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- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. - Visions of Gregorian Chants
- I think; therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch-22
- Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
- In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
- Akiro Kurosawa
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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