Really Cool Quotes

[nono_fr]

 

[Tudo]

 

[armedoldhippy]

" the world, we are told, was made especially for man- a presumption not supported by all the facts. a numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all of Gods universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves." - John Muir, writing in his diary after walking from Kentucky to Florida.

 

[armedoldhippy]

"Honorable representatives of the great saurian of an older creation, may you long enjoy your lilies and rushes, and be blessed now and then with a mouthful of terror-stricken man by way of dainty." also by the esteemed Mr. Muir, speaking to the alligators of the southern US...

 

[nono_fr]

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

 

[Tudo]

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa

 

[Tudo]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

 

[Tudo]

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
Sukarno

 

[mexweed]

 

[Tudo]

1.6 billion people have no access to electricity, whatsoever.
2.4 billion people still burn wood and manure as their main source of energy.
3.0 billion more people will be born in the next 30 years.

Climate change isn't the killer - energy poverty is the killer.
More, all the above, and everywhere answers all energy issues.-----

Navy Officer

 

[Tudo]

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation [...] Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden& confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights."​ Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom (1968)​

 

[armedoldhippy]

"I go into the mountains to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir

 

[Tudo]

"As long as we live beyond our means we are destined to live beneath our means." -
Dr Ron Paul at a CNBC Debate in Michigan (10/09/07)

 

[nono_fr]

 

[Tudo]

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude."
~ Anne Frank

 

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[Tudo]

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."​

George Washington​

 

[Mudballs2.0]

"If God is real, then what is fake?"
~me, late 1980s

 

[armedoldhippy]

"I'm sick of following my dreams. i'm gonna ask them where they're going and hook up with them later." - Mitch Hedberg

 

[Tudo]

"Your children's children will live under communism, you Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Nikita Khrushchev -1959