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Quotes: " From my clinical experience I consider that children and adults with Aspergers Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking." Tony Attwood

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All great things come to those who wait.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi

"Don't look back - something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Teddy Roosevelt

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." - Matt Groening

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness that gives everything its value."
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
- some dead guy named Jack

"Not only no, but hell no!" - Nan {hey, I could be famous someday, too.}

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a heavily-armed sheep contesting the vote."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Light a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Terry Pratchett


"One should always forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."
- Heinrich Heine


"I have only one life, and it is short enough. Why waste it on the things I don't want most?"
- Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)


"When I was a kid, I used to pray for God to give me a bicycle. Then I realized that God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness instead."
"Then I thought, 'Wait. What would Jesus do?' So I lit a fire and sent him to h#! !."


"What is expressed without proof can be denied without proof."
-Euclid

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis


"Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen."
- Stephen Hawking

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. "
- Y.B. Yeats


"Computers allow us to make more mistakes faster than any other invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns. "

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

“Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

“Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else."

-His Holiness The Dalai Lama

"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal,' must necessarily be 'inferior.'" -- Hans Asperger

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." -- Winston Churchill

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" -- Friedrich Nietzche

"Cogito, ergo sum" -- Renee Descartes

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -- Frank Zappa

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird." -- Frank Zappa

"I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are." -- Homer Simpson

"They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' -- this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars." -- Ozzy Osbourne

"Behind a strong man there is more strong men" -- Chinese proverb

"I'm the only guy in the world who has to wake up to have a nightmare." -- Al Bundy

"People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much; we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all." -- Donald Morton

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. " -- Chinese proverb

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -- Fredrich Nietzche

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -- François Voltaire

"Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.' " -- Phelps Adams

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." John F. Kennedy

"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY motherf***ers than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
- Frank Zappa

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST..."
- Frank Zappa

"A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
- Albert Camus

"I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips."
- Brian Wilson

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain

-It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one.

-People with autism do not lie, do not judge, do not play mind games. Maybe we can learn something from them.

-Autism is not a tradgedy. Being judged is.

-You laugh at me becuase I am different. I laugh at you because you are all the same.

"There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."---Oscar Levant

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. You will win."
-Mathama Gandhi