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#+title: Quotes

** If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generatrions the remembrance of the city of God? -- EMERSON

** "Blessed are the cross-eyed, for they shall see God twice." Clyde 3:16

** we are star suff. -- Carl Sagan

** The most important step in our journey is the one in which we throw away the map. -- Loreena Macnneth

** Alright, I think it's amazing that you have done as well as you have. you've got hardly any theory of social organization, astonishongly backward economic systems, no grasp of the machinary of historical prediction, and very little knowledge about yourselves. Considering how fast your world is changing, it's amazingyou haven't blown yourselves to bits by now... You humans have a certain talent for adaptabilty- at least in the short term. -- Elanor's Father, Contact p.360

** Sanity is a veil gods throw on us to prevent us from seeing the truth. -- Xena, Warior Princess

** Sagan, from -Demon Haunted World_ page 295: "Our memories are fallable; even scientific truth is merely an approximation; and we are ignorant about nearly all of the Universe."

** "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to\tab whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. -- Unknown

** "There are no stupid questions, there are only stupid answers..."

** "Hunting of the Snark" or "Jabberwocky."

** The explanation for this paradox, according to Wilson, is that humans have advanced to the point at which we can glimpse, for brief periods, the world as it is, but that we have not yet reached the stage at which we can maintain this reality throughout our lives. As a result, cynicism frequently wins out over more life-affirming views of the world because our perception of it is incorrect.-- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO COLIN WILSON'S THOUGHT by John Morgan

** Wilson has said that the fact that a writer like Samuel Beckett, the ultimate expressor of inertia, is capable of winning the Nobel Prize is a clear sign of the troubled times we live in.

** As Wilson has observed, "Any system of values must ultimately be mystical."

** Ladies & gentlemen, we're floating in space (Spiritualised)

** It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive (W.C. Fields)

** All cruelty springs from weakness (Seneca)

** Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? (Edgar Allan Poe)

** Dream the impossible dream (Joe Darion)

** The horror, the horror (Joseph Conrad)

** They stood at the window and heard the Paranoids singing (Thomas Pynchon)

** My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling (Chuck Berry)

** I'm only here for the beer (advertising slogan)

** War, hide yourself! (slogan)

** Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better (Samuel Beckett)

** Girls just want to have fun (Cyndi Lauper)

** What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? (Nick Lowe)

** No woman, no cry (Bob Marley & the Wailers)

** If they move, kill 'em! (The Wild Bunch)

** Young guns, go for it! (Wham)

** Cruising for sentient beings (Mark Leyner)

** Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you & me (F Scott Fitzgerald)

** Intelligence is an introduction to fear (Derek Raymond)

** He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils (Roger Bacon)

** Oh Bondage Up Yours! (X-Ray Spex)

** Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should (anon)

** Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? (Diogenes)

** The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' taste (Picasso)

** Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right (Woody Allen)

** We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde)

** Thanks to God, I am still an atheist (Luis Bunuel)

** How can you live in a world in which you pay for everything? (Raoul Vaneigem)

** I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar Wilde)

** Music is prophecy (Jacques Attali)

** Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me (The Smiths)

** Let us now praise famous death dwarves (Lester Bangs)

** Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (Arthur C. Clarke)

** I shop therefore I am (slogan)

** No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Monty Python)

** The price of liberty is eternal vigilance (anon)

** Astonish me (Sergei Diaghilev)

** Do not suffer fools gladly (anon)

** Childhood perhaps comes closest to the 'real life' (Andre Breton)

** Hindsight is always twenty-twenty (Billy Wilder)

** The sleep of reason begets monsters (Goya)

** Anything is art if an artist says it is (Marcel Duchamp))

** Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed (I.F. Stone)

** I think therefore I am (Descartes)

** Television is reality and reality is less than television (Videodrome)

** I'm not a number, I'm a human being! (The Prisoner)

** No one ever suddenly became depraved (Juvenal)

** Our machines are disturbing lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert (Donna Haraway)

** I love the sound of breaking glass (Nick Lowe)

** You gotta fight for the right to party (The Beastie Boys)

** The poet is truly a thief of fire (Arthur Rimbaud)

** I come not bearing peace, but a sword (Jesus Christ)

** The good old days - all days when old are good (Byron)

** Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster (Nietzsche)

** Existence, well what does it matter, I exist on the best terms I can (Joy Division)

** All power to the imagination! It is forbidden to forbid! (Situationist slogan)

** How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep (P.B. Shelley)

** The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom (William Blake)

** We're ... not ... HUMAN (Patti Smith)

** The more I think about sex, the better it gets (Kate Bush)

** Black is a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black (Neil Gaiman)

** The more corrupt the government, the greater the number of laws (Tacitus)

** The hills are alive with the sound of music (The Sound of Music)

** Night & day, you are the one, only you beneath the moon & under the sun (Cole Porter)

** Cheer up! the worst is yet to come! (Philander Chase Johnson)

** Liars ought to have good memories (Algernon Sidney)

** The street finds its own use for things (William Gibson)

** Everything is destined to reappear as simulation (Jean Baudrillard)

** Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (The Who)

** I have a dream (Martin Luther King)

** A society gets the criminals it deserves (Emma Goldman)

** April is the cruellest month (T.S. Eliot)

** Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not for every man's greed (Ghandi)

** I would horsewhip you if I had a horse (Groucho Marx)

** And we are all getting older; fun is not so much fun anymore (Julia Phillips)

** Sometimes, the Devil is a gentleman (P.B. Shelley)

** Once they burn books, they will end up burning people (Heinrich Heine)

** No one ever suddenly became depraved (Juvenal)

** Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it (The Sex Pistols)

** Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should (anon

** Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies (Nietzsche)

** "La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompetence" -- Isaac Asimov

** the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -- Mark Twain

** A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. -- Lao Tzu

** [20021117] Famous and not-so-famous fear quotes

*** "The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."----FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

*** "One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love."----Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)

*** "What are fears but voices airy?

Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
----Wordsworth

*** "Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."----Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)

*** "What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,

Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
----Will - Sonnets

*** "Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."----Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

*** "- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."----Will - The Taming of the Shrew

*** "All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speakingbefore a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."----Dave Barry

*** "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."----German Proverb

*** "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."---- Francis Bacon

*** "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."--- H.P. Lovecraft

*** "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."----Coleridge

*** "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."---Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

*** "A man who has been in danger,

When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."
----Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

*** "He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"
----James Graham - Marquis of Montrose

*** "I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."
----Will - Macbeth

*** "Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."----Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)

*** "What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."----Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

*** "Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."----Brigitte Bardot

*** "Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"----Trevor Kay

*** "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."----Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)

** Children Wisdom

*** "Never trust a dog to watch your food." -Patrick, age 10

*** "When your dad is mad and asks you, 'Do I look stupid?' Don't answer." -Hannah, age 9

*** "Never tell your Mom her diet's not working." -Michael, age 14

*** "Stay away from prunes." -Randy, age 9

*** "Don't pull Dad's finger when he tells you to." -Emily, age

*** "When your Mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair." -Taylia, age 11

*** "Never let your three-year old brother in the same room as your school assignment." -Traci, age 14

*** "A puppy always has bad breath--even after eating a Tic-Tac." - Andrew, age 9

*** "Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time." - Kyoyo, age 11

*** "You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk." - Amir, age 9
