November 2007


What good is reason if it drives out beauty, terror, and vivid emotion? Can
a thousand facts compare with that epiphanic moment, when a poet stands tall
in a lightning storm, hurling challenges at God?

David Brin - Otherness

Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian and thinks the customs of
his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra, 1898

Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion.

Harlan Ellison

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. 

Anne Baxter

His comment when committed to an insane asylum.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Nathaniel Lee 17th century playwright

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing
activity.

Paul Goodman

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