Quote of the day...thread

[yortbogey]

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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081[/FONT]

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled....Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten --- the open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far off places with a certain...romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival: long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game: none of them lasts forever - it is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of…sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville in Moby Dick spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians. He said, “I am tormented with an ever lasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas"
- Carl Sagan

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

…the worst thing that will probably happen – in fact is already well underway – is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or even the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as
these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations.
The process now ongoing that will take millions of years to correct isthe loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
- E.O. Wilson, Biologist, Harvard University

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

“The World is horrible not because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” - no idea

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
-David Rockafeller
Private Banker
Council on Foreign Relations
June 1991

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
— Albert Einstein


Dwight Eisenhower farewell address
“…We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development, yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. In the counsels of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist….We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes”

 

[mountainNick]

'I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour'
Henry David Thoureau


MoldyFrogToe: Albert Einstein, speaks only of truth amazing guy

 

[Mad Logistics]

Life's a bitch by Nas
same quote

feat. Az

 

[sackoweed]

You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

 

[dubite]

"People without knowledge of their history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." - Marcus "Mosiah" Garvey

 

[ourcee]

I have no idea if it was said already (probably was)

but I like to keep the quote in the back of my mind

"if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"

definitely not stalking you here sackoweed haha, randomly came to this thread after that last one about the raiders

 

[silent_lemon]

well, im stalking you ourcee.

jay kay.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.- Pete Seeger

 

[yortbogey]

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[CANNACO-OP]

~ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

~ Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it ~ i loved that one!!!! so true!

~ The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves ......

 

[sackoweed]

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

 

[yortbogey]

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[h^2 O]

Elaine: Can it cut that thin?

Kramer: Oh, I've cut slices so thin, I couldn't even see them.

Elaine: How did you know you cut it?

Kramer: Well, I guess I just assumed.

Elaine: Hold on kitty, dinner's coming.

Kramer: Yeah, that's a hall of famer.

Elaine: Alright, let's do it.

Kramer: Alright, here we go. Yeah, watch that baby slide...[Puts a slice of meat under the door.]

Elaine: Come on, come on kitty...[slice disappears] ooh...how about that; it worked! Wow, can I borrow that thing for a while?

Kramer: Oh no, I don't think so.

Elaine: Why not?

Kramer: Well, you're not checked at on it.

Elaine: What do I have to know?

Kramer: Well, where the meat goes?

Elaine: Right there.

Kramer: Where do you turn it on?

Elaine: Right there.

Kramer: But where does the meat go?

 

[Moldy Dreads]

 

[h^2 O]

oh shit that would suck man! nice moldy

 

[sackoweed]

"The price of greatness is responsibility."