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“Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Speaker: Katharine HepburnPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Speaker: Max EhrmannPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
Speaker: Evan EsarPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Speaker: Ralph CharellSource: CareerOnePosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 6:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
Speaker: Warren BuffettSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Speaker: Thomas H. HuxleySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Speaker: Dave BarrySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Speaker: Bruce LeeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand.
Speaker: Maurice SwitzerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is ultimately what I like about the Born-Again Lifestyle: Even though I see fundamentalist Christians as wild-eyed maniacs, I respect their verve. They are probably the only people openly fighting against America’s insipid Oprah Culture – the pervasive belief system that insists everyone’s perspective is valid and that no one can be judged. As far as I can tell, most people I know are like me; most of the people I know are bad people (or they’re good people, but they consciously choose to do bad things). We deserve to be judged.
I realize that liberals and libertarians and Michael Stipe are always quick to quote the Bible when you say something like that, and they’ll tell you, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” And that’s a solid retort for just about anything, really. But the thing with born agains is that they want to be judged. They can’t fucking wait. That’s why they’re cool.Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The single biggest influence on our lives was the inescapable sameness of everything, which is probably true for most generations.
Jefferson Morely makes a brilliant point about inflation in his 1988 essay “Twentysomething”: “For us, everything seemed normal. I remember wondering why people were surprised that prices were going up. I thought, That’s what prices did.” Consider that those sentiments come from a guy who was already in high school during Watergate – roughly the same year I was born. To be honest, I don’t know if I’ve ever been legitimately shocked by anything, even as a third-grader in 1981. That was the year John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, and I wasn’t surprised at all (in fact, it seemed to me that presidential assassinations didn’t happen nearly as often as one would expect). From what I could tell, the world has always been a deeply underwhelming place; my generation inherited this paradigm, and it was perfectly fine with me (both then and now).Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep pushing. When two minds are locked in battle one will break. Do not break or falter. Stay true to them. But do not let them drag you down with them. You have to be the hero, the one carrying the banner of light and hope.
Speaker: Zach HeinzSource: ChristinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Speaker: Warren BuffettSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing about.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.Speaker: KalidasaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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[7:29:05 PM] Ted Southard: gives you goas thoughSpeaker: Gryph and TedSource: Skype chat for nightly testingPosted: 30 Oct 2012 at 6:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lifes hardships are like a book. At first they seem impossible and never ending, but then as you push thru them each and everyday
such as turning the pages of the bookyou realize you can tackle this long journey a little bit at a time. Also just as some books are longer or shorter than others, different problems take different amounts of time to heal and move past from.Speaker: Erin TevisPosted: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!