Daily Wisdom Saying - Page 8

JJM · 02-20-2004, 10:51 PM

You should be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
-Jacob Needleman

__________________________________________________ _________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

JJM · 02-20-2004, 10:52 PM

Never go to bed angry. Saty up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller

__________________________________________________ ___________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Susma Rio Sep · 02-21-2004, 12:41 AM

Some go for mysticism,
others for jigsaw puzzles or golf.

-- Cynicus Anonumus

Susma Rio Sep

Vajradhara · 02-21-2004, 03:27 AM

If the minimum isn't good enough,
then why is it the standard?

-Rae

JJM · 02-21-2004, 03:34 AM

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered
-Jean Ingelow

__________________________________________________ _______________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:40 AM

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. "

--Noam Chomsky

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:42 AM

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

--Noam Chomsky

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:43 AM

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself."

--Noam Chomsky

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:45 AM

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media."

--Noam Chomsky

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:47 AM

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:48 AM

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 03:49 AM

"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."

--Thich Nhat Hanh

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 04:49 PM

"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."

--Aldous Huxley

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 04:49 PM

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

--Aldous Huxley

Pathless · 02-22-2004, 04:50 PM

"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."

--Aldous Huxley

02-21-2004, 12:41 AM	#108 (permalink)
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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. " --Noam Chomsky

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." --Noam Chomsky

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself." --Noam Chomsky

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media." --Noam Chomsky

02-22-2004, 03:47 AM	#115 (permalink)
Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us." --Thich Nhat Hanh

02-22-2004, 03:48 AM	#116 (permalink)
Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?" --Thich Nhat Hanh

02-22-2004, 03:49 AM	#117 (permalink)
Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions." --Thich Nhat Hanh

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery." --Aldous Huxley

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." --Aldous Huxley

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Pathless gains the more he gives Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,072	"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger." --Aldous Huxley