Things Learned Along the Way

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  • blondie
    blondie

    Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
    -George MacDonald

  • blondie
    blondie

    "The more things change, the more they stay insane." - Unknown

  • SanFranciscoJim
    SanFranciscoJim

    "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." - Rod Serling

  • blondie
    blondie

    "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Lenin

  • blondie
    blondie

    "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

  • blondie
    blondie

    "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

    Albert Einstein

  • blondie
    blondie

    "A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes." - James Feibleman

  • jgnat
    jgnat
    Perhaps we all have to embrace the strong beliefs of adolescence before we can become mature adults with the wisdom to modify our certitudes and listen respectfully to those who bring us different views.

    Jean Vanier in Becoming Human

  • blondie
    blondie

    "The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
    Bacon

    The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
    The Buddha

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    ``An eye for an eye makes everyone blind"...... Ghandi

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