Monday, July 11, 2005

Quotations

“We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Signed July 4, 1776

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
- Thomas Carlyle

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
- Thomas Paine

“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.”
- William Bridges

"If ethics were easy, everyone would be a saint. The real test of character is whether you do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay."
- Michael Josephson

“The problem of liberal/conservative bias (in the news media) is a red herring. The real bias is toward laziness, toward entertainment, toward confrontation, toward that which will drive the ratings. The real story is this incredible laziness. It seems like the whole institution has lost its way.”

David Javerbaum
Head writer for “The Daily Show”
Quoted in The Holmes Report
Monday, May 30, 2005

"Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why."
- Eric Gill

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
- Niccolò Machiavelli

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

"The only things we keep permanently are those we give away."
- Waite Phillips

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
- Albert Einstein

"Only entropy comes easy."
- Anton Chekhov

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”
- Max Mueller

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.”
- Native American proverb

The Message of the Good Samaritan Story Is, "Get involved."

"The only thing that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Friday, July 08, 2005

Friday, July 01, 2005

America Held Hostage - Paul Krugman

America Held Hostage - New York Times:

"The Iraq that emerges once U.S. forces are gone won't bear much resemblance to the free-market, pro-American, Israel-friendly democracy the neocons promised. But it will pose less of a terrorist threat than the Iraq we have now.

Remember, Iraq wasn't a breeding ground for terrorists before we went there. All indications are that the foreign terrorists now infesting Iraq are there on the sufferance of a homegrown insurgency that finds them useful for the moment but that, brutal as it is, isn't interested in an apocalyptic confrontation with the Western world. Once we're no longer targets, the foreign terrorists won't be welcome."

Third Parties Unite Petition

Third Parties Unite Petition

The Atlantic Online | July/August 2005 | Countdown to a Meltdown | James Fallows

The Atlantic Online | July/August 2005 | Countdown to a Meltdown | James Fallows