"Today's public figures can no longer write thier own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal
"We do not see the World as it is. We see the World as we are."
- Talmud
“We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless.
The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us.
We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime”.
- Carlos Castaneda
from Carlos Castaneda: ”Tales of Power”, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1974, page 100
People use the word "natural"...what is natural to me are these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and the Sunday School teachings.
"There is no nonsense so aberrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
- Bertrand Russell
Those who flee temptation, generally leave a forwarding address.
- anon.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
The trouble with facts is there are too many of them.
-anon.
Economy is the Art of getting the most out of life.
- Bernard Shaw
History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by concious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Gore Vidal
"We do not see the World as it is. We see the World as we are."
- Talmud
“We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless.
The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us.
We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime”.
- Carlos Castaneda
from Carlos Castaneda: ”Tales of Power”, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1974, page 100
People use the word "natural"...what is natural to me are these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and the Sunday School teachings.
—Timothy Leary
"There is no nonsense so aberrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
- Bertrand Russell
Those who flee temptation, generally leave a forwarding address.
- anon.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
The trouble with facts is there are too many of them.
-anon.
Economy is the Art of getting the most out of life.
- Bernard Shaw
History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by concious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
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