[underdressed]

"If as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them."
- Moses Maimonides, "The Guide for the Perplexed"

[joelcolorado]

This fits the crisis
....
Its deja vue all over again....yogi bera

[Quagmire]

Here are a couple of my favorites:

"What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope?"

Robinson Jeffers

"The tarantula is crawling through the rotted oak,
the adder lisps against the breast, the cup falls:
but the earth will endure forever. The flower of love
is living in the wilderness, and the elm root threads
the bones of buried lovers."

Thomas Wolfe

[PrairieMule]

Being rich and powerful is a lot like being classy or a lady. If you have to tell people you are, then you are probably neither-Will Rogers

[Madpaddy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')lanning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones

[whatpeak]

Hey, bud, what's your problem?
- Jeff Spicoli

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here."

Tool - Right in Two

[joelcolorado]

I won the lottery.......I was born in America...

(unknown)

[oowolf]

"Nothing matters..."
Last words of Louis Burt Mayer.

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."

[dinopello]

Don't believe everything you think.
-bumper sticker saw yesterday

We drive to cross the street because only a nobody walks in L.A.
-heard on CNBC today

[Ferretlover]

"We are beyond Failsafe." ~PrairieMule.

[desultorypawn]

From Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')merican bombers in the second world war and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:

American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.



When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler was turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.

So it goes.

[IndigoMoon]

“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church” Ferdinand Magellan

[Olaf]

Someone once asked me "why do you always insist on taking the hard road?" and I replied, "why do you assume I see two roads"?
- Unknown

[Hagakure_Leofman]

“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
–Walter Benjamin