The Great Quotes thread

[Lost N Found]

Well here is a quote from one of the greats.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a7KPmOnok

[Constance]

Great thread Omni!

"If you don't hear it with your owns ears, or see it with your own eyes, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth"
Megan Fox

[Constance]

"If it didn't exist a 100 years ago, you don't need it today." Leonard Coldwell

"Nature works, if nature creates a problem, nature creates a solution" Leonard Coldwell

"What people think of you is none of your business" Paul Coelho

[Constance]

"Immutable truths are like a zebra - They are very black and white" Breal

[Constance]

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

"If man makes it, don't eat it." Jack Lalanne

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"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." Mother Theresa

[Taurean]

“The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some
transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the
silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of
persons over an extended period of time.” — Sir Fred Hoyle, 1982

“Actually it cannot be too strongly emphasized that petroleum does
not present the composition picture expected from modified biogenic
products, and all the arguments from the constituents of ancient oils
fit equally well, or better, with the conception of a primordial
hydrocarbon mixture to which bio-products have been added.” — Sir
Robert Robinson (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1947)

“The Hydrogen-Carbon system does not evolve spontaneously at
pressures less than 30 Kbar, even in the most favorable
environmental conditions. The HC system evolves hydrocarbons
under pressures found in Earth's mantle at temperatures consistent
with that environment” — J. F. Kenney and collaborators, 2002

“Statistical thermodynamic analysis has established clearly that
hydrocarbon molecules which comprise petroleum require very high
pressures for their spontaneous formation, comparable to the
pressures required for the same of diamond. In that sense,
hydrocarbon molecules are the high-pressure polymorphs of the
reduced carbon system as is diamond of elemental carbon. Any
notion which might suggest that hydrocarbon molecules
spontaneously evolve in the regimes of temperature and pressure
characterized by the near-surface of the Earth, which are the regimes
of methane creation and hydrocarbon destruction, does not even
deserve consideration.” — Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, 1968

[crosby]

"We must differentiate between guilt and duty, the soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans." ~ Oskar Schindler, 1908-1974

[crosby]

"Good Night Everyone." Crosby (1963 - ? )

[Meggings]

WINSTON CHURCHILL:

Wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, men will say,

Do not despair.
Do not yield to violence and tyranny.
March straight forward and die if need be, unconquered.

(from book by Jon Meacham entitled "Franklin & Winston - An Epic Friendship")

[Meggings]

Plato:
Good people do not need laws and bad people break them anyway.

The Tao:
Every person within themselves possesses the four principles of benevolence, justice, propriety, and wisdom, and each person has only to obey the law within themselves in order to be perfect.

I Ching:
The tao of the universe is indeed kindness and wisdom; but essentially tao is also beyond kindness and wisdom.

[Meggings]

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This is Frances Perkins. She was Secretary of Labor and first woman to hold a Presidential cabinet appointment. She began her career fighting poverty in some of the most impoverished communities in New York and Philadelphia. Perkins was known for her determination, boldness, and ability to find common ground between people with wildly different viewpoints.

It has been said by men inside Franklin Roosevelt's circle, that it was not "The FDR New Deal" but rather was "The Perkins New Deal".

[Constance]

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planck


"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' " Max Planck

[Ron Mauer Sr]

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new". SOCRATES 470BC
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[Meggings]

All from Friedrich Nietzche:

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

[crosby]

"We must learn how to discern the difference between love and trust, trust and betrayal, betrayal and eternity." - corson.....

[Constance]

[Meggings]

One I am very fond of is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. This was after her years of work shepherding the "Universal Rights of Man" through the newly-formed United Nations. It appeared as a two-page cartoon, which is why my reproduction of it is not great.

She is shown lecturing the representatives of the countries of the world, saying to a class on Human Rights:
"NOW CHILDREN, ALL TOGETHER: THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARE ABOVE THE RIGHTS OF THE STATE."

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As an aside, I understand that the soul Eleanor Roosevelt came from is the same soul that Thomas Paine arose from, and he wrote "The Rights of Man" in 1791.

[crosby]

This was probably posted earlier, but, I felt the need today to post it again:

"Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man".
Sir Rabindraneth Tagore - Indian Nobel Prize Winning Poet (1861-1941).














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[Daozen]

"He that fights psy-ops, should see to it, that..."

- Unknown

[Kryztian]

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us. - - Rainer Maria Rilke

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. - - J. Edgar Hoover

In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing – or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think. -- Scott Mandelker

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - - Arthur Schopenhauer

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

I would rather spend my life searching for the truth than rest a single day within the comfort of a lie. — John Victor Ramses

Everyone who “believes” in an attempt to “create reality” that is different from what IS, adds to the increase of chaos and entropy. If your beliefs are orthogonal to the truth, no matter how strongly you believe them, you are essentially coming into conflict with how the Universe views itself and I can assure you, you ain’t gonna win that contest. You are inviting destruction upon yourself and all who engage in this “staring down the universe” exercise with you.

On the other hand, if you are able to view the Universe as it views itself, objectively, without blinking, and with acceptance of the reality and appropriate responses to how things really are, you then become more “aligned” with the Creative energy of the universe and your very consciousness becomes a transducer of order energy, and your actions are consonant with what is. Your energy of observation, given unconditionally, matched by the appropriate actions, can bring order to chaos, can create out of infinite potential. -- Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Cowardice ask the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question is it politics? Vanity asks the question is it popular? The conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politics nor popular but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

“From a historical point of view, the only reality is that of conspiracy. Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. …Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of the power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo.

The very label ‘conspiracy’ serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue. The United States comprises large organizations – corporations, bureaucracies, ‘interest groups,’ and the like – which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. ‘Conspiracy,’ in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe.“ -- Richard Dolan

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!" - Molly Ivins

For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. - Ephesians 6:12

“Destiny comes to those who listen and fate finds the rest.”
- Unknown
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
-George Orwell

"Nothing in this world, nothing, works the way you think it does. There's always more to the story."
-- Jordan Maxwell

“The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.”
― William S. Burroughs

Religion, culture, legal and economic systems, countries, and corporations are determined by perceived reality. When enough people accept these perceptions or when they are codified into laws, they have immense impact on objective reality. Breakthroughs in modern science indicate that changes in human perceptions not only govern human behavior; they govern – everything.
-- John Perkins