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Abhedashram - Spiritual centre focusing on the propogation of Yoga and Vedanta.
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Society and Culture
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Society and Culture
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture
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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Society and Culture
