truths

 

Jack Handey Quotes

Universal Truths

1. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

2. "It is the friends you can call up at 4:00am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich

3. "A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."
- Earl Wilson

4. "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
- Diane Sawyer

5. "The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
- Charles M. Schwab

6. "To create one's own world takes courage."
- Georgia O'Keefe

7. "What's important is that one strives to achieve a goal."
- Ronald Reagan

8. "There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above and overcome."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

9. "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
- Lucille Ball

10. "It's time to start living the life we've imagined."
- Henry James

11. "You can never find yourself until you face the truth."
- Pearl Bailey

12. "The man with no imagination has no wings."
- Muhammad Ali

13. "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."
- Muhammad Ali

14. "Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemingway

15. "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through."
- Eddie Rickenbacker

16. "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
- Lauren Bacall

17. "Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18. "Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

19. "There's a better way to do it. Find it!"
- Thomas Edison

20. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put in it is ours."
- Dag Hammarskjöld

21. "We make ourselves rich by making our wants few."
- Henry David Thoreau

22. "The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Winston Churchill  WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL RACIST?

23. "It is never too late to become what you might have been."
- George Eliot

24. "Every man believes that he has a greater possibility."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. "You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself."
- Mel Brooks

26. "A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington

28. "Trust your gut."
- Barbara Walters

29. "One man's way may be as good as another, but we all like our own best."
- Jane Austen

30. "Trust in your own untried capacity."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31. "Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there."
- Yogi Berra

32. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- Sophia Loren

33. "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
- Irving Berlin

34. "Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
- Charles Kettering

36. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
- Anonymous

37. "The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- R.G. Ingersoll

38. "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton

39. "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
- Tom Landry

40. "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."
- Billy Wilder

41. "If you dig very deeply into any problem, you will get people."
- J. Watson Wilson

42. "Organizations can be observed as a series of patterned interactions among actors."
- J. Eugene Haas and Thomas E. Drabek

43. "Leadership is still an art despite the efforts of social science researchers to make it a science."
- James Owen

44. "The fellow in the boat with you never bores a hole in it."
- Anonymous

45. "Cada hora tiene su verdad."
- Alejandro Casana

46. "He that complies against his own will, is of his own opinion still."
- Samuel Butler

47. "An institution is like a tune. It is not constituted by individual sounds, but by relations between them."
- Peter F. Drucker

48. "The best way to manage scientific and professional people is to give them an interesting, challenging job and then leave them alone."
- Anonymous

49. "One of my fundamental assumptions is that the most important resources an organization has is valid information."
- Chris Argyris

50. "All people are different. This is a fact supported by science."
- Keith Davis

51. "Individual differences mean that management can get the greatest motivation among employees by treating them differently. If it were not for individual differences, some standard, across-the-board way of dealing with employees could be adopted, and minimum judgment would be required thereafter. Individual differences require that justice and rightness with employees shall be individual, not statistical."
- Keith Davis

52. "Only a person can take responsibility and make decisions. A group, by definition, cannot do so. A group is powerless until individuals act therein."
- Keith Davis

53. "Although some organizations may occasionally wish they could employ only a person's skill or brain, all that can be employed is a whole person, rather than separate characteristics. Different human traits may be separately studied, but in the final analysis they are all part of one system making a whole person."
- Keith Davis

54. "Skill does not exist separate from background or knowledge. Home-life is not totally separable from work-life, and emotional conditions are not separate from physical conditions. EACH AFFECTS THE OTHER.
- Keith Davis

55. "When management practices organizational behavior, it is trying to develop a better employee, but also it wants to develop a better person in terms of growth and fulfillment. Research suggests that jobs do shape people as they perform them, so management needs to be concerned about its effect on the whole person."
- Keith Davis

56. "Employees belong to many organizations other than their employer, and they play many roles outside the firm. If the whole person can be improved, then benefits will accrue beyond the firm into the larger society in which each employee lives."
- Keith Davis

57. "In the sense of needs, people are motivated not by what we think they ought to have, but what they themselves want."
- Keith Davis

58. "To an outside observer a person's needs may be illusory or unrealistic, but they are still controlling."
- Keith Davis

59. "Motivation is essential to the operation of organizations. No matter how much machinery and equipment an organization has, these things cannot be put to use until they are released and guided by people who have been motivated. Think for a minute in terms of a steam locomotive sitting in a railroad station. All the rails and equipment are in order, the schedule and routes are prepared, the objective is set, tickets are sold and the passengers are on board. No matter how well all this preliminary work has been done, the train cannot move an inch toward the next station until the steam is usefully released - that is, until the motive power is supplied. Similarly, in an organization, motivation turns on the steam to keep the organization going."
- Keith Davis

60. "In physics, a basic philosophy is that elements of nature are uniform. The law of gravity is supposed to operate uniformly in Tokyo and London, and an atom of hydrogen is supposed to be identical in Moscow and Washington DC, but the same cannot be said for people."
- Keith Davis

61. "From sociology we learn that organizations are social systems. Consequently, activities therein are governed by social laws as well as psychological laws. Just as people have psychological needs, they also have social roles and status. Their behavior is influenced by their group as well as by their individual drives."
- Keith Davis

62. "The existence of a social system implies that the organizational environment is one of dynamic change, rather than a static set of relations as pictured on an organizational chart. All parts of the system are interdependent and subject to influence by any other part."
- Keith Davis

63. "Mutual interest is represented by the statement, "Organizations need people, but people also need organizations." Organization theory explains that organizations are formed and maintained on the basis of some mutuality of interest among their participants. People perceive organizations as a means to help them reach their goals, while at the same time organizations need people to help reach organizational objectives."
- Keith Davis

64. "If mutuality is totally lacking, it makes no sense to try and assemble a group and develop cooperation, because there is no base on which to build. Mutual interest provides a super ordinate goal that unites the wide variety of needs that people bring to organizations. The result is that people are encouraged to attack organizational problems rather than each other!"
- Keith Davis

65. "Organizational behavior integrates all the social sciences and other disciplines that can contribute to an understanding of people in organizations. It is neither psychology, nor sociology, nor organization theory; rather, it is all of these along with other disciplines. It integrates all of them in order to apply from each that which is appropriate when dealing with people at work. The field of organizational behavior is much like that of medicine, which integrates physical, biological, and social sciences into a workable practice."
- Keith Davis

66. "The interest of various social sciences in people sometimes expressed by the general term "behavioral science", which represents the systematized body of knowledge pertaining to why and how people behave as they do. It has been said that the formal organization school sometimes speaks of "organizations without people", while behaviorists speak of "people without organizations". However, organizations must have people, and people working towards goals must have organizations; so it is desirable to treat the two as a working unit."
- Keith Davis

67. "The human resources approach is developmental. It is concerned with the growth and development of people toward higher levels of competency, creativity and fulfillment, because people are the central resource in any organization. The nature of the human resources approach can be understood by comparing it with the traditional management approach in the early 1900's. In the traditional approach managers decided what should be done and then closely controlled employees to assure task performance. Management was directive and controlling. The human resources approach, on the other hand, is developmental and facilitative. It helps people grow in self-control, responsibility and other abilities, and then tries to create a climate in which all employees may contribute to the limits of their improved abilities."
- Keith Davis

68. "It is assumed that expanded capabilities and opportunities for people will lead directly to improvements in operating effectiveness. Work satisfaction also will flow directly from employees making fuller use of their capabilities. Essentially, the human resources approach means that better people achieve better results.
- Keith Davis

69. "Supportive managers may be compared to farmers. Farmers cannot tell plants how they should grow, but farmers can help provide the kind of climate in which plants grow to fulfill their potential. Similarly, supportive managers provide the type of organizational climate in which their employees can grow and be productive."
- Keith Davis

70. "Traditional managers relied on principles to provide a one-best-way of managing. There was a correct way to organize, to delegate and to divide work. The correct way applied regardless of the type of organization or situation involved. Management principles were considered to be universal. As the field of organization behavior developed, many of its followers also supported the concept of universality. Behavioral ideas were supposed to apply in any type of situation. For example, employee-oriented leadership, whatever the circumstance. An occasional exception might be admitted, but the ideas were more or less universal. Expanded behavioral research now shows that there are few across-the-board concepts that apply in all instances. Organizational situations are much more complex than first perceived, and the different variables in situations may require different behavioral approaches. The result is a contingency approach to organizational behavior, which means that different organizational environments require different behavior relationships for optimum effectiveness."
- Keith Davis

71. "No longer is there a one best way. Each situation must be analyzed carefully to determine the significant variables that exist in order to establish the kinds of behavioral practices that will be more effective. The strength of the contingency approach is that it encourages analysis of each situation prior to action, while at the same time discouraging habitual practice based on universal assumptions about people. The contingency approach is also more interdisciplinary, more system-oriented and more research-oriented than the more traditional approach. Thus it helps to use, in the most appropriate manner, all the current knowledge about organizations. It is sometimes called the situational approach, because appropriate action depends on situational variables."
- Keith Davis

72. "Conceptually, a system implies that there are a multiple of variables in organizations and that each of them affects all the others in a complex relationship. An event that appears to affect one individual or one department actually may have significant influences elsewhere in the organization. This means that managers, in taking action, must look beyond the immediate situation in order to determine effects on the larger system. Often negative effects as well as positive effects result from a behavioral action, so it is necessary to make a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether an action will produce a net-positive or a net-negative effect. No longer is it sufficient to look at benefits, because there may be costs in other parts of system."
- Keith Davis

73. "Organizational behavior is the study and application of knowledge about human behavior in organizations as it relates to other system elements. Key elements are people, structure, technology, and the external social system. From the administrative point of view, organizational behavior seeks to improve people-organization relationships in such a way that people are motivated to develop teamwork that effectively fulfills their needs and achieves organizational objectives. The administrative system integrates the social system with the technical system for improved human results."
- Keith Davis

74. "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad."
- Sheryl Crow

75. "Don't believe the fairy-tales of million-dollar happiness."
- NOFX

76. "There's something wrong with mass-consumption. Why do we want what we don't need?"
- NOFX
(So if we make ourselves rich by making our wants few, why the hell do we want what we don't need?)

77. "We can do no great things - only small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa

78. "Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places and does not cure or even diminish it."
- Mark Twain

79. "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
- Mark Twain

80. "To spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about a talent, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
- Mark Twain

81. "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
- Mark Twain

82. "To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return."
- Leigh Hunt

83. "Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it."
- Garrison Keillor

84. "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry

85. "If you can’t convince them, confuse them."
- Harry S. Truman

86. "The trouble with America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has changed to advertising copy."
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman

87. "Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens."
- Cathy Guisewite

88. "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."
- Mark Twain

89. "Patience is a virtue."
- ?

90. "The only battle I will fiercely fight is one that hibernates inside my head."
- NOFX

91. "Be the best? Climb the ladder? Do it better, higher, faster? I refuse to participate."
- NOFX

92. "I'm a person, just like you, but I've got better things to do."
- NOFX

93. "There's something grand about being nothing. There's something lame about being grand."
- NOFX

94. "Some people say I got a problem with authority. So?"
- NOFX

95. "That's me not being you."
- NOFX

96. "Replace Superman with Joe-Ordinary."
- NOFX

97. "Death to Mr. Right, because that's not me. He makes me sad."
- NOFX

98. "It's so easy to defend the status-quo with everyone so cool and cynical."
- NOFX

99. "I know now the right thing to do. Anti-tradition, tried and true."
- NOFX

100. "A world where wrong has right-of-way? Fuck that world."
- NOFX

101. "No simple way to tell you son. We share the same red, tainted blood."
- NOFX

102. "Why must we stay where we don't belong."
- NOFX

103. "It's not what you've done, it's what you've been."
- NOFX

104. "Everybody needs some time away."
- NOFX

105. "You can't change the world by hating man."
- NOFX

106. "I wanna see The Constitution burn. I wanna watch The Whitehouse overturn. I wanna witness some blue blood bleed red."
- NOFX

107. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
- ?

108. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
- ?

109. "Don't ever take away from me my pornography. Obviously, we don't agree on what's obscene. I have the right to choose what I want to see and read. Don't even try to take away from me my right to privacy, because what I do is no one's business but me."
- NOFX

110. "The government's trying to get into your bedroom. Better lock your doors and close your shade, because there could be someone watching you today."
- NOFX

111. "Why do they try to make things illegal? Why do we have to be 21? They're so afraid that people are having too much fun. Why do they care what I do in my bedroom? Why do you wanna know how I screw? It seems to me you got nothing better to do."
- NOFX

112. "You can go your own way."
- I forgot

113. "I daresay that at any given time most anarchists understand that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths."
- Jason Mcquinn

114. "Realize you will never be done.""
- Linzy2784@aol.com

115. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain

116. "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
- Mark Twain

117. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

118. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed with the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds on your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!"
- Mark Twain

119. "Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
- Mark Twain

120. "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full measure of joy you must have somebody to share it with."
- Mark Twain

121. "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
- Mark Twain

122. "Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe."
- Mark Twain

123. "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't."
- Mark Twain

124. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain

125. "You cannot depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

126. "I never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

127. "A thing long expected takes the form of unexpected when at last it comes."
- Mark Twain

128. "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain

129. "There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
- Mark Twain

130. "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it."
- Mark Twain

131. "Be good and you will be lonesome."
- Mark Twain

132. "Always do right. It will gratify some people and confound the rest."
- Mark Twain

133. "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
- Mark Twain

134. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain

135. "If a person offends you, do not resort to extremes. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."
- Mark Twain

136. "Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed."
- Mark Twain.

137. "All emotion is involuntary when genuine."
- Mark Twain

138. "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."
- Mark Twain

139. "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
- Mark Twain

140. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain

141. "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Mark Twain

142. "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Mark Twain

143. "The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but they know so many things that ain't so."
- Mark Twain

144. "Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."
- ?

145. "The true reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
- ?

146. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- ?

147. "Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
- Cree Indian Prophecy

148. "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- American Chief Seattle

149. "They're rich because you're poor."
- Sidewalk in Arcata

150. "Individuals need life structure. A life lacking in comprehensible structure is an aimless wreck. The absence of structure breeds breakdown."
- Alvin Toffler

151. "From the cultures of the past spring the dreams of the future."
- HSU Decorated Bridge

152. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Arthur Conan Doyle.

153. "Although they are only breaths, words which I command are immortal."
- Sappho

154. "Serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received."
- Peter 4:10

155. "May the union be perpetual."
- Statue in Santa Fe Plaza

156. "If anyone strikes you on the one cheek, let it hit the other one also. And if someone takes away your coat, let him have your shirt as well. Give to everyone who begs from you. And if someone takes what is yours, don't ask for it back again. Do for others what you would have others do for you."
- Luke 6:29

157. "Love your enemies, and be good to them. And lend expecting nothing back. Then you will have a great reward."
- Luke 6:27

158. "Judge not and you will not be judged. Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." - John 8:7

159. "Put no thought in your life for what you should eat. Nor for your body what you should wear. For life is more than food and a body more than clothing.
- Matthew 6:25

160. "There is still one more thing you need to do. You must sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Follow me."
- Luke 18:22

161. "How hard it is for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God. It is harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle."
- Luke 18:25

162. "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one."
- John Lennon

163. "Everyone must follow the path of their own destiny, for I know that I have my own."
- Nefretiri19@aol.com's profile

164. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy

165. "What can be said, say it clearly and what can't be said, pass over in silence. You will save a lot of trouble."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

166. "I do, therefore I am."
- Billboard in Oakland

167. "The magnitude of such an advance - its importance for the future of evolution itself - makes it critically necessary that we begin to guide it. To adopt a hands-off, damn-the-torpedoes approach could spell doom for ourselves and our children."
- Alvin Toffler

168. "Faced with such disasters, can we permit the development and combination of tomorrow's even more powerful technologies to be controlled by the same shortsighted and selfish criteria used during the Second Wave era?"
- Alvin Toffler
 

169. "Thought is action in rehearsal."
- Sigmund Freud

170. "Why must we riot? Why must we protest? Just to be heard by the world?"
- Antiflag

171. "Hurt not the Earth. Neither the sea, nor the trees."
- Revelations 7:3

172. "The road to self-development is raw experience."
- John Taylor Gatto

173. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
- Teddy Roosevelt

174. "I don't pretend to understand the universe. It is a great deal bigger than I am.
- Thomas Carlyle

175. "Travel is fatal to pregidous, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."
- Mark Twain

176. "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

177. "Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best ground on which to build world peace, an equitable sharing of the world's resources, and the development of true respect for the environment on behalf of future generations."
- The Dali Lama

178. "The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."
- Anonymous

179. "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
- Helen Keller

180. "A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- St. Basil

181. "You do not have because you do not ask."
- James 4:2

182. "People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do."
- Anonymous

183. "The greatest achievements are those that benefit others."
- Anonymous

184. "Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
- Anonymous

185. "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."
- Anonymous

186. "Love sees through a telescope, not a microscope."
- Anonymous

187. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

188. "Good words are worth much, and cost little."
- Anonymous

189. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- Anonymous

190. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
- Anonymous

190. "Lost time is never found again."
- Benjamin Franklin

191. "You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be."
- Anonymous

192. "The first duty of love is to listen."
- Anonymous

193. "Beauty shines through in the good that you do."
- Anonymous

194. "A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
- James Joyce

195. "What you are is revealed by what you do. What you do reveals what you really believe."
- Anonymous

196. "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

197. "On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on earth."
- L. Ron Hubbard

198. "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
- Anonymous

199. "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Josh Billings

200. "Quality is never an accident...it is always the result of intelligent effort."
- Josh Ruskin

201. "There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true."
- Anonymous

202. "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
- Anonymous

203. "Humanity, not legality, should be our guide."
- Winston Churchill

204. "Do you think I give a shit if you're a socialist? If you're a capitalist? We've all got to exist..on this planet with nowhere to run. Millions of brainwashed must open their eyes. We are one."
- NOFX

205. "Weld the past to the present to enrich the future."
- Monument in Union Station in Ogden, UT

206. "Fate is not what happens to us; it's what we are - if we are true to ourselves."
- Some Parabola magazine I found in Garberville.

207. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain

208. "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it."
- Mark Twain

209. "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." - Mark Twain

210. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

211. "There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

212. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
- T.S. Eliot

213. "What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable."
- Louise Nevelson

214. "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."
- M.C. Escher

215. "Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso

216. "People see the world not as it is, but as they are."
- Al Lee

217. "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
- Robert H. Goddard

218. "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
- Malcolm X

219. "There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen."
- Sean O'Faolain

220. "I have never seen people on pot get in a fight, because it's fucking impossible.
- Bill Hicks

221. "It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics, dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend."
- Louis Armstrong

222. "Make the most of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington

223. "Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapist and burglars who are a menace to society."
- Dan Quayle

224. "The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis."
- Willie Nelson

225. "Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man."
- DEA Judge Francis Young

226. "When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
- Harry S. Truman

227. "I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
- Willie Nelson

228. "I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke."
- Howard Stern

229. "Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned."
- Bill Lee

230. "While it is undoubtedly the case that many drug addicts started with cannabis, to claim that taking cannabis is bound to lead to hard drugs has always seemed to me far-fetched."
- Jack Straw

231. "The issue here is not marijuana. Marijuana is the messenger, not the message. The issue is whether we will live in freedom or under tyranny. The most basic of all human rights is the right to your own body. The lighted marijuana weed is the torch of freedom."
- Dr. Julian Heicklen

232. "Hemp is a miracle plant that can be used for all these amazing things."
- Joan Osborne

233. "Law enforcement functions through the use of fear. Fear is the most important weapon they have. All the technology, none of it would do them a damn bit of good if it weren't for fear, and they've created an entire universe of fear around marijuana and hemp."
"It's not drugs the government is concerned with, anyway. It's people's freedom of expression."
- Woody Harrelson

234. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

235. "To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

236. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

237. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

238. "Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."
- Walter C. Hagen

239. "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

240. "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
- Bertand Russell

241. "He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature."
- Socrates

242. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau

243. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."
- Proverbs 23:7

244. "If you want to be happy, be."
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

245. "Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think."
- Dale Carnegie

246. "The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

247. "People create their own questions because they're afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."
- Ayn Rand

248. "Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen."
- Jerry Brown

249. "Be content with such things as ye have."
- Hebrews 13:5

250. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas Gandhi

251. "Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be."
- John Homer Miller

252. "We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts."
- Napoleon Hill

253. "The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end."
- Don Marquis

254. "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
- Siddhartha Guatama[The Buddha]

255. "Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by your thinking."
- Susan L. Taylor

256. "Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering."
- Ali

257. "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius

258. "I accept the universe!"
- Margaret Fuller

259. "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
- Lao Tzu

260. "Peace is the fairest form of happiness."
- William Ellery Channing

261. "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
- Zeno of Citium

262. "We must walk in balance on the earth - a foot in spirit and a foot in the physical."
- Lynn Andrews

263. "To become a happy person, have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spritual simplicity."
- Norman Vincent Peale

264. "Our physical body and the see-and-touch world are not life, but only one step on our spirit's journey."
- Paul Pearsall

265. "Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

266. "We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov

267. "When you don't gotta go to work, every day is a holiday."
- NOFX

268. "I think we aught to make America the Beautiful the national anthem. It's not about war, there's no bombs bursting in air, no rockets red glare. It's about the land, amber waves of grain. That sounds good to me. Plus, it's a lot easier so sing."
- Willie Nelson

269. "In fraud we trust."
- One of those fake 911 dollars.

270. "Politics is the business of governments and politicians. The world where companies use their economic influence to prop up or bring down government, would be a frightening and bleak one indeed."
- From a Propagandhi song.

271. "The most violent element in society is ignorance."
- some bumper sticker at Marleyfest 04

272. "Ignorant people are easy to control."
- U.S. Government.

273."The current school system is a diseased organism. The standard song about school, that it makes good people, good citizens, is easy to believe if you want to believe it, and if you don't look with your own eyes at the mangled, mutilated mess that schools turn out."
- John Taylor Gatto

274. "Schooling as we know it is a powerful expression of the sickness of society. Only a shocking bill of charges will wake the public up."
- John Taylor Gatto

275. "The school system is not a repairable engine because it's doing what it's supposed to do. It is an engine of restraint and restriction and management."
- Roland Legiardi-Laura

276."You have to betray the system...You have to operate as a saboteur in the system."
- Anonymous

277."Schools were designed to mimic the shape, sound, and rhythms of factories. They were called factory schools, but they turned out not widgets but children."
- Anonymous

278."The raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
- ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY, dean of the School of Education, Stanford University, 1905

279."We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, to forgo the priveleges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
- WOODROW WILSON, from an address to the New York City High School Teachers Association, January 9, 1909

280."Somewhere between the ages of 11 and 15, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble I should judge to lie with the schools."
- THOMAS EDISON

281."I am a revolutionary, and I'm linked up with a movement, and I have a duty to let people know there is a movement in this country."
- Mark Webber

282."It's good for your soul to take care of people. And it's time for people to stop thinking about just their families, and start thinking of others."
- Anonymous

283."Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
- John Mullen, UCLA basketball legend who coached teams to 10 NCAA titles.

284."All we need is love. Love is all we need."
- John Lennon

285. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin

286. "The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."
- Arundhati Roy

287. "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best night and day to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
- E.E. Cummings

288. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- In Rejuvenation Coffee Shop, Silver City, NM

289. "Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?"
- Some bumper sticker I saw in Silver City

290. "Degrade first the arts. If you'd Mankind degrade. Hire idiots to paint with cold lights and hot shade: give high price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace. And with the labours of ignorance fill every place."
- William Blake.

291. "A dream is like a river, ever-changing as it flows. A dreamer is just a vessel which must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store, makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores."
- The River by Garth Brooks

292. "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you can't even tacitly take part...You've got to put your bodies upon the gears, the levers and all the apparatus and you've got to indicate to the people who run it and own it that unless you are free the machine will be prevented from working at all."
- M. Savio 1943-1996

293. "There's no government like no government."
- Graffiti on People's Park bathroom in Berkeley

294. "The point is not merely to fuck the system, but to destroy it."
- Abbie Hoffman(Steal This Book)

295. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

296. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -
- Thomas Jefferson

297. "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer is in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all...."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

298. "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
- Thomas Carlyle

299. "Through a slick misinformation campaign, these individuals perpetrate a fraud on the American people, a fraud so devious that even some of the nation's most respected newspapers and sophisticated media are capable of echoing their falsehoods."
- Barry McCaffrey

300. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
- Mark Twain

301. "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
- Theodore H White

302. "The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust."
- Mr. Justice Brandeis

303. "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

304. "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
- Thomas Brackett Reed

305. "He who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along."
- Clarence Darrow

306. "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
- Malcolm X

307. "They used to burn witches. Today we laugh at them. Today we jail people for marijuana. Tomorrow they'll laugh at us."
- Robert "Rosie" Rowbotham

308. "It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues"
- Abraham Lincoln

309. "Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?"
- P. J. O'Rourke

310. "I think that by 2012 you will have people that are enlightened (open, honest, caring, loving, united to the divine) and those that still seek humanity's lower natures (suffering, misery, hate, separation from the divine) but at least the scale may be tipping more toward enlightened."
- Hermes Trismegistus

311. "To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the world. To make a true religion of the heart as the ruling factor in one's life. To enable each one to love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. My goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness in life and living. This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled."
- Sant Kirpal Singh(1894-1974)

312. "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
- Henrik Ibsen

313. "Do yourself a favor as you walk through life: Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful."
- J. Michael Thomas

314. "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
- Dr. Karl Menninger

315. "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

316. "I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Edward Everette Hale

317. "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action."
- Gandhi

318. "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

319. "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
- Flavia Weedn

320. "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

321. "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napoleon Hill

322. "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
- Henry Ward Beecher

323. "When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

324. "I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes given a chance."
- James A. Autry

325. "The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience."
- Mark Twain

326. "There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton

327. "Miracles do not happen in contradiction of nature, but in contradiction with what we know about nature."
- Augustine

328. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa

329. "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
- Earl Nightingale

330. "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
- Earl Nightingale

331. "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
- Earl Nightingale

332. "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
- Earl Nightingale

333. "Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."
- Earl Nightingale

334. "Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."
- Earl Nightingale

335. "The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts."
- Earl Nightingale

336. "The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
- Earl Nightingale

337. "Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."
- Earl Nightingale

338. "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."
- Steve Allen

339. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
- Dick Cavett

340. "Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
- Dick Cavett

341. "If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed."
- Dan Dierdorf

342. "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
- Larry King

343. "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
- Mark Twain

344. "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
- Mark Twain

345. "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
- Mark Twain

346. "I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
- Mark Twain

347. "Those countries with the most developed welfare states have far less violence than the United States, the industrial nation with the least developed welfare state."
- Elliott Currie

348. "Truth is always subversive, otherwise why should governments spend so much energy trying to suppress it?"
- an Indonesian activist

349. "The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. "
- Harold Pinter

350. "America has always viewed oil as a security consideration, and protected it by any means it deems necessary. Few of us doubt that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf has little to do with its concern for human rights and almost entirely to do with its strategic interest in oil."
- Arundhati Roy, author and activist

351. "America has always viewed oil as a security consideration, and protected it by any means it deems necessary. Few of us doubt that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf has little to do with its concern for human rights and almost entirely to do with its strategic interest in oil."
- Arundhati Roy, author and activist

352. "The news and truth are not the same thing. "
- Walter Lippmann

353. "This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
- Benjamin Franklin

354. "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

355. "If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."
- Huey Long

356. "Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America."
- former ambassador to Germany William Dodd in 1938

357. "Four sorrows ... are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut. Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta. Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens."
- Chalmers Johnson

358. "The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable for criminal actions... Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized, branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond the pale of reasonable discussion."
- Carl Boggs

359. "Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
- Mark Crispin Miller

360. "The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
- Noam Chomsky

361. "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
- Alex Carey

362. "Television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
- Neil Postman

363. "We're not in the business of providing news and information, We're simply in the business of selling our customers' products. "
- Clear Channel CEO Lowry Mays

364. "Great spirits have always received violent opposition from mediocre minds. "
- Albert Einstein

365.  In the Tao, Lao Tzu says:

"Heaven and Earth can be constant and stable; it is because they do not exist for themselves, that they may last forever.

Therefore the wise put themselves last and end up ahead.  They renounce their self-concerns, and are held dear by all.

Can you see it is because of their selflessness?

This is how they can achieve anything."

366.  “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.   

377.  "Depression is just anger without the enthusiasm."

- Armorall

378.  "Desire is the main obstacle to contentment in life." 

- Swami Tadatmananda