When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Thought is generally considered to be a sober and weighty business. But here it is being suggested that creative play is an essential element in forming new hypotheses and ideas. Indeed, thought which tries to avoid play is in fact playing false with itself. Play, it appears, is the very essence of thought.This notion of falseness that can creep into play of thought is shown in the etymology of the words illusion, delusion, and collusion, all of which have as their Latin root ludere, to play. So illusion implies playing false with perception; delusion, playing false with thought; collusion, playing false together in order to support each other's illusions and delusions. When thought plays false, the thinker may occasionally recognize this fact, and express it in the above words.co-authored with F. David Peat

David Bohm, Science, Order, and

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Christopher Hitchens

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

Douglas Adams

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Steven Seagal

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Travis Barker

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Kirsten Zambucka

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Tom Bradley

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia