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go here and look through random quotes until you find [arbitrary number] that reflect who you are or what you believe. post them in your journal, or in the comments to this journal, or not. then tag [arbitrary number] of your LJ friends to do the same, or not.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
— Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004)
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors
into trouble of all kinds.
— Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy
you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste
your time voting.
— Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994)
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes
freedom from avarice.
— Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31 Remain Frugal, 08-22-04
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who
reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and
feeble mind.
— Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959)
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly,
the latter a mark of prudence.
— Democritus (460 BCE – 370 BCE)
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
— Japanese Proverb
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
— Mohandas Karmachand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
— Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE)
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
— Dick Cavett (1936 – )
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will
reach to himself.
— Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
— Ronald Reagan in 1973
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
— Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826), Notes on the State of Virginia
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether
to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919)
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
— Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you
the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
— Frank Zappa
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mohandas Karmachand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
Who are the brain police?
— Frank Zappa
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
— Frank Zappa
Don’t get suckered in by the comments — they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code.
— Dave Storer
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.
— Chuang Tzu (369 BC – 286 BC), On Tolerance