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Proverbs & Anonymous • Laws of Life

Authors D thru F

Leonardo Da Vinci [1452-1519]
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”  {blog 2/2008}

Salvador Dali [1904-89]
“The only difference between a madman and me is that
I am not a madman.”  {Issue #40}

Dante [1265-1321]
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in
time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.”  {Issue #28}

Frank Darabont
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” (in his screenplay "Shawshank Redemption”, 1994)  {Issue #70}

Clarence Darrow [1857-1938]
• • “There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.”  {Issue #53}
• • “With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for developing character in man, than any other association of men.”  (1909)  {Issue #56}
• • “Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”  {blog 3/2008}

Charles Darwin [1809-82]
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.”   {blog 3/2008}

Gordon Davidson
“[The theater] should challenge us with questions. Not answers, but questions.”  {blog 12/2007}

Angela Davis
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life.
When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”  {Issue #54}

biologist Richard Dawkins
“Religion is the enemy of truth.”  {Issue #36}

French author Honoré de Balzac [1799-1850]
“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.”  {blog 3/2008}

Henry de Braxton [XIIIth Century]
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  {Issue #56}

Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes [1547-1616]
“Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”  {blog 12/2007}

Michel E. de Montaigne [1533-92]
“The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.”  {Issue #62}

Henri de Montherlant
“Most people do not read. If they read, they do not understand.
And those who understand forget.”  {Issue #41}

Alfred de Musset
“How glorious it is, but how painful it is also, to be exceptional in this world!”  {Issue #43}

François de La Rochefoucauld [1613-80]
• • “Those who are incapable of committing great crimes
do not readily suspect them of others.”  {Issue #36}
• • “The heart is the first feature of working minds.”  {Issue #45}
• • “Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of
with the world looking on.”  {Issue #67}
• • “In the human heart, new passions are forever being born. The overthrow of one
almost always means the rise of another.”  {blog 2/2008}
• • “Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”  {blog 3/2008}

writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1900-1944]
“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away.”  {Issue #43}

Madame de Stael [1766-1817]
“Intellect does not attain its full force until it attacks power.”  {blog 2/2008}

Alexis de Tocqueville
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind
and real freedom of discussion as in America.”  {Issue #27}

Miguel de Unamuno [1864-1936]
• • “The thought of death makes the authentic man.”  {Issue #22}
• • “Consciousness is a disease.”  {blog 2/2008}
• • “Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”  {blog 3/2008}

Howard Dean
“Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage has decreased
38% since 1968.” (2003)  {Issue #46}

John Dean
“Having been in the belly of the beast of an imperial presidency, I can tell you
[that the Bush administration] is a dangerous presidency.” (2004)  {Issue #47}

labor leader Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926]
“Men do not shrink from work, but from slavery. The man who works primarily for the benefit of another
does so only from compulsion, and work so done is the very essence of slavery.”  {Issue #36}

Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93]
“Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival.”  {Issue #30}

M.A. Denck
“Those believing [that] they have not voted are mistaken, for their indifference
affects all our futures.”  {blog 11/2007}

William Deresiewicz
“It is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true,
and it is our job to deal with it.”   {Issue #59}

Jacques Derrida
“Philosophy poses the question: What should we do
to have the best possible lives?”  {Issue #30}

sci-fi author Philip K. Dick [1941-82]
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.”  {blog 12/2007}

Walt Disney [1901-66]
• • “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”  {Issue #27}
• • “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”  {Issue #48}

Theodosius Dobzansky
“There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect
and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed
long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.”  {Issue #62}

former U.S. Senator Robert Dole
“I probably won't run for anything again, so I can tell the truth now.”  (2004)  {Issue #41}

James D. Doss
“Like virtue, adventure is its own reward.”  {blog 10/2007}

Dostoyevsky
“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”  {Issue #22}

comedy writer Jack Douglas [1908-89]
“Sleep faster. We need the pillow.”  {Issue #37}

Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
• • “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”  {Issue #58}
• • “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”  {blog 11/2007}

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930], creator of Sherlock Holmes
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”  {Issue #43}

Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005]
“When you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
{Issue #36}

Emilie du Châtelet [1706-49]
“There is no right time for the truth.”  {Issue #55}

Will Durant [1885-1981]
• • “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”  {Issue #57}
• • “The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”  {Issue #57}
• • “Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.”  {Issue #58}
• • “It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool
enough of them to rule a large country.”  {Issue #63}

Marguerite Duras
“One does not find solitude, one creates it.”  {Issue #36}

Will Durst
“With democrats, it's often a struggle to get them to take their own side in an argument.”
{blog 10/2007}

Bob Dylan
• • “Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’ – I might just tell you the truth.”  {Issue #49}
• • “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and
don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.”  {Issue #50}
• • “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
{blog 10/2007}

aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937]
• • “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release
from little things, knows only the livid loneliness of fear.”  {Issue #43}
• • “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”  {Issue #60}

Gregg Easterbrook
“The sense of meaning [in life] is much more difficult to acquire
than material possessions.”  {Issue #40}

Meister Eckhart [c. 1260-c. 1328]
“If the only prayer you say in your life is 'thank you' that would suffice.”  {blog 12/2007}

Dr. Dean Edell
“America has become a nation of whiners.”  {Issue #12}

Marian Wright Edelman
“Speak truth to power.”  {Issue #57}

Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
• • “If we did the things [that] we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”  {Issue #36}
• • “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven't.”  {Issue #37}

John Edwards
“Let's get to work!” (campaign withdrawal speech, 30 January 2008)  {blog 2/2008}

Barbara Ehrenreich
“The social contract has been totally violated and shredded – at least the social contract as I understood it, which was 'Work hard. Hard work will get you ahead'. If that doesn't work, then what's the deal?”  {Issue #12}
(from "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002)

Paul R. Ehrlich
“In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb
on which it is perched.”  {Issue #46}

William S. Eidelman, MD
“[Marijuana] is safer than aspirin, which kills thousands every year.”  {blog 1/2008}

Albert Einstein [1879-1955]
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Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969]
• • “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out
of their way and let them have it.”  {Issue #62}
• • “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges
of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”  {blog 12/2007}

Hanns Eisler [1898-1962]
“He who knows only music understands nothing about it.”  {Issue #67}

T.S. Eliot [1888-1965]
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”  {Issue #59}

transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
• • “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”  {Issue #12}
• • “Any time is a good time if you know what to do with it.”  {Issue #43}
• • “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny little matters
compared to what lies within us.”  {Issue #43}
• • “Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the
terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.” (in "The Conduct of Life")  {Issue #49}
• • “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  {Issue #54}
• • “To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and
the affection of children; to find the best in others; to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived ... this is to have succeeded.”  {Issue #62}
• • “An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”  {Issue #70}
• • “Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”  {blog 2/2008}

Friedrich Engels
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”  {Issue #25}

Epictetus [55?–135? C.E.]
• • “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”  {Issue #50}
• • “Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen
as they do happen, and your life will go well.”  {blog 11/2007}

Werner Erhard
• • “I used to be different, now I'm the same.”  {Issue #34}
• • “Context is decisive.”  {Issue #42}
• • “At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to
transform the quality of our lives.”  {Issue #45}
• • “Do it all, have it all, with joy.”  {Issue #49}
• • “We must have people capable of real heroism. Not the kind of heroism which ends up in glory,
but the kind of heroism which ends up in the truth, in what works, in what is honest and real
being brought out and made available to others.”  {Issue #54}
• • “When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial objective
was to drain the swamp.”  {Issue #63}
• • “Happiness is a function of accepting what is so.”  {Issue #63}
• • “Building a strategy to avoid the almost certain future binds you as much
to the almost certain future as committing to it.”  {Issue #63}

Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times columnist
• • “In Los Angeles, all lanes are fast lanes.”  {Issue #36}
• • “Middle age is that point in life when you realize [that] patience is a weapon.”  {Issue #52}

writer John Fante [1909-83]
“Don't be bitter.”  {Issue #39}

Michael Faraday [1791-1867]
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”  {Issue #42}

Alistair Farrugia
“Freedom is when the people speak. Democracy is when the govern- ment listens.”  {blog 11/2007}

Wall Street Journal correspondent Farnaz Fassahi
“Despite President Bush's rosy assessments, Iraq remains a disaster ... a foreign policy failure bound
to haunt the United States for decades.” (in a personal email later made public by a recipient)  {Issue #47}

R.W. Fassbinder
“It is only when we realize that everything is pointless that we can act fearlessly.”  {Issue #36}

Wm. Faulkner [1897-1962]
• • “There's only one thing to write about: the human heart in conflict with itself.”  {Issue #46}
• • “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.”  {Issue #69}
• • “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”  {Issue #71}

Ron Faust
“Is living well the best revenge? No: revenge is the best revenge.”  {Issue #60}

Jeff Faux, [co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute]
“[The World Trade Organization's] constitution of the world economy protects just one class
of global citizen – the corporate investor.”  {Issue #66}

Michael Feldman
“Before Osama, [Dubya] let Sosa get away.” on What D'ya Know?" radio program  {Issue #55}

Federico Fellini [1920-93]
“Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.”
(line in Fellini's "8-1/2")  {Issue #70}

W.C. Fields [1879-1946]
“You can fool half of the people all of the time and that's
enough to make a good living.”  {Issue #26}

F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]
• • “Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you,
pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”  {Issue #43}
• • “What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.”  {Issue #59}
• • “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” (in "The Last Tycoon")  {blog 10/2007}

April Fitzsimmons
“All I want for Christmas is the truth.”  {Issue #66}

Ian L. Fleming [1908-64]
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”  (in "Goldfinger")  {Issue #43}

activist Arthur A. Fletcher [1924-2005]
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”  {Issue #62}

Fernando Flores
• • “Every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care.”  {Issue #31}
• • “The compassion of the strong is in waking people up to their blindness.
For that, you need to be a warrior.”  {Issue #36}

Malcolm Forbes
“There's never enough time, unless you're serving it.”  {Issue #37}

Richard Ford
“Nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to f*** up your whole life.”  {blog 12/2007}

Anatole France [1844-1924]
• • “We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.”  {Issue #26}
• • “The law in its wisdom allows both the rich and the poor to sleep under the bridges over the Seine.”  {Issue #68}

Brendan Francis
“True, you can't take money with you; but then, that's not the place
where it comes in handy.”  {Issue #38}

mystery author Dick Francis
“The only real hell is on earth, and usually undeserved.” (in "To The Hilt")  {blog 12/2007}

Thomas C. Frank
“The logic of business is coercion, monopoly, and the destruction of the weak,
not 'choice' or 'service' or universal affluence.” ("One Market Under God")  {Issue #14}

Viktor Frankl
“What is to give light must endure burning.”  {Issue #24}

Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
• • “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes.” (1789)  {Issue #37}
• • “They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  {Issue #43}
• • “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”  {Issue #48}
• • “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”  {Issue #51}

Frederick the Great [1740-86]
“The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in the world is to discover new truths;
and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”  {Issue #45}

poet Robert Frost [1874-1963]
• • “Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.”  {Issue #50}
• • “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”  {blog 3/2008}

Edward Fry of Laguna Beach, California
“The atrocity is not Haditha, it is the [Iraq] war.”  {Issue #62}

U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright [1905-95]
“Gradually but unmistakably America is showing signs of that arrogance of power – the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission – which has affected, weakened and in some cases destroyed great nations in the past. In so doing, we are not living up to our capacity and promise as a civilized example for the world; the measure of our falling short is the measure of the patriot's duty of dissent. And, in a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”  {Issue #36}

R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
• • “The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission.”  {Issue #1}
• • “Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics.”  {Issue #29}
• • “I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”  {Issue #37}
• • “None of the world's problems will have a solution
until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.”  {Issue #43}
• • “For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful.” (1980)  {Issue #45}
• • “Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case,
the thought is staggering.”  {Issue #55}
• • “None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.”  {blog 10/2007}

Roy Fultun
“Go ye forth and share.”  {Issue #55}

Authors G thru J

Dennis Gabor
“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.”  {Issue #45}

economist James K. Galbraith
• • “It is a horror that taxes have fallen so much for the very wealthy
and risen so much for the working poor and the middle class.”  {Issue #47}
• • “Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.”
{Issue #57}

Galileo [1564-1642]
• • “We will laugh at the extraordinary stupidity of the crowd.” (in 1610)  {Issue #62}
• • “To understand the universe, you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.”  {Issue #62}

Dr. Arun Gandhi
“As long as we pursue this materialistic kind of lifestyle where we make money, and possessions [are] the only ambition in life, we are going to go downhill and eventually destroy ourselves.”  {Issue #14}

Mahatma Gandhi  [1869-1948]
• • “Even if you are a minority of one, a truth is a truth.”  {Issue #46}
• • “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”  {Issue #50}
• • “There is no path to peace: peace is the way.”  {Issue #52}
• • “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”  {Issue #60}
• • “Be the change you want to see in the world.”  {Issue #62}
• • “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end they always fall, always.”  {Issue #64}
• • “Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”  {blog 12/2007}
• • “What you do is of little significance; but it is very important that you do it.”  {blog 3/2008}

mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner [1889-1970]
• • “All that really counts is a man's ability to live, to get the most out of it as he goes thru it,
and he gets the most kick out of it by playing a no-limit game.”  {Issue #33}
• • “Life, like money, is meant to be spent.”  {Issue #63}

Jesus Garcia, Jr. of Lynwood, CA
“What kind of man am I if I do not help make this world better?”  {Issue #56}

playwright Herb Gardner [1935-2003]
“My ambition consists entirely of being able to [write] well enough
that they let me do it again – and to avoid public disgrace.”  {Issue #36}

Henry George
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be,
the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”  {Issue #43}

André Gide
“People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to
lose sight of the shore.”  {Issue #48}

Dave Gilson
“The entire United States [is] a giant debtors colony, one nation in the red,
subject to compound interest, indentured to Citibank.”  {Issue #68}

Marc Gobé
“We live in a society where everybody feels guilty.”  {Issue #45}

Goethe [1749-1832]
• • “What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it.”  {Issue #9}
• • “Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action.”  {Issue #26}
• • “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
that they are free.”  {Issue #43}
• • “Nothing is worth more than this day.”  {Issue #45}
• • “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.”  {Issue #67}
• • “First master the rules, then discard them.”  {Issue #68}
• • “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.”  {blog 1/2008}

anarchist Emma Goldman [1869-1940]
• • “If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution.”  {Issue #63}
• • “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”  {Issue #67}

Richard Goldstein
“Sadism is the hallmark of conservative culture.”  {Issue #67}

Jane Goodall
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
(Time Magazine, August 2002)  {Issue #29}

Archie Goodwin character, written by Rex Stout [1886-1975]
• • “I love to do a good job more than anything else [that] I can think of.”  {Issue #62}
• • “All's fair in love and business.”  {blog 11/2007}

Al Gore, Jr.
• • “[The Bush] administration has taken a wrecking ball to the very foundations
of our democracy.” (August 2007)  {blog 10/2007}
• • “The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
We have to ask ourselves 'What is going on here?'.”  {blog 12/2007}

Joe Gould
“Only the artist is free because he is of single purpose. He knows what he wants
and wants only that and that frightens people.”  {Issue #24}

David Graber
“The yawning chasm between the very rich and everybody else
is making [America] a plutocratic caricature of democracy.”  {Issue #67}

mystery author Sue Grafton
“Let's be optimistic. It doesn't cost anything.”  {Issue #42}

Bette Nesmith Graham, inventor of Liquid Paper™
“Anyone who is making progress faces fear. Overcoming fear is all there is to success.”  {Issue #36}

Grateful Dead band
“It's even worse than it appears / But ... that's all right.”  {Issue #53}

Allan Mcleod Gray [1905-75]
“Whatever you do, you'll regret it.”  {blog 12/2007}

Kevin Alexander Gray
“If this is a recession in the general economy, then it is a depression
in the black community.” (2007)  {blog 2/2008}

Andrew M. Greeley
“Trivial people . . . lack an overriding hunger to do that which they do best.
Their ambitions are stylistic rather than substantial.”  {Issue #43}

Graham Greene [1904-91]
• • “One must take a stand. If one is to remain human.”  {Issue #48}
• • “Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”  {blog 3/2008}

Alan Greenspan
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, 1987-2006
• • “Capital doesn't pay any taxes, only people pay taxes. What happens is, you impose taxes on
organizations which then deflect them elsewhere. But at the end of the day,
all taxes are paid by people.” (testimony before Congress 21 May 2003)  {Issues #42 & #54}
• • “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably
misunderstood what I've said.”  {blog 1/2008}

Wayne Gretzky
“You miss 100 percent of the shots [that] you don't take.”  {Issue #57}

Zane Grey [1872-1939]
• • “Life ain't no fiesta.”  {Issue #23}
• • “It's a hell of a life, if you don't weaken.”  {Issue #33}
• • “Progress is great, but nature undespoiled is greater.”  {Issue #36}

A.B. Guthrie, Jr. [1901-91]
“If literature is to have any dignity, it must enlighten life.”  {Issue #34}

Wayne H.
“The shortest distance between two points is usually under construction.”  {Issue #62}

G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel
“The President says [that] he is not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true.
You can impeach him.” (2007)  {Issue #71}

Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]
“Nothing lasts. You can't count on anything but yourself.”  {Issue #36}

Judge Learned Hand [1872-1961]
“The only country which any man has a right to love is one where there is balanced judgment,
justice founded on wisdom, a free spirit, and a temperate mind.”  {blog 2/2008}

Micah S. Handler
“Education is only half the battle against poverty. The other half is opportunity.”  {Issue #48}

Richard G. Harms of Issaquah, WA
“The basic problem in the world today is that there is too much religion
and not enough common sense.”  {Issue #46}

F.A. Harper
“The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.”  {Issue #25}

Sydney J. Harris
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”  {Issue #40}

Jamie Harrison
“Mental illness takes so many forms.”  {Issue #50}

cartoonist Johnny Hart [1931-2007]
“It takes brains to understand a smart remark, but none to be offended by it.”  {Issue #71}

radio talk show host Thom Hartmann
• • “America is melting down.”  {Issue #70}
• • “Voluntary simplicity is a high value.”  {blog 11/2007}
• • “John Edwards is the candidate that corporate America is most afraid of.”  {blog 12/2007}

Václav Havel
“Work unswervingly to do something [that] you want in your local sphere.”  {Issue #62}

Stephen W. Hawking
“There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time ... The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE ... What place, then, for a creator?”  {Issue #26}

S.I. Hayakawa
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be
so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”  {Issue #36}

William Hazlitt
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”  {Issue #43}

mystery author Jeremiah Healy
“Nobody’s civil to anybody anymore.”  {Issue #63}

radio commentator Gabriel Heatter [1890-1972]
“Life is never so bad at its worst that it is impossible to love;
life is never so good at its best that it is easy to live.”  {Issue #43}

Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005]
“The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise
above the interests of one class alone.”  {Issue #49}

Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
• • “The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”  {Issue #36}
• • “Love is a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person
are essential to one's own happiness.”  {Issue #51}
• • “The best things in history are accomplished by people who got tired of being shoved around.”   {Issue #59}
• • “The majority is never right.”  {Issue #64}
• • “Nothing gives life more zest than running for your life.”  {blog 12/2007}

author Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
• • “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death. And he is no true storyteller
who would keep that from you.”  {Issue #46}
• • “Never mistake motion for action.”  {Issue #49}
• • “It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think [that]
you were born that way.”  {blog 10/2007}

rock legend Jimi Hendrix [1942-70]
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”  {Issue #58}

Anne Herbert
“Practice random acts of kindness, and senseless acts of beauty.”  {Issues #1 & #39}

Mark Hertsgaard
“The battle to prevent global warming has been lost. Now the race to survive it has begun.”
(in The Nation Magazine)  {Issue #68}

Carl Hiaasen
• • “Somebody's got to be angry or nothing gets fixed.”  {Issue #29}
• • “The American penal system functions essentially as a social septic tank,
and ... nothing more lofty should be expected of it.”  {Issue #40}

author Patricia Highsmith [1921-95]
“There is no moral to my life – I have none – except: 'Stand up and take it'.
The rest is sentiment.”  {Issue #36}

Napoleon Hill
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”  {Issue #46}

Burton Hills
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”  {blog 12/2007}

Adolf Hitler
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”  {blog 2/2008}

Thomas Hobbes [1588-1679]
“Consequent to a time of War ... the life of Man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
(in 'Leviathan' 1651)  {blog 10/2007}

Tom Hodgkinson
“The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.”  {Issue #56}

Eric Hoffer [1902-83]
• • “It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.”  {Issue #36}
• • “It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.”  {Issue #51}
• • “You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”  {Issue #61}
• • “It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.”  {Issue #61}
• • “The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst
over the heads of the majority in the middle.”   {Issue #61}
• • “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”  {Issue #61}

Abbie Hoffman [1936-89]
“Democracy is not something [that] you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something
[that] you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”  {blog 12/2007}

Jackie Hoffman
“Everything in this world is an opportunity for pain and failure.”  {blog 12/2007}

Max Holland
“The only thing more astounding than the [Bush] administration's staggering hubris
is the smugness of its ignorance.” (in The Washington Spectator)  {Issue #66}

U.S. Senator Ernest Hollings
“If {the U.S. Marines in Lebanon} have been put there to fight, there are far too few.
If they've been put there to be killed, there are far too many.” (1983)  {blog 2/2008}

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1902-1932
“Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.”  {Issue #38}

Sherlock Holmes, as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
• • “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”  {Issue #69}
• • “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”  {Issue #69}
• • “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth.”  {Issue #70}

J. Edgar Hoover [1895-1972]
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government
is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”  {Issue #69}

Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy Captain
“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”  {Issue #59}

Lena Horne
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way [that] you carry it."

Elbert Hubbard [1859-1915]
• • “We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”  {Issue #46}
• • “This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books
than we do for chewing gum.”  {Issue #47}
• • “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”  {Issue #48}

French author Victor Hugo [1802-85]
• • “The best religion is tolerance.”  {Issue #27}
• • “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”  {Issue #46}

Harold S. Hulbert
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.”  {blog 3/2008}

Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
• • “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”  {Issue #27}
• • “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”  {Issues #43 & #54}

playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]
“The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.”
from the 1882 play ‘An Enemy of The People’)  {Issues #63 & #67}

playwright William Ralph Inge [1860-1954]
“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism
while wolves remain of a different opinion.”  {Issue #45}

Robert G. Ingersoll
“In nature, there are no rewards or punishment, only consequences.”  {Issue #51}

columnist Molly Ivins [1944-2007]
“Don't let anyone ever tell you that it isn't enough just to tell the truth.”  {Issue #68}

Rev. Jesse Jackson
“Keep hope alive; let nothing break your spirit.”  {Issue #64}

William James [1842-1910]
• • “My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”  {Issue #68}
• • “What an absolute savage and pirate the passion of military conquest is.”  {Issue #68}
• • “A great many people think [that] they are thinking when thay are merely
rearranging their prejudices.”  {Issue #68}

mystery author J.A. Jance
“Each of us needs to get off our backside and go out into the streets
and do what we can to help.”  {Issue #64}

poet Robinson Jeffers [1887-1962]
“The poets lie too much.”  {blog 10/2007}

Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
now has a quotations page of his own: click here
Thomas Jefferson Mini-Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Jesus of Nazareth
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of God.”  (Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25)  {Issue #24}

C.I.A. analyst Larry Johnson (a registered Republican)
“Right now there is no honor in the Republican Party.”  {Issue #53}

Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84]
• • “It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.”  {Issue #40}
• • “Sir, he who would earn his bread writing books must have the assurance of a duke,
the wit of a courtier, and the guts of a burglar.”  {blog 11/2007}
• • “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated
than not to trust.”  {blog 3/2008}

Terry C. Johnston [1947-2001]
“Money's . . . only importance comes from how it keeps you going after your dream . . .
The only thing important is your dream.” (in "Dance On The Wind")  {Issue #26}

rock legend Janis Joplin [1943-1970]
“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”  {Issue #43}

Joseph Joubert
“Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard
by which to weigh them.”  {blog 1/2008}

author James Joyce [1882-1941]
“Chance furnishes me with what I need. I am like a man who stumbles along.
My foot strikes something, I bend over and it is exactly what I want.”  {Issue #54}

Walter H. Judd
“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that
is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote
– a very different thing.”   {blog 1/2008}

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