Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884
I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings. ~Terri Guillemets
Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas a Kempis
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. ~Author Unknown
You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. ~Natash Jasefowitz
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ~Isaac Barrow
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. ~Hermann Hesse
We have them just where they want us. ~James T. Kirk
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger
