Miscellaneous Quotations

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"In small proportions we just beauties see, and in short measures life may perfect be."

-Ben Jonson

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

-Albert Einstein

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

-Albert Einstein

"In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid."

-Dave Barry

"Today I think there is broad recognition that no business concerned with its brand name can afford to be indifferent to human rights and social issues."

-Kenneth Roth

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too."

-Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference

"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put."

-Winston Churchill

"Debating her on her 'ideas' does about as much good as kicking a retarded puppy."

-Salon.com writer Charles Taylor on Ann Coulter

"instead of flying flags on your SUV's you should be buying energy efficient cars that would lessen our dependence on Middle East oil."

-Bill Maher

"The war against terrorism, if it is a war at all, is not World War II or the Cold War, and it is grasping at empty patriotism to claim that it is."

-National security expert William M. Arkin

"All art attempts to rid life of banality."

-V. Vale

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

"For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense."

-Dante

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

-George Orwell

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

-George Orwell

"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."

-George Orwell

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

-George Orwell

"I enjoy the debate. I do not expect to win but I also do not expect to lose. That is what makes the debate both fun and eternal."

-John S. Spong

"As anyone who has been abused can attest, you never know that you've made a [bad] choice until it's done, and you can't undo it without help."

-Priya Jain, on Salon.com

"I think I know when when a plot has swerved toward tragedy. It happens when events reveal a flaw in the basic approach of the protagonist and he reacts to the bad news by clinging to that flaw more strenuously."

-Walter Kirn

"Corporations have neither bodies to be kicked, nor souls to be damned."

-William Gouge

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force."

-William Blum

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

-Virginia Woolf

"You will kill ten of our men, and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it."

-Ho Chi Minh

"I can envision a small cottage somewhere, with a lot of writing paper, and a dog, and a fireplace and maybe enough money to give myself some Irish coffee now and then and entertain my two friends."

-Richard Van de Geer, letter, 1975, last American to die in Vietnam War

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

-Mohandas Gandhi

"It's funny that natural [healthcare] methods are called alternative when putting crazy amounts of unnatural chemicals and substances in your body is considered normal."

-gofalcons (Digg.com)

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the lonliness of the process."

-Loren Eiseley

"A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."

-Charles Kettering

"In the 80's, if you have an NES and a TV in your bedroom, that was just about the best you could do as a kid."

-cubbiesx, on Digg.com

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

-Harry Truman

"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."

-Samuel Beckett

"We are the people our parents warned us about."

-Jimmy Buffett

"The real world is a special case."

-unknown

"Guests were about 40% Canadian, 40% Mexican, 20% American. If Bill Clinton ever wanted to go to one place to conduct a poll about how NAFTA is doing, he can come here. "

-gorman68 (TripAdvisor.com) on the Mexican Hotel Royal Decameron