Quotes

[Turtle]

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon

[Michaelangelica]

Be a Lamp

You must be your own lamps,
Be your own refuges.
Take refuge in nothing outside yourselves.
Hold firm to the Dharma as a lamp and a refuge.
Do not look for refuge to anything besides yourselves.
— From the Nirvana Sutra
http://www.gakkaionline.net/Myths/Lamp.html
or to de Budify it

You must be your own lamps,
Be your own refuges.
Take refuge in nothing outside yourselves.
Do not look for refuge to anything besides yourselves.
— From the Nirvana Sutra

[Turtle]

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers, but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ~ Daniel Boorstin

[Michaelangelica]

i like that Mr. T. I have sent it on though the ether.

Funny I just found this quote after giving a $1 to the Royal Flying Doctor (I really can't even afford that!!)


"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Do what you can."

- Sydney Smith

[Michaelangelica]

What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been,
in the ages before us.
The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Ecclesiastes 1 : 2–11.
urticator.net - Nothing New Under the Sun

[Turtle]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~Buddha

[InfiniteNow]

Religion is not the opiate of the masses. It is the placebo of the masses.
~ House

[Buffy]

Everyone should be abstinent, but it's just not realistic at all.
.................................................-- Bristol Palin

We support doubling abstinence education funding. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for contraception and abortion,
Buffy

[Turtle]

Your Their stomachs are too young, and abstinence engenders maladies. ~William Shakespeare

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Religion is not the opiate of the masses. It is the placebo of the masses.
~ House

To me those sentences say differnt things.
The first an addictive drug that takes you from reality, numbs you to any external stimuli.which is i think what marks meant. It stops you from thinking.

The second means it works, better than anything else we have even if based on a sugar pill story.
House scriptwriters being too clever by far?


"It is better to live a year as a tiger, than a hundred years as a sheep."
-Madonna