The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone when you are uncool. --from the movie Almost Famous
'Sometimes you just need to jump and have faith that the net will appear.' And if it doesn't? Well, you'll face plant on rock bottom. But at least you'll know you didn't let fear overcome you. --My friend Jill
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. --S.J. Gould
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. --Bob Marley, Redemption Song
And just for fun:
What constitutes the essence, the nare, the principle of diddling is, in fact, peculiar to the class of creatures that wear coats and pantaloons. A crow thieves; a fox cheats; a weasel outwits; a man diddles. To diddle is his destiny. 'Man was made to mourn,' says the poet. But not so: --he was made to diddle. Edgar Allan Poe, Diddling
Thanks for resurrecting this thread, Zencat. I'd forgotten about it.