Sayings & Quotes

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ÔÇ£IÔÇÖm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. IÔÇÖve got this beautiful mind and itÔÇÖs going to die, and itÔÇÖll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea IÔÇÖve ever had IÔÇÖve written down, and itÔÇÖs all there on paper. And I wonÔÇÖt be gone; itÔÇÖll be there. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldnÔÇÖt brood. IÔÇÖd type a little faster. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£It is tempting to wonder if our present universe, large as it is and complex though it seems, might not be merely the result of a very slight random increase in order over a very small portion of an unbelievably colossal universe which is virtually entirely in heat-death. Perhaps we are merely sliding down a gentle ripple that has been set up, accidently and very temporarily, in a quiet pond, and it is only the limitation of our own infinitesimal range of viewpoint in space and time that makes it seem to ourselves that we are hurtling down a cosmic waterfall of increasing entropy, a waterfall of colossal size and duration. ÔÇ£

Isaac Asimov

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ÔÇ£Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. ItÔÇÖs the transition thatÔÇÖs troublesome. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Life would be unbearable if death were not worse yet. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Since we all must die, what better can we ask for than a quick and sudden death? ÔÇ£

Isaac Asimov

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ÔÇ£To want peace and quiet above all else is to want death. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in hell & eternal boredom in heaven.ÔÇØ

Isaac Asimov

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ÔÇ£It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you. ÔÇ£

ÔÇ£Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. ÔÇ£
Isaac Asimov

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ÔÇ£The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, or a party or a class ÔÇô it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.ÔÇØ
Anna Julia Haywood was a former slave & the above quote is found on American passports.
Anna Julia Haywood

ÔÇ£Since time immemorial,book banning has been the refuge of leaders who fear that their arguments & writs cannot withstand scrutiny. Its violence is born of weakness. And we are not a weak people ÔÇô fighting book bans is an act of patriotism & a show of strength.ÔÇØ
Juliana Margulies

ÔÇ£If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.ÔÇØ
Ursula K. Le Guin

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ÔÇ£Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£No Society can legitimately call iteslf civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.ÔÇØ

┬áÔÇ£We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.ÔÇØ
Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.ÔÇØ

┬áÔÇ£No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive televusion sets.ÔÇØ


Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£Not even the apparently enightened principle of 'the greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£What should be the glory of the medical profession is that a Dr should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.ÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The Pime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.ÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

ÔÇ£An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.ÔÇØ
Oscar Wilde

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ÔÇ£If freedom is to be saved & enlarged,poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is only one hope for mankind - & that is democratic socialism.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour party is a dessicated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation, or injustice he must not allow it to move him for that would be evidence of lack of proper education or of absence of self control. He must speak in calm & objective accents about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.ÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£This island is made mainly of coal & surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of both coal & fish at the same time.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£I wecome the opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Politics is a blood sport.ÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£Freedom is the by product of economic surplus.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Facism is not itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be bornÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Virtue is its own punishment.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - & not too far away lest he forget thee.ÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britian it can be by pernicious anaemia.ÔÇØ


Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepdi enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a sterile mind.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of himÔÇØ

Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for the last four & a half years.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There are two ways of getting into cabinet ÔÇô you can crawl in or kick your way in.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A society in which the people's wants do not exceed their posessions is not a socialist society.ÔÇØ
Aneurin Bevan

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ÔÇ£Humans invented the atom bomb, but no mouse in the world would construct a mousetrap.ÔÇØ
Albert Einstein

ÔÇ£War itself is of course, a form of madness. Its hardly a civilised pursuit. Its amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other & so little time working on how to achieve peace.
Walter Cronkite

ÔÇ£Halloween's a day when we get it right. Strangers come to us, beautiful, ugly, odd or scary & we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly & give them good things.
Why don't we live that?
Steve Garnass-Holmes

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"We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.
We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness."
Mary Oliver

ÔÇ£If your moral compass is attuned to the suffering of only one side, your compass is broken, & so is your humanity.ÔÇØ
Anon

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ÔÇ£Peace is the only battle worth waging.ÔÇØ
Albert Camus

ÔÇ£I've come up with a set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies:

1 Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal & ordinary & just a natural part of the way the world works.

2 Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen & thirty five is new & exciting & revolutionary & you can probably get a career in it.

3 Anything invented after you're thirty five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams

ÔÇ£Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible god & destroys a visible nature. Unaware that this nature he's destroying is this god he's worshipping.ÔÇØ
Hubert Reeves

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ÔÇ£War does not determine who is right ÔÇô only who is left.

ÔÇ£I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.ÔÇØ

Bertrand Russell