Ephesians 6:12"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places"
Assumptions"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
- Eric Temple Bell, Scottish-U.S. Mathematician, Educator, Writer, (1883-1960)
Complete IndifferenceAnd in a statement, officials from the US embassy in London, said: "Mayor Livingstone's opinions about the United States are a matter of complete indifference to the American embassy, the American government and the American people."
Dogs- I can train any dog in five minues. It's traing the owner that takes longer. -- Barbara Woodhouse
- Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. -- Clarence Day
- Dog is God spelled backwards. That means something, I'm just not sure what exactly. But human is namuh spelled backwards. -- Marc-Christophe
- He wags his tail, and the room looks as if a devastating army had marched through it. -- Jerome K. Jerome
- Acquiring a dog may be the only apportunity a human eve has to choose a relative. -- Mordecai Siegal
- Dogs, as we know them today, first appeared in Eurasia about 13,000 years ago.
- A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man. -- Frances Thompson
- The best thing about a man is his dog. -- French proverb
- Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you... -- Francois Rabelais
- Above all else, dogs love to eat.
- Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods. -- Haitian proverb
- A dog has the soul of a philosopher. -- Plato
- The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -- Anonymous
- The ideal dog food would be a treat that tastes like a postman.
- Dogs ae wise. They crawl away in a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once again. -- Agatha Christie
Philosophical Thoughts- The price of complacent materialism was alienation; and the bill of despair that went with alienation was ominously high...
- "We walk in every village, in a sense, among the ruins of antiquity." -- August Meitzen
- Shifting cultivators in Africa's rain forest, through their slash-and-burn practices, produce acid rain levels comparable to those of industrial areas.
- Apostasy: the public abandonment of religious faith (esp. Christianity) or any like abandonment of policy or party.
- Without fast travel (i.e. trains) there would be no need for time zones.
- How much did the emigrants leaving European countries boost their per capita growth, while it hindered ours? Is per capita growth the best measure of a healthy economy -- how about a healthy country?
- Is morality an essential part of capitalism?
- ...the men and women with a motivating social conscience -- that is, the progressives -- advocated reform precisely because they believed that the preservation of American institutions depended on altering them sufficiently to remove the most disturbing injustices in American life. Is that still true of 'progressives' today?
- ...with a faith in the progress that conserves, a conviction that the holder of power has an obligation to promote justice and enforce orderly and moral behavior, and a confidence in his own ability to handle power to those ends.
- ...the "most wonderful real estate speculation since Adam and Eve lost title to the Garden of Eden."
- The religion of art could be a futile as materialism itself. Alienation ordinarily denied social responsibility. The artists who rejected their national culture also accepted most of its claims.
- Keep your eyes on that last day, on your dying. "Happiness and peace they were not yours unless at death you can look back on your life and say I lived, I did not suffer." Sophocles, Oedipus How different from the Christian view...
Writing- Is revised a good word? Rethought, adjusted, corrected all give more strenth to finding the "truth".
- He may have deserved to die. It may have been the only way to stop him. It may have been the only way to save everyone. But that's not why I killed him. I killed him because I wanted too. I wanted to kill him and I did. It was easy. And I liked it."
General Quotes- If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.
- Allowing 4 square feet for each human, the present world population of around 5.5 billion square feet, or roughly 790 square miles. This is the approximate size of one typical Midwest county.
- The American, like the Englishman, usually votes with his party, right or wrong, and the fact that there is little distinction of view between the parties makes it easier to stick to your old friends. -- James Bryce, 1888
- Artillery adds dignity to what otherwise would be an unsightly brawl. -- Frederick the Great
- So sure of destiny. And so ignorant. - Euripedes, Medea
- Let them not think of me as humble or weak or passive; them them understand I am a different kind; dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life of glory belongs. - Euripedes, Medea
- Her rolling eyes went searching heaven and the light hurt when she found it - Aeneid
- It's a prove fact that shiny things make people happy. We're like crows that way...
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