual strength."
-Adolf Loos
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!"
- Arthur C. Clarke
"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
--Claudio Bernardo
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our minds to sharpen."
- Eden Philpotts
"Be patient with what is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."
-Rainer Maria Rilke"If there were no beauty within the beholder, he would find no beauty on the outside. The mere fact that beauty is seen proves that beauty already exists in the state of the beholder.”
- Shantanand Saraswati
"Earth is too small and fragile a basket for the human race to hold all their eggs."
--Roberto A. Heinlein
"A human should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, kill a pig, command a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, do math, build a wall, a bone to place, comfort a dying person, take orders". , give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, throw dung, program a computer, cook a delicious meal, fight efficiently, die bravely. Specialization is for Mistake.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Buch "Time Enough for Love"
"Darling? Want to improvise 'Buck's Song'?" "Of course 'lovely Dora'." She closed her eyes again, then he softly sang the other lines. But when he was done, she smiled at him. "Thank you darling, that was great. It's always been great. But I'm a bit tired – if I fall asleep, will you still be here?” “I'll always be here, honey. Now sleep.” He smiled again and closed his eyes. Soon his breathing slowed in his sleep. His breathing stopped. Lazarus waited a long time before calling for Ginny and Elf.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Buch "Time Enough for Love"
"Work is not an end in itself, there must always be enough time for love."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Buch "Time Enough for Love"
"Dad says that in a dilemma it helps to change some variable and then re-examine the problem."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Do livro "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel"
"If freedom means anything, it's the right to tell people what they don't want to hear"
--Jorge Orwell
"A generation that ignores history has neither past nor future."
--Roberto A. Heinlein
"Can you walk on water? You have done nothing better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done nothing better than a blue fly. Win her heart; then you can become someone."
-- Ansari aus Herat
"If you are not liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not conservative when you are old, you have no brain."
--W.Churchill
“Conservatives have deeper intellects and are more likely to focus on brain pursuits in fields like engineering, science, and business. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to focus on the pursuits of the heart.”
--Dick Army
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
– J. M. Barrie
"Wisdom is assimilated experience."
- Anonymous
"He who would avoid suspicion would not tie his shoes to a bowler hat."
-- Old Chinese proverb
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-- Chinese proverb
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will do."
-- Chinese proverb
"If you don't know where you are, a map won't help you."
- Watt S. Humphrey
"'The best thing to be sad about,' Merlyn replied, beginning to get angry, 'is to learn something. That's the one thing that never fails, the mess in your veins. , you could lose your only love, you could see the world around you ravaged by evil madmen, or find your honor trampled in the sewers of lesser spirits. Then there is only one thing to do: learn, learn why the world trembles and what it does shudders. That is the one thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured, never fear or mistrust, and never dream of repentance.'"
-- de "The Once and Future King" von T.H. weiß
"I quote myself a lot. It spices up my conversation."
- James Thurber?
"Something that would have been purple if it had been light to see was running across the floor."
- James Thurber in "The Thirteen O'Clocks"
"What is total?"
A lock of the Warden's hair turned white and his teeth began to chatter. "Todal is like a drop of Glup," he said. "It makes a noise like rabbit screeching and it smells like old locked rooms..."
- James Thurber in "The Thirteen O'Clocks"
"The problem with Christianity is not that it was tried and thought impossible, but that it was thought difficult and therefore not tried."
– Gilbert Keith Chesterson
"Imagining a language is imagining a way of life."
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. I only know what I have words for.”
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“Some people dress to be comfortable. Some people dress to be stylish.
Some people dress because it's the law."
- Anonymous
"My current computer has 'Windows' in addition to 'DOS', another Bill Gates invention developed as a security measure to stop users who somehow manage to get past 'DOS'."
--Dave Barry, Kolumnist
"Some call it hell. I call it my home."
- Rambo
"Home isn't a place. It's where your passion takes you."
-- John Sheridan, Babylonian 5
"Pure Life"
-- unofficial motto of the people in Costa Rica
The communists came first and I didn't speak because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came after the Jews and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they looked for the unionists and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a unionist.
Then they came after the Catholics and I didn't say anything because I was a Protestant.
So they chased me and by then there was no one left to talk to.
-- The inscribed version at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, attributed to Martin Niemöller
"In the [baboon] community, what matters is not how strong you are, but who you know."
– David Attenborough
"I don't think entire populations are villains, but Americans are extraordinarily blind to all sorts of things. If you live in the middle of this vast continent and seem to have everything your heart desires just because you were born there, why bother? […] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of nature, they will mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to take care of it.”
– David Attenborough
"It seems to me that nature is the greatest source of emotion, the greatest source of visual beauty, the greatest source of intellectual interest. She is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
– David Attenborough
“Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, so close to us and to everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?”
– David Attenborough
"It's going to come home to rest for the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's just the space, the places to grow food for this vast horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will." us, and the natural world is now doing it for us.
– David Attenborough
"I think that in many cases your morals are very lacking if you only want a born child, not a fed child, not an educated child, not a sheltered child. This is not for life, this is for birth."
– Sister Joan Chittister
"People who are so smart have eliminated every one of those [population] limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own desire. Since I started doing TV shows, the world's population has tripled... It's an extraordinary idea. Can she quadruple? Can she multiply fivefold? The earth has a finite size. So there will eventually come a point where we will run out of food as we run out of space and we are devastated more of the natural world So should we do something about it before that happens?
– David Attenborough
"It's amazing how obsessed people are with themselves. The things people always say are 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first man'. We're so obsessed with our own history. There's so much more out there than what unites us."
– David Attenborough
"If you look at animals objectively over a period of time, you come to the conclusion that their main purpose in life is to pass their genes on to the next generation."
– David Attenborough
"I mean, it's an extraordinary thing that a large part of our country and my country, the citizens, never sees a wild creature from dawn to dusk, unless it's a dove, which isn't really wild... "
– David Attenborough
“There are about four million different species of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to survival problems.”
– David Attenborough
"The question is, do we assume our grandchildren will never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
– David Attenborough
"The fact is that no species has had complete control over everything on Earth, living or dead, as we do now. This places us, whether we like it or not, with an incredible responsibility, but that of every other living being who shares the earth with"
– David Attenborough
"The first rule of shooting is to carry a gun."
- Anonymous
"1. Don't think dishonestly 2. Study hard 3. Learn all the techniques 4. Learn as much as you can about other professions 5. Distinguish between gain and loss 6. Develop intuitive judgment 7. Observe things beneath the surface 8. Pay attention to little things 9. do nothing useless"
-- Miamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, 1645 AD
"Don't set your limits by the limits of others."
– Roberto Heckendorn
"We are never more helpless than when we face the death of a friend."
– Roberto Heckendorn
Calvin:Isn't it strange that evolution gives us a sense of humor?
Calvin:When you think about it, it's odd that we have a physiological response to bullshit. We "laugh" at nonsense. We like? We think it's funny.
Calvin:Don't you find it strange that we "enjoy" nonsense? Why should we evolve like this? How does this benefit us?
Hobbes:I think if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we wouldn't be able to react to a lot of things in life.
Calvin:I can't tell if that's funny or really scary.
-- Calvin and Hobbes cartoon by Bill Watterson"To be successful in life you need three things: a wish bone, a backbone, and a fun bone."
- Reba McEntire
"The most wasted of days is the one without laughter."
-- e.e. Cummings
"That's why I never thought about quitting, because I do it all the time, whether it's on stage or off. I have discovered that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest way between people. If you need to find sympathy or connection with people, what better way?"
-Victor Borges
"I went into the forest because I wanted to live consciously, just to face the basic facts of life and see if I could learn what life has to teach me, rather than find out when I die that I have not lived."
--Henry David Thoreau "Waldon"
"Learning means changing"
—Bart Kosco
"Life is a journey. Enjoy the journey."
- Anonymous
"Even the dumbest can take on a task if it suits his heart. But the intelligent man is the one who can turn any job into one to his liking. No job is bad. Everything in this world is like a seed banyan tree, which though looks tiny as a mustard seed but still smolders the gigantic banyan tree, it's really the smart one who realizes this and manages to make the whole job really brilliant.
– Swami Vivekananda
"No favor, no matter how small, wasted."
- Äsop
"Nothing surprises me, I'm a scientist."
--Indiana Jones (from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
"Progress, far from being change, depends on preservation. Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
--George Santayana (from Reasonable Lives)
"Why should I listen to you? You're just a mermaid in a wheelchair!”
- Bette Midler
"We're instinctively afraid of snakes, but we don't seem to be afraid of fast cars, which are now a real hazard.
- Steven Pinker
"A mind that expands into a new idea never returns to its original dimension."
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A man who dares to waste an hour has not discovered the value of life."
--Charles Darwin
"Ignorance often creates more trust than knowledge."
--Charles Darwin
"I always take special notes on evidence that contradicts me: supporting evidence that I can recall without trying."
--Charles Darwin
"Now we shall discuss the struggle for existence in a little more detail."
--Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species"
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
– Teodosio Dobzhansky
“...when useful variations are produced in any organic being, individuals so characterized will surely have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and because of the strong principle of heredity, they will tend to produce similarly characterized offspring. This principle of conservation, for the sake of brevity, I called it natural selection.
--Charles Darwin
“Evolution, as described by Charles Darwin, is a widely accepted scientific theory that explains physical phenomena in terms of physical causes. Intelligent design is a belief-based initiative in rhetorical reasoning. Should we teach ID in United States public schools? Yes we will - not as a science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu idea that the earth rests on Chukwa, the giant tortoise."
-David Quammen
The four prerequisites for evolution
--Genetic programming an introduction by Banzhof et al.
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny"
-- Ernst Haeckel's law of embryological parallelism
"The hardest thing in life is learning which bridge to cross and which to burn."
– David Russel
"My name is Enigo Montoya. You killed my father.
--The movie "The Princess Bride"
"Repeat is nice"
- Artist formerly known as Prince
"In non-philosophical minds anything unusual or unexpected inspires admiration, while in philosophical minds even the familiar inspires admiration."
- George Santayana
"Unrest is dissatisfaction, and dissatisfaction is the first necessity of progress. Show me a perfectly contented man and I will show you a failure."
--Thomas Edison
"Luck favors the prepared mind"
-- Louis Pasteur
"There is no substitute for hard work."
--Thomas Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
--Thomas Edison
"My goal in life is to become as great as my dog thinks I am."
- Toby and Eileen Green
"The will to win is not as important as the will to prepare to win."
– Bobby Caballero
"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet."
-- Bob Marley
“In games against humans, you often win because your opponent made a mistake with a piece, and you can often survive on your own. You only make one mistake against the computer – the last one.”
--Valimir Kramnik, (chess grandmaster)
"Matilda Briggs wasn't a girl's name, Watson," Holmes said urgently. "It was a ship associated with the giant Sumatran rat, a story the world is not yet ready for."
– Sherlock Holmes, „Das Abenteuer des Sussex-Vampirs“
“In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will face the vampires, demons and dark forces. She is the assassin.”
-- the presentation of the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"She wouldn't even kill me. She just left me. She didn't even bother cutting off my head or setting me on fire. I mean is that too much to ask? You know, a little sign that I "I cared about her. It was that truce with Buffy that made it happen. Drew said I went soft... I wasn't fiendish enough for her. I said her that it didn't mean anything. I was thinking about her the whole time." Time.
We arrived in Brazil and she was just... different. I gave her everything, beautiful jewelry, beautiful dresses with beautiful girls in them, but nothing would make her happy. And she would flirt. I caught her on a park bench with a chaos demon! Have you seen the demon of Achaos? They're all slime and horns. They're disgusting!"
-- Spike mourns Drew from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"Many people suffer from the fear of finding themselves alone and therefore do not find themselves at all."
- Rollo May
"It's the good girls who keep the diaries, the bad girls never have time."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"If you want to improve, be content with being thought stupid and dumb..."
-- Epicteto
“The Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
-- Make the movie "Serendipity"
“Jonathan Trager, a celebrity television producer for ESPN, died last night of complications from the loss of his soul mate and fiancee. He was 35 years old. Soft-spoken and obsessive, Trager never seemed like the role of a hopeless romantic. In the last days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden quasi-Jungian personality came to light when Agatha Christie searched for his long-cherished soulmate, a woman with whom he spent only a few precious hours...the protracted search ended Saturday night incompletely and in total failure. Yet even in the face of certain defeat, the brave Trager secretly held onto the belief that life isn't just a series of accidents or senseless coincidences, culminating in an exquisite and sublime plan for the question of the loss of his dear friend Dean Kansky , Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor-in-chief of The New York Times e s, described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life. gs were clearer to him,” Kansky noted. Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if we are to live our lives in harmony with the universe, we must all have a strong belief in what the ancients called fatum, what we call today del goal."
-- Make the movie "Serendipity"
"Passion does not argue carefully:
explains itself, and that is enough."
- Jane Hirshfield
“If you upgrade a mechanical device, you can double productivity. But if you upgrade the man, you win a thousandfold.”
-- Khan Noonian Singh (aus der Star Trek-Episode "Space Seed")
"It's my fault. It's up to me and I will have it! I will chase it across the moons of Nibia and through the Maelstrom of Antares and through the Flames of Destiny before I give it up!”
-- Khan Noonian Singh (makes the film "Wrath of Khan")
Sam Lowry:How are the twins?
Jack Pelusa:triplets.
Sam Lowry:Wow, how time flies!
- From the movie Brazil
"Space, the last frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It is a five-year mission: explore strange new worlds, search for new life and new civilizations, boldly go where no man has gone before ."
- Introduction to Star Trek
"Maybe we're not made for heaven. Maybe we were made to fight our way to the tune of the drums".
-- Kirk (from the episode of Star Trek "This Side of Paradise")
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario."
-- Kirk (aus dem Film "The Wrath of Khan")
“After a while, you may find that having isn't as good as wanting. It's not logical, but often true.”
-- Spock (from the Star Trek episode "Amok Time")
"Failing to show up on a date is an act of blatant dishonesty. It is better to borrow someone else's money than his time."
– Horace Mann
“Make no mistake, there have been issues since I've been with NASA that have really worried Voyager; the team solved it,” he said. "But even if one day it can't be solved anymore, it's an immediate success and you have to get the champagne out."
-- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA
"Breath after censorship is like sunlight after a bath."
--Goethe
"Audacity contains genius, power and magic."
--Goethe
"If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as he should and could be, he becomes what he should and could be.”
--Goethe
"What you are, we used to be,
What we are, you will be."
-- inscription in the crypt of the Capuchin monks,
Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, Italy
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are immeasurably powerful. Who aren't you? You are a child of God. Your lightness does not serve the world. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously allow other people to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson in "A Return to Love".
"Our deepest fears are like dragons that guard our deepest treasure."
- Rainer Maria Rilka
"Badges? We don't have badges! We don't need badges. I don't have to show stinky badges!"
-- bandits in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Almiar:We said many things last night. You told me to think for both of us. Well, I've been doing a lot of that since then, and it all boils down to one thing: you're going to get on that plane with Victor where you belong.
ilsa:But Richard, no, I... I...
Almiar:Now you have to listen to me! Do you have any idea what to expect when you stay here? Given nine chances, we would both end up in a concentration camp. Isn't it, Louie?
Captain Renault:I'm afraid Major Strasser insists.
ilsa:You're just saying that to make me go.
Almiar:I say that because it's true. We both know, deep down, that you belong to Victor. They are part of his job that keeps him going. If that plane takes off and you're not there, you'll regret it. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
ilsa:We are?
Rick (romantic):We always have Paris. We did not have. We lost you until you got to Casablanca. We received last night.
ilsa:When I said I'd never leave you...
Almiar:And you never will. I'm busy too. Where I go you can't follow me. What I have to do you can't do separately. Ilsa, I'm not good at being classy, but it doesn't take much to see that three little people's problems in this crazy world aren't equal to a hill of beans. Someday you will understand. Now. They're watching you, kid.
-- from the movie "Casablanca"
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship."
-- Rick from the movie "Casablanca"
"From all the gin houses in all the cities of the world, she comes to mine."
-- Rick from the movie "Casablanca"
"You don't have to play with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you Steve? together and...blow."
-- Slim dreht "To Have and Have Not" in der Interpretation von Lauren Bacall
Maria Ravenwood:"You are not the same man I met ten years ago."
Indiana Jones:"It's not the years honey, it's the mileage."
-- from the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
"Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more miserable swarm of scum and scoundrels."
-- Obi-wan Kenobi from the "Star Wars" Movies
Darth Vader:I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. Finally we meet again. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was only the apprentice; now I am the master.
Obi Wan:Just an evil master, Darth.
Darth Vader:Your powers are weak, old man.
Obi Wan:You can't win Darth. If you defeat me, I will be more powerful than you can imagine.
-- from the first "Star Wars" movie
C3PO:He made a fair move. Yelling about it might not help you.
Han Solo:Give it to him. It's not wise to harass a Wookiee.
C3PO:But sir, nobody bothers an android.
Han Solo:That's because androids don't take people's arms when they're losing. Wookiees are known for this.
C3PO:I see your point, sir. I propose a new strategy, R2... Wookiee wins.
-- from the first "Star Wars" movie
"Don't try! Do it or don't. It can't be tried."
-- Yoda from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
Iodine:yes run! Yes, a Jedi's strength comes from the Force. But beware of the dark side. anger, fear, aggression; they are the dark side of the force. They flow easily and quickly join you in a fight. Once you step onto the dark path, it will rule your destiny forever, consuming you as Obi-Wan's apprentice did.Lukas:Vader... Is the dark side stronger?Iodine:No no no. Faster, easier, more seductive.Lukas:But how am I supposed to tell the good side from the bad?Iodine:You will know... when you are calm, peaceful and passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER to offend.Lukas:But tell me why can't I...Iodine:No no! There's no reason to."
-- Yoda from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
“There is nothing fundamentally wrong with people. If you play a story that puts you in tune with the world, you will live in tune with the world. But if you play a story that puts you at odds with the world like yours, you will live at odds with the world. If you have to play a story where you are the masters of the world, you will become the masters of the world occur.And if they must act out a story in which the world is an enemy are defeated, they will defeat you as an enemy, and one day your enemy will inevitably lie bleeding at your feet, as the world is doing now.
-- Ismael von Danial Quinn p. 84
"The gods played three tricks on the Takers," he began, "first of all, they didn't put the world where the Takers thought it belonged, in the center of the universe. They really hated hearing that, but from Human Trapped in the Wild, they could still believe he was the central character in the creation drama. The second trick of the gods was worse. Since man was the culmination of creation, the creature for which all else was made, they should have had the decency to produce him in a manner befitting his dignity and importance in a separate and special act of reproduction. Instead, they evolved it from ordinary mucus, just like ticks and liverworms. I "really" hated hearing that, but they're starting to adapt. Though man evolved from ordinary slime, it is still his divine destiny to rule the world and perhaps even the universe itself.” d Euses was the worst of all. Although the takers do not yet know it, the gods have not spared the people of Of the law that governs the life of worms, ticks, shrimp, rabbits, mussels, deer, lions and jellyfish, they have not freed you from this law any more than from the law of gravity. , and this will be the deadliest blow of all to takers. For the other dirty tricks of the gods, they might adapt. No customization is possible for this one.”
-- Ismael von Danial Quinn p. 103
“I realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded by opinions, concepts and information structures of all kinds that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the filter. in these structures. And the natural world, our traditional source of direct perceptions, is rapidly disappearing. Modern city dwellers can't even see the stars at night. This modest reminder of man's place in the greater scheme of things, which men once saw every 24 hours, is denied. No wonder people lose their bearings, lose track of who they really are and what their lives are really about.
– Michael Crichton
“The most wonderful thing about tiggers is that tiggers are wonderful things. Their upper parts are made of rubber and their lower parts are made of feathers. They're bouncy, smashing, flyable, full of energy, fun! Fun! Fun Fun! Fun fun but the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is that I'm the one! Oh I'm the one!
Oh, the wonderful thing about the Tiggers is that the Tiggers are wonderful guys. They are full of energy and power. They love jumping on your lap. They're edgy, bumpy, clumsy, short, fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
But the most beautiful thing about Tiggers is...
I am the only one!"-- The Tigger Song - Disney Winnie the Pooh filmen
'Here comes Edward Bear, coming down the stairs behind Christopher Robin. bump! bump! bump! on the back of the head. As far as he knows, that's the only way down.
-- Winnie Puuh, A.A. Milne, 1926
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
-- Winnie Puuh, A.A. Milne, 1926
"Fun things, accidents. You never have them until you have them."
-- Bisonte en Winnie-The-Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
Piglet appeared behind Pooh. "Phew!" the whisper. "yes piggy"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pu's paw. "I just wanted to be sure."
-- from a birthday card from Hallmark
"You have a lot of friends, don't you Pooh?"
"Yes, but only a piglet." replied Pu.
-- from a Hallmark card
“I sit by the fire and think of all I've seen, of my wildflowers and buttercups in the clumps that were there; of the yellow leaves and the fall that was there with the morning mist and the silver sun and the wind in my hair by the fire and thinking oh what the world will be like when winter comes without a spring I never see because there is still so much I have never seen, in every forest, every spring there is a different green, I sit by the fire and think of the people from long ago and the people who will see a world
that I'll never know."
-- from The Song of Bilbo from "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R.Tolkien
Not all that is gold glitters, Not everyone who wanders is lost; The old man who is strong does not wither, deep roots are not attacked by frost. ;The broken sword will be renewed, Those without a crown will be kings again.
- from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. tolkien
Fodo:Sam, I can't do this.
Sam:I know. everything is wrong Actually, we shouldn't be here at all. But we are. It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. They were full of darkness and danger. And sometimes you didn't even want to know the ending. For how could the ending be happy? How could the world go back to how it was when so much bad happened? But in the end it's just a temporary thing, this shadow. Even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine brighter. Those were the stories that stuck with you. It meant something, even if you were too young to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I understand. Now I know. The people in these stories had many opportunities to back down, but they didn't. They continued. Because they held something.
Frodo:What are we holding on to Sam?
Sam:That there is good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
-- from the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
"We often look for silver bullets instead of silver shot."
--Anthony Leiserowitz
"To the extent that people cannot solve a problem, they tend to ignore it."
- Tom Bowman
"If you don't go into the tiger's den, you can't catch the tiger cub."
-- Pan Ch'ao aus Sun Tzus "The Art of War"
"The art of war is vital for the state. It is a matter of life and death, of security or destruction. Therefore it must not be neglected under any circumstances."
-- first line of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
“Physicists ask what this place is and try to systematically characterize its behavior. Biologists ask what it means for a physical system to be alive. At AI, we ask what kind of information processing system can ask these questions.”
-- Avron Barr and Edward Feigenbaum, "The Artificial Intelligence Handbook", Vol. 1, p. eleven
"We drown in information, but we hunger for knowledge."
- John Naisbitt“We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom. From now on, the world will be ruled by synthesizers, by people able to gather the right information at the right time, think critically about it and make important decisions wisely.”
- E. O. Wilson“True character springs from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of a society's moral principles, supplemented by those principles personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to withstand the tests of loneliness and adversity. Principles are embedded in what we call integrity, literally the integrated self where personal choices feel right and true. Character, in turn, is the enduring source of virtue. He stands up for himself and inspires admiration in others.”
- E. O. Wilson“To the extent that we rely on prosthetic devices to keep ourselves and the biosphere alive, we will make everything fragile. To the extent that we eliminate all life, we will forever impoverish our own species. And we must surrender our genetic nature to With the help of reason, our ethics and art, and our own opinion, into a habit of careless talk in the name of progress, imagining ourselves divine and freed from our ancient inheritance, we become nothing.
- E. O. Wilson
"Missionaries go out to Christianize the savages -
As if savages weren't dangerous enough."
– Eduardo Abadia
"The love of nature is more than a hunger for whatever is always unattainable; it is also an expression of loyalty to the land...the only home we will ever know, the only paradise we will ever need ... -- Yes, we only had eyes to see."
– Eduardo Abadia
"The desert is not a luxury but a necessity for the human spirit."
– Eduardo Abadia
There are three things that no human being knows: the time of his death, the true name of Allah, and the origin of his next meal.
- Islamic proverb
"A frontier is never a place, it's a time and a way of life."
- Hal Borland
"The most beautiful music is the music of the event."
-- Irish proverb
"For working like you don't need the money, loving like you've never been hurt, dancing like nobody's looking, sleeping like you're filming and drinking like a real Irishman."
- Irish-Toast
"The true teacher defends his students against his own personal influence... He directs his eyes from himself to the spirit that animates him."
– Amos Bronson Alcott
"For the absurd person, it's not about explaining and solving, but about experiencing and describing. Everything begins with a lucid indifference."
–Alberto Camus
"Shut up, close your lips and say something!"
-Pai Chang
"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon."
- Papa Alexander
"Hiker, there is no path, paths are made by walking".
- Antonio Machado
“Walking itself comes closest to the body's involuntary rhythms, breathing and heartbeat. It strikes a delicate balance between work and leisure, being and doing. It is physical labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.”
-- Rebecca Solnit in "Wanderlust: A History of Walking"
"'Studying the path' is just a figure of speech, a method of engaging people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the path is not something to be studied, the path is totally misunderstood".
--Huang-Po"For me, that's the glory of foreign travel. I don't care what people talk about. I can't think of anything that evokes a greater sense of childish wonder than being in a country where you find yourself. " knowing nothing about almost everything. about everything. Suddenly you're five years old again. You can't read anything, you only have a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even safely cross a street without endangering your life Your entire existence becomes a series of interesting conjectures."
-- Bill Bryson, ne aqui ne la“I ordered a coffee and some food and enjoyed the heat and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole was singing a happy song. I watched the rain fall on the street and told myself that one day it would be 20 years ago. ."
-- Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island
"There is no reality except in action."
--Jeaun Paul Sartre
"The only true education comes from what speaks against you."
- Andre Gide
“Near the first group of arches, hovering over a bend in the road, is a balanced rock about fifty feet high, mounted on a pedestal of the same height; he looks like the head of an Easter Island, a stone god of a petrified ogre.
Like a god, like an ogre? The personification of the natural is exactly the tendency I want to suppress in myself, to eliminate forever. If possible, confront yourself immediately and directly with the skeleton of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the rocky foundation that sustains us. , and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all attributes ascribed to man, anti-Kantian, including the categories of scientific description. Face to face with God or Medusa, even if it means risking everything human in me. a harsh and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the non-human world and yet somehow survives as a separate, intact individual. Paradox and Foundation”.
-- from Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
"Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert, but just the right amount, a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, to create that generous open space between plants and animals, houses and cities and cities, which is what makes the arid west so unlike any other part of the nation.There is no shortage of water here unless you try to found a city where there shouldn't be a city.
-- from Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
"Beyond the unreal city walls, beyond the security fences topped with barbed wire and barbed wire, beyond the asphalt belt of highways, beyond the cemented banks of our temporarily halted and shattered rivers, beyond the fury of the lies that poison the air, there There is another world, waiting for you It's the old, real world of deserts, mountains, forests, islands, shores, open plains. go there be there Go softly and quietly within yourself. Your paths are dark, lonely, rocky, narrow, winding, and only slightly up. May the wind bring rain in the holes in the flat rocks fourteen miles across the blue ridge. May the hound of God sing to your bonfire, may the rattlesnake and screech owl amuse your reverie, may the The Great Sun blind your eyes by day and the Big Dipper watch over you at night."
– Eduardo Abadia
"Hiking makes the world so much bigger and therefore more interesting. You have time to notice the details."
– Eduardo Abadia
“What remains forever in the end are the moments when you caress the wind in your hair, the energy coursed through your veins and despite exhaustion you can’t miss another view, even if it means going up again. "
-- Rose Eidman (Grand Canyon-Wanderin)
“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is rock: rocky crags, rocky plateaux, rocky terraces, rocky crags, ten thousand oddly shaped forms.
When we speak of these rocks we must imagine not heaps of boulders or heaps of rubble, but a whole land of bare rock carved with gigantic forms: cathedral-shaped mounds rising hundreds or thousands of feet; Cliffs that cannot be scaled and gorge walls that reduce the flow to insignificance, with huge hollow domes and tall pinnacles and fountains at the top, and all heavily colored yellow, grey, red, brown and chocolate; never lichenized; never mossy; but bare and often polished."
- John-Wesley-Powell, 1875
“Of course, the region is completely useless. It can only be entered from the south, and once you enter there is nothing to do but walk. Ours was the first and will no doubt be the last group of whites to visit this place."useless place".
-- Grand Canyon Lt. Joseph Ives, 1861 report (he liked the scenery)
"Leave it at that. You can't improve it;
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"He works at medical school... as a patient."
-- Warren Miller talks about one of his freestyle skiers
"Golf is ruined a good drive."
--Mark Twain
"Stay away from people who try to downplay your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the big ones make you feel like you can grow up too.”
--Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to stop and think."
--Mark Twain
“Reader, pretend you're an idiot. And imagine you're a member of Congress.
--Mark Twain
"I never allowed my upbringing to interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain
"Happy Roads to you until we meet again. Happy Roads to you. Until then, smile. Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.”
Good leads to you until we meet again."
– Roy Rogers und Dale Evans
"We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions."
-- Dwight's bone marrow
"Prejudice that sees what it wants cannot see what is clear."
--Aubrey deVere
"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
-- The Wizard of Oz
"Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain."
-- The Wizard of Oz
"Hearts will never be practical until they are unbreakable."
-- The Wizard of Oz
Ozymandine
I knew a traveler from an ancient land who said: Two legs of stone, great and trunkless, stand in the desert. Beside them, in the sand, Half-sunken, lies a shattered face, whose frown, And pursed lips and cold grin commanded, Tell your sculptor to read well these passions That still survive, on these lifeless things, hand shaped the mocked and the nurturing heart; And on the pedestal appear these words: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look at my works, O Mighty One, and despair!" Around the decay of this colossal shipwreck, boundless and barren, the lonely flat sands stretch far away.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was scarcely a trick, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into continence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, robbery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism and sadism. in righteousness. Anyone could do it. It didn't require a brain. It just didn't require character.
- Joseph Heller, Capture 22
"One of the most time-consuming things is having an enemy."
--MY. B white
“Anyone can have a brain. This is a very mediocre good. Every faint-hearted creature that crawls on earth or sails through muddy seas has a brain to become great thinkers and when they come out they have deep thoughts and they don't have any more brains than you, but they have one thing that you don't have : a title.
-- The Wizard of Oz
tin man:"What have you learned, Dorothy?"
Dorothy Gale:"Well I guess just wanting to see Uncle Henry and Aunt Em wasn't enough, and that's it, if I'm ever going to look for my heart's desire again I won't look further than my own backyard, because if I'm not there, I never lost it!
-- from the movie "The Wizard of Oz"
All nature is unknown to you, all coincidences, direction you cannot see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; Yes that is correct.
-- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Brief I, 1. 284
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
-- Dorothy from the movie "The Wizard of Oz"
"I'll take my cutie and her dog too!"
-- Wicked Witch of the West from the movie "The Wizard of Oz"
"Who knew a girl like you could destroy my beautiful evil?"
-- Wicked Witch of the West from the movie "The Wizard of Oz"
"To fear love is to fear life, and he who fears life is already dead in three parts."
--Bertrand Russell
"What we need is not the will to believe, but the will to discover."
--Bertrand Russell
"Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. Overcoming fear is the beginning of wisdom."
--Bertrand Russell
"If you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer, superstition is not the way"
--Stevie Wonder
“I don't claim to be able to prove that God doesn't exist. Nor can I prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian God can exist just like the gods of Olympus or ancient Egypt or Babylon. But none of them hypothesizes, it is more probable than all the others: they are beyond the realm of even probable knowledge, and so there is no reason to consider any of them.
--Bertrand Russell
"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that stupid people are so sure of themselves and smart people are so full of doubts."
--Bertrand Russell
“A good world needs knowledge, kindness and courage;
--Bertrand Russell
“Courage, it seems, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, adversity, fear, injustice, affirming inwardly that life, with all its sufferings, is good; that everything makes sense, even if in some ways it's beyond our comprehension; and that there is always tomorrow".
-Dorothy Thompson
"What men really want is not knowledge, but certainty."
--Bertrand Russell
"Patriots always talk about dying for their country and never killing for their country."
--Bertrand Russell (attributed)
"The desert can kill you with its water, or lack of water, depending on your mood."
- Anonymous
"A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transformation."
- Anonymous
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
- Anonymous
“It says a lot about his upbringing, but a fond and sacred memory cherished from childhood is perhaps the best upbringing of all. If a man carries many of these memories with him for a lifetime, he is saved for the rest of his days." . ."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The reason we don't have 'bear-proof' bins in the park is because there is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people."
- Yosemite-Ranger
"I'm returning this beautiful stationery because someone wrote gibberish on it and put your name on top."
-- Professor of English, Ohio University
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'good dog' until you hit a rock."
- Anonymous
Grabel's Law:2 does not equal 3, even for very large values of 2.
- Anonymous
"There are two important products coming out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't think this is a coincidence."
- Anonymous
"Care is the traitor in our realm, blurring our power and weakening our destiny."
– William George Jordan
"Great! I have a trigonometry test tomorrow and Guido, the murderous pimp, is after me."
-- Miles is directing the film "Risky Business"
"Joel, do you want to know something? Every now and then say, 'What the hell?' 'Fuck' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunities. Opportunities make your future."
-- Miles is directing the film "Risky Business"
"Don't compromise. You are all you have."
--Janis Joplin
The three laws of robotics.
- A robot must not harm a human or, through inaction, allow a human to be harmed.
- A robot must obey commands given to it by humans, unless those commands conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as that protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-- The Three Laws of Robotics by Isaac Asimov
"The most exciting phrase in science that heralds new discoveries isn't 'I found it!' but 'That's funny...'"
--Isaac asimov
“I don't know what I'll look like in front of the world; but to myself I felt like a child playing on the beach, amused by the occasional smoother rock or prettier shell than usual, while the great ocean of truth lies utterly unknown before me.
--Herr Isaac Newton
"Every thought turns into a fear in my brain. I turn into the ugliest thing of all: a busy man."
- Other glitter
"Taking initiative means anticipating the course of events precisely"
-- Masashi in "Ring of Fire"
Who hesitates for lunch.
(He who doubts is lunch.)
- Anonymous
“What I discovered is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when."
-- CEO Steve Case when pressured to keep AOL at the forefront of the competition
"Predictions are difficult, especially for the future."
- Niels Bohr
"Be undeniably good. When people ask me how you're doing in show business or whatever, I always tell them and nobody pays attention because it's not the answer they wanted to hear: what they want to hear is how you an agent get.” . , that's how you write a script, that's how you do it, but I always say, 'Be so good they can't ignore you.' When someone thinks, 'How can I be really good?' they come to you. It's a lot easier than going to cocktail parties."
-- Steve Martin's advice on how to be "successful" in any area
"Today is a good day for science!"
-- Dexter from the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory"...[Athenians] are addicted to innovation. They are bold beyond their judgment: they work with few opportunities for enjoyment, always anxious to achieve, they were born into the world not to rest and nothing to give to others." the rest. "
- Thukydides
"The good thing about science is that it's true, believe it or not."
- Neil DeGrasseTyson
A 3/4 year old boy asked "What is the meaning of life?" I think people ask this question with the assumption that "meaning" is something you can look for and say, "I found it." That's the meaning I was looking for.” OK? And you don't think about the possibility that maybe the meaning of life is something you create. You do for yourself and for others. So when I think about the meaning of life, I ask myself: did I learn something today that I didn't learn? do you know yesterday to get a little closer to knowing everything that can be known in the universe. Just a little closer. As far as knowledge goes, I'm a little closer. If I live a day and don't know a little bit more than I did the day before, I think I've wasted that day... Learning is getting closer to nature, and learning how things work gives you the power to influencing events. It gives you the power to help those in need. trajectory. So when I think about the meaning of life, it's not an eternal question without an answer for me. For me, every day is within my grasp."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, January 15, 2015
"One does not make or fail to be a person, darling."
– Neil Gaiman, O ocean no final da pista
"I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
-- Tom Servo, von "Mystery Science Theatre"
"We turn the cube and it twists us."
-- Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always had."
- proverb of the country
"A finger cannot lift a stone."
- Hopi proverb
Don't stand on my grave and cry, I'm not there, I'm not sleeping. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the flash of a diamond in the snow. When you wake up in the stillness of the morning, I am the swift and cheerful onslaught of peaceful birds in circling flight. I am the gentle stars that shine at night. die.
- Hopi prayer
Eagles fly, see the morning, see the new mysterious morning, something wonderful and sacred even if it happens every day.
--Souix prayer
“When we take precious things out of the earth, we invite disaster. Cobwebs will be woven across the sky near the Day of Purification.
and boil the oceans."
-- Passagens Hopi do moive "The Call"
Koyaanisqatsi n. 1. crazy life. 2. Life in turmoil. 3. Life falls apart. 4. Life out of balance. 5. a condition of life that requires a different way of life.
-- Hopi language definition of "cry"
"Basically, the sniper is aiming at himself."
-- Eugen Herrigel from "Zen na Arte do Tiro com Arco"
"We are not humans in a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings in a human experience."
- Anonymous
"...And what's a baby for?"
-- Michael Faraday (in response to a question about the possible use of electricity)
"We are on a mission from God."
-- The blue brothers
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses....blow!"
-- The blue brothers
"People who think they know everything is very annoying to us who know."
- Anonymous
"Give me ambiguity or give me something else."
- Anonymous
"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
– Groucho Marx
"It was not raining when Noah was building the ark."
- Howard Ruff
"It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works."
--Noam Chomsky
"I was never aware of any other option than to question everything."
--Noam Chomsky
"The people who really mattered are the ones whose names have been forgotten. And that's true of every movement that's ever been."
--Noam Chomsky
“Even in a largely depoliticized society like the United States, where there are no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of corporate-dominated consensus, it is possible for popular action to have a significant impact on politics, albeit indirectly. A Lesson for Indochina Wars".
--Noam Chomsky
“It doesn't matter if you win or lose;
What matters is whether I win or lose.
– Darin Weinberg
"Few things are harder to take than a good example."
--Mark Twain
"It takes about 10 years to get used to old age."
- Anonymous
"I enjoy life. It's something to do."
--Ronnie is shaking
"Never eat more than you can take"
-- Miss Pig
"Start each day with a smile and end it."
--BATHROOM. fields
Jessica Coelho:You don't know what it's like to be a woman from the way I look.
Eddy Valente:You don't know what it's like to be a man looking at a woman who looks like you.
-- aus dem Film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
"I'm not bad, I'm just attracted to it."
– Jessica Coelho
“Laugh often and love much; win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; win the approval of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; appreciate beauty; find the best in others; give of yourself; leave the world alone a little better, be it for a healthy child, a garden bed, or a redeemed social status;".
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Laugh and the world will laugh with you. Snore and you will sleep alone."
--Anthony Burgess
"...they are all the same in their promises. They differ only in their actions."
-- from "The Miser" by Moliere
"Worry doesn't change the future, it undermines the strength of the present."
- Anonymous
If you plan for a year, plant corn. If you're planning for a decade, plant trees. By planning life, educating and educating people.
-- Chinese proverb
"When you raise a child, you raise an individual, when you raise a girl, you raise a community."
- African proverb
I find trees, groves and forests, places that heighten my spiritual awareness, places of quiet peace, stillness and wonder. All the lives we've lived and all the lives we'll ever have are full of trees and changing leaves.
– Virginia Wolff
"Trees are poems that the earth writes in the sky."
- Khalil Gibran
"They can because they think they can."
-- Vergil (Die Aeneis)
"You grow up the day you start laughing at yourself."
– Ethel Barrymore
"Love this earth as if you would not be here tomorrow; show reverence for your garden as if you would be here forever."
- Scottish proverb
"Everyone dies, but not everyone lives."
- Anonymous
It's easy to die. Just breathe back into the trees and the wind.
- Peter Levitt, 100 Butterflies
"You're the kind of friend who would walk over my broken fence to admire my flowers."
- Anonymous
"We come from the land, we return to the land and in between we farm."
- Anonymous
"The earth never seems more alive than in the moment when she exhales the last deep breath of the day and the night comes into her sigh."
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
"The best compost is the gardener's shadow."
- Anonymous
"Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too early."
- Papa Alexander
“In the beauty before me I walk. In the beauty behind me I walk. In the beauty above me I walk. In the beauty beneath me I walk. I walk in the beauty around me. In the beauty in me . I go".
-- Navajo proverb commenting on man's place in the world
“We take these truths for granted; that all men are created equal; that they were endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that in order to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, and derive their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
-- Declaration of Independence
"It's not the critic that counts, it's not the man who points out where the strongman stumbled or where the director could have gotten better. Credit goes to the man who is actually in the arena, his face streaked with dust, sweat and blood. At best, it knows the triumph of great achievements; if he fails, he fails at least, daring very much, so that his place will never be with those cold and shy souls who have known neither victory nor defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt
"Language is an instrument of reason, not just a means of expressing thoughts."
- George Boole
"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear, one must never be content that there is nothing imperfect in it until it also appears beautiful."
- George Boole
"Don't cry for the dead, they are just empty cages from which the bird flew."
- Tibetan Book of the Dead
"It's never too late to be what you could have been."
-- Attributed to George Elliot (aka Mary Ann Evans), but not confirmed
"The most merciful thing in the world...It is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents".
--H. P. Lovecraft
"100,000 lemmings can't be wrong."
- Anonymous
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool from the top of a mountain."
- Saying
"Many think they think if they just rearrange their prejudices"
– William James
"The wind was a stream of darkness through the stormy trees The moon was a ghostly galleon cast across murky seas The road was a streak of moonlight across the purple swamp
And the thief came riding to the door of the old inn."
-- Alfred Noye's poem "The Highwayman"
"No small world for a man chasing his hat on a windy day."
- Saying
“Politics is like roller skating. You go part where you want to go and part where the damn things take you.”
-Henry Ashurst font
"One problem with today's world is that there are many people who are willing to fight their wars but are not ready to row."
– Hugh Allen
"With money in your pocket you are wise, handsome and also a good singer."
- Yiddish proverb
"If I've seen further than others, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants."
--Isaac Newton
"The faults are not in the art, but in the craftsmen."
--Isaac Newton (Principia Mathematica)
So these two great obelisks that my majesty made of electrum for my father Amun, that my name might stand in this temple for all eternity, they are each a hard, seamless block of granite! , without connection!"
-- Queen Hatschepsut (1468 n. Chr.)
"God save our gracious queen, long live our noble queen, God save the queen! Send them victorious, happy and glorious, eager to rule over us; God Save the Queen!
-- Attribut. Henry Carey, 1740
"What we do in this life is reflected in eternity."
-- Maximus from the movie "Gladiator"
"The intelligent man is never bored."
--Isaac asimov
“There is a cult of ignorance in America and always has been. The tension of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread weaving through our political and cultural lives, fueled by the misconception that democracy means only 'my ignorance' as well as your knowledge.'"
--Isaac asimov
“All things that can be known have a number; for it is not possible that without number nothing can be thought or known.”
- Phillaus
"Take what you can use and let go of the rest."
- Ken Kesey
"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."
-- Ronald Reagan
"Trees pollute more than cars."
– Ronald Reagan, 1981
"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to see?"
-- Ronald Reagan, 1966, who as governor of California opposed the expansion of Redwood National Park
“For me, trees have always been the most powerful preachers. I worship them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. because of a weakness, but as great loners like Beethoven and Nietzsche".
-Hermann Hesse
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and crime fiction."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"Justice is subordinate to law and order."
--J Edgar Hoover
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms".
– Groucho Marx
"Next to a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
– Groucho Marx
"Religion is the opium of the masses."
- Carlos Marx
"How can you be in two places at the same time when you're nowhere?"
-- Teatro Firesign
"I think that in creating man, God slightly overestimated his abilities."
--Oscar Wilde
"The nature of God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is somewhere now."
- Empedokles
"Every day people leave the church and come back to God."
– Lenny Bruce
"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing electric car seats instead of crosses around their necks."
– Lenny Bruce
"Anyone can hate. It's hard to love."
- John Williamson
"If native peoples developed an IQ test, the entire western civilization would probably fail."
- Stanley Garn
“Of course there are dishonest men in local government. But there are also dishonest men in the national government.”
- Richard Nixon
"A donkey can tear down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one"
– Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives
“An object never has the same function as its image...or your name."
- René Magritte
"The first rule of smart repair is to save every part."
- Paulo Erlich
"In any condition, anywhere, whatever you do, there is a law under which you can be reserved."
-- Robert D. Talk (Rand Corp.)
"Science has evidence without certainty. Creationists have certainty without any evidence."
-Ashley Montague
"Don't make small plans. You have no magic to get people's blood pumping."
-- Atrib. DH Burnham
"Money, not morals, is the main business of civilized nations"
-- Thomas Jefferson
"We must all be together, or we shall surely all be hanged separately"
-- Benjamin Franklin
"You may be late, but not the time."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The tragedy of life is that we grow old too soon and grow wise too late."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Assuming either the left or the right were in control of the country, it would probably go in circles."
– Pat Paulsen
"The validity of a science is its ability to make predictions."
- Anonymous
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it becomes real money"
- Senator Everett Dirksen
"I like a man who smiles when he fights."
--Winston Churchill
"Not an hour of life is wasted in the saddle."
--Winston Churchill
"In war: determination. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: good will."
--Winston Churchill
"After all is said and done, much more is said than done."
- Anonymous
"The imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with it is the mother of the arts and the origin of child prodigies."
--Goya See more
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
--Walt Kelly (in POGO)CAPTAIN! My captain! our terrible journey is over; The ship has weathered all the storms, the prize we seek is won; But oh heart! Heart! Heart! Oh the bloody red drops where my captain lies on deck,
He fell down cold and dead.
-- Walt Whitman
Mongolischer General:What's the best thing in life?
Konan:Destroying your enemies, seeing them driven before you and hearing the cries of their wives.
-- Movie Conan the Barbarian (Does Conan really know the word cry?)
"If you mimic the enemy's tactics, you assume their responsibility."
-- attribute. Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
"The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of disappointment a necessity."
--Oscar Wilde
"When people are free to do whatever they want, they often imitate each other."
--Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself. Everyone is already taken."
--Oscar Wilde
"God is a comedian performing before an audience too scared to laugh."
--Voltaire
"Those you can make to believe nonsense, you can make to commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
"The one thing I've learned over the years is the difference between taking the job seriously and being serious about yourself. The former is imperative and the latter is disastrous."
– Margot Fonteyn
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
-Werner Heisenberg
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
- Rev. Pat Robertson during his presidential campaign
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... mislead the youth, corrupt their chastity, and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) amplifies earthquakes."
-- Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted by the Iranian media.
"When you decide why you reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject yours as well."
- Stephen F. Roberts
"Standard is better than best."
- said inside the Hewlett-Packard Corporation
"Oh my God! They killed Kenny!
-- the children in the TV show "South Park"
"The early bird may get the worm, but the late mouse gets the cheese."
- Saying
"Anything that can be believed is a picture of the truth."
-- Story-Swappers in The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
"There isn't enough darkness in the whole world to snuff out the light of a small candle."
- Anonymous
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".
-- Chinese proverb
"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light comes in."
-- Leonard Cohen
"People demand freedom of expression to balance the freedom of expression they avoid."
- Kierkegaard
"Life can only be understood in retrospect, but you have to live it looking forward."
- Kierkegaard
“There is a simple equation between freedom and numbers. The more people, the less freedom.”
- Royal Robbins
“Adventure stories, Robbins believed, should be about more than entertainment or escapism; The forms of his narratives become natural metaphors for how humans interact with nature. Extension. Instead, Robbins espoused a philosophy of boundaries and absences: the holes climbers didn't drill in the rock; the footprints they didn't leave; the quiet spaces of the mind they explored in breezy solitude. If an excess of python could symbolize a displaced word in a poem, the silences between the lines represent his proudest work, gaps that reflect an unspeakable mystery he and Ament [his biographer] felt in the world. In this way, Robbin's ideas seem particularly relevant today. To see the value of nature beyond its potential for exploitation and consumption, we can recall the transformative values of awe and wonder..."
– Katie Ives on Royal Robbins
"There's nothing like good food, good beer and a bad girl."
- Anonymous
"Your vocabulary was just as bad, I don't know."
- Anonymous
“In Chinese spelling, the word crisis consists of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
-- John F. Kennedy
"Freedom without learning is always in jeopardy and learning without freedom is always in vain."
-- John F. Kennedy
"Only terrestrial man still clings to the dark and poisonous superstition that his world is bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ends at the riverbank, his common humanity is locked within the narrow circle of those who share his city or its views. Color of their skin... It is their job, the job of the world's youth, to rid human civilization of the last remnants of this ancient and cruel belief.
– Robert F. Kennedy
“I have no need for any belief other than my belief in people. Like Confucius, I am so engrossed in the wonders of the earth and life on it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. I have enough for this If there is no life after death then this one was enough to make it worth even being born human.
- Pearl S. Buck
"Before you embark on a quest for revenge, dig two graves."
– Confucius
"The surest way to hide the frontiers of one's knowledge from others is not to cross them."
James Leopardi
"Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!"
-- The robot in the TV series "Lost in Space"
"Victory at all costs, victory despite all terror, victory no matter how long and difficult the road may be, because without victory there is no survival."
--Winston Churchill
"No victory is final and no defeat forever."
- Anonymous
"Kill one man and you will be a murderer. Kill millions and you will be a conqueror. Kill them all and you will be a god."
- Jean Rostand
"If you keep an open mind, people will throw a lot of shit at you.
- William Orton
"Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart."
-- Mencio (Meng-Tse), 4th century BC
"I don't follow the rule book; I lead with my heart, not my head."
– Diana Princess of Wales
"Perform a random act of kindness, don't expect a reward, and know that one day someone else will be able to do the same for you."
– Diana Princess of Wales
"I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Putting your hand on a friend's face means reaching out."
– Diana Princess of Wales
"I'm still a kid on the inside. I've just aged on the outside."
-- Stan L. Zundel, I climb for a living
“We live on an amazing planet dotted with mountains on every continent. The mere presence of mountain ranges has long captured the human imagination like an invisible force. Some say mountains have a 'psychic gravity' that pulls us into their clutches. Peaks like a place of splendor where the changing light plays with the intense colors affecting shades of snow and ice and many glittering outlines of the mountain ranges.”
-- Fred Beckey, aus dem Buch: Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs
"Success goes from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill
"Resentment is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die."
-- attribute. for carrie fisherman
"Whoever thinks carefully before taking a step will stand on one foot for the rest of his life."
-- Chinese proverb
"You don't age. You age by not growing up."
- E. Stanley Jones, Pastor
"Earning a living is necessary and often rewarding; after all, making a difference becomes more important."
– David Campbell
“Liing face down on rocks will likely make any path feel like a brick wall. Get up and start walking, there will be a way again. It always is.”
-- David du Chemin, Fotograf
“For me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with how you see them.”
- Elliot Erwitt
"Photography is a love affair with life."
- Burk Uzzle
"Don't photograph what it looks like. Photograph what it looks like."
-- David Allen Harvey on photography
"For me, photography is not about looking, it's about feeling.
– David Allen Harvey
"Just living is not enough," said the caterpillar. "You need sun, freedom and a flower."
--Hans Christian Andersen
They tell us, sir, that we are weak and cannot face such a formidable opponent. But when will we be stronger? Next week or next year? parked at every house? Will we gather strength from indecisiveness and inaction? Will we acquire the means of effective resistance, lying on our backs embracing the illusory spirit of hope until our enemies have bound us hand and foot? not weak, if we can send against us, properly employing the means which the god of nature has placed at our disposal. Besides, sir, we will not fight our battles alone. There is a righteous God who rules the fate of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. Combat, sir, is not only for the strong; it's for the alert, the active, the brave. Also, sir, we don't have elections. If we were bad enough to want to, it's too late to retire now. There is no retreat, but submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Its roar can be heard across the Boston prairies! War is inevitable and let it come! I repeat, sir, come on.
It is in vain, sir, to mitigate the matter. The gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war has really begun! The next storm to blow from the north will bring the sound of rumbling cannons to our ears! Our brothers are already in the field! Why are we idle here? What do you want? what would they have Is life so precious, or peace so sweet, that it is bought at the price of chains and bondage? Forbidden, Almighty God! I don't know what path the others will take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-- Patrick Henry for the Virginia Delegate Convention in Richmond
"Amateurs wait. Pros work."
--Carson Kanin, Director
"In my opinion, if you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton
"People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen."
- Moliere
"The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them."
- Bernardo Meltzer
"Silence is the virtue of fools."
--Francisco Bacon 1561-1626
"Spending a lot of time studying is lazy."
--Francisco Bacon 1561-1626
"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it."
-- Cicero v. 106-43
"War is too serious a matter to leave in the hands of the military."
- George Clemenceau 1841-1929
Gentle rain will come Gentle rain will come and the smell of the earth and the swallows circling with their glittering sound; And the frogs in the ponds singing in the night, And the wild plum trees in trembling white, The robins will use their feathered fire, Whistling their whims on a low wire fence; And no one will know about the war, no one will finally care when it's over. No one would care, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly; And the spring itself, waking up at dawn, did not notice that we were gone.
– Sara Teasdale
"The French will only unite at risk. No one can easily unite a country of 265 cheeses."
--Charles de Gaulle 1890-1970
"A man is only truly great when he acts with passion."
-- Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
"My idea of a good person is someone who agrees with me."
-- Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
"Small things affect small minds."
-- Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
-- Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
"Anger makes the stupid witty, but it keeps them poor."
-- Queen Elizabeth I. 1533-1603
“You are a member of the British royal family. We never get tired and we all love hospitals.”
-- Queen Mary, Queen consort of George V
"The louder he spoke of his honor, the quicker we counted our spoons."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
"Nothing surprises men like common sense and simplicity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
"My people and I have reached an agreement that satisfies us. They can say what they want and I can do what I want."
-- Frederick the Great, 1712-1786
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
-- Horace 65-8 v
"The story is a nightmare I'm trying to wake up from."
- James Joyce 1882-1941
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
-- attribute. for Mark Twain (little evidence for this)
"Sometimes quantity has a quality of its own."
- Wladimir Lenin 1870-1924
"Fast is good, but accuracy is the last thing."
--Wyatt Earp
"A lie often told becomes the truth."
- Wladimir Lenin 1870-1924
“As long as the state exists, there can be no freedom. If there is freedom, there will be no state.”
- Wladimir Lenin 1870-1924
"Woman was God's second fault."
--Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900
"Morality is the herd instinct of the individual."
--Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900
"A machine can do the work of fifty ordinary people. No machine can do the work of an extraordinary man."
– Elbert Hubbard
“If a respected but senior scientist says something is possible, they are almost certainly right. If he says something is impossible, he is most likely wrong.”
– Arthur C. Clarke, „Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination“, in der Sammlung „Profiles of the Future“, 1962, überarbeitet 1973
"I wish it didn't have to happen in my time," said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who have seen this time. But that's not her choice.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien from The Fellowship of the Ring
"Do not meddle in the affairs of magicians, as they are subtle and easily angered."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien from The Fellowship of the Ring
'He [Bilbo] used to say there was only one way; used to say. 'You are walking on the path, and unless you hold your feet there is no telling where they may draw you'..."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien from The Fellowship of the Ring
"God doesn't just throw dice. Sometimes he throws dice where you can't see them."
– Stephen Hawking
"Ships floated in the sky, just like bricks didn't."
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"The main difference between something that can go wrong and something that can't go wrong is that if something can't go wrong, it's usually impossible to fix or correct."
--Douglas Adams
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable persistently tries to make the world conform. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
"It's amazing how complete the illusion is that beauty is goodness."
- Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
"In historical events, the great men - so-called - are only the labels that serve to name the event, and as labels they have the ultimate connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs that appears to them a free act of their own free Will in the historical sense is not free will at all, but enslaved to the entire course of prehistory and predestined for all eternity.
- Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
"When you see everything, it seems like it's always beautiful. Planets, life... but up close, a world is just dirt and rocks. And day by day life is hard work. You get tired and lose the pattern.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"It's good to end a journey, but in the end it's the journey that counts."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Awe is the feeling that there is something greater than oneself, even greater than a human being, who is given respect, awe and approval."
– Ursula Goodenough
"The Big Bang, the creation of Sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the emergence of human consciousness and the consequent evolution of cultures, that is the story, the only story that has the potential to grow unite because it happens to be true."
– Ursula Goodenough
"Live long and fly high and smile and tears you would cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."
--Pink Floyd (Respire)
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or must."
--Mark Twain
"He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish in our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing."
--James Gleick about Feynman
"It's not enough to be successful. Others have to fail."
-Gore Vidal
"Cowardly dogs bark the most."
- John Webster
"In our country there is freedom of expression, but no freedom for corruption"
-- Gholamreza Hassani, Iranian cleric
Never is man so tried as in a moment of excessive happiness.
-- Lew Wallace (Author of Ben Hur)
For me, life is a tightrope walk. Everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda
There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope that is lying on the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in an achievement and therefore no happiness.
- Ray Kroc
"Bold ideas are like chess pieces that move forward, they can be defeated, but they can start a winning game."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have to be careful what we pretend to be.
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Machines will follow a path that mirrors human evolution. Ultimately, however, self-aware and self-reinforcing machines will evolve beyond human ability to control or even understand them.”
-- Ray Kurzweil, Scientific American, June 2010
If nobody had taken the risk, Michelangelo would have painted the floor of the Sistine Chapel.
-Neil Simon
By the time lobsters grow to about a pound, they instinctively know they're in for a crisis. They lived in a hard shell that protected them but stunted their growth. To mature, lobsters must shed their old shell and form a new one, a process that takes about two days. It wasn't long ago, but during that time they are naked and vulnerable. Other deep dwellers can eat the lobster naked. Or the waves can crash against a rock and damage it. However, there is no alternative. The lobster must endure risks for two days to form a new shell and mature. People often have to do this too.
- Anonymous
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they are less and less willing to risk failure.
- John W. Gardner
The dilemma is that if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
– Erica Jung
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
There is no accumulation of dust on the one under fire.
-- Magnus von Platen
It takes courage to go places you've never been before... to test your limits... to break barriers. And the day came when the risk of being caught in a bud was more painful than the risk of blossoming.
--Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin
"Rest; a field that has rest produces a bountiful harvest."
-- Publius Ovidius Naso
"Only in calm waters are things reflected undistorted. Only in calm minds is there an adequate perception of the world."
-Hans Margolius
"One must respect public opinion to the extent necessary to avoid starvation and stay out of prison, but anything beyond that is voluntary submission to needless tyranny."
--Bertrand Russell
The risk of offense is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood, one must state the simple and essential truth as clearly as possible.
- Roy H. Williams
One day, while waiting at the airport for the plane that would bring my family back from vacation, I reflected on the terrible risk that love involves. If the plane had crashed, most of me would have crashed with it, and yet there is no way to love without risk... Those who cannot love are those who are afraid or unable to do so to take associated risks. They want to stay safe and protected: they are afraid that their love will be rejected, betrayed or unrequited. However, unless we are willing to take these risks and accept the fact that love exposes us to disappointment or disaster, we cannot escape the web of our own selfishness.
– Sidney Harris
Only those who risk going too far can discover how far they can go.
- T. S. Eliot
Great things are only possible with outrageous wishes.
- Is hate Alejandro
Don't turn off your inspiration and imagination; do not become a slave to your model.
--Vincent van Gogh
"Not the language of the painter, but the language of nature must be heard."
--Vincent van Gogh
"In these moments when nature is so beautiful, I experience a time of frightening clarity. I'm no longer sure of myself and the images appear like in a dream."
--Vincent van Gogh
Don't play what's there. Play what isn't.
– Davis Miles
The challenge is not being aware of the big competitors. It pays attention to the innovators.
- Dave Duffield
Invention is a combination of brain and material, the more brain you have, the less material you need.
– Charles Kettering
Growth comes from better recipes, not just more cooking.
– Paul Romer
Defending yesterday is much riskier than defending tomorrow.
-- Peter Drucker
Those who believe there is no land are poor explorers when all they see is the sea.
- Francis Bacon
The uncreative mind can identify wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to identify wrong questions.
--Anthony Jay
Don't worry that children will never listen to you; Worry that they are always watching you.
--Roberto Fulghum
The real danger in interacting with a five-year-old is that you'll start to sound like a five-year-old.
- Jean Kerr
"Children need to be educated, but they also need to educate themselves."
--Ernest Dimnet
When I have something to say that is too difficult for adults, I write it for children. You didn't close the blinds. They like it when you rock the boat.
– Madeline L’Engle
"Nothing has a stronger psychological impact on those around you, and especially on your children, than the unlived lives of parents."
- Carl Jung
"The privilege of your life is to become who you really are."
- Carl Jung
"So far we've only been able to study one evolving system, and we can't expect interstellar flight to give us a second one. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we have to look for artificial systems. " ."
-- John Maynard Smith on artificial life
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
- Leon R. Yankwich
If you give to your spouse, give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Children are much better at watching and imitating than at listening.
-- Gregory J. P. Godek
Seeing young people not as empty bottles that need to be filled, but as candles that need to be lit.
--Roberto H. Shaffer
Boundaries can be good. A river without a bank is a big puddle.
- Anonymous
Just when I can't bear to think about the victims of destroyed homes, I start thinking about the victims of intact homes.
- Peter DeVries
When you are a lucky parent, you are giving your son or daughter an invaluable legacy. It doesn't matter much if you're rich or poor; When the choice is between the fortunate poor and the unfortunate rich, the only ones to envy are the children of a laughing poor man. Because they grow up expecting that life is good, that the world is a sunny and kind place, that others are just as human and just as decent as themselves, that life is fun to be with. And with that attitude, they can achieve almost anything.
- Guy Wright
"Raise a daughter that people are a little scared of."
- Anonymous
I think if a mother could ask a fairy godmother for the most useful gift when giving birth to a child, that gift would be curiosity.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Society requires a mother to raise her children as if she had no job, to work as if she had no children, and to look like a woman with no children, no work."
- Drag. Isabel Rosemary
I had my parents' undivided attention and was safe in the knowledge that I was loved... My memories of falling asleep at night are the comforting voices of my parents, voices that conveyed in their tones the message of these two people's closeness, they loved and trusted each other.
--Jil KerrConway
Common sense comes from experience, and children need to fail as well as succeed to learn. It's hard to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room with nothing going on.
- Marilyn vos Savant
If you want to complicate a simple task, keep putting it off. Nothing is as exhausting as waiting forever for an unfinished task.
– William James
Do what you do best; If you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring.
– Ignas Bernstein
You can't imagine how busy he was when he was a god.
- Kaiser Hirohito
By far the best prize life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at a rewarding job.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Quality is never a coincidence.
- Will A. Foster
People will remember how badly the job was done long after they forget how quick it was.
-Roger L. Cason
Life must be lived. If you need to take care of yourself, you better find an interesting way.
– Katherine Hepburn
One of the main difficulties faced by the average player is that they don't fully understand what concentration means. He might think he's concentrating too much just by worrying.
--RT Jones
“We're not just here to earn a living. We are here to enrich the world and we will become impoverished if we forget this mission.”
-- Woodrow T.Wilson
"Antonio Stradivari bent over his bench in Cremona, Italy, and made a promise: 'Other men will make violins, but no one will make a better one.' More than 250 years have passed and it remains true. detail, Stradivari's perfect workmanship has never been equaled."
- business press
Live and work to make a difference, to improve even the smallest things. Be fully respectful of the rights and interests of others. No business thrives, even when thriving, in a society that doesn't care about its people.
- Eugene C. Dorsey
Once upon a time, a very rich man commissioned a famous artist to paint a fish. A year later the man came back and asked for his painting. The artist took a blank sheet of paper and drew a beautiful fish while the man waited. The man then asked why it took him a year to paint the fish. The artist opened the door of a cabinet containing 1,000 paintings of this fish.
- Anonymous
It could be worse. Suppose your mistakes are counted and published every day, like a baseball player's.
- Anonymous
The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his leisure time, his work and his leisure time, his mind and his body, his information and his rest, his life and his religion. He hardly knows what's what. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does and lets others decide whether he works or plays. For him he always does both.
– James Michener
Passion makes us the most curious, the most hungry, the most hated for missing something in life. It's the most desperate wish we have to shout into the wells of our lives. It is all we seek for ourselves, what we study when there are no tests, what we create though no one can see. It makes us forget that the sun rises and sets, that we have bodily functions and personal relationships that need a little attention. It's what we would do if we didn't worry about the consequences, about money, about making others happy but ourselves. It's anything we might be tempted to sell our souls for dedicating ourselves a few hundred more years to whatever fills us with the feeling poet Anne Sexton was referring to when she said, "When I write, I know I'm doing what I do for." was born." The most important thing is whether we do it or not.
- Gregg Levy
After the applause stops and the stadium is empty, after the headlines are written, and after you're back in the quiet of your own room and the Super Bowl ring is on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare is gone, that's what remains Things that remain are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory; and a dedication to making the most of our lives to make the world a better place to live.
– Vince Lombardi
The most damaging sentence in the language is: It has always been done this way.
-- Grace Hopper, Ph.D. US Navy admiral and computer scientist
Nothing I do can be done by a 10 year old with 15 years of practice.
– Harry Blackstone jr. Magic
You will know your own way when you have found it because suddenly you have all the energy and imagination you need.
--Jerry Gilles
We need a different, wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of an animal. Separated from universal nature and living by intricate artifices, civilized man examines the creature through the mirror of his knowledge, seeing one feather magnified and the whole picture distorted. its incompleteness, through its tragic fate, to have taken shape deep below us. And then we made mistakes, and lots of mistakes. For the animal is not measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move ready and complete, endowed with senses we have lost or never attained, and living on voices we will never hear. They are not brothers, they are not subjects; They are other nations caught with us in the web of life and time, fellow captives to the splendor and labor of the land.
-- From a poster created by the Animal Society
We don't conquer the mountain, we conquer ourselves.
- Sir Edmund Hillary
When you suffer misfortune, the first thing to remember is how much you escaped.
– Samuel Johnson
Let us insist more and more on fundraising for love, kindness, understanding and peace. The rest is given away.
-- Mutter Teresa
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
There is only one success: being able to live your life the way you want it.
Cristobal Morley
There are no secrets of success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from mistakes.
– Colin Powell
Obstacles are cowardly, but they bluff when they can. If they see you're scared of them, they might jump at you; but if you look directly into the eyes, they disappear from view.
– Orison Swett Marden
The inner teacher, faced with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire consuming things thrown at it. A small lamp will go out, but a great fire will devour whatever is thrown at it, and more will burn; Consume the obstacle and use it to level up.
- Marcus Aurelius
"The obstacle to action drives action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Dance like nobody can see you, sing like nobody can hear you, love like you've never been hurt before. Live like heaven is on earth.”
- Anonymous
No one likes not to be a king, rather a heartbroken king... Unhappiness almost always indicates an untrodden path, an undeveloped talent, an unrecognized self.
- Blaise Pascual
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes we're not. In any case, the idea is quite amazing.
- Arthur C. Clarke
"We overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate technology in the long term."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"When a man dies and is able to pass his passion on to his children, he leaves them a priceless legacy."
--Thomas Edison
"Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success when they quit."
--Thomas Edison
“The inventor can't do everything, you have to change people. We have tremendous capacity to invent super machines. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human indolence is the problem, not the invention. Something in man makes him resist change."
--Thomas Edison
"Giving up some of the things one desires is an indispensable part of happiness."
--Bertrand Russell
Man, like a bridge, was designed to carry the burden of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at a time.
--William A. Ward
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist hopes it will change, the realist adjusts the sails."
--William A. Ward
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to give others credit for his successes.
- Howard W. Newton
Statistically, 100% of the photos you don't submit don't participate.
– Wayne Gretzski
"I run to where the puck will be, not where it has been."
– Wayne Gretzski
Set a goal to make at least one person happy every day, and in ten years your contribution to the general fun fund could have made 3,650 people happy or made a small town beautiful.
– Sidney Smith
We don't want churches because they teach us to argue about God. We don't want to learn that. We may sometimes quarrel with people about things of this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We don't want to learn that.
-- Heinmot Tooyalaket (chief Joseph) from the pierced nose,
"...it doesn't take many words to tell the truth."
-- Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph) of the Nez Perce
All things in the world are two. In our heads we are two: good and bad. With our eyes we see two things: things that are beautiful and things that are ugly. . . . We have the right hand that hurts and does evil, the left hand full of kindness, close to the heart. One foot can lead us astray, the other foot can lead us astray. So all things are two, both.
-- Eagle Chief, Letakots-Lesa, (late 19th century) Pawnee
An elderly Native American once described his own inner struggles like this: "There are two dogs inside me. One of the dogs is bad and evil. The other dog is good. The bad dog is fighting the good dog all the time." When asked which dog would win, he thought for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
- Anonymous
"We don't inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
- Anonymous
"Are we good ancestors?"
- Jonas Salk
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so on Saturdays, holidays, and we still worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe got together and sang and prayed; sometimes a smaller number, maybe just two or three. The songs were short in words but not formal. The singer occasionally put the words he wanted instead of the usual tone. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes everyone prayed aloud; sometimes an old man prayed for all of us. At other times someone stood up and talked to us about our duties to each other and to Usen [Apache God]. Our services were brief.
- Geronimo, Goyathlay, Chiricahua-Apache-Häuptling
Native Americans who bang drums to ward off evil spirits are despised by wily Americans who honk their horns to stop traffic jams.
– Mary Ellen Kelly
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests can't be fools.
- Jean-Luc Godard
To truly love God, you must first love man. And if someone tells you that they love God and don't love their neighbor, you will know that they are lying.
- Hasidic proverb
He does not believe who does not live by his faith.
-Thomas Fuller
The best way to know God is to love many things.
--Vincent van Gogh
The religious are afraid of hell, the spiritual were already there.
- Anonymous
Believing that there is only one truth and that you have it is the root of all evil in the world.
- Max born
"Truth does not change according to our ability to endure it."
– Mary Flannery O'Connor
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a shop doesn't make you a car.
- Laurence J. Peter
Belonging to a religion is not enough. You must also put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. It must be taken to fight the disease.
-- O Dalai Lama
There are no ordinary cats.
-- Colette See more
“We need a witness of our lives. There are billions of people on the planet... That is, what does each one's life really mean? But in marriage you promise to take care of everything. The good things, the bad things, the horrible things, the worldly things...everything, all the time, every day. You say, "Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice. Your life will not go unnoticed stay because I will be your witness." "
-- Beverly Clark im Film "Shall We Dance?"
“The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire. do whatever you want with her here on the dance floor. And then break up like I ruined you for life.
-- Paulina im Film "Let's Dance?"
The smallest cat is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's impossible for a cat lover to banish these attentive, kind, and demanding little friends who show us just enough consideration and forbearance to keep us wanting more.
-- Agnes Replilier
The really good thing about cats is their endless diversity. One can choose a cat to match almost any type of decor, color scheme, fit, personality, and mood. But beneath the skin, no matter the color, still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
- Eric Gurney
"When people are free to do whatever they want, they often imitate each other."
- Eric Hofer
What is remarkable is that we truly love our neighbor as ourselves: we do to others what we do to ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we are tolerant of ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We tend to sacrifice others when we are willing to sacrifice ourselves.
- Eric Hofer
No domesticated animal has lost less of its original dignity or retained more of its former existence. The domestic cat may rebel tomorrow.
– William Conway, Archbishop of Armagh
The cat, like the genius, shuts himself up like a shell, except in the atmosphere of sympathy, and this is the secret of his remarkable and elusive personality.
-- Ida M. Mellen
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
--Mark Twain
At dinner, he was sitting in a corner, concentrating, and suddenly they said, "Time to feed the cat," like it was their idea.
– Lilian Jackson Braun
"It's a poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word!"
-- attribute. Andrew Jackson
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seems to be a lot of kittens.
-- Abraham Lincoln
A kitten is so flexible that it is almost double; The rear parts correspond to another kitten that the front part is playing with. She doesn't know her cock is hers until you step on it.
- Henry Davis Thoreau
A cat sleeps fat but leaves thin.
- Fred Schwab
Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman beings, they are ideal animals for creative work.
- Ronnie Kies
As an inspiration for the author, I don't think the cat can be overstated. It suggests a lot of grace, power, beauty, movement, mysticism. It doesn't surprise me that many authors love cats; I'm surprised not everyone does.
--Carl Van Vechten
Everywhere, cats sleep on shelves like motorized bookends.
– Audrey Thomas
Basically, we are driven by the same impulses. Cats have the courage to live for them.
– Jim Davis
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: if you're fat, strike lean poses.
--Joao Weitz
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a human.
- Mugsy Peabody
A dog is prose, a cat is poetry.
- Anonymous
If a fish embodies the movement of water, given form, then a cat is a diagram and a subtle pattern of air.
-Doris Lessing
I love cats because I like my home; and little by little they become your visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau
Because every house is incomplete without him and lacks a blessing in the spirit.
-Christopher Inteligente
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
- Dave Platt
A cat that wants to eat breakfast doesn't have a snooze button.
- Anonymous
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. The cats have never forgotten that.
- Anonymous
"Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
--Albert Szent-Gyorgi
There are two escape routes from life's misery: music and cats.
-Alberto Schweitzer
The cat has too much mind not to have a heart.
– Ernest Menaul
Dogs think they are people. Cats think they are god.
- Anonymous
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
-- Colette See more
Some people say cats are cunning, mean, and cruel. It's true, and they have many other good qualities as well.
--Missy Dizick
Cats seem to follow the principle that it never hurts to ask what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
“How can man be persuaded to value any other ideal unless he learns to be interested in and delight in the beauty and variety of the world, unless he appreciates the 'value' of a flower in bloom or an animal at play can recognize? ? unless I see "use" in things that aren't useful?
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered in cat saliva.
- Anonymous
The softness of a kitten's feet, like raspberries in your hand.
– Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Does the Cheshire Cat drink condensed milk?
- Anonymous
Rule 46 of the Oxford Union Society in London states: "Any member bringing a dog onto the Society's premises shall be fined one pound. Any animal that guides a blind man is considered a cat.”
- Anonymous
So I laugh when I hear them make it clear that dogs and humans will never see each other again. For all her talk, who would listen, soul in her bright eyes? Did God waste a dog like Tim?
--WM Letts, Songs of Leinster
At the dog show held at our local hospital party, there were many beautiful dogs with equally beautiful owners. But my attention was caught by a small stray dog and his owner, a boy of about 11 years old. For almost an hour, the boy took care of his pet and gently hugged it. When called, the boy tenderly took the dog's head in his hands and looked at it with all the love a child can show. "Now you shouldn't be sad if you don't win an award," he said, "you know, they don't know you as well as I do."
- Anonymous
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of fun.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I'd rather see a portrait of a dog I know than all the allegorical paintings the world can show me.
– Samuel Johnson
My dog worries about the economy because Alpois goes to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
- Joe Weinstein
Dogs are our connection to paradise. They know no malice, jealousy or dissatisfaction. To sit on a hilltop with a dog on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where there was no dullness of doing nothing, but peace."
- Milan Kun
"Only boring people get boring."
-- Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
"Do good work."
-- Gus Grissom, astronaut, for workers building the Atlas rocket would fly into space
“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more transitory than our own live in a fragile circle that is easily and frequently broken. The necessary plan.”
– Irving Townsend
"If a dog doesn't come to you after looking you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
--Woodrow Wilson
"When the man woke up, he said, 'What's Wild Dog doing here?' And the woman said, 'His name isn't Wild Dog anymore, it's First Friend because he's going to be our friend forever and ever. '"
– Rudyard Kipling"If you can keep your head when everyone around you is going insane and blaming you; being betrayed, not dealing lies or being hated, not giving in to hate and yet not looking too good, or speaking too wisely;
If you can dream and can't make dreams your master; You've spoken, twisted of villains to make a fool's trap, or looked at the things you gave your life for, broken, and stooped and built them with worn-out tools;
If you can make a lot of all your winnings And gamble on a tug of war And lose and start all over again And never say a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerves and tendons to be a long time coming after they have gone, and then wait when there is nothing in you but the will telling them: 'Wait!'
If you can talk to crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - without losing touch, If neither enemies nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count on you, but none too much: If you are the unforgiving Minute Sixty seconds, Yours is the earth and all that is on it, And besides you will be human, my son!
– Rudyard Kipling"Make me different from all other animals; make me popular at five o'clock in the afternoon and wonderfully hunted."
-- The Old Kangaroo's Song, aus Rudyard Kiplings Just So Stories
"My dog is generally happy with what I'm doing because she's not infected with the concept of what she 'should' be doing."
-- Lonzo Idolswine
"It's not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I'm not a cat man, I'm a dog man, and all cats can see that in one look, one piercing, vengeful look."
– James Thurber
“There is an Indian legend that says that when a person dies, they have to cross a bridge to get to heaven. Every animal that man has encountered in his life awaits at the top of this bridge. The animals, based on what they know about that person, decide which humans will be allowed to cross the bridge... and which will be rejected..."
-- A foreign
"Lassie seemed brilliant, partly because the farming family she lived with were jerks. Do you remember? One of them would always get stuck under the tractor and Lassie would always run back to the farm to warn the others. She was always wasting precious minutes by saying things like, "Do you think something's wrong? Do you think she wants us to follow her? What's up, girl?" etc., as if this has never happened before, but every week. With all the time these people spent under the tractor, I don't understand how they managed to grow anything. Probably survived with help for crops that Lassie requested.
- David Barry
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he'd wanted to answer all his life."
--Nicole Krauss
"Why not be yourself? That's the whole secret of a successful performance. If you're a greyhound, why are you trying to look like a Pekingese?"
– Edith Sitwell
"Near this place are deposited the mortal remains of the one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without savagery, and all the virtues of man without his vices. That praise which would be meaningless flattery if inscribed on human ashes would be is only a fitting tribute to the memory of BOATSWAIN, a dog."
- Epitaph on Lord Byron's dog Boatswain in Newstead Abbey
“It's something to be able to paint a certain picture or carve a statue and thus embellish some objects; But it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. quality of the day, which is the highest of the arts".
– Henry David Thoreau
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and don't get it, but that we aim too low and get it."
-- Miguel Angel
"I always do things I can't do, that's how I make it."
-- Pablo Picasso
"Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist."
-- Pablo Picasso
"Art is an accomplice of love. Take away love and there will be no more art."
– Remy de Gourmont
"No serious work is possible without great solitude."
-- Pablo Picasso
“Don't hate or fear the artist in you...honor and love him...don't try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow.
- Edward E. Cummings
"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why not try to understand birdsong?"
-- Pablo Picasso
"The older the artist, the greater the doubt; as a consolation prize, complete trust is given to the less talented."
-- Robert Hughes, Time magazine
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
– Winston Churchill, The Royal Academy of Arts, 11. May, 53. Stunde
"In light there is suffering, in excess it burns. The flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet fly, that is the miracle of genius."
--Victor Hugo
"Life is a big canvas, throw as much paint on it as you can."
- Danny Kaye
"Art cleanses the soul from the dust of everyday life."
-- Pablo Picasso
"All good art is a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Much art, especially in our day, is but a letter to itself."
- W. H. Auden
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It's crazy about its own beauty."
- George Jean Nathan
"As suffering as I am, I cannot do without something bigger than me, which is my life: the power to create."
--Vincent van Gogh
"The enjoyment of art is the only ecstasy left that is not immoral or illegal."
- The dark corner
"If people knew how hard I work to get my domain, it wouldn't be a wonderful thing."
- Michelangelo See more
“When I was six I wanted to be a chef. When I was seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has grown steadily since then.”
-Salvador Dali
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"A few years ago I saw a remarkable television interview that Dick Cavett did with Isaac Stern. During the conversation, at Cavett's request, Stern picked up a violin and played an arpeggio. It was so full of soul, so smooth and perfect, that Cavett and his audience were stunned.
Then Stern played the arpeggio again, the notes maybe a quarter of a second apart. It rang a dozen more times; Each time the notes got a little bit closer until they became a perfect whole again.
'How did you do it?' Cavett asked in astonishment. Stern went on to share how he trained six hours a day for 25 years until the muscles in his hands were extremely strong and completely under his control. I felt comfortable being completely spontaneous. "When I'm acting," Stern said, "I'm just paying attention to my feelings."
-- Bruno Bettelheim and Alvin A. Rosenfeld, The Art of the Obvious
"Painting is the profession of the blind. He doesn't paint what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he sees."
-- Pablo Picasso
"Call me Ishmael. A few years ago, no matter how many exactly, since I had little to no money in my purse and nothing in particular that interested me on land, I thought I'd go sailing for a bit and see the water side of the world."
-Moby Dick von Herman Melville
"Mountain peaks and towers and all other great and lofty things always have something selfish about them."
-Moby Dick von Herman Melville
"As long as people accept garbage, it will be economically viable to distribute it."
- Dick Cavett
"If your parents never had children, you probably haven't either."
- Dick Cavett
"The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience."
-- Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone thinks about changing the world, but nobody thinks about changing themselves."
-- Leo Tolstoy
"I mustn't be afraid. Fear is the killer of the mind. Fear is the little death that brings total destruction. I will face my fear. I'll let it penetrate me. ... the inner eye to see your way. Where fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will stay."
-- The Bene Gesserit anti-fear litany from the book Dune
"Intelligence is the art of guessing."
-- H. B. Barlow, The Oxford Companion to the Mind
"Thou shalt not build a machine to forge a human mind."
- Frank Herbert, Duna
"What should worry us most is not necessarily the exponential change in artificial intelligence or robotics, but the stagnant response of human intelligence."
- Anders Sorman-Nilsson
"The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself as you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility, you have to make up for with knowledge and constant practice.”
--Bruce Lee
"The man who defeats himself is superior to the one who defeats a thousand men in battle."
- Buda
"This is the solstice, the immovable point of the sun, its apex and midnight, the threshold and outcrop of the year when the past vanishes and becomes the future; the place of suspended breathing..."
-- Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995
"In spring it must smell like earth at the end of the day."
-- Margaret Atwood, Ei von Blaubart
J:Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
K:A *person* is intelligent. Humans are stupid, scared, dangerous animals and you know it.
-- Men in Black (the movie)
"I said, 'I broke my arm in several places.' She said, 'Don't go to those places.' You may have to fight a fight more than once to win it."
– Margaret Thatcher
They've surrounded us again, poor thing.
- General Creighton W. Abrams
“Defeat is a state of mind. No one is defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality. For me, failure at anything is temporary, and its punishment is just an incentive to work even harder to achieve it.” Failure simply tells me that something is wrong with my action, it is a pathway leading to success and leads to truth.
--Bruce Lee
"Now I see that I shall never find light unless, like the candle, it is my own fuel consuming myself."
--Bruce Lee
"The fastest move is when the sword never comes out of its scabbard. The strongest way to block is never to strike. And the surest cut is the one that stays intact."
- Anonymous"It's important not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, even when you agree on the perfect."
--Greg Hudson, Subversion developer
The ultimate goal of karate is not to win or lose, but to perfect the character of its participants.
-- Mestre Gichin Funakoshi
Ahisma, 'nonviolence', therefore, is much more than the absence of destruction. It is the absence of the desire to destroy.
- Mark Jürgensmeyer
The techniques use four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstances, you must be: hard as a diamond, flexible as willow, soft as water, or as empty as space.
- Anonymous
Everything, mountains, rivers, plants, trees must be your teacher.
- Anonymous
As soon as you compare yourself to the good and bad of those around you, you create an opening in your heart for evil to enter. Testing, competing, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.
- Anonymous
"Don't hit if you can avoid it, but never hit softly."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The emphasis on the physical aspects of the warrior is useless, as the strength of the body is always limited."
- Anonymous
"I am prolonging the fight because I see that you need practice."
- Fuchs
“The warrior's path does not include other paths such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic achievements and dance. "
- Miyamoto Mushashi, The Book of Five Rings
"Budo should enrich your life, not replace it."
-- F. J. Lovret
"The Spartans don't ask how many enemies there are, but where they are."
-- Acts of the Apostles II, 427 BC
"It's a good day to fight: It's a good day to die."
-- Rally Cry von Crazy Horse
"My lands are where my dead are buried."
-- Crazy horse?
“Courage is not the absence of fear.
-- Abraham Lincoln
“Twenty-four years ago our fathers created a new nation on this continent, conceived in freedom and committed to the principle that all men are created equal.
We are now engaged in a major civil war, testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and committed, can last. We are on a great battlefield of this war. We have come to dedicate part of this field as the final resting place for those who gave their lives here so that this nation might live. It is entirely appropriate and right that we do so.
But in a broader sense we cannot consecrate this ground, we cannot consecrate it, we cannot sanctify it. The brave men, living and dead, who have fought here have dedicated it far beyond our feeble power to add or subtract. The world will hardly notice and will not long remember what we said here, but they will never be able to forget what they did here. It is up to us, the living, to devote ourselves here to the unfinished work that those who fought here have so nobly carried on. Rather, it is for us to devote ourselves here to the great task before us: that of receiving from these honorable dead a greater devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here vehemently resolve that these dead must not have died in vain, may this nation have a new birth of liberty under God, and may the government of the people, by the people, for the people, not perish from the face of the earth."
--Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg-Adresse)
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be bought. She will never be sold. It can't be made out of public relations If we know what's good, we do it; if we know what is beautiful, we serve it; when we know the truth, we speak it."
-Whitney Griswold
"The worst sin against our fellow men is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that is the essence of inhumanity."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"We will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
– Martin Luther King Junior.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
– Martin Luther King Junior.
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."
– Martin Luther King Junior.
“It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the true meaning of America.”
-- President Barack Obama addresses the 50th anniversary of the Selma to the Montgomery March
"...our ability to put ourselves in other people's shoes; a realization that we all pull together and when the odds are against one of us, others are there to help."
– President Barack Obama
“There is no such thing as non-politics. By simply making the decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exercise power over you.”
-- Joan Kirner at the Women Into Power Conference, Adelaide, October 1994
"Since women's liberation is a movement of the powerless for the powerless, its appeal to the powerless, who feel they need an alliance with the powerful to survive, is not immediately clear."
-- Rosemary O'Grady (lawyer and book critic)
“The decision to have or not to have a child is fundamental to a woman's life, well-being and dignity. It's a decision she must make for herself. When a government controls that decision for them, they are treated less as "a fully developed human being responsible for their own decisions".
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“It starts with the natural feeling of wanting to serve, to serve first. Then a conscious decision leads to striving to lead. The difference is manifested in the diligence of the servant: first ensuring that the highest priority needs the highest priority of the other people being served. served".
-- Robert Greenleaf, in seinem Essay "The Servant as Leader"
"War is not a woman's story."
-- Virginia Woolf
“I am not for this or that people. I am for justice, for freedom. I am against injustice, against oppression."
- Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu
"What we do with what we have, not what is given to us, is what separates one person from another."
- Nelson Mandela"Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torturer, never the tormented.”
-Elie Wiesel
"The greatest glory of life is not that we never fall, but that we get up every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
"The roots of effective leadership lie in the simple things that listening is a part of. Listening to someone shows respect, shows that you value their ideas and are willing to listen to them."
--Joao Baldoni
"The deepest principle of human nature is the desire to be appreciated."
-- Mark McCormack, author and sports entrepreneur
"Psychologists tell us that money is a gratification factor, not a motivator...Recognition. That's why we do what we do...Recognition is fundamental to self-esteem. Without it, we feel unappreciated, even insignificant. Money is Good , sure. But once you establish a base of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social validation, the employee will quickly become angered and demand more. Ultimately, more will never be enough."
-- John Baldoni created a radio commentary series entitled Life, Leadership, and Laughter.
"Coaches use humor to point out negative behavior, teaching rather than preaching. Mediators tell us that the right joke or moment of hilarity can reduce tension to the point where two opponents are at each other's feet." to consider the possibility of a deal. So why does humor work? Because it breaks with preconceived notions as people form new ideas about their work, their spouse, or life itself. Laughter is a liberation, it is a moment of pure joy. And in our world of tension and confusion, laughter is a physical outlet. The choice of humor is another matter. We live in a time of humiliation, apart from the sarcasm, the scathing rejoinder. Such comments are valid, but all too often they make us laugh at the expense of others... Good humor, poignant humor, for example, allows us to laugh at ourselves because we are human. It serves as a window into our souls".
--Joao Baldoni
“We abuse the land because we see it as a commodity that belongs to us. When we see the land as a community that we belong to, we can start using it with love and respect."
- Aldo Leopoldo
“Go up into the mountains and get their good news. The peace of nature will flow to you as the sun flows to the trees. The winds will fill you with their own freshness and the storms with your energy, while sorrows fade away like autumn leaves."
– Teal, "The Wild World of John Muir"
"Mechanized recreation has already conquered nine-tenths of forests and mountains; dignified respect for minorities should devote the other tenth to wildlife."
-- Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"
"The condition of man is already close to saturation and arrogance, and there is a danger of the destruction of everything that exists."
- a Brahmin of Onesikrit, 327 BC C., reported in Strabo's Geography (Jones trans.)
"America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and fast pizza delivery. These are all sacred forms of American art."
-- Courtney Love (apparently a quote from Neal Stephenson)
“But the public is right. She's always, always right. You hear directors complaining that the promotion was bad, the distribution isn't good, the film's release date was wrong. I don't believe. The public never got it wrong, ever.
-- William Friedkin, in an interview with the NYT
"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They've paid your bills, cleaned your room, and listened to you about how idealistic you are.”
-- Charles J. Sykes Advice for Young People
"Get up very early and leave early, actually work first and wash later." - Auden "The whole world is driven by the desire for wealth and the fear of poverty."
-- ¿Johnson?
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything but the way we think, and as a result we are heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe."
-- Albert Einstein, published in NYT, 1946
"The horror of the nuclear age is not the violence of the new power, but the speed of man's adaptation to it, the speed of his acceptance."
-- E. B. White, "Notes on Our Time", 1954
“A proofreader can do no greater harm to the text before him, and therefore to the writer, the reader, and the newspaper, than by enforcing his own preferences for words, for sentence form, and their conjunction, by a pedantic insistence on grammar, in all cases, such as she was taught in school; In the process, nuance and possibly even the flow of each piece is destroyed.
-- Michael McNay, Guardian-Styleguide
"Americans exaggerate; exaggeration is the most admirable and most American of all American excesses."
-- George Will, Statecraft oder Soulcraft
“Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors, nor any museum or any other agency, agency or entity administered by the Smithsonian Institution or its successors for the United States of America, may publish any statement or label in connection with any model or their ad permit Airplane or design predates the 1903 Wright airplane, effectively stating that such an airplane was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight.
-- Contract clause allowing Smithsonian to display Wright aircraft
"The public must always ask how it is possible to give so much for money."
-- Henry Ford
"If you think you can do something or you think you can't do something, you're right."
-- Henry Ford
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
-- Henry Ford
"The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale."
- Jeff Grimfen
"You can never trust a horse that's been raised to be afraid. There will always be something it fears more than you. But if it trusts you, it will ask you what to do when it's scared."
– Antoine de Pluvinel
"I'm going to build a car for the masses. It will be big enough for the family, but small enough for individuals to drive and care for the most fashionable designs easier than engineering. But it will be so cheap that no man with a good salary can own one - and enjoy blessed hours of pleasure with his family in God's wide reaches.
-- Henry Ford
"Short words are the best and old words when they are short are the best."
--Winston Churchill
“The economic depression that hit Europe in the 14th century was ultimately followed by an economic and technological recovery. But the depression we have entered will never end. We can expect centuries of decline and exhaustion.”
-- Jean Gimpel, A Medieval Machine, 1975
“Who knows how many Silver Surfers, Demons, New Gods, Deathloks, AmbushBugs, Cables, Shatterstars, Ferals, Elektras, Mr. As, Ronins, Shrapnels, Terminals, Alpha Flights and many others will not be created because the artists are outshined by lazy scribes?"
--Erik Larsen
“I believe that man will not only resist, he will win. He is immortal not because he is the only being with an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice, and resilience. The duty of the poet, the writer, is to write about these things. It is his prerogative to help man endure by lifting up his heart and reminding him of the courage, honor, hope, pride, compassion, compassion and sacrifice that were his glory past The voice of Poet does not have to be simply the testimony of man, it can be one of the supports, the pillars that help him to resist and conquer.”
– William Faulkner
"Invincible determination can achieve almost anything and therein lies the great difference between great men and small men."
-Thomas Fuller
Juan Connor:We're not gonna make it, are we? people I mean.
Terminator:It is in their nature to destroy themselves.
Juan Connor:Yeah, big drag, huh?
-- from the movie "Terminator 2"
Juan Connor:"So this other guy: He's a terminator like you, right?"
Terminator: "Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype."
Juan Connor: "You mean more advanced than you?"
Terminator: "Yes. A mimetic polyalloy."
Juan Connor: "What the hell does that mean?"
Terminator: "Liquid metal."
-- from the movie "Terminator 2""Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the ability to create the world's first bionic human. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than before. Better, stronger, faster!”
-- Make TV show "Six Million Dollar Man"."I just came to a conclusion! This BrokenSword scroll contains no secrets of your swordsmanship. What she reveals is your highest ideal. In the first state man and sword become one and the other. Here even a blade of grass can be used as a deadly weapon. In the next stage, the sword does not dwell in the hand but in the heart. Even without a weapon, the warrior can kill his enemy within a hundred paces. But the ideal is the end when the sword disappears completely. The warrior embraces everything around him. The urge to kill is no more. Only peace remains."
-- King of Qin from the movie "Hero""Your Majesty, my task is complete. My decision will cause the deaths of many and Your Majesty will live. A dead man asks you to remember;
-- Untitled movie "Hero"
"Man. Because he sacrifices his health to make money. So he sacrifices money to get his health back, present or future; he lives as if he will never die, and then dies without having really lived.
-- The Dalai Lama when asked what surprised him most about humanity
"Once a year, go somewhere you've never been."
-- Oh, the Dalai Lama
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home must be offset against precautions against real or imagined dangers from outside."
-- James Madison an Thomas Jefferson, 13. Mai 1798
"The purpose of the separation of church and state is to remove forever from these shores the incessant strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
– James Madison
"Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that true religion, that soulful sense of truth and beauty, can thrive without idolatrous theology."
-- Adrian Desmond and Huxley
..could it be that God does not exist, that "the existence of all that is well and good is but the accidental and ineffective by-product of blindly spinning atoms", that we are alone in a world that we have don't care about the values we create and hold, that we and they are only here for a moment and go, and eventually there will be no trace of us in the universe. "A good man may believe that this terrible thing is true. But only a fool will say in his heart he's glad it's true."
-- Sterling M. McMurrin
"Every time a poet or a preacher, a boss or a magician spouts gibberish, humanity spends centuries trying to decipher the message."
- Umberto Eco
"I think you can get to the point where there's no difference between the habit of pretending to believe and the habit of believing."
- Umberto Eco
“Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs, but a research process aimed at constructing a testable body of knowledge that is continually open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty is fleeting. This is at the core of her limitations, it is also his greatest strength.
– Michael Shermer
"I can doubt anything but one thing, and that's why I doubt it."
-- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
"African Americans are almost invisible, especially in Renaissance art."
– Renée Cox
"Last time I checked, there weren't any Americans in Renaissance art."
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"We pretend that comfort and luxury are the main demands of life when all we need to make us happy is something that excites us."
-- Albert Einstein
“We must not confuse dissent with infidelity. We must always remember that prosecution is not evidence and that a conviction depends on evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear of one another. We will not let fear of some It Was irrationality guide us as we delve into our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men or from men who were afraid to write causes unpopular at the time, to speak, to associate and to defend, to remain silent from men who defy Senator McCarthy's methods, or those who agree with them. We can deny our heritage and history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the outcome. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to give up their responsibilities. As a nation we receive our full inheritance at an early age. We declare ourselves, as we are, defenders of liberty wherever it exists in the world, but we do not we can defend liberty abroad by defending it give up at home. for the.
- Edward R. Murrow
"Now synonymous with civilization, the Silk Hat is a relatively new introductory item."
- Enzyklopädie Britannica 1911
"Joke is polite insolence."
--Aristotle
"In addition to the noble art of action, there is the noble art of omission. The wisdom of life consists in eliminating the unessential."
-Lin Yutang
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment of jealous, well-meaning, and misunderstood men."
- Juez Louis Brandeis
“… fear breeds oppression; that oppression breeds hatred; that hatred threatens stable government; that the road to safety lies in the opportunity to freely discuss alleged complaints and proposed remedies; and that the right remedy for bad advice is good advice. "
- Juez Louis Brandeis
"It bothers me that people I've never met keep describing me as grumpy."
-- Evelyn Waugh, diary (December 26, 1947)
"The Telegraph is like a very, very long cat. In New York they pull the tail and in Los Angeles the head meows. And the radio works the same way. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
-- Albert Einstein
"It is not only the right but also the duty of the jury to reach a verdict to the best of their ability, albeit in direct contradiction to the instructions of the court."
- John Adams
"Modern inventions have been a great leveler. A machine can work much faster than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and eliminate class or financial differences."
- Ivor Brown, The Heart of England
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over publicity, because nature cannot be fooled."
-- Richard Feynman, Addendum to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure
“No one has enough vital sensibility to be continually incessantly receptive to aesthetic impressions, even if he has time, health, or money. This, its exponents found, was the only right condition in which man should live."
-- David Cecil, on romance, in his essay on Rossetti
"Programs must be written in such a way that people can read them and, incidentally, machines can also run them."
-- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, Preface to First Edition
"That language is an instrument of human reason and not just a means of expressing thoughts is a truth universally acknowledged."
-- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
"Premature optimization is at the root of all (or at least most) programming problems."
– Donald Knuth
"The best way to communicate from one person to another is through history."
– Donald Knuth
"The ultimate test of whether I understand something is whether I can explain it to a computer. I can tell you something and you'll nod, but I'm not sure I explained it well. But the computer won't nod repeatedly exactly what I say. You can bluff most of life, but not with computers.”
– Donald Knuth
"One of the most important and fascinating computer languages is Lisp (which stands for "List Processing"), invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented."
-- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
"Lisp is a programmable programming language."
-- John Linear, CACM, September 1991
"One might even suggest that Lisp owes its survival precisely to the fact that its programs are intelligent, which everyone, including me, sees as a handicap."
-- John McCarthy, "Early History of the Lisp"
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."
- Alan Kay
"Lisp is worth learning Lisp because you'll have a deeply enlightening experience when you finally have it -- that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your life, even if you never use Lispit much."
-- Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
"Lisp has been jokingly referred to as 'the smartest way to abuse a computer'. I think that description is high praise because it conveys the full flavor of liberation: it has helped many of our most talented fellows think thoughts that were previously impossible.
-- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
"Lisp is a programmer's amplifier."
-- Martin Rodgers (first said by Chuck Moore about Forth)
"Lisp...warned me that the software might be close to executable math."
-- L. Peter Deutsch
"Common Lisp is politics, not art."
– Scott Fahlmann
“Dealing with failure is simple: work hard to improve. Success is also easy to cope with: you solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve yourself.”
– Alan Perlis
“Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language at the time, a major factor in its success, and it remains a language of choice for hackers.
-- Eric Raymond, on open sources in MIT's first operating system, ITS
Lisp doesn't seem any more dead to me than usual.
- David Thornley
"The only way to learn a new programming language is to write programs in it."
- Kernighan and Ritchie
"If I had five cents for each entry of "by (i = 0; i < N; i++)" in CI, I would be a millionaire."
- Mike Vanier
“Language designers are not intellectuals. They are not as interested in thinking as one might expect. They just want to create a language and start using it.”
- Dave Luna
"The difficult thing about staying on an exponential curve is that when you look back it looks flat and when you look forward it looks vertical and it's very difficult to gauge how much you're moving because it's always the same looks like."
- Sam Altman
"A man, an airplane, a canoe, macaroni, heroes, rajahs, a coloratura, cards, snipes, calico, macaroni, a gag, a bag of bananas, a tan, a label, again a bag of bananas (now camel), a Crepe, safety pins, spam, a rut, a bun, money, a jug, sore hats, a worker, a canal—Panama!”
-- Guy Steele Jr., CLTL2
"A sequel that only obeys the obvious stack semantics, Locust, is not a real sequel."
- Guy Steele Jr.
"I'm just trying to import."
-- June Carter Cash
"I'm just trying to be important and have a good life and do work that means something to someone."
– Reese Witherspoon (Parafraseando for June Carter Cash)
"The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases."
– Jon Bentley und Doug McIlroy
"Don't worry about what others will do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- Alan Kay"What am I interested in?"
-- Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of MAD magazine
"The concern is the expected interest on a debt that will never be due."
- Anonymous
"I'm against doing things that computers can do."
- Olin's shudder
"Reports that say something didn't happen are always interesting to me because, as we know, there are things we don't know. But there are also unknowns, things we don't know we don't know." I don't know it."
– Donald Rumsfeld
“The United States will not do anything it cannot do. And if we do something, we will be able to do it.”
– Donald Rumsfeld
“...the Ministry of Truth, which dealt with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts; the Ministry of Peace, which dealt with war; the Ministry of Love, which upheld law and order; and the Ministry of Plenty, which was in charge of economic affairs".
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
-- (Party slogan) from "1984" by George Orwell
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength
-- (Party slogan) from "1984" by George Orwell
"Orthodox means don't think, don't have to think."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“Winston looked at [the cubs] in disgust. And yet, just for a moment, what an almost frightening force rang out in that scream from just a few hundred throats! Why couldn't they ever yell like that about something important? Even if they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was scary wasn't that they would kill you for thinking differently, but that maybe they were right. After all, how do we know that two and two equal four? Or that The Force of Gravity or that the past is immutable?
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The platitudes are true, hold on! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. The rocks are hard, the water is wet, unsupported objects fall towards the center of the earth. Feeling like I'm speaking to you, O" Brien, who also stated an important axiom, wrote: "Liberty is the liberty to say that two plus two equals four.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"He realized that in moments of crisis one never fights an external enemy, but always against one's own body... And the same, he realized, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking Schiff, the issues you struggle with are always forgotten as the body swells to fill the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed with fear or screaming in pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against Hunger or cold or insomnia, heartburn or toothache."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"When you make love, you expend energy; and then you're happy and don't give a damn. Up and down, cheering and waving flags, that's just sour sex. If you're happy inside, why bother with Big Brother and the three year plans and the two minute hate and all the rest of your shit?
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The main aim of modern warfare...is to exhaust the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“The goal of the highs is to stay where they are. The goal of the mids is to trade places with the highs. The goal of the Lows, if they have purpose, because it is an enduring characteristic of the Lows that they are too overwhelmed by monotony to be more than at times aware of anything outside of daily life, is to abolish all differences and one society to create in which all men are equal."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The essence of oligarchic rule is not the inheritance from father to son, but the persistence of a certain worldview and a certain way of life, which the living are forced by the dead to name its successors".
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The opinions that the masses may or may not have are considered indifferent. They can have intellectual freedom because they have no intellect."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Engsoz. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, surviving only in written records and human memories, and likewise having full control over the minds of their members, it follows that the past is what the party makes of it decides.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Doublethink is the power to hold two conflicting beliefs in mind at the same time and to accept both."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. They believe that reality is something objective, external, self-existing. They also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident...not external. Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The mandate of the old despots was 'You must not'. The mandate of the totalitarians was 'You must'. Our mandate is 'You are'."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“What happens to you here is forever. You will be capable of ordinary human feelings. Everything will be dead in you. You will never be able to love again, nor friendship, nor joie de vivre, nor laughter, nor curiosity, nor courage, nor integrity. You'll be empty. We'll squeeze it empty and then we'll fill it with ourselves."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"What can you do... against the madman who is smarter than you, who listens to your arguments and just persists in his madness?"
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"A dictatorship is not established to secure a revolution, a revolution is made to establish a dictatorship."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“We control matter because we control spirit. Reality is inside the skull.”
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“They imagine that there is something called human nature that will be outraged by what we are doing and turn against us. But we created human nature. Humans are infinitely malleable.”
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Winston didn't like her from the moment he saw her. He knew why. It was because of the atmosphere on the hockey fields, the cold showers, the walks together and the clear head she kept. He almost didn't like all women, and especially the young and handsome, who were the party's most fanatical supporters, catchphrases, amateur spies, and snoops on heterodoxy.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The Thought Police were going to catch him anyway. He had committed, would have committed even if he had never been in prison, the essential crime everyone else carried. Thought crime they called it. Thought crime it was." It's something that could stay hidden forever. You can successfully evade him for a while, even years, but sooner or later you will be caught.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"People just disappeared, always overnight. Your name was removed from the records, all records of everything you ever did erased, your existence denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized, that was you usual word.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
Parsons was an associate of Winston at the Ministry of Truth. dependent".
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“Almost all children today were hideous. Worst of all, they were systematically turned into unruly little savages by organizations like the Spies, yet evoked no tendency in them to rebel against the discipline of the Spies. On the contrary, they worshiped the party and everything connected with it? All their cruelty directed outwards, against enemies of the state, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought criminals. It was almost normal for older people up to the age of thirty to be afraid of their own children.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Thoughtcrimes don't bring death: Thoughtcrimes are death."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"If the party could go back in time and say this or that never happened, that would certainly be more frightening than mere torture and death."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"And if everyone else accepted the lie imposed by the Party, if all records told the same story, then the lie would go down in history and become the truth. Whoever controls the present controls the past.'”
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you cannot criticize."
-― Tacitus
“Day by day and almost minute by minute, the past has been updated. In this way, all the predictions made by the party could be supported by documentary evidence; nor news or expressions of opinion contrary to the exigencies of the moment are always permissible. register yourself The whole story was a palimpsest, scraped off and rewritten exactly as many times as needed.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Don't you see that the purpose of Newspeak is to reduce the reach of thought? understand a conversation like what we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought as we now understand it. Orthodoxy means not thinking, not having to think.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"It was terribly dangerous to let your mind wander when you were in a public place or within reach of a telescreen. thus the suggestion of abnormality to have something to hide. In any case, wearing an inappropriate facial expression was itself an offence. There was even a Newspeak word for it: to defy crime..."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. The tension in you could turn into a visible symptom at any time.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"If there was hope, it must lie with the proles, for only there, in these thoughtless masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the power to destroy the party be generated."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Until they are conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." -Reference to the descendants.
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"...doing anything that suggests a fondness for solitude, even walking alone, was always a bit dangerous. There was a Newspeak word for it: life itself..."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
“In Oceania today, science in the old sense has almost ceased to exist. There is no word for "science" in Newspeak. The empirical way of thinking on which all scientific achievements of the past were based contradicts the most fundamental tenets of Ingsoc."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"The citizen of Oceania must know nothing of the principles of the other two philosophies, but is taught to curse them as barbaric attacks on morality and common sense. In fact, the three philosophies are scarcely distinguishable..."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Reason is not statistics."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"It was strange to think that heaven was the same for everyone, in Eurasia or East Asia as well as here. And the people under heaven were the same too – everywhere, around the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people like that, people unaware of each other's existence, separated by walls of hate and lies, but almost exactly the same - People who never learned to think, but who have stored in their hearts, stomachs and muscles the power that would one day overthrow the world."
-- from the book "1984" by George Orwell
"Nothing in the world can replace perseverance. Not talent...nothing is more common than unsuccessful people. Not genius...unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Not education...the world is full of educated vagabonds. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent."
– Calvin Coolidge
The four freedoms freedom of expression2. freedom of religion3. Freedom to want 4. Freedom from fear
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 6, 1941)
"The test of our progress is not whether we increase the abundance of those who have too much, but whether we give enough to those who have too little."
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"...more than education, experience or training, a person's resilience determines success or failure."
-- Harvard Business Magazine
“The great enemy of plain language is insincerity. When there is a gap between actual and stated goals, one instinctively resorts to long words and tired phrases, like ink seeping from squid.”
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
"I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
--Arnold Schwarzenegger"There is a plague of uniformity that destroys human joy..."
– Zita Cobb
The Seven Commandments of Animalism 1. Anything that walks on two legs is an enemy. 2. Anything that walks on four legs or has wings is a friend. 3. No animal should wear clothing. 4. No animal should sleep in a bed. 5. No animal should drink alcohol. 6. No animal should kill another animal. 7. All animals are equal.
-- From George Orwell's Animal Farm
"All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others."
-- Replacing Rule 7 with The Seven Commandments of Animalism, George Orwell's Animal Farm
small and hot
It was small and warm. His hands like cotton. His face like a rope. Her hair like a waterfall. His smile like a stone. Your spirit like the sky. His life like a river. His death like a fever of sadness. his memory. small and hot.--Courtney Muyah do Pima Apache
I came to you last night to be with you while you slept. I laid my head on your pillow while you cried beside me. A soft smile kissed her lips as I licked away a tear. Until your time comes to join me, I will wait for you all these years.
-- anonymous poem about the loss of a dog
Native American prayer
O great spirit, whose breath breathes life into the world and whose voice is heard on the gentle breeze: we need your strength and wisdom. wise, so that we may understand what you have taught us. Help us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and stone. Always make us ready to come to you with clean hands and calm eyes, so that our spirit may come to you without shame when life fades like the setting sun.Apache Wedding Blessings
Now you will no longer feel the rain, for each of you is the refuge of the other. Now you will not be cold anymore, because each of you is warmth for the other. Now there is no loneliness for you, because each of you is the partner of the other. Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you. Go now to enter your abode - to enter your days together. May the days be good and long on earth.Salish Marriage Blessings
Now there is no rain for you, because one is protection for the other. Now the sun shall not burn for you, for one is a refuge for the other. Well, nothing is difficult or bad for you, because harshness and meanness are confused with each other. Now for you there is no night, because one is light for the other, now for you the snow is gone forever, because one is protection for the other. It's like this, from now on, from now on. And now there is consolation. Now there is no loneliness. Now forever, forever, there's no loneliness.The way
The path is long - we walk together The path is difficult - let's help each other The path is joyful - let's share The path is ours alone - we walk with love The path grows before us - let's start-- a foreignThe peace of wild things
When desperation for the world grows inside me and I wake up in the middle of the night afraid of what life will be like for me and my children, I go and lie down where the wooden dragons rest on the water in their beauty, and the great egret eats I enter the peace of wild animals that do not burden their lives with willful sadness. I come in the presence of still water. And I feel above me the blind stars of the day waiting with their light. For a while I rest in the mercy of the world and am free.
- Wendell BerryMay we raise children who love unloved things: dandelions, worms and spiders. Children who feel that the rose needs the thorn and run on rainy days when they turn to the sun ... And when they grow up and someone needs to speak for those who have no voice, those days from the wildest bond they have tend to have cute things and be the only ones.
- Nicolette Sowder
“Sometimes I can't think about the house or the garden or the clean fields. They are very similar to our failed human history, for it led to this human presence that is bitterness and trial. As I enter among the trees, safely, almost simultaneously, and without doing anything, things begin to fall into place, I enter an order that does not exist outside, in human spaces, I feel my life taking its place between lives of the trees, annual plants, animals and birds, the living of it all and the dead that have gone to create life on earth. I'm less important than I thought, the human race is less important than I thought. I am pleased.
- Wendell Berry
May all beings have happiness and its causes. May they never have suffering and its causes. May they continually live in a joy that transcends pain. May they live in equal love, near and far.
-- Payer of the Mayanana teachings
The "New Colossus" Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, who conquers mounted limbs from land to land, shall here before our sea-washed gates at sunset stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is a captured lightning, and her name is Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand she welcomes the whole world, her gentle eyes command the airlift harbor that forms the twin cities. "Preserve, old countries, your historical splendor!" She weeps With silent lips. "Give me your weary, your poor, your huddled masses longing to breathe freely, the wretched refuse of your flooding shore;
-- Emma Lazarus November 2, 1883 From the plague on the Statue of Liberty
I am a raindrop... and I fell, crystallized. A gray winter morning in the yesterday of your life... it was cold... very cold... but the year was new and you had plans... and dreams of warm places... you drew your designs in the frost... .and frozen them in your memory...it was January...so long ago.
...and sparkled on the edge of an icicle as you drove up the hill...and as you ran down the long icy road I stuck little snow needles up your nose...and dripped off your shoe covers when you were on them Door that night... it was February and you were cold and tired... and hungry.
...and you ran me over one afternoon while I was running slowly in front of your window. The wind was strong and your kite was ready... but the sun had set and I was there... making you wait until tomorrow... it was March and you were impatient.
...and I followed you both into the forest on a grey-green day...but when I touched her face you ran away to hide from me...I watched from a leaf as you kiss her...softly. ...and she kissed back...it was April...and you were in love...for the first time.
...and I mingled with your tears when you said goodbye to your father...and when the prayer was said...and your song was sung...I wanted to tell you that crying is good. .. how can everyone knows happiness until he felt sadness... it was May... and the flowers bloomed again.
...and I was dew glistening on the grass as the sun rose on a summer morning...and you had a day to remember...it was June and all was well in your world.. .and the boy I just brought it to you...
...and I stayed one night on a cloud and let you lie on your back and look at the stars...it was July, the air was clear and you finally realized how much fun it is...to be alive to be.
I'm just a raindrop...but I created the snow on the mountains you've scaled...I created the rainbows you've seen...I created the rivers you've crossed and Filled the oceans you sailed... I was August and you and I we were somewhere... doing our thing.
...and I ran like a stream in a meadow as you walked beside me on a golden sunny day...I heard you telling your son the mysteries of nature and the realities of life...it was September. .. and the flow of time began to flow a little faster...
... and as it danced with the leaves in its final mad whirlwind ... you gathered ... family and friends ... to honor your son ... and your bride ... it was party time ... . .. and a farewell toast to the autumn splendor. It was October and winter would soon be here.
...and if my sisters clung to the thin, bare branches of the trees outside your window...you would sit by the fire and stare at the faded images...and the tiny fragments of life saved for the day . .. It was November... and the days were getting shorter...
I am a raindrop...and I slowly fell one night...turned into snow...covered the earth with a soft white blanket...and when you saw the lights that shone on the green branches, I heard your heartbeat Say you were happy... because I knew that if one light went out, the others would stay on... it was December... and you were tired...
-- from the Cover of the "Fresh Aire" Albums
"The winter breeze of December is already clouding the lake, freezing the crystals, obscuring the memory of summer..."
- John Geddes
Count the moments that bore you in a day and waste the hours in spontaneous ways.
Tired of being out in the sun, stay home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and today is the time to kill. And then one day you find out that ten years have passed. Nobody told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and run to catch the sun but it goes down. Run to get back at you. The sun is relatively the same, but you're older, short of breath, and a day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter, it seems that there is never time. Plans that go nowhere, or half a page of scribbled lines Silence and despair is the English way. Time's up, music's over, Thought I had something else to say.
-- Pink Floyd
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climate and starry sky;
One shadow more, one ray less, Partially marred the nameless grace That beckons from every black lock, Or softly illuminates her face; Where cheerful, sweet thoughts express how pure, how dear your dwelling place is.
And on that cheek and that forehead, so soft, so calm yet eloquent, the smile that triumphs, the tones that shine but speak of days spent in kindness, a spirit at peace with all below , a heart whose love is innocent!
--Lord Byron
undefeated
Since the night that covers me, black as the abyss from pole to pole, I thank the gods that exist for my invincible soul.
In the constraints of circumstances, I neither flinched nor cried out aloud. My head is bloody under the blows of chance, but held high.
Beyond this place of anger and tears only the terror of the shadow appears, and even the menace of the years finds me and will find me without fear.
No matter how narrow the gate, how punishing the scroll, I am the master of my destiny: I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
... Come on my friends, 'It's not too late to seek a newer world. my goal is to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars until I die. you knew. Though much is taken, much remains; and though we are not now the power that moved the earth and heaven of old, what we are, we are; An even temper of heroic hearts, weakened by time and fate, but strong in will to fight, seek, find and not give up.
-- Closing lines of the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
FAQs
What law is a book rests on top of a shelf and does not move until a student accidentally knocks it off? ›
Newton's first law states that an object will remain at rest or move at a constant speed in a straight line unless it is acted on by an unbalanced force. According to Newton's first law, an unbalanced force is needed to move the book on your desk. You could supply the force by pushing the book.
What is an example of third law of motion? ›Consider a swimmer pushing off the side of a pool. They push against the wall of the pool with their feet and accelerate in the direction opposite to that of their push. This occurs because the wall exerts an equal and opposite force on the swimmer.
Which of the following Newton's laws of motion describes a book at rest or a book sliding across a surface at a constant velocity has net force equal to zero? ›Newton's first law: An object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force.
Is standing an example of Newton's third law? ›Newton's third law states that every action has an equal and oposite reaction. You may not think this, but when you're standing ont he floor, you are excerting a force against the floor: your weight, caused by gravity, is pulling you down.
What Newton's law is book sitting on a table? ›DESCRIPTION: A set of mathematics problems dealing with Newton's Laws of Motion. The book lying on the table is exerting a downward force on the table, while the table is exerting an upward reaction force on the book. Because the forces are equal and opposite, the book remains at rest.
Is sitting in a chair Newton's third law? ›The force of gravity pulling you down against your chair is balanced by the force of the chair pushing up against you. The forces acting on you as you sit in your chair are just one example of Newton's third law, which states that for every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force.
What are 5 examples of inertia? ›- Dust coming out of mat when beaten.
- Falling forward in transport when sudden breaks are applied.
- Leaves get detached from the tree when shaken hardly.
- Due to inertia, artificial satellites keep moving in a circular motion.
- One's body movement to the side when a car makes a sharp turn.
- Tightening of seat belts in a car when it stops quickly.
- A ball rolling down a hill will continue to roll unless friction or another force stops it.
- If pulled quickly, a tablecloth can be removed from underneath of dishes.
- 1· Try to move an object.
- 2· Pushing a car and a truck.
- 3· Racing Cars.
- 4· Rocket launch.
- 5· Kick the ball.
- 6· Car crash.
- 7· Two people walking.
- 8· Object thrown from a height.
State Newton's second law of motion
Newton's second law of motion states that “Force is equal to the rate of change of momentum. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration.
What are Newton's 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th laws of motion? ›
In the first law, we understand that an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. The second law states that the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. And finally, the third law states that there is an equal and opposite reaction for every action.
How does Newton's 3rd law of motion work? ›Whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first. His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is an example of law of inertia? ›Examples of Law of Inertia in Everyday Life (Inertia of Motion) When the bus stops suddenly, people fall forward. When the driver of a bus brakes suddenly, the lower part of the body comes to rest as the bus comes to rest but the upper part of the body continues to move forward due to inertia of motion.
What are examples of third law of motion action and reaction? ›According to Newton's third law of motion, forces always act in equal but opposite pairs. Another way of saying this is for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. This means that when you push on a wall, the wall pushes back on you with a force equal in strength to the force you exerted.
What is the application of Newton's 1st 2nd 3rd law in real life? ›When you jump, your feet apply force to the ground, and the earth applies an equal and opposite reaction force that pushes you into the air.
What is Newton's first law 2nd law 3rd law? ›In the first law, an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. In the second law, the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. In the third law, when two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction.
What is Newton's third law the law of? ›Newton's Third Law: Action & Reaction
His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A. In other words, forces result from interactions.
Newton's First Law. Again, the first law of motion states that an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object that is moving at a constant velocity will continue moving at a constant velocity unless acted upon by unbalanced force.
What force is acting down on a book laying at rest not moving on a table? ›Since the book is at rest and not moving on the surface of the table hence, there is the static frictional force between the book and the surface of the table keeping the book at its position until some force greater than this static frictional force is applied on it.