The High Price of Hunger - The Dutch Hunger Winter, and how extensive and bad it was. Comments on a study linking famine to schizophrenia.
A World of Wireless - In 1943, 1.1 million radios were confiscated by the Nazis in Holland. With pictures. On a website with a lot of information and fragments of radio.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Occupation and Resistance "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Occupation and Resistance
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Occupation and Resistance "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Occupation and Resistance
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Occupation and Resistance When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Occupation and Resistance
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Occupation and Resistance "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Occupation and Resistance
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Occupation and Resistance There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Occupation and Resistance
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Occupation and Resistance When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Occupation and Resistance
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Occupation and Resistance Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Occupation and Resistance
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Occupation and Resistance Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Occupation and Resistance
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Occupation and Resistance "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Occupation and Resistance
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Occupation and Resistance Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Occupation and Resistance
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Occupation and Resistance "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Occupation and Resistance
