OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Something is better than nothing.
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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
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"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." ---Albert Einstein

"But imagination gives us the sweet music of tiniest insect wings, enables us to hear, all around the world, the vibration of every needle, the waving of every bole and branch, the sound of stars in circulation like particles in the blood. The Sierra canyons are full of avalanche debris---we hear them boom again, and we read the past sounds from present conditions. Again we hear the earthquake rock-falls. Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite." ---John Muir

"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." ---Mark Twain

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." ---Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." ---William Blake

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. Shannon L. Alder

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All work and no play mmakes Jack a dull boy &c...

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling

The greatest threat to the future of our nation - to our freedom - is not foreign military aggression.. but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility.- Charles B. Shuman

Ban dictionaries of quotations.
--Anon (aka brianL)

So we can bask in what we think, originality? (There's a joke! )

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

Boy's got a mouth like a cannon, always shootin' it off. By Foghorn Leghorn

"We are the eyes of the one single seer and this seer is freedom itself." ~ Francis Lucille

We make ourselves real by telling the truth. Man can hardly forget that he needs to know the truth, for the instinct to know is too strong in us to be destroyed. But he can forget how badly he also needs to tell the truth. We cannot know truth unless we ourselves are conformed to it. We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true by manifesting the truth as we see it.- Thomas Merton, From No Man Is an Island [1955]

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.
-- Ellen Hopkins

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Originally Posted by ugjka "We are the eyes of the one single seer and this seer is freedom itself." ~ Francis Lucille

I Like this one. I would have thought the "author\*" to be more on the scientific side with thinking or are they?

Or just infinite interpretations...

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner

Nothing is more certain, than that trade cannot be forced; she is a coy and humorous dame, who must be won by flattery and allurements, and always flies force and power; she is not confined to nations, sects, or climates, but travels and wanders about the earth, till she fixes her residence where she finds the best welcome and kindest reception; her contexture is so nice and delicate, that she cannot breathe in a tyrannical air; will and pleasure are so opposite to her nature, that but touch her with the sword, and she dies: But if you give her gentle and kind entertainment, she is a grateful and beneficent mistress; she will turn deserts into fruitful fields, villages into great cities, cottages into palaces, beggars into princes, convert cowards into heroes, blockheads into philosophers; will change the coverings of little worms into the richest brocades, the fleeces of harmless sheep into the pride and ornaments of kings, and by a further metamorphosis will transmute them again into armed hosts and haughty fleets.- John Trenchard [1722]

57. What about Pascal’s Wager? Why risk going to hell?

ROTFL! Why risk making hell?

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Should read, ignorance in the law is no excuse.

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century [1923]