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

“I never realized innumeracy was the major driver of economic growth”
“Try to explain America any other way” (SMBC)

You do not realize the importance of the service, that folks like Weinersmith, Stephan Pastis, Brooke McEldowney render to explain America. Unfortunately, few Europeans access the wisdom.

Don't be jealous of US(--pun) 1%...

It’s time to lift the new iron curtain that is descending across Europe. Russia and the United States have many interests in common: a new cold war, which could easily escalate into a hot war, is in no one’s interests.– Justin Raimondo

Governmental employees and narcotics peddlers feel that ” everyone else belongs to them “!! I do not accept ownership by anyone; no matter what they want to believe!! At the first sign of ” the ownership attitude ” my ears and mind closes and I walk quickly away!! It would just be wonderful if the heavens somehow removed such thinking from all of humanity!!-Cousin Lucky

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”

― Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”

― Doris May Lessing

Your Own Body Is Not Your Possession...It is the Shape Lent to you by
Heaven and Earth. Your Life is Not Your Possession; it is Harmony
Between Your Forces, granted for a time by Heaven and Earth. Your
Nature and Destiny are Not Your Possessions; they are the Course Laid
Down for you by Heaven and Earth. Your Children and Grandchildren
are Not Your Possessions; Heaven and Earth lend them to you to cast
off from your body as an insect sheds its skin. Therefore you travel
without knowing where you go, stay without knowing what you cling to,
are fed without knowing how. You are the Breath of Heaven and Earth
which goes To and Fro; How can You Ever Possess It?
- From The Book Of Lieh - Tzu

"Some religions set you in their stone!"

-- Jamison

Originally Posted by jamison20000e “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”― Doris May Lessing

Thanks, Jamison!!

Thank you all too!

Had to dig through my history to find the site:
http://www.refinethemind.com/25-profound-quotes/
...thier not all as golden as that one
(now having me read on about Doris May Lessing CH )
but it has some great stuff, including other links.

I followed your link, Jamison, and this one appealed to me

“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.” ― Zhuangzi

Here's another one

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originally Posted by Celtic Yokel Here's another one

Both of those were high on my list!

My terminal echoing 'fortune' from ~/.bashrc

The justifications for drug testing are part of the presently fashionable
debate concerning restoring America's "competitiveness." Drugs, it has been
revealed, are responsible for rampant absenteeism, reduced output, and poor
quality work.  But is drug testing in fact rationally related to the
resurrection of competitiveness?  Will charging the atmosphere of the
workplace with the fear of excretory betrayal honestly spur productivity?
Much noise has been made about rehabilitating the worker using drugs, but
to date the vast majority of programs end with the simple firing or the not
hiring of the abuser.  This practice may exacerbate, not alleviate, the
nation's productivity problem.  If economic rehabilitation is the ultimate
goal of drug testing, then criteria abandoning the rehabilitation of the
drug-using worker is the purest of hypocrisy and the worst of rationalization.
		-- The concluding paragraph of "Constitutional Law: The
		   Fourth Amendment and Drug Testing in the Workplace,"
		   Tim Moore, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol.
		   10, No. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 762-768.

number 17. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. —Winston Churchill

A list of political quotations:http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/21/wit...icians-voters/