I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the various levels of the self, and the ego accepts necessary information and data from inner portions of the personality without question. Its position in fact depends in a large manner upon this unquestioning acceptance of inner data. The ego, in other words, the

Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks: The E

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Roland Barthes

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

Richard Stallman

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Louis Agassiz

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

Timothy Geithner

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

George Orwell

All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.

Source Unknown

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.

Proverb