Sayings (more like: Things Said)



     "Those who would give up essential liberties
      for a measure of security,
      deserve neither liberty nor security"

        -- Ben Franklin
                     


    "The president and the Republicans believe
     that the solution is to take literally 3 trillion dollars ...
     and transfer most of it to the wealthiest Americans
     and let it trickle down," Kerry said.
     "Well, I think most of you,
     most of the people I meet all across this country,
     are pretty tired of being trickled on."

        -- Senator John Kerry in the Chicago Sun-Times, June 2003
                     


    "The checks and balances in the Constitution
     must have been designed with this administration in mind."

        -- Senator Carl Levin, Democrat/Michigan, July 2003
                     



    "Innovators must accept
        even love
     a few fuck-ups 
     on the way to success."
     
        -- Laramie
                     

                     
    "Without deviation from the norm,
     progress is not possible"
     
        -- Frank Zappa
                     
                     

    "Once you've endured the unthinkable,
     everything else is just boring."

        -- Laramie
                     


    JOIN THE ARMY
    travel to exotic, distant lands;
    meet exciting, unusual people
    and kill them.

        -- unknown
                     


    It'll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need
    and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

        -- unknown
                     


    "Ignorance was bliss"

        -- Laramie
                     



    "I've finally figured out my problem:
     my brain is gay, but my body is hetero."

        -- Laramie
                     


    "... Instead of worshiping him from afar,
     she decided to stalk him, like a normal person."

        -- Matt Dean
                     


    "Dolphins are said to spend about one-third of their
     day sleeping/resting, one-third eating
     and one-third playing or making love."

         -- www.dolphindreams.org.uk/biology.htm
                     


    "How can anyone be expected to govern a country with
     two hundred and forty-six cheeses."

        --Charles de Gaulle
                     



     Note to Self: If anyone ever offers me anything in exchange
         for my immortal soul, assume that his offer constitutes
         proof of Everlasting Hell, and consider the options
         accordingly.
     Point on Note to Self: Does this apply
         to Christian proselytizers, when they offer
         Everlasting Salvation in exchange for my immortal soul?

        -- Laramie
                     



     "No" can be negotiated, but "Stay" is the saddest word.
        -- Mr. Cooper.
                     


     
     Soon, low cost housing will be built using only AOL disks and
     cigarette butts.

        -- Laramie
                     


     Only humans have come to a point where they no longer know why they
     exist. They don't use their brains, and they have forgotten the secret
     knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams. They don't use
     the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not
     even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to
     nowhere -- a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make
     smooth so that they can get faster to the big empty hole which they'll
     find at the end, waiting to swallow them up. It's a quick comfortable
     superhighway, but I know where it leads to. I've seen it. I've been
     there in my vision, and it makes me shudder to think about it.

      -- The Lakota Shaman Lame Deer
           Seeker of Visions
                     


     I live in a democratic household, but my wife generally outvotes me.

      -- John S. "Jack" Casement
           Railroad Supervisor
           tentatively accepting a contract from
           Union Pacific Engineer Grenville M. Dodge
                     


     The Laws of Ecology:

       All things are interconnected.
       Everything goes somewhere.
       There's no such thing as a free lunch.
       Nature bats last.

      -- Ernest Callenbach
                     


     
     The three laws of Thermodynamics:

      You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing,
                      because matter and energy are conserved).
      You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state,
                             because there is always an increase in disorder;
                             entropy always increases).
      You cannot get out of the game (because absolute zero is unattainable).

      -- C. P. Snow
           British scientist and author
                     



      When women are depressed they either eat or go
      shopping. Men invade another country.

      -- Elayne Boosler
                     


      I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you
      can ride on.

      -- Roseanne Barr
                     



      I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes
      several days attack me at once.

      -- Jennifer Unlimited
                     



      In the realm of scientific observation,
      luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

      -- Louis Pasteur
                     



      You measure democracy  by the freedom it gives its dissidents,
      not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists

      -- Abbie Hoffman
                     


      Guilty parties should use "diff"
        -- Laramie
                     


      I don't demand a sitting U.S. President be able to diagram an English sentence,
      but can we please have a President that can, at least, get through one?
        -- Laramie
                     



Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. As Sir Winston Churchill said, "That is one rule up with which I do not like to have to put."

Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
--http://www.mssamantics.us/wordplay/gooder.htm


The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
--Plato

"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year."

      -- Wally O'Dell, CEO Diebold (August 14, 2003 fundraising letter)
          [ largest electronic voting machine manufacturer ]