| "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." »Douglas Adams |
| "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." »Jeremy S. Anderson |
| "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups." »Cathy Guisewite |
| "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." »Frank Gelett Burgess |
| "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost." »Russell Baker |
| "What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life." »Srully D. Blotnick |
| "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards." »Robert Orben |
| "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost." »Russell Wayne Baker |
| "It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur." »George Whitehead |
| "Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness." »Jim Rohn |
| "I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content." »Marquis de Sade |
| "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." »Jim Rohn |
| "The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries." »Jean Iris Murdoch |
| "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it." »James Taylor |
| "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda |
| "Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles." »Marquis de Sade |
| "For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." »George Orwell |
| "It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." »George McGovern |
| "When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." »Douglas Adams |
| "The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia |
| "Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." »Noam Chomsky |
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