Wisdom in SpaceIf you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
-- Lao Tzu
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
-- Emile Herzog ((aka Andre Maurois))
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley
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When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"
-- Annie Dillard
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.
-- Voltaire
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
