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There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.

Babaji


Songs of Milarepa is also a good read.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

Those achieving One-ness can now move on to Two-ness.

Woody Allen

A guiding principle cannot be formulated by the requirement of maximizing two (or more) functions at once.

- Neumann János Lajos & Oskar Morgenstern, 1944

... come to think of it, that quote is so awesome that I will frame it and put it on the wall in my office...

Should a traveller, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men, wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted; men, who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, or revenge; who knew no pleasure but friendship, generosity, and public spirit; we should immediately, from these circumstances, detect the falsehood, and prove him a liar, with the same certainty as if he had stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies.

- The Great Infidel, 1748

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
-Aristotle

Torn between hope and fear thou wanderest through the world.

Milarepa

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

- The Great Infidel, 1748

... Oh darn. Ran out of Hume. Need to buy some more...

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin

The feeling of time and space is perennially strange to me.

Robert Frost

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
-Wendell Phillips

It seems that I must live by that which causes others to die.

Michelangelo

During the early morning spirits are keen, during the day they flag, and in the evening thoughts turn toward home.

- Sun Tzu

He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.

- MALACHI, 3:24

He that does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Da Vinci

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

Mark Twain