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| WISDOM ENLIGHTENMENT HUMOR |
never look down upon their ugly mothers, and dogs
never leave their poor masters".
in the landscape of Spring, there is nothing inferior
and nothing superior. flowering branches grow
naturally. some short, some long.
-Zen saying-
"We are fighting today for security, for progress,
and for peace, not only for ourselves but for all
men, not only for one generation but for all
generations. We are fighting to cleanse the world
of ancient evils, ancient ills."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
State of the Union Address - 1942
What Permaculturalists are doing is the most
important work being done on the planet.
David Suzuki
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making
of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln
Clever men solve problems, wise men avoid them.
Albert Einstein
The soil population is so complex that it manifestly
cannot be dealt with as a whole with any detail
by any one person, and at the same time it plays
so important a part in the soil economy that it
must be studied.
Sir E. John Russell
"The Micro-organisms of the Soil" 1923
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the
chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet..
-- Albert Einstein
Mankind cannot expect the Earth to produce more,
mankind must do more with what the Earth produces..
Gunter Pauli. Upsizing.
Support small farming and community supported agriculture:
buy locally grown products labelled: sustainably grown,
natural, ecological, biodynamic, beyondorganic, biological,
greenfood, handgrown, earthfriendly, wildcrafted, biointensive
or: produced without synthetic pesticides, produced without
synthetic fertilizers, raised without synthetic chemicals,
pesticide-free farm, no drugs or growth hormones used,
raised without antibiotics, raised without hormones,
no growth stimulants administered, ecologically produced,
sustainably harvested or humanely raised.
The Earth was not given to us by our parents,
it is loaned to us by our children.
The Earth does not belong to us,
we belong to the Earth - Chief Seattle, 1854
Every day the intelligent person learns something new,
but every day the wise person gives up some certainty
The Buddha.
The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food,
but the perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka - "One Straw Revolution"
Alan Chadwick said: We need to create the beauty
and the quality first, the quantity will follow.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness,
no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you
just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness
of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement
of your own capacities,
Just that in itself creates new potential.
--Vandana Shiva, India Activist and Author
Get involved, the world is run by those who show up.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic
nobility rests on possession and use of land.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
US philosopher, poet, essayist.
Society and Solitude, "Farming," 1870.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-- Albert Einstein
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and
what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in
as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung
on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot
was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house,
the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two
years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering
only one and a half pots full of water to his house.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments,
perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was
ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was
able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure,
it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream.
"I am ashamed of myself. This crack in my side causes water
to leak out all the way back to your house."
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there are
flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other
pot's side? That's because I have always known about your
flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path,
and every day while we walk back, you've watered them.
For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful
flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way
you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house!"
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation
of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who
would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely
lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller
In times of change, those who are ready to learn will
inherit the world, while those who believe they know will
be marvelously prepared to deal with a world that has ceased
to exist.
- Eric Hoffer
Man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Laureate
a man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover,
through the detours of art, those two or three great and
simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
We are unconcerned but not indifferent.
Inscription on Man Ray's gravestone
I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity
one redeeming feature.....Millions of innocent men, women
and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have
been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been
the effect of this coercion? To make half the world fools
and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over
the world.
Thomas Jefferson
"From each according to their ability to each according to
their need" Karl Marx - "Critique of the Gotha Program" 1875
"The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food,
but the perfection of human beings"
Masanobu Fukuoka - "One Straw Revolution" 1978
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.
They are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state
-Thomas Jefferson
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
The deeper we look into nature, the more we realize that
it is full of life and... that we are united with all life
that is in nature. ~ Albert Schweitzer
"When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
~ John Muir
Remember God created the world, but the Devil is the one
keeping it active' Bob Dylan
"Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the
authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love
is or should be. When you love, everything will come right.
Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the
blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you
what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he
who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding."
-- Krishnamurti
More Sayings
The question of the century is: How best can we shift to a culture
of permanence, both for ourselves and for the biosphere that
sustains us? -- Edward O. Wilson
I seem to recall a particular Virginia native (?) son observing,
in 1787, "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers
are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the
spirit of resistance?"
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
--Thomas Jefferson
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope,
soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones,
without signposts." -- C. S. Lewis
As the Zen master said to the hot dog vendor,
"Make me one with everything."
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved
the absolute rejection of authority."
-- Thomas Henry Huxley
"Tyranny is any political system (whether absolute monarchy or
fascism or communism) that does not recognize individual rights
(which necessarily include property rights). The over-throw of a
political system by force is justified only when it is directed
against tyranny; it is an act of self-defense against those who
rule by force. For example, the American Revolution."
-- Ayn Rand
"Freedom is just chaos with better lighting."
-- Alan Dean Foster
"Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look
at an electric generator & dare tell yourself that it was created
by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed
of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to
discover it for the 1st time. Try to obtain your food by means
of nothing but physical motions, & you'll learn that man's mind
is the root of all the goods produced & of all the wealth that has
ever existed on earth."
-- Ayn Rand 1957 _Atlas Shrugged_ pg 410
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-- George Bernard Shaw
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice.
The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its
owner. -- Frederic Bastiat
"The test of tolerance is not so much 'accepting' & 'validating' all
cultures different from one's own, but rather living at peace with
those with whom one disagrees most vehemently, cooperating with
those whose claims we may detest, & defending the rights of those
whom we regard as fundamentally wrong."
-- James Davison Hunter & Carl Bowman
1994 _Before the Shooting Begins_
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in
peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams
"Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they
claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are
specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think
or pretend will be for the general welfare."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles
"No man's life or treasure are safe while the legislature meets."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom can be lost as surely tax by tax, regulation by regulation,
as it can be bullet by bullet, missile by missile.
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed"
-- Noah Webster
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of
nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1774 _Rights of British America_
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have
become the instruments of tyranny at home."
-- James Madison
"A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection
or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no
firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate & any rule of
conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any
value, to take the middle of any road."
-- Ayn Rand
"Someone asked me what the influence of Mises was in Washington. I
answered, 'There is none; there is, however, an indication that they
understand the concept of rent.'"
--- Ron Paul
"Reason and Persuasion are hallmarks of the civil society;
Faith and Force are attributes of the primitive and political society"
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-- William Pitt
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"So long as the power-seekers clung to the basic premises of the
welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced
them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less & less
productive... until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from
the role of champions of 'honest toil' to the role of champions of
open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a 'right'."
-- Ayn Rand "A PreView" _The Ayn Rand Letter_
"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and
expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These
covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their
intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation
which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching,
successively, every article of property and produce."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I'll take unequal justice to equal injustice any day."
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism
restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man;
socialism makes each man a mere number. Democracy and socialism have
nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference:
while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in
restraint and servitude."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual
rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
owned."
-- Ayn Rand
"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he
neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his
health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state.
Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws
provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God
himself will not save men against their wills."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1776-10
"For the word 'we' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens
to stone, & crushes all beneath it, & that which is white & that which
is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which
the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the
might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the
sages."
-- Ayn Rand 1937/1946 _Anthem_ pg 112
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or
numbered. My life is my own."
-- The Prisoner
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in
peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams
"Every person who puts money into the hands of a 'government' (so
called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against him,
to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to
its arbitrary will."
-- Lysander Spooner
"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...
Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."
-- William Burroughs
"Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right,
changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary...
It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; aye,
it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from
the divine."
-- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government"
"Once you disarm the people, the Constitution isn't worth the
paper it's printed on."
--- Will Blumentritt
"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct,
not with utterances."
-- Justice William Orville Douglas
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity,
it should end there."
-- Clare Boothe Luce
"For the word 'we' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens
to stone, & crushes all beneath it, & that which is white & that which
is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which
the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the
might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages."
-- Ayn Rand 1937/1946 _Anthem_ pg 112
"Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right,
changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary... It not
only divides states and churches, it divides families; aye, it divides
the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine."
-- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government"
"Elections amount to no more than choosing between the scum that floats
to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom."
-- L. Neil Smith
"Voters think Washington is a whorehouse and every four years they get
to elect a new piano player."
-- Peggy Noonan
"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with
moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give
a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the
hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her
babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to
use moderation."
-- William Lloyd Garrison, _The Liberator_ (1831)
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
In matters of taste, swim with the current." --- Thomas Jefferson
"A man who has nothing he is willing to fight for, nothing which he
cares more about than he does his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature, who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by
the exertions of men better than himself. As long as justice and
injustice have not terminated their ever- renewing fight...human
beings must be willing...to do battle for the one against the other."
-- John Stuart Mill
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of
nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1774 _Rights of British America_
"The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual:
everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind & produced by
his effort... Since knowledge, thinking, & rational action are
properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his
rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man's survival
requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who
don't. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be
free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own
independent course, each according to his own rational judgment.
Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind."
-- Ayn Rand
"Never compromise principle, not even on special occasions."
--- Robert Bitzer (quoted by Marcia Pearce;
quoted in Diane Dreher 1996
_The Tao of Personal Leadership_ pg 221)
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian religion."
-- George Washington
"Being an elected Libertarian is like being a designated driver in a bar."
--- Michael Emerling Cloud
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of
authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was
made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to
govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Noah Webster
"Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they
claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are
specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think
or pretend will be for the general welfare."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles
"When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their
work, future & livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat's whim,
when they have no way of knowing what unknown 'influence' will crack
down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic
motive... and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal
grayness of the middle of the road are all that can be expected of
them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts,
originality does not follow 'public policies', integrity does not
petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative
genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun. Non-objective
law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims
become its enforcers & enslave themselves."
-- Ayn Rand
"The free state offers what a police state denies -- the privacy of
the home, the dignity & peace of mind of the individual."
-- William O. Douglas 1953
"Tyranny is any political system (whether absolute monarchy or fascism
or communism) that does not recognize individual rights (which
necessarily include property rights). The over-throw of a political
system by force is justified only when it is directed against tyranny;
it is an act of self-defense against those who rule by force. For
example, the American Revolution."
-- Ayn Rand
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State
comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,
from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him
accordingly."
-- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government"
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise
enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
-- Edward Abbey
"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he
neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his
health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state.
Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws
provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God
himself will not save men against their wills."
-- Thomas Jefferson 1776-10
"I'm not interested in running for President. I'm not even interested in
_being_ President. I'm interested in living in a free society. And I don't
want it to happen just before I die."
--- Harry Browne
Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax
breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously
decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words,
these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.
-- Dave Barry
"When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their
work, future & livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat's whim,
when they have no way of knowing what unknown 'influence' will crack
down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic
motive... and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal
grayness of the middle of the road are all that can be expected of
them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts,
originality does not follow 'public policies', integrity does not
petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative
genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun. Non-objective
law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims
become its enforcers & enslave themselves."
-- Ayn Rand
The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following
premises: that the government is *not* the owner of the citizens'
income &, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income -- that
the nature of the proper governmental services must be
constitutionally defined & delimited, leaving the government no power
to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion.
Consequently, the principle of voluntary government financing regards
the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens -- as an
*agent* who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose
services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing."
-- Ayn Rand
"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with
moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give
a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the
hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her
babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to
use moderation."
-- William Lloyd Garrison, _The Liberator_ (1831)
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Therein lie the seeds of a great deception. The professional
politicians see the _res publica_ in terms of votes, ordinary
people in terms of justice. For the 'real' nation, democracy
matters less than the rule of law: the first is the form, the
second the substance. When the ex-colonial peoples received
independence, they thought they were being given justice: all
they got was the right to elect politicians."
-- Paul Johnson, _Modern Times_ (1983)
"A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection
or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no
firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate & any rule of
conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any
value, to take the middle of any road."
-- Ayn Rand
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in
peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams
"No man's life or treasure are safe while the legislature meets."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Evading the difference between production & looting,
they called the business-man a robber.
Evading the difference between freedom & compulsion,
they called him a slave driver.
Evading the difference between reward & terror,
they called him an exploiter.
Evading the difference between pay-checks & guns,
they called him an autocrat.
Evading the difference between trade & force,
they called him a tyrant.
The most crucial issue they had to evade was the difference
between the earned & the un-earned."
-- Ayn Rand 1961 _For the New Intellectual_
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"There is no more subtle means of transforming the basic concepts of
our government, or shifting from the preeminence of individual rights,
to the preeminence of government wishes, than is afforded by
redefinition of 'general welfare', as that term is used to define the
Government's power of seizures... In essence the claim is that if
slums exist the Government may seize, redevelop & sell all the
property in any area it may select as appropriate, so long as the area
includes the slum area. This amounts to a claim on the part of the
authorities for unreviewable power to seize & sell whole sections of
the city."
-- DC District Court 1953
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian religion."
-- George Washington
Knowledge, all knowledge, must be learned. And before in can be learned
it must be discovered. That includes knowledge of rights.
Rick Pasotto
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
---Zeno (335-263 B.C.)
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze
his delusion is called a philosopher.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Le chat est toujours vivant dans son coeur.
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments
and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These
covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their
intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation
which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching,
successively, every article of property and produce."
-- Thomas Jefferson
'Every day the intelligent person learns something new, but every day
the wise person gives up some certainty'
The Buddha.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb
Ben Franklin said,
"Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other."
He reported to Ma Tsu and said :
- Please, judge .
Ma Tzu said :
- How big is the bundle of branches ?
Replied :
- I don't know how big it is.
Ma Tzu said :
- You are very strong.
The monk said :
- Why do you tell that ?
Ma Tsu said :
- You came far away from Nam Nha.c, and bring back a stack of woods,
you must have a good strength.
Buddha said "When you stop believing in me, you will become me"
From: sumedokin
Without suffering, without illusions, without ego, there is no path.
It is when we experience something "missing", something "wrong" that we
look for perfection. Ultimatly, our illusions *are* the path.
Perfection is present when suffering, illusions are overcome.
May all be Buddha
/nikodemus
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr
"I study war so that my children may study peace and my grandchildren
may study poetry." -- John Adams
"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." -- Voltaire
"They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Those who are unwilling to study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes"
- Winston Churchill
Blessed are those who hear the
words of this prophecy
... for the time is near.
Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 3
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise
enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
-- Edward Abbey
Ben Franklin said,
"Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other."
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr
"I study war so that my children may study peace and my grandchildren
may study poetry." -- John Adams
"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." -- Voltaire
"They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Those who are unwilling to study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes"
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work,
and in that work does what he wants to do."
- - RG Collingwood
"Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."
- - Sophocles
Genius is initiative on fire.
-- Holbrook Jackson.
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