The story you are about to see is a fib. But it's short. --mathnet Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice. Somewhere else, the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do. --the doctor (sylvester mccoy) You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. -- flonda scott maxwell I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. -- kurt vonnegut The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. --robert anton wilson She taught him the hidden dharma of playing catch with a rubber ball, and the veiled mystery of games of tag. --mahabharata (rishyasringa) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. --hunter s. thompson whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. boldness has genius, power and magic in it. --johann von goethe Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. --pericles of athens Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. -- andre gide The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. -- thomas paine (1737-1809) Beware the man of one book. -- st. thomas aquinas "Eat me." --lewis carroll "Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." --g.k. chesterson Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. --william somerset maugham My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. --vladimir nabokov Love is like a snowmobile flying over the frozen tundra that suddenly flips, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. --matt groening It doesn't TAKE all kinds; we just HAVE all kinds. --michael kalen smith, mksmith@taproot.win.net If you can't make someone happy, make them chocolate fudge cake. --duke euphoria "ian crowther" de'gryn, trans-galactic megapope euphoria@junkpile.demon.co.uk Talent develops in quiet places; character, in the full current of human life. --johann von goethe A Renaissance man diffuses to refine himself. --steve hug A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile when a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. --antoine de saint-exupery, "flight to arras" He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. --anonymous Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. --c. g. jung (1875-1961) True words are not beautiful; Beautiful words are not true. Competence does not persuade; Persuasion is not competent. The sage is not learned; The learned man is not wise. The Man of Calling does not heap up possessions. The more he does for others, The more he possesses. The more he gives to others, The more he has. The TAO of Heaven is `furthering without causing harm'. The TAO of the Man of Calling is to be effective without quarrelling. --lao tzu Make the most of yourself, for that is all of you that there is. --unknown "Oh, bother," said Pooh, as he formatted his life. --unknown A Discordian is anyone willing to look at the windmills and concede that they might be giants. --Holy Temple of the Sts. John, from the Principia Discordia, SJG Edition.