Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Norman McLaren

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

Neil Sheehan

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Prince Pyotr Kropotkin

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Cassius Longinus

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

James Dale Davidson

Every living sentence which shows a mind at work for itself is to be welcomed. It is not the first use but the tiresome repetition of inadequate catch words which I am observingphrases which originally were contributions, but which, by their very felicity, delay further analysis for fifty years. That comes from the same source as dislike of noveltyintellectual indolence or weaknessa slackening in the eternal pursuit of the more exact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

William Hazlitt

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Thomas Jefferson

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

Kristi Yamaguchi