======= Martha's Quotes ======= Outside of a man, a book is a man's best friend; and inside a dog, it is too dark to read. Groucho Marx _____________________________________________________________________ I RUN INTO THIS GUY FROM A DECONSTRUCTIONIST MAFIA. HE MADE ME AN OFFER I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND. ANONYMOUS ______________________________________________________________________ People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; Only then there will be no failure. (Lao Dzu) _______________________________________________________________________ The law in its majestic impartiality forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. Anatole France ________________________________________________________________________ If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes -- Edmund Wilson _________________________________________________________________________ The sage is sharp, but not cutting; Pointed, but nor piercing; Straightforward, but not unrestrained; Brilliant, but not blinding. (Lao Dzu) _______________________________________________________________________ The crime ain't robbin' banks, the real crime is ownin' them! Bertold Brecht _________________________________________________________________________ The eighties upstaged brecht on this point by making the bank robber and the bank owner one and the same. David Harvey _______________________________________________________________________ Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Thoreau ________________________________________________________________________ GET DRESSED, GET BLESSED. TRY TO BE A SUCCESS. Bob Dylan ______________________________________________________________________ ONE CAN LIVE FOR TWO MONTHS ON A GOOD COMPLIMENT. Mark Twain ___________________________________________________________________________ NOTHING RECEDES LIKE SUCCESS. A character in a Neil Simon's play ______________________________________________________________________ There are two tragedies in life. One is is not to get your heart's desire. the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw ______________________________________________________________________ ``First, God created idiots. That was just practice. Then he created school boards.'' Mark Twain ________________________________________________________________________ ...We realize our divine posibilities by awakening to the soul, which discloses its revelations to the mind directly through intuition. When the soul breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. _______________________________________________________________________ If there is to be hope, we must all betray our country. We have to save each other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It is everyone's duty to start the avalanche. Nowadays, you have to think like a hero just to behave like a merely decent human being. Character Barley Scott Blair in the film of The Russia House by John Le Carre. _______________________________________________________________________ The power rolling out of Mao's gun travels down a unix pipe. ... don roper ________________________________________________________________________ Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde ________________________________________________________________________ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point however, is to change it. Karl Marx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------- Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" ----------------------------------------------------- To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar Samuel Johnson, "Ths History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia" ______________________________________________________________ Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye; much sense the starkest madness. Emily Dickinson ____________________________________________________________ Mathematics has brought to economics rigor; and alas also mortis. Galbraith? Heilbroner? *---------------------------*----------------------------------------* * The great paradox [contradiction] of * * a global consumer democracy is that * * the right to pleasure and happiness, * * the right to choice in the present, * * may well be a toxic elixir we are * * forcing our children to drink. If man, * * the marginal parasite, turns the * * earth into a dead artifact, the dream * * of material pleasure will have * * murdered life itself. In order to * * survive the triumph of our ideals, we * * need a new definition of the sacred * * Jacques Attali, "Millenium * *---------------------------*----------------------------------------* Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed Mark Twain ___________________________________________________________________ I discovered in nature the non-utilitarian delights I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intrincate enchantment and deception. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, "Speak, memory" ______________________________________________________________________ News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. William Randolph Hearst Sr. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signi- fies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Dwight David Eisenhower; General, U. S. Army ________________________________________________________________________ I am not a murderer. I never killed a man without a good reason. Wyatt Earp ________________________________________________________________ I am not vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ______________________________________________________________ Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. Henry David Thoreau. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him. Henry Kissinger -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more de- solation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman _________________________________________________________________ I've been in the academic world a long time; I can sleep with my eyes open, which is an important skill for those considering jobs in middle and upper management. Ralph Noble, "Psychology of motivation" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. Bertrand Russell ______________________________________________________________ Imagine all the peoples sharing the world in peace. John Lennon _____________________________________________________________________ Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven; and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it. Thomas Jefferson __________________________________________________________________ "When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist." --Dom Helder Camara Brazilian Bishop Nobel Peace Prize nominee ________________________________________________________________ Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence. S. Darrow __________________________________________________________________ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" ______________________________________________________________________ I speak not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence. Woody Allen __________________________________________________________________________ Love your enemies if you want, but treat your friends a little better. Edgar W. Howe _________________________________________________________________ Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. Woody Allen _________________________________________________________________ All things come to him who waits, provided he knows what he is waiting for. Woodrow Wilson __________________________________________________________________________ If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. Paul Krugman _________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven; and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it. Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________________________________ *"Those who take the most from the table * * teach contentment. * * Those for whom the taxes are destined * * demand sacrifice. * * Those who eat their fill, * * speak to the hungry, * * of wonderful times to come. * * Those who lead the country * * into the abyss, * * call ruling difficult, * * for ordinary folk." * * * * ( Bertolt Brecht) * ****************************************** Revolution is a drama of passion. You do not win the People over by appealing to reason. Mao Ze Dong ____________________________________________________________________ | The biologist thinks he is a chemist, | The chemist thinks he is a physicist, | The physicist thinks he is a God, | And God thinks She is a mathematician. Paula Thompson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If all the good people were clever, / and all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever / we thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or never / the two hit it off as they should; The good are so harsh to the clever, / the clever so rude to the good! Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932) ________________________________________________________________________ Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past... What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. (de "Burnt Norton", por T.S. Eliot). __________________________________________________________________________ As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve its purpose. Bhagavad Gita ___________________________________________________________________________ It seems that the "neoclassical paradigm"--the HIV virus of economics- --has spread and is spreading to other disciplines as well. Jim Craven -------------------------------------------------------------------------- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________________________________ People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762. ______________________________________________________________________ What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. J. Danforth Quayle -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. Woody Allen __________________________________________________________________________ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* "Kidnapping of the ends by the means: the supermarket buys you, the television watches you, the automobile drives you."--Eduardo Galeano NACLA Report on the Americas, Jan./Feb., 1995 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Do not become attached to the things you like; do not maintain aversion to the things you dislike. Sorrow, fear and bondage come from one's likes and dislikes. Bodhisatva _____________________________________________________________________ Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. Phillip K. Dick _____________________________________________________________________ If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) "Reporter" 18 November 1954 ________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************** "Edible" = adjective -- "good to eat, and wholesome to digest as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm." (Ambrose Bierce) ******************************************************** In art, as in no other endeavor, there is meaning apart from success. Joseph Conrad ************************************************************************** "The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightening calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area, but leave him intact. He is neither antecedent nor consequent. He is an isolated human datum, in stable equilibrium except for the buffets of the impinging forces that displace him in one direction or another. Self-imposed in elemental space, he spins symmetrically about his own spiritual axis until the parallelogram of forces bears down upon him, whereupon he follows the line of the resultant. When the force of the impact is spent, he comes to rest, a self-contained globule of desire as before." p. 73-74 reprinted in _The Place of Science in Modern Civilization_ the essay that it is from is "Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?" originally published in the _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ xii, July 1898. _______________________________________________________________________ If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin ________________________________________________________________________ "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." -----Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah ________________________________________________________________________ "Achieving this kind of demographic equilibrium must coincide with the growth of the economic statues of the country." -- student paper. ________________________________________________________________________ The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" ___________________________________________________________________________ Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. --Richard Strauss on conducting __________________________________________________________________________ "Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism." Emma Goldman, 1869-1940 ____________________________________________________________________ "Only Irish coffee provides, in a single glass, all four essential food groups; alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat." Alex Levine ______________________________________________________________________ "Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies." Oscar Wilde ______________________________________________________________________ "'Whom are you?' he said, for he had been to night school." George Ade ______________________________________________________________________ "Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you, and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." Dorothy Parker ______________________________________________________________________ "A best seller is a book which somehow sells well because it is selling well. Daniel Boorstin _________________________________________________________________________