A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity.
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.\n-- Stanislaw Lem
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated.  But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight.  Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.\n-- R.A. Heinlein
A halted retreat Is nerve-wracking and dangerous. To retain people as men -- and maidservants Brings good fortune.
A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.
A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I.  I believe everything positively stinks.\n-- Lew Col
A man said to the Universe|"Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."\n-- Stephen Crane
A neighbor came to Nasrudin, asking to borrow his donkey.  "It is out on loan," the teacher replied.  At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable.  "But I can hear it bray, over there."  "Whom do you believe," asked Nasrudin, "me or a donkey?"
A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, "This is no time to make new enemies."
A sad spectacle.  If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.\n-- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.\n-- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?\n-- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!\n-- Dante Alighieri
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.\n-- Chuang-tzu
All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.\n-- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God.  Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.\n-- Russell Hoban, "Pilgermann"
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.\n-- Kahlil Gibran
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."\n-- Muad'dib, "Dune"
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence.  Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.\n-- Joseph Brodsky
At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul.  At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.\n-- Kahlil Gibran
At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activities are scheduled.
At the foot of the mountain, thunder|The image of Providing Nourishment. Thus the superior man is careful of his words And temperate in eating and drinking.
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.\n-- Jean Anouilh
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.\n-- Gene Wolfe, "The Claw of the Conciliator"
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser.  But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.\n-- The Mahabharata
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.\n-- Titus Lucretius Carus
Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles.\n-- Howard Chaykin
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.\n-- Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"
Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.\n-- Anatole France
Chapter 1 The story so far:\nIn the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.\n-- Douglas Adams, HHGG #2, (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe).
"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"\n"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.\n"I don't care much where--" said Alice.\n"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.\n-- Herodotus
Coincidences are spiritual puns.\n-- G.K. Chesterton
Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind.\n-- Erma Bombeck
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.\n-- R. Geis
Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings.
Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Death is only a state of mind. Only it doesn't leave you much time to think about anything else.
Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.\n-- R.E. Shay
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.\n-- Joseph Heller, "God Knows"
Disease can be cured; fate is incurable.\n-- Chinese proverb
Ditat Deus.\n[God enriches]
Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.
Do not seek death; death will find you.  But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.\n-- Dag Hammarskjold
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Do what you can to prolong your life, in the hope that someday you'll learn what it's for.
Do your part to help preserve life on Earth -- by trying to preserve your own.
Don't abandon hope.  Your Captain Midnight decoder ring arrives tomorrow.
Don't abandon hope: your Tom Mix decoder ring arrives tomorrow.
Don't go to bed with no price on your head.\n-- Baretta
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Don't kid yourself.  Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever.
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
Don't make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything.
Don't stop to stomp ants when the elephants are stampeding.
Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out alive.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.\n-- Paul Tillich, German theologian.
Down with categorical imperative!
Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.
During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair.  My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.\n-- W. Somerset Maughm, his last words
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.\n-- Woody Allen
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Each of us bears his own Hell.\n-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.\n-- Groucho Marx's last words
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.\n-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there.  What you choose to do with them is up to you.\n-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
Everything ends badly.  Otherwise it wouldn't end.
Everything in this book may be wrong.\n-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
Everything is possible.  Pass the word.\n-- Rita Mae Brown, "Six of One"
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.\n-- Marcus Aurelius
Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
Facts are the enemy of truth.\n-- Don Quixote
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.\n-- Sir Walter Raleigh
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Faith is under the left nipple.\n-- Martin Luther
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.\n-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.\n-- Albert Camus
For your penance, say five Hail Marys and one loud BLAH!
Force has no place where there is need of skill.\n-- Herodotus
FORTUNE'S RULES TO LIVE BY: #2\nNever goose a wolverine.
FORTUNE'S RULES TO LIVE BY: #23\nDon't cut off a police car when making an illegal U-turn.
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.\n-- Bertolt Brecht
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.\n-- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Getting into trouble is easy.\n-- D. Winkel and F. Prosser
Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back.
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.\n-- William Faulkner
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.\n-- De Caussade
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.\n-- Alfred Jarry
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.\n-- Paul Valery
Good-bye.  I am leaving because I am bored.\n-- George Saunders' dying words
Goodbye, cool world.
Got a dictionary?  I want to know the meaning of life.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.\n-- Lao Tsu
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.\n-- Ogden Nash
Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.\n-- Oscar Levant
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.\n-- Socrates
He has shown you, o man, what is good.  And what does the Lord ask of you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly before your God?
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.\n-- Sir Richard Burton
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.\n-- B. Franklin
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.\n-- Albert Camus
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant.  Teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool.  Shun him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep.  Wake him.
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing,\nhe knows something.  Or something like that.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.\n-- Lao Tsu
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.\n-- Lao Tsu
He who knows, does not speak.  He who speaks, does not know.\n-- Lao Tsu
...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it.  Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.\n-- Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose"
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished|if you're alive, it isn't.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?\n-- Plato
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.\n-- William Allen White
I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives.  I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.\n-- Strange de Jim
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.\n-- Chuang-tzu
I do not seek the ignorant; the ignorant seek me -- I will instruct them. I ask nothing but sincerity.  If they come out of habit, they become tiresome.\n-- I Ching
"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."\n-- Gotama Buddha
I hate dying.\n-- Dave Johnson
I have a simple philosophy|Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.\n-- A. R. Longworth
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.\n-- Publilius Syrus
I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.\n-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!!
I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death?\n-- St. Augustine
If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all?\n-- Strange de Jim, "The Metasexuals"
If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.\n-- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.\n-- Albert Schweitzer
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.\n-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
If something has not yet gone wrong then it would ultimately have been beneficial for it to go wrong.
If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have been wasted.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.\n-- Anatole France
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.\n-- Albert Camus
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.
If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.\n-- John Sinclair
If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are for yourself, then what are you? If not now, when?
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
If you fool around with something long enough, it will eventually break.
If you have to hate, hate gently.
If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong.
If you keep anything long enough, you can throw it away.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.\n-- Simone de Beauvoir
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.\n-- Maslow
If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
If you wait long enough, it will go away... after having done its damage. If it was bad, it will be back.
If you want divine justice, die.\n-- Nick Seldon
If your aim in life is nothing, you can't miss.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.\n-- Richard Bach, "Illusions"
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.\n-- Voltaire
Immortality -- a fate worse than death.\n-- Edgar A. Shoaff
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In work, be competent. In action, be careful of your timing.\n-- Lao Tsu
In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is; you're what's left.
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.\n-- Ann Frank
In the long run we are all dead.\n-- John Maynard Keynes
In the next world, you're on your own.
Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'\n-- M.D. Epstein
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.\n-- Edgar W. Howe
Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.\n-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
It is Fortune, not Wisdom, that rules man's life.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.\n-- Goethe
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.  And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.\n-- William James
It is only with the heart one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.\n-- The Fox, 'The Little Prince"
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.\n-- Ronald Knox, "Let Dons Delight"
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.\n-- Thomas Carlyle
It will be advantageous to cross the great stream ... the Dragon is on the wing in the Sky ... the Great Man rouses himself to his Work.
It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.\n-- Washlesky
It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.\n-- Stirling Moss
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
"It's today!" said Piglet.\n"My favorite day," said Pooh.
It's very inconvenient to be mortal -- you never know when everything may suddenly stop happening.
Just remember, wherever you go, there you are.\n-- Buckaroo Bonzai
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.\n-- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"]
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.\n-- James Thurber
