Liberty is not license.
–Mike Rockers
Even if we want it to be.
Category: VAULT Quotes
Brain Drippings
How much success has been withheld from the creative by mountains of red tape.
Be not overcome of evil
I extend my prayers, along with the rest of the free world, to all of London today. Our hearts and thoughts are with you.
“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Thought for the Day
Making a programmer use Visual Basic is like making a computer graphics designer use MSPaint
–anonymous
Wedding Wishes
Some dear friends of mine are getting married this weekend and I thought I would post a couple useful quotes about the wonderful instituion of marriage.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
–Ann Landers
–Ann Landers
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
— Pearl Buck
Freedom
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
-H. L. Mencken
Weekend Thought
Every man is my equal, my master, my slave. If mankind remembers some the greater it is only by the results of their actions; and not by grandeur of their intentions.
All is Quite
Excerpts from “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque.
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”–Chapter 10
“The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.”–Chapter 12
Faith
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
-Hebrews 11:1
Something Understood
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. …something is always created too. And instead of just dwelling on what is killed it’s important also to see what’s created and to see the process as a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good nor bad, but just is.
–Phaedrus Reborn, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”