Past Quotes

It is not the function of our government to keep the citizens from falling into error, 
it is the function of the citizens to keep the government from falling into error.

          -Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1950

Life does not cease to be funny when someone dies, any more than it ceases to be serious when someone laughs.

          -George Bernard Shaw 

The more you have, the more you're occupied; the less you have, the more free you are.

          -Mother Teresa

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

          - Michel de Montaigne

Let us rise up and be thankful,

for if we didn’t learn a lot today,

at least we learned a little,

and if we didn’t learn a little,

at least we didn’t get sick,

and if we got sick,

at least we didn’t die;

so, let us be thankful.

          - The Buddha

Knowing others is intelligence;
     knowing the self is enlightenment.
Conquering others is power;
     conquering the self is strength.

          - Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, verse 33

Since the old days, it is said that "anger is the fire in one's mind that burns away all of one's virtuous deeds."
Anger should be absolutely surrendered.

          - Jae Woong Kim

If only it were so simple.  If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to
destroy a piece of his own heart?

          - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

October.  This is one of the particularly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.  The others are July,
January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

          - Mark Twain

Those who know do not speak.
Those who speak do not know.

          - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

There are three kinds of men:  ones who learn by observation,
few who learn by reading, and the rest of them have to
pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

          - Will Rogers

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

          - Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland"

Ah well.  I am a great and sublime fool.
But then, I am God's fool.  And all his works must be contemplated with respect.

          - Mark Twain

All your base are belong to us.

          - Zero Wing

Money is a good thing, but you have to waste a lot of time making it.

          - Anonymous

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

          - Philo of Alexandria

They misunderestimated me.

          - George W. Bush, 11/6/2000

            Mind-bending analysis

Is it true what they say?  Are there people in Paris who consist entirely of ornate clothing?

          - Franz Kafka, "Conversation with a Drunk"

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline
and personal growth.  Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

          - John Maxwell

            (How does your manager measure up to this?  Your CEO?)

"These ghosts seem to be more skeptical about their existence than we are, which by the by, comes as
no surprise considering how frail they are."
"But I've heard they can be nursed back to health."
"My you're well informed -- it's true, but is anyone going to do it?"

          - Franz Kafka, "Contemplation"

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.

          - Anonymous

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

          - Anonymous

The mind is at bottom an imagination.  And since imagination is the same as illusion, 
there is nothing to be attached to.

          - Hui Nang, 6th Zen Patriarch

The source of all human suffering lies in the fact that a man is unable to sit quietly in a room.

          - Blaise Pascal

Clay is molded to form a utensil, but it is on its non-being that the utility of the utensil depends.
Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, but it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends.
Therefore, turn being to advantage and turn non-being into utility.

          - Tao Te Ching

The best person is like water.  Water is good.  It benefits all things and does not compete with them. 
It dwells in lowly places that all distain.  That is why it is so near the Tao.

          - Tao Te Ching










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