Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

-- Ludwig von Mises

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 26, 2001

Answers

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

-- thanks for the new thread... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 26, 2001.

"When I was young I was amazed...that the elder Cato began, at the age of 80, to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

--W. Somerset Maugham--

Mar.

-- Not now, not like this (agentsmith) (m3write@aol.com), January 26, 2001.

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.

He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your wife out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal."

Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

Author Unknown....

-- (cin@cin.cin), January 27, 2001.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The Man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has been before.

Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along.

You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.

-Alan Ashley-Pitt

-- nonehere (none@to.give.net), January 27, 2001.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), January 27, 2001.

Nice thoughts, thank you all.

-- Will (righthere@home.now), January 27, 2001.

How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you are?

-- Satchell Paige

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 27, 2001.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

-- Mark Twain

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 28, 2001.

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

-- Woody Allen

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 28, 2001.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

--Leo Buscaglia

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), January 28, 2001.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could find other things as easily as we find fault.

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), January 28, 2001.

Strange is our situation upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, Not knowing why, yet sometimes Seeming to a divine purpose.

-- Albert Einstein

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), January 29, 2001.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

-- de Montesquieu

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 29, 2001.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

-- Emo Phillips

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 29, 2001.

"Love contains everything, and outside of love is a void and everlasting nothingness." - Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), January 29, 2001.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

-- George Orwell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 30, 2001.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), January 30, 2001.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

--Groucho Marx

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001.

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

-- Jose Simon

-- couldn't agree more.... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 31, 2001.

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

-Kahlil Gibran

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), January 31, 2001.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

-- Robert Heinlein

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 01, 2001.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

-- John F Kennedy

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 01, 2001.

It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

-- Albert Jay Nock

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 02, 2001.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

-- H.S. Thompson

-- and let me know you're on your way..... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 02, 2001.

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), February 02, 2001.

"Now that I have toiled and strayed so over the wilderness, am I to sleep, and let the earth cover my head for ever? Let my eyes see the sun until they are dazzled with looking. Although I am no better than a dead man, still let me see the light of the sun." - from the Epic of Gilgamish

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 02, 2001.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

-- Bertrand Russell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 03, 2001.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

-- Oswald Avery

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 03, 2001.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 03, 2001.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

--Edward Flaherty

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), February 03, 2001.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

-- Cervantes

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 04, 2001.

There are no secrets.
There is no mystery.
There is only common sense.

-- Onondaga saying

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 04, 2001.

By thinking intensely of the good of others, by devoting yourself to their service, you will purify your heart by that work and through it you will arrive at the vision of Self which penetrates all living things. ~ Swami Vivekananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 05, 2001.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -- Henri L. Bergson

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 05, 2001.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

-- Eric Hoffer

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 05, 2001.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt in the heart. -- Helen Keller

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 05, 2001.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question: Does this path have a heart? If the path does, it is good. If not, it is of no use. -- Carlos Castenada

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 06, 2001.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

-- Rita Rudner

-- time to lighten the mood..... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 06, 2001.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 06, 2001.

A flute without holes, is not a flute.

A donut without a hole, is a danish. Ty Webb

-- Barry (bchbear863@cs.com), February 06, 2001.

"Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; but today is cash!" Voltair

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 06, 2001.

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

-- E.W. Howe

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 07, 2001.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

-- Pat Conroy

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 07, 2001.

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "

- Yogi Berra

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), February 07, 2001.

Attitude determines altitude. unknown.

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 07, 2001.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), February 07, 2001.

Oh ye of little faith : \

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), February 07, 2001.

Better encounter a danger than live in continual fear.

-- William Browne

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 08, 2001.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.

-- Ludwig von Mises

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 08, 2001.

Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 09, 2001.

It is the grain of sand in your shoe, not the mountain ahead, that wears you down.

Ancient Proverb

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), February 09, 2001.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.

-- H.L. Mencken

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 10, 2001.

Mankind’s role is to fulfill his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.

-- Morihei Ueshiba

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 10, 2001.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 11, 2001.

Serenity Isn't freedom from the storm, it is peace within the storm.

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 11, 2001.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates....For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists

--Mohandas K. Gandhi

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 12, 2001.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

-- George Bernard Shaw

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 12, 2001.

A window stuck open is as useless as a window stuck closed. In either case, you've lost the use of the window.

(Carlyle Marney)

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), February 12, 2001.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

-- Max Planck

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 13, 2001.

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

--Leo Buscaglia

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 14, 2001.

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. -Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 14, 2001.

"We are all angels with only one wing...we can fly only embracing each other."

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-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), February 14, 2001.

There is only one us. Politics is the process of negotiating who is us and who is them.

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), February 14, 2001.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 15, 2001.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

-- Charles Darwin

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 15, 2001.

"The Founders warned us that freedom requires constant vigilance, and repeated action. It’s said that, when asked what sort of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin replied that they had given us "A Republic, if you can keep it." Today, as in the past, we will need a brave "civic virtue," not a timid civility, to keep our republic. So, this evening, I leave you with the simple exhortation: Be not afraid."

Justice Clarence Thomas

- American Enterprise Institute Lecture - February 13, 2001

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), February 15, 2001.

Most people dislike Vanity in others, whatever Share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair Quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of Good to the Possessor and to others that are within his Sphere of Action: And therefore in many Cases it would not be quite absurd if a Man were to thank God for his Vanity among the other Comforts of Life.

-- Benjamin Franklin

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 16, 2001.

Thank God it's Friday.

-- Unknown

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), February 16, 2001.

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." - Pearl Strachan Hurd

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 16, 2001.

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."

-- Rita Rudner

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 17, 2001.

"Take life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." - Erica Jong

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 17, 2001.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

-- H.L. Mencken

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 18, 2001.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 19, 2001.

“Life changes as you go through it. Sure you have to focus on different things at different times in your career. I’m 49 years old and I’m pretty comfortable in my life. Things don’t really rattle me when someone comes up and says you’re getting audited by the tax collector or you’re losing a key member of the team or your sponsor is unhappy. What I do rather than get rattled is to analyze the situation, try to correct it or straighten the program out and go forward. A lot of things rattled me earlier in life, but as you get older you get more experience. You try to take things in stride and have a good time.”

Dale Earnhardt - Jan. 2001

-- (bettypaige01@hotmail.com), February 19, 2001.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

--Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 20, 2001.

"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with someone, having to neither weigh thoughts nor measure words." - T. S. Eliot

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), February 20, 2001.

Bumper sticker:

Honk if you love peace and silence.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), February 20, 2001.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 21, 2001.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible… what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility! -- Soren Kierkegaard

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 21, 2001.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. Dionysius the Elder

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 21, 2001.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

-- Robert Heinlein

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 22, 2001.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning in your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

--- Morrie Schwartz

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 22, 2001.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

--H. W. Dodds

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 23, 2001.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

-- Robert Lynd

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 24, 2001.

Gooood shootin Tex!

--Lee Harvey Oswald

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), February 24, 2001.

To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.... The spirit is an emptiness ready to receive all things.

--Chuang Tsu

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), February 25, 2001.

A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the subject.

-- Winston Churchill

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 25, 2001.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

-- H.L. Mencken

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 26, 2001.