[k_semler]

"Might makes right."
–Carl Panzram (Serial killer)

"The masses are asses who need Subthunk glasses."
-Mark Mothersbaugh

[jeffrey420]

"Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...censorship. When any government or any church, for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free."
- Robert Heinlein

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
- Albert Einstein, thinker and scientist

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.
-- Frank Drebin, Naked Gun 2 1/2

[EnviroEngr]

In zazen we do not expect anything. Zazen is not a
technique to achieve anything. It is much more natural.
And yet, somehow, the most natural thing is difficult
to do. How come? Because we think. There is nothing
wrong with thinking. Thinking is a very natural process,
but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and
give too much value to it.

MAEZUMI ROSHI

{I know, this applies especially to me.}

[EnviroEngr]

Just tell the sheep how to get slaughtered and they will walk right into the knives.

jth

[EnviroEngr]

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Gerard Erasmus


In the Kingdom Of The Blind, The One-eyed Are Kings

- Brendan Perry "A Passage In Time"

[EnviroEngr]

You should know that no one can hold
the mind by himself, if it not be held by the
Spirit. For it cannot be held, not because
of its mobile nature but because, through
neglect, it has acquired the habit of turning
and wandering hither and thither. . . .
A mind thus inclined and withdrawn from
God is led captive everywhere.

ST. GREGORY OF SINAI

[EnviroEngr]

Who can look on non-being as
his head, on life as his back, and
on death as his rump? Who knows
that life and death, existence and
annihilation, are all in a single
body? I will be his friend.

CHUANG-TZU

[Webster Hubble Telescope]

"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it." George Monbiot

"I'm a guy, I hate asking a question that I don't know the answer to." Deputy Sec. of State Armitage, 6/29/2004, radio interview

[Guest]

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Gerard Erasmus


In the Kingdom Of The Blind, The One-eyed Are Kings

- Brendan Perry "A Passage In Time"


In the Queen's Valley the One-Eye is Blind.

- Loud Sue

[EnviroEngr]

Thank you for that remembrance. I haven't come even close to replacing what was lost. I am fortunate to have not put up long tomes near the end there.

Will be archiving local copies in ASCII from now on. Lesson well learned.

Thanks again...

EE

[EnviroEngr]

Does it wendaw you wisible when I mention my fwend- Biggus ... Dickus?

- Pilate in "The Life of Brian"

[Soft_Landing]

Does anyone know the source of the quote that goes something like:

"You cannot lay blame upon an entity that maximizes it's behaviour within a given system."

i.e., the fault is in the system...

It's been going round my head these days. Really bothering me. Any help appreciated.

Also, a maxim I always liked (probably because it justifies sloth):

The more efficient the system, the more sensitive it is to shortage.

[EnviroEngr]

This one's too good to lose. I've heard it before; who knows who started it, but superhamzah gets the credit for today:

"... honest enemies are better than lying friends. "

- superhamzah

[superhamzah]

lol, i swear, i just said that spontaneously as a reply to someone...

Am i quotable material? ahh such flattery....


Anyway a few quotes from Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1011

Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance.
Sunah of Abu Dawood, Hadith 1996.

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[PhilBiker]

When the Atomic Energy Commission was formed, its first chairman, Lewis Strauss, said nuclear power would provide energy $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')oo cheap to meter

[Chichis]

"Oh my God ... I'm back ... I'm home ... all the time. We finally, really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Augh... Damn you... damn you all to hell!"

George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes

[EnviroEngr]

The highest point a man* can
attain is not knowledge, or Virtue,
or Goodness, or Victory, but
something even greater, more
heroic, and more despairing:
Sacred Awe!

NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

{* person, if we lose the misogyny. Sorry ladies; EE}

[EnviroEngr]

{Just for that, we need Emily:}

SOUL, wilt thou toss again?
By just such a hazard
Hundreds have lost, indeed,
But tens have won an all.

Angels’ breathless ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.

Emily Dickinson

[EnviroEngr]

{Now to Rilke:}

I would like to beg you to have
patience with everything unresolved
in your heart and try to love the
questions themselves as if
they were locked rooms or
books in a very foreign language.

Don’t search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not
be able to live them.

And the point is,
to live everything.

Live the questions now.


RAINER MARIA RILKE

[EnviroEngr]

{... and, at last:}

The mind of the Great Sage of India
Is intimately conveyed West and East.

Among human beings are wise ones
and fools;

In the Way there is no teacher of
North and South.


SEKITO KISEN