*_Quote of the month_* To live in society doesn't mean simply living side by side with others in a more or less close cohesion; it means living through one another and for one another. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." - Gerald Brenan "There are no perfet men in this world, only perfect intentions." - Morgan Freeman(Robin Hood the movie) "We are not bitter not because there is so much to be done that we cannot afford to waste valuable time and resources on anger." "The art of living lies in the mingling of holding on and letting go." "Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." "Even though the early bird gets the worm, It's the second mouse that gets the cheese." "Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial." "The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents of the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men." "I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work, we are supposed to work it." "Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't." "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel." "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." "Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours." "Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?" "Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble." "Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps." "I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way." life is like a field of freshly fallen snow, every step you choose to walk, will show. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." "Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." "The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." "One kind word can warm three winter months." "Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability." "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." "When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." "Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion." "It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about." "The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average." --- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. A big disappointment in life is the discovery that the man who writes the finance company ads isn't the one who makes the loans. Only dead fish swim with the current People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they allowed themselves to become. and they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. -james baldwin A few words of widsom from those who are wiser than I: People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. you do the right thing because make sense if you don't. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison "An unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates ...not that I condone Facism, or any Ism for that matter. Ism's, in my opinion are just not good. A person should not believe in any ism, He should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." A good point there. Of course, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. But I'd still have to bum rides off people. --Ferris Bueller Disatisfaction + New Visions + First Steps = Over Coming of Resistance. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." -Carrie Fisher "Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." -Betty Smith "Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others." -Oscar Wilde "I toss myself into the sea only to be returned with the tide." "It is easier to put on slippers than to carpet the world." "If brute force doesn't work, then you're not using enough." "I'm filled with love for the world, some people just suck" - Genet "I have very little sympathy for anyone who isn't myself" - Dagny "I believe in clubs for women... when all other forms of persuasion have failed." - Harpo Marx "If at first you don't succeed, GIVE UP. No use being a damn fool." "Say what you mean, and mean what you say. I ask nothing more and expect nothing less." - Falc. "I would suggest a good long stay in a nice quiet sanitarium. Make sure you find one with pretty nurses and lots of strong drugs. "Love is to surrender completely, hopelessly, to one's soul." -Eldon Bernikie "Love is either madness or nothing at all" - Milan Kundera "Dying is an art, and like everything else, I do it exceptionally well, I do it so well, that it feels like hell" -- Sylvia Plath "If it moves, kill it. If it's dead, eat it. If it tastes good, kill another one..." Okay; deep philosophical statment: Life is like a little kid trying to beat up a big kid. The little kid runs up and tries to hit the big kid and the big kid beats the shit out of him. Little kid falls down, but gets back up and runs at the big kid again. See, it wouldnt be funny at all if the kid stopped getting back up. But he's too stupid. and thats what makes it so great. "I had to let it go, took all the pennies that I had and i threw them in the wishing well.. and i wish you well.." - Winger "Down Incognito" "People are basically disgusting...I would weep for humanity but I don't have enough tissues." - Dagny (Julie Soskins) "if we have any problems, we'll settle them like men. we'll bottle up our feelings, get heart attacks and die." - Murphy Brown "Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free from any possibility of wrongdoing... and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely." -Lazarus Long (Time enough for love, R.A. Heinlen) "I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it" - Calvin And remember: Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words cause permanent damage" -Barry Champlain, "Talk Radio" "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." --Harriet Beecher Stowe "For I am a bear of very little brain, and big words bother me." --Winnie-the-Pooh "Atoms don't like to share electrons any more than children do" - Dr. Johnson of the NMSU Chemistry Dept. "Chlorides look at Hydrogens and they say 'You're ugly, get away from me!'" - Dr. Johnson "Die alone, unmourned and unloved" - Cerebus "The comedy is over" -Whether you think you can or whether or you can't.....your right. -Everything should be made as simple as posible, but not more so. Albert Einstine -I did the best i could with what i had. Thurgood Marshall -In Germany they first came for the communist, I did not speak up because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak up because i was not a Jew. Then they came for Trade unionists, and i did not speak up because i was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholoics, and i did not speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up. Pastor Martin Niemoller -Vanity of vanities, all is vanity Ecclesiastes 1:2 -"Only in man does man know himself; life alone teaches each one what he is." Goethe, Tasso, act 2, sc. 3. -Life can only be understood backwards, it must be lived forwards. So far today, God, I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. But in a few minutes I'm going to get out of this bed and from then on I'm going to need a lot more help. Amen