 Quote > Jones' First LawJones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 06/30/03 :: Article :: Please enter your date of birth and gender :: Fighting for individuality in a world that doesn't care 06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual 12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided 12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 08/01/04 :: Article :: Don't ignore differences! :: The Vatican reminds us that women are different from men, hurray!07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics05/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Harper's Magazine04/07/04 :: Quote :: Howard ChaykinI don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon.   12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.  11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 08/13/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Queer 'Aye' for Marriage08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan opines on lolicon08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 05/02/04 :: Article :: South Park and The Passion :: Thoughts on the movie's impact04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
[Editor's note: while this was in the context of C++ language featur [...] 02/02/04 :: Article :: I'm thinking in plaid! :: We strive to make sure our editorials are as trendy as we can. 12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview 11/21/03 :: Article :: Emergent Properties :: Self-organizing systems are 'da bomb'11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty10/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Disease and war10/06/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Meme, Counter-meme09/15/07 :: Quote :: MC Hawking
ah, yuh
that's right
this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers
who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done.
Listen up.
Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock.
She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock.
Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas.
You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies.
Your momma is so da [...] 09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 08/09/06 :: Quote :: Giovanni BoccaccioAlibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
Gracious ladies, it may [...] 07/15/03 :: Article :: Humanity's Two Dilemmas :: A logical argument for and against declassifying human beings02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists01/09/04 :: Article :: Think of the children! :: Would you dare to raise your child in a sub-ideal environment? |
