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Please note I’ve done no research as to whether proper credit has been given to the original author of the quotes contained herein. I’ve given credit to the source listed where I found it. Credit is freely given to "traditional" in many cases where it should probably be more specific. If no credit is given it means I found it floating around in my mind or out of the mouth of a close acquaintance. The quotes appear in no particular order. The purpose of this document is not to create an accurate reference guide, but to invoke and inspire thought, action, awareness and pleasure.
Enjoy,
Steven

Wisdom and Spirit

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"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
Constantin Stanislavski

Without Wisdom, Knowledge is either useless or destructive.
Traditional

"Words of Wisdom should be ways of Wisdom."
Arrested Development

"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whate’er you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."
Robert Browning

"Reality is a Rorschach ink-blot."
Alan Watts

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
-Chinese Proverb

"If we will be quiet & ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequethed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependance on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."
-James Baldwin

"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."
Paul Simon

It blows my mind that we have minds to blow.

"Minds are like books. They don’t work unless they’re open."
Bumper Sticker

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies."
William Shakespeare

"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Everything you know is wrong."
The Firesign Theatre (and a few quantum physicists too)

"Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinking what they're selling,
your chaos won't convert them,
your self-destruction doesn't hurt them."
-Cake

"Nothing is Real."
John Lennon (or maybe it was Einstein)

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."
Zen Aphorism

They live happiest who have forgiven most.
Traditional

"The question to everyone’s answer is usually asked from within."
Steve Miller

Everything in the Universe is connected to everything else in the Universe.

Everything, Everywhere, Everywhen, all right Here and Now.

What makes the Universe so hard to comprehend is that there is nothing to compare it with.

Be Here Now.
Traditional

There is nothing to be Conscious of but Consciousness itself.

"God Dwells within you as You."
Paramahamsa Muktananda

"Life flows on within you and without you."
George Harrison

"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
Malcalypse the Younger, Principia Discordia

"1. Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of the neighbor without his or her consent.
2. Thou shalt not prevent thy neighbor from altering his or her own consciousness."
Dr. Timothy Leary

"If a pickpocket meets a holy man, he will see only his pockets."
Hindu Traditional

"I’ve found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."
Ouspensky

"By letting it go it all gets done The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try The world is beyond the winning."
Tao Te Ching
Translation by Stephen Mitchell

The shortest path between any two points is an altered state of consciousness.

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans."
John Lennon

"So you think you can tell heaven from hell
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail,
a smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts
hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?"
R. Waters/D. Gilmor

If you don’t look where you are, you won’t know where you’re going or where you’ve been.

"The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation."
Aurobindo

"Dislodging a green nut from it’s shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it."
Ramakrishna

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.
Traditional

"Whoa, I’m tellin’ you now, the greatest thing you ever can do now, is trade a smile with someone who’s blue now."
J. Page/R. Plant

"Perform Random acts of kindness and senseless beauty."
Bumper Sticker

Live and Let Live.
Traditional

"Loose ends tend too often to unravel."
Delbert McClinton

"It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it."
Delbert McClinton

"Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty."
Anne Rice

"Hatred isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you learn."
Mississippi Burning

"Desire is the creator. Desire is the destroyer."
Hari Dass Baba

"Come out of the Garden baby. You’ll catch your death in the fog."
David Bowie

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through n or steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Jesus Christ

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
-robert cody

"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
R. Davies/R. Hodgson

"If there is a God, man’s immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having."
E.S. Brightman

"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose."
William Shakespeare

"If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work."
William Shakespeare

Call in Well

Life is a picnic, but sometimes you have to pick up the blanket and use it as a tent.

Do people think of each other at the same time?

"No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you’ll do alone."
Jackson Browne

Recreation. Re-creation.

"Regret for the past is a waste of Spirit."
The Big Book

"When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply."
Jack Kornfield

Acceptance and celebration of our diversity is our future or we have none.

Never trust anyone who never trusts anyone.

"The more internal freedom you acheive, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasureable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever."
Robert Anton Wilson

"No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call "me," which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Thomas Jefferson

"If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high
you’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple,
but you’ve been told many times before
messiahs point you to the door
though no one’s got the guts to leave the temple."
Pete Townsend

The following was found on an inside wall of the box office of the Seattle Group Theatre. It said upon it that it had been found on a refrigerator door:
Rules For Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it , but it will be yours for the entire period this time Around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a partof the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain it’s lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

Art & the like

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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
Thornton Wilder

"There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear th at after them may come no Summer. It does come....I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful..."
-Rilke

"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality." -Goethe

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world wi ll not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your wor k. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marchi ng and makes us more alive than the others."
Martha Graham

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."
Constantin Stanislavski

"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws"
Constantin Stanislavski

"Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
Constantin Stanislavski

"Let me say something about ethics in the theatre. [One] reason for the collapse of well-intentioned venture after venture is sloth and egomania. We must accept the fact that the theatre is a communal adventure. Unlike the soloist we can’t perform alon e in the theatre... The better the play, the more we need an ensemble venture. We must recognize that we need each other’s strengths, and the more we need each other’s professional comradship, the better the chance we have of making theatre. We must se rve the play by serving each other, an ego-maniacal "star" attitude is only self-serving and hurts everyone... We must aim for "character" in the moral and ethical sense of the word, compounded of the virtues of mutual respect, courtesy, kindness, genero sity, trust, attention to the others, seriousness, loyalty, as well as those necessary attributes of diligence and dedication."
Uta Hagen

"Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process."
Jerzy Grotowski

"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for."
Glenda Jackson

"One musn’t allow acting to be like stockbroking - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentr ation with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement."
John Gielgud

"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
Constantin Stanislavski

"To paint bamboo: spend ten years observing bamboos, become a bamboo yourself, then forget everything and-paint"
Zen Aphorism

"We have as many planes of speech [as does a painting planes of perspective] which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
Constantin Stanislavski

"The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm."
Constantin Stanislavski

"We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him - if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us."
Peter Brook

"Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice o r Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all."
Peter Brook

"Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor’s hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with pruden ce, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm."
Constantin Stanislavski

"In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only agai nst his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant."
Constantin Stanislavski

"Unless the theatre can enoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
Constantin Stanislavski

"Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets."
Constantin Stanislavski

"Remember this practical peice of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door."
Constantin Stanislavski

"The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony - whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals - but the words remain with us and old im pulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do ‘something’ about getting them and we blame the artists for not ‘finding’ them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of cermonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping - the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good."
Peter Brook

"A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theatre. An actor who is incapable of this feelin g will never be a true artist."
Constantin Stanislavski

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece, because masterpieces make their own rules.
Source Unknown

I have long believed that one of the many things that this society is suffering from is the failure to make use of an arena where a community can gather together with a shaman (or several) to be lead through a cathartic experience in which to process, in a safe and healthy way, emotions which are otherwise kept within, where they fester and are then released as violence, selfishness and oppression. To me this is the service that actors and actresses who realize the true power and potential of their craft provide. That of the healing shaman. Together with the help of each member of a production staff and the emotional participation of a willing audience, a cast and director can use their talent and gifts for healing. Whether an audience and cast of pla yers are conscious of this process or not, it happens daily in theatres, and many other forums the world over.

Love, Passion & Compassion

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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."
J. Krishnamurti

"She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me
written by an Italian poet from the 13th century
and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin’ coal
pourin’ off of every page like it was written in my soul
from me to you..."
Bob Dylan

"They shall gather my children into their fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. And the sign shall be my ecstasy, The Consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body... For I am divided for love ’s sake, for the chance of Union."
Nuit - Egyptian divinity of the stars

"No more turning away
from the weak and the weary.
No more turning away from the coldness inside.
Just a world that we all must share.
It’s not enought just to stand and stare.
Is it only a dream that there’ll be no more turning away?"
David Gilmour

Waging Peace

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sw eat of it’s laborers, the genius of it’s scientists, the hopes of it’s children."
Dwight David Eisenhower

Peace begins within.
Traditional

"Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right."
Gordon Sumner (Sting)

"It will be a beautiful day when the schools have all they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."
Bumper Sticker

There is no way to Peace. Peace is the Way.
Traditional

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."
Albert Einstein

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. "
Albert Einstein

"We’re beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king."
Don Henley - 1989

"The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try."
Gordon Sumner

Operation "Just Cuz." Operation "Desert Shame." Operation "Redefine Hope."

There is no us and them. We’re all in this together.

"To get Peace you must work for Justice."
John Paul VI

"You can’t teach a hunter it’s wrong to kill."
Hari Dass Baba

"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgements are wrong. Only racists make them."
Elie Wiesel
Holocost Suvivor, Nobel Laureate

G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."

Politics as Usual

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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Children don't vote,children don't contribute to [politicians], children don't get involved in campaigns, so children will go hungry. "
- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), arguing against a welfare reform provision that would allow states to take control of the federal food stamps program.

"Security in human systems we’re told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we’re getting nowhere fast."
Gordon Sumner

``Even as we crack down on illegal immigration and do more than has ever been done on that, we must never forget that we are a nation of immigrants and, except for the native Americans, we all came from somewhere else.''
-Bill Clinton

"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s 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 motive."
Robert Heinlein

CO-INTEL-PRO (Counter intelligence Program) - An F.B.I. and C.I.A. project which involved in filtrating Civil Rights groups, Peace groups, New Left groups and other dissident organizations, in a deliberate attempt to incite violence, destroy the reputatio ns of those opposing the establishment, and spread paranoia against dissidents.

"Instead of talking about how he’s got the troops and the strength to put his foot on their necks, he should be talking about how he can use that awesome power to insure that they have a better quality of life, that they have a chance."
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters
of South Central L.A. in response to George Bush’s Riot response speech, May 1992.

"The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty."
Stephen King

"A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun."
Don Henley

If you choose not to decide you have still made a decision.

"Sure you can trust the government, just ask a whale or an Indian."
Button

"Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom which makes the emblem so revered."
Supreme Court Justice William Brennon

Save the Bill of Rights. Let the flag fend for itself.

U.S. out of Central America! U.S. out of the Middle East! U.S. out of Asia! U.S. out of Europe! U.S. out of the Caribbean! U.S. out of my uterus! U.S. out of my mind!

"If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"
Bumper Sticker

"Fight AIDS not people with AIDS."
Act up Slogan

The person who cannot wait five days to buy a gun is the very person who should not be allowed to have a gun.

"The language of the Second Amendment shows the framers intended to secure the right to bear arms essentially for military purposes and not to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

In 1992, handguns killed:
33 people in Great Britain.
36 in Sweden
97 in Switzerland
60 in Japan
13 in Australia
128 in Canada
And 13,220 in The United States.
Source - The Center to Prevent Handgun Violence

More Americans were killed by guns in their home country in the last two years, than died in all 11 years of the Vietnam war.

"How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?"
Bob Marley

Censorship is the true obscenity.

"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."
Abraham Lincoln

This is your brain. This is your brain misrepresented by special interest groups.
Any Questions?

"It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict."
Anne W. Schaef

Maintaining Traditional Values? Would that mean that the people who’ve traditionally been oppressed will continue to be oppressed?

Hate is not a family value.

"I love my country but I fear my government."
Bumper Sticker

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Thomas Jefferson

"The longest single research project with LSD in the U.S., at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland, showed an average 10 percent intelligence increase for all subjects."
Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia

Environmentics

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We are fighting World War III right now. We are fighting it against the environment and we are winning it hands down.

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragi le craft."
Adlai Stevenson

"Better active now than radioactive later."
Bumper Sticker

We are a virus in the body of the earth. Global warming is the fever.

On June 20, 1990 Midnight oil did an outdoor gig in N.Y.C. across the street from Exxon’s world headquarters. One of their cover tunes was John Lennon’s Instant Karma.

Good Planets are hard to find.

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, since whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth."
Chief Seattle, 1855

Odds, Ends & beginnings

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"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go 'Hey, I'm Vine Man."
- Jack Handey

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.
Traditional

I just want to be a non-conformist like everybody else.
You

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers."
-Fry and Laurie

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

"The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3.feeding; and 4. mating."
Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light
She departed one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
Traditional

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick."
Arther C. Clarke

It’s maintenance free. You can’t fix it.

When my best friend was a dealer ... Umm ... What was I saying?

Bice. Plural form of Bus.

Life is too short because math works.

It’s been a long day this week.

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- A. Whitney Brown

"When I drink milk it takes me to a place called grandma’s mobile home."
A 4 yr. old in a Coffee Shop

Friends don’t let friends wear neon.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats---approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
Quentin Crisp

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Curiouser and Curiouser."
Lewis Carrol

Leave no turn unstoned
Traditional

Mr. Cactus is a prick.

Theory: Experiences such as the one described in the song Swing Low Sweet Chariot and U.F.O. abductions are the same experience interpreted differently by different human nervous systems.

I agree with you one hundredth of a percent.

Unorthadoccentricities.

And sometimes you end up with what is commonly known as groovy on your hands.

A Nicaraguan rebel’s view of the world could be described as contra-ception.

Jackson Browne: I gotta take either more of it or less of it. I can’t quite figure out which one.

David Lindley: Well, I’ll tell you what it does take. It takes a clear mind is what it takes.

Jackson Browne: You mean it takes a clear mind to take it or a clear mind not to take it?

David Lindley: It takes a clear mind to make it.

"You watch the television because it tells you that you should."
R. Davies/R. Hodgson

Ya dig?
Sho nuff.

"Up and down the road in worn out shoes, talkin’ ‘bout good thangs and singin’ the blues."
D. Bramhall Sr./B. Logan

"Her name was Mcgill and she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy."
Lennon/Mcartney

There’s a special froth event in the pall of the spare dough.

"Danger Will Robinson ... My arms are flailing!"

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
Albert Einstein

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Anthropological Commentary

You can lead a horses ass to wisdom but you can’t make him think.

"The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."
Niels Bohr

"People will use and abuse drugs in many ways, desirable and otherwise. The most intelligent will use them in the most intelligent ways, i.e., to increase their own neurological feedom, to deprogram their irrational programs, and generally to expand thei r consciousness and increase their intelligence."
Robert Anton Wilson

"Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means."
William S. Burroughs

"Hedonic Engineering - The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?"
Robert Anton Wilson

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