Personal stuff
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
And though it is true that science can be bent to evil ends, it is more often the case that injustice creeps in through the cracks of our ignorance than anything else. [Armand Leroi]
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. [Nelson Henderson]
We're all so busy being practical that we don't have time to be intelligent. [Albert E. Cowdrey]
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to take root in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. [Edmund Burke]
The fact that a believer may be happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk is happier than a sober man. [George Bernard Shaw]
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. [Robert Heinlein]
All the deeds of mankind are only dreams at first. And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams. [Theodor Herzl]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic [Arthur C. Clarke]
Scientists should not experiment on animals. They should experiment on animal-rights activists who blow people up. [Lilith]
Never argue with an idiot. He will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. [Dilbert]
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [John F. Kennedy]
"The argument that there exists a difference between the sexes is a typical male view." [Folkvett]
