| "The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly." »Robert Wibbelsman |
| "There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." »Timothy Leary |
| "A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe |
| "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." »Stephen William Hawking |
| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking |
| "Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us." »David Sarnoff |
| "It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell |
| "What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true." »Carl Sagan |
| "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud |
| "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination." »Maurice Godelier |
| "Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral." »Andrew Schneider |
| "I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed." »Srully D. Blotnick |
| "minor surgery is surgery someone else is having." »J. Carl Cook |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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