Quotes -- Secular
(Notes)



  1. Everywhere you look, it's more of the same. The same self-serving political rhetoric, the same tales of mistrust and violence on the news, the same trivial hysteria over a hot new fad or gadget. Even when the same old stuff is dressed up in new clothing, its shallow face peers through.
         -- http://www.purevolume.com/theredaction


  2. Think Like a Scientist -- a short "Induction Fable" by Kenny Felder    --   HTML   PDF


  3. Einstein, Bill Gates, and the Buddha -- about "interactive lecture" by Kenny Felder    --   HTML   PDF


  4. P2 + AT = C2. Translation: Power to the people + access to tools = the consumer is in control.    --   HTML   PDF


  5. A Day In Between -- by MOM    --   PDF


  6. More Favorite Quotes:

    • In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
           -- Yogi Berra (circa 1980)


    • "The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best."
           -- Wallace D. Wattles, in The Science of Getting Rich

      "Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."
           -- Christiane Northrup, M.D.

      "Gratitude is heaven itself."
            -- William Blake


    • Do not assume more variables than necessary.
           -- William of Ockham, in Summa Logices (1320)


    • So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
           -- Albert Einstein (1947)


    • It is not flawed choice, flawed action, or even death itself which is the ultimate human dilemma. The gravest challenge to our hopes and dreams is the messy biological business-as-usual that is going on within us and without us at every hour of every day.
           -- Camille Paglia


    • No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
           -- Master Sawaki


    • To try and see more and better is not a matter of whim or curiosity or self-indulgence. To see or to perish is the very condition laid upon everything that makes up the universe.
           -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


    • Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend; it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
           -- Oscar Wilde


    • You give your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening — it isn't — it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
           -- Martha Graham


    • If we want to be successful in any field — in the arts, in scholarship, in sports, in any profession or craft — we need dedication and commitment. We need devotion. There can be no real achievement without struggle, and there can be no struggle without the commitment that keeps us going when it would be easier to give up. Even to achieve some quite ordinary aim, like success in business, takes long hours of hard work, gritted determination, and willingness to sacrifice other pleasures and opportunities. In other words, it takes real devotion to a goal, as well as dedication to doing whatever is necessary to reach it. Spiritual achievement is certainly no easier than achievement in business.
           -- Chris Pauling


    • I have read abundance of fine things on the subject of solitude, and I know it is a common boast in the mouths of those that affect to be thought wise that they are never less alone than when alone. I acknowledge solitude an agreeable refreshment to a busy mind, but were these thinking people obliged to be always alone, I am apt to think they would quickly find their very being insupportable to them.
           -- Benjamin Franklin


    • Today, a man on acid realized that all matter is purely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death. Life is just a dream, and we're all just an imagination of ourselves. Now, here's Tom with the weather.
           -- Bill Hicks


    • The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
           -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


    • No man could demand from [Captain Nemo] an account of his actions. God, if he believed in one — his conscience, if he had one — were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.
           -- Jules Verne


    • If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe.
           -- Chuang Tzu


    • The best reason to go to college rather than, say, a fine free-standing library (think of the savings, were information the only point!) is to live for a time not only among teachers but among master learners. College, after all, is not about the easy movement through ideas guided by benevolent masters. It's about the harder stuff.
           -- Peter S. Temes


    • We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
           -- Marcel Proust


    • Human life is much more important than shelf life.
           -- Lynne D. Richardson, a member of the New York City Board of Health,
               which plans to prohibit restaurants from serving food
               containing more than a minute amount of trans fats.


    • I just follow my own common sense. And the hell with the law.
           -- Thomas R. Buckley, a longtime justice in Dannemora, N.Y.


    • If each grain of sand were to say:
      "A grain of sand does not a mountain make." --
      There would be no land.

      If each drop of water were to say:
      "A drop of water does not an ocean make." --
      There would be no sea.

      If each note of music were to say:
      "A note of music does not a symphony make." --
      There would be no melody.

      If each word were to say:
      "A word does not a library make." --
      There would be no book.

      If each seed were to say:
      "A seed does not a field make." --
      There would be no harvest.

      If each of us were to say:
      "A person does not a difference make." --
      There would be no love or peace.


    • The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
           -- Marcus Aurelius Antonius


    • "Are you in pain, Frodo?" said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side.

      "Well, yes I am," said Frodo. "It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today."

      "Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured," said Gandalf.

      "I fear it may be so with mine," said Frodo. "There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?"

      Gandalf did not answer.

           -- J.R.R. Tolkien


    • He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool -- shun him.
      He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is a child -- teach him.
      He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep -- awake him.
      He who knows and knows that he knows, is wise -- follow him.
           -- Persian proverb


    • Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
           -- James A. Baldwin


    • The men who try to do something and fail are infintely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. -- Lloyd Jones

      Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever hope to achieve greatly. -- Robert F. Kennedy

      The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it -- so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. -- Ralph Emerson

      Failure is not failure unless you fail to learn from it. -- Ronald Niednagel

      It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. -- H. Stanley Judd

      [Do not] confuse a single mistake with a final mistake. -- F. Fitzgerald

      Failing does not make you a failure. Giving up and refusing to try again does. -- (Richard Exley)

      The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try. -- Malcolm MacNeil

      There is no failure except in no longer trying. -- Elbert Hubbard


    • "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
      "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
      "I don't much care where," said Alice.
      "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
           -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland



  7. Sex, Myth, and Politics: An Interview with Riane Eisler    --   PDF


  8. Spying Technology (& HP's Spying Troubles)   --   PDF   RTF
    'HP Way' Obsolete in Silicon Valley?   --   PDF   DOC
    HP's Mark Hurd is Hurt?   --   PDF   DOC


  9. Adapting itself into oblivion? -- PDF


  10. NBC's "Studio 60" and the faked-blog "DEFAKER"   --   PDF #1    PDF #2    PDF #3    JPG #1    JPG #2


  11. Yahoo's latest move in the online music business   --   PDF   RTF


  12. Are Scientists Afraid of Ghosts? -- PDF