How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
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There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The only risk of failure is promotion.
The best things in life are silly.
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
Let’s form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
I get mail; therefore I am.
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
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If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
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Faith is a continuation of reason.
Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.
It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly – not so much the good things but the bland things – the ordinary things – the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
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There’s one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really – to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn’t very encouraging because, well, they weren’t getting far were they?