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

"liberty and justice for all"?!

"liberty and justice for all"?! if you're white, male, and wealthy only

I guess it's just fun to believe you never really die, (hu, creators of) Lucy; no-mater how much "time" we waste?! And, of course "drugs" are the answer right??? they are we...

~The Faith & Religion mega Thread

"Life is nothing but timing."

"I said this once at my high school, and the kids started laughing," he added. "I had to admit there might be a fourth 'F.'"

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by your own grandparents and extended family. When I have been through so much pain and hurt and have to live with the scars every day, I get angry knowing that others think it is all made up or they brush it off because my cousin was a teenager. I was ten when I was first sexually abused by my cousin, and a majority of my relatives have taken the perpetrator's side. I have cried many times about everything and how my relatives gave no support or love to me as a kid when this all came out. Not one relative ever came up to that innocent little girl I was and said "I am sorry for what you went through" or "I am here for you." Instead they said hurtful things: "Oh he was young." "That is what kids do." "It is not like he was some older man you didn't know." Why does age make a difference? It is a sick way of thinking. Sexual abuse is sexual abuse. What is wrong with this picture? It brings tears to my eyes the way my relatives have reacted to this and cannot accept the truth. Denial is where they would rather stay.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

What are you doing? - Tying off. No! No! No! Go tie off somewhere else! - I thought we could do whatever we want. - Give me the hose. Give me the little rubber hose. Whoa, he's got a knife! Okay, great. He's got a knife. Of course he does! Why not? You know what? Keep the little rubber hose! Good luck with that. Good life decision, man. Mac, I think we gave people too much freedom.

Money in government can't do anything right!
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-ed...ing-university

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams" - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing" - Maria Mitchell

"Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes" - Dennis Allison

"Collaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many" - Clay Shirky

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth

Can anyone guess or more precisely deduce where I got thees quotes? ( P.s: just a fan not spam... )

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.- Benjamin Franklin

That's a lucky one.

"In the past year, over 800,000 millions have died. Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be our nation's number one killer."



...Moscow in flames, Missiles headed toward New York. Film at eleven


From The Kentucky Fried Movie

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.-- C.S. Lewis

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“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 Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.--Kahlil Gibran

It is an essential, unalterable right in nature, engrafted into the British constitution as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm, that what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.- Samuel Adams, The Massachusetts Circular Letter [February 11, 1768]

I'm not sure if I'm the one who knocks.
-- Heisenberg, Uncertainty Principle