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 I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

In the 1920s, while barring the teaching of foreign languages, Texas governor Miriam "Ma" Ferguson picked up a Bible and declared, "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for Texas." Monday, August 12, 2005 02:25 a.m.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage

The first ninety years go by pretty fast. Then, one morning, you wake up and you realize you're not 81 any more.- Burgess Meredith as John Gustafson Sr. in Grumpy Old Men(1993)

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings--many of them not so much. -John Muir, 1914 Friday, July 15, 2005 06:05 a.m.

patriotwatch.org Tuesday, July 5, 2005 06:50 a.m.

Section 215 vote! Tuesday, June 16, 2005 06:50 a.m.

Myths and Realities about the Patriot Act
"On June 16 2005, the House of Representatives took perhaps the most significant vote in the nearly four year debate over the USA PATRIOT Act. They voted 238 to 187 to amend the CJS spending bill by exempting libraries and bookstores from the scope of foreign intelligence records demands under Section 215 of the Patriot Act."

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 06:40 a.m.

Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. Tuesday, July 5, 2005 06:31 a.m.

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson, 1826 Tuesday, June 28, 2005 05:23 a.m.

Reading is a good thing. Everyone should read. If you couldn't read, how would you know what was on TV?

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. -Graham Greene

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -Pierre Beaumarchais Friday, May 6, 2005 04:42 a.m.

Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.- Heinrich Heine

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic (1772-1834) Tuesday, March 29, 2005 05:52 a.m.

I have a large seashell collection, which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world . - Steven Wright

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese proverb

I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. -Wolfgang Pauli

A different language is a different vision of life. -Federico Fellini Tuesday, February 28, 2005 04:44 a.m.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Saturday, January 29, 2005 04:33 a.m.

Using a "setup" program to *UN*install software might seem strange, but it makes perfect sense when you remember that Office is from Microsoft, the company that makes you use the "Start" menu to stop your PC.

I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible.

Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1834

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.- Albert Einstein, 1954

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. -Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- ) Tuesday, January 25, 2005 05:55 a.m.

Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -Ambrose Bierce, 1914 [The Devil's Dictionary] Tuesday, January 11, 2005 06:41 a.m.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by clever people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain, 1910

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. -H.L. Mencken

"Microsoft Works," is a contradiction in terms.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Stephen Swid Fri, December 31, 2004 05:59 a.m.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. -Phil Zimmermann, cryptographer

Sooner or later we must take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. - Claud William Dunkenfield [1889-1945]

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. -Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)]

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle,1795 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 08:15 a.m.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -CharlesDarwin, 1882 Friday, October 15, 2004 07:40 a.m.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -Donald Knuth, computer scientist (1938- ) Tuesday, October 12, 2004 08:13 a.m.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill Sunday, October 3, 2004 07:27 a.m.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. -Henry Cate VII Saturday, October 2, 2004 06:44 a.m.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. - William Least Heat Moon Friday, October 1, 2004 08:57 a.m.

I've always been under the impression that children were for people who couldn't have cats. Wednesday, September 29, 2004 03:10 p.m.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it. -Mark Twain, 1910 Wednesday, September 22, 2004 05:36 a.m.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. -Arthur Schopenhauer, 1860 Thursday, September 16, 2004 06:28 a.m.

"We have so much to be grateful for. What a precious privilege it is. Rather than being aware of that, the mind, out of habit, is usually searching for what is wrong and for how to correct what is wrong. Obviously one aspect of the survival of the organism is seeing what is wrong and fixing what is wrong - so that one can be fed, clothed, and housed. I am not saying this is wrong except that at this point, where you are, there is much more to be grateful for than is usually acknowledged. And even if it is acknowledged it is brushed aside with "I am not really that lucky" because you don't want to tempt the gods to send down some bad luck, or you have guilt about being so lucky without deserving it. This precious lifetime, which could end in an instant and will certainly end sooner than one is ready, is here with these circumstances, just as they are. What divine good luck. In this moment there is more to be grateful for than there is to fix. And if you ignore this truth, or trivialize this truth, or feel guilty about this truth, then the clarity of mind that allows real investigation is missing." ~Gangaji Friday, September 10, 2004 07:03 a.m.

SAVING ANNA AMALIA "The Duchess Anna Amalia Library, the cradle of the Weimar classical period and a universal treasury with its unique ensemble of library, artworks and architecture, was the victim of a fire on the evening of September 2, 2004. Please help." Thursday, September 9, 2004 05:41 p.m.

Instant gratification takes too long. - Carrie Fisher

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. - Mark Twain

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000) Wednesday, September 8, 2004 06:09 a.m.

in for mation - "Any stimulus that alters cognitive structure in the receiver." R. M. Hayes, 1991. Monday, September 6, 2004 08:29 a.m.