------------------------------------------------------------------ I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 201 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2128-2137 ----------------------------------------------------------------- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -- Bernard Meltzer (1916-1998) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% edited by a00@gmx.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare, etc. herzlich willkommen ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber (1894-1961) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% if you spot an error, please let me know ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% text-only. fixed-font-formatted !! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- und ist ein krieg beendet geht er trotzdem weiter. alles mit gewalt geloeste bleibt ungeloest. solange waffen entscheiden ist nichts entschieden. was nuetzt gewalt die noch mehr gruende bringt fuer weitere gewalt. wenn waffen frieden schaffen gibt es nur eine zwischenkriegszeit. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und die, die verlernt haben, auf sich selber zu hoeren, merken nicht mehr, wie sehr ihr Leben denen gehoert, die dafuer sorgen, dass man verlernt, auf sich selber zu hoeren. Und die, die verlernt haben, auf sich selber zu hoeren, verstehen nicht, wie man auf sich selber hoeren kann. Denn sie glauben, du bist so leer wie sie. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ 142. Denk-Zettel Die, die uns Feindbilder einreden, verhindern, dass wir unsere wirklichen Feinde erkennen: Die, die uns Feindbilder einreden. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ und es gibt immer mehr, das uns davon ablenkt, dass es eigentlich immer weniger gibt. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ WAS WIRD BLEIBEN, DAS UNS DAS BLEIBEN MOEGLICH MACHT, WENN UNSERE MACHT UNS DAS BLEIBEN UNMOEGLICH MACHT? -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 212 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase REVERENCE FOR LIFE. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 213 ------------------------------------------------------------------ sHe did each thing as if sHe did nothing else. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 215 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. NOW. Joan Baez (*1941) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle (384-322 BC) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wisdom begins in wonder. -- Socrates (?470-399 BC) -- Perplexity is the Beginning of Knowledge. -- Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) -- -- quoted in "Anatomy of a Great Deception" (2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Self-love is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry V, II.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Grown men may learn from little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. -- Black Elk, Schwarzer Hirsch (1863-1954) Ogalala-Lakota(Sioux) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 220 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. == Die wirkliche Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu erforschen, sondern darin, mit neuen Augen zu sehen. -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the rules. Then break some. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Achte auf Deine Gedanken, denn sie werden zu Worten. Achte auf Deine Worte, denn sie werden zu Handlungen. Achte auf Deine Handlungen, denn sie werden zu Gewohnheiten. Achte auf Deine Gewohnheiten, denn sie werden Dein Charakter. Achte auf Deinen Charakter, denn er wird Dein Schicksal. -- Talmud Remember that your character is your destiny. -~ Herakleitos (around 500 B.C.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. -- unknown Smile when sending meil, even if the recipient might not see it in your words ... --- wda 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trust in God. But lock your car. Or, as the Sufy used to say 1001 years earlier: Put your trust in Allah, but don't forget to tie up your camel! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember that -sometimes- silence is the best answer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Love deeply & passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live your life completely. Be engaged at least six months before getting married. Believe in Love at first sight. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ When you realize that you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ When you lose, don't lose the lesson ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 232 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 233 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I G N O R A N C E is the opiate of the masses. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 234 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ES IST NICHT WAHR, DASS GEGEN DIE DUMMHEIT KEIN KRAUT GEWACHSEN IST. - WIR DUERFEN ES NUR NICHT ANBAUEN ! IT'S NOT THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE A HERB TO CURE STUPIDITY - WE'RE JUST FORBIDDEN TO GROW AND USE IT ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 235 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "What's important is beyond all understanding - that's the first thing you must understand" -- Ngarinyin elder David Mowaljarlai (from Harvey Arden, 'Dreamkeepers') ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 236 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wer die Gesundheit erhalten will, der muss sich von der Menge der Menschen trennen; denn die Masse geht immer den Weg gegen die Vernunft und versucht immer, ihre Leiden und Schwaechen zu verbergen. Lasst uns nie fragen: Was ist das Uebliche, sondern: Was ist das Beste ! -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 237 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PANTA REI. / Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus (?535-?475 B.C.) (176) .. nihil es toto, quod perstet, in orbe. CUNCTA FLUUNT, omnisque vagans formatur imago. Es gibt im ganzen Weltkreis nichts bestaendiges. Alles ist im Fluss, und jedes Bild wird gestaltet waehrend es voruebergeht. -- Ovid (43 v.Chr. - ca.17 n.), Metamorphosen XV, Pythagoras the everchanging never changes. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 238 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 239 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living. -- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 240 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Make your sword sharp on both sides of the blade ! ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETUR. Wer schweigt scheint zuzustimmen. ??? Wer schweigt wird als Zustimmender angesehen [behandelt]. Who is silent seems to agree. Who is silent is (mis)taken to agree. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn man kein Geld hat, denkt man immer an Geld. Wenn man Geld hat, denkt man nur noch an Geld. -- Jean Paul Getty ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 243 ------------------------------------------------------------------- What's important is beyond all understanding - that's the first thing you must understand ! Ngarinyin elder David Mowaljarlai (from Harvey Arden, 'Dreamkeepers') ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 244 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Das nicht praktisch Brauchbare, das nicht Zweckgebundene, das ist das Eigentliche. Dort ist der Mensch Mensch. -- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (*1929) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 245 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Calvin & Hobbes, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS GOES "BOINK" by Bill Watterson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 246 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Be the change you wish to see in the world. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 247 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. -- Laurens van der Post, 1958 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 248 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Be happy, things are getting worse ... ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 250 ------------------------------------------------------------------- BE HAPPY, things will keep getting get worse ... ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- I know not with what weapons Wold War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and bones. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% May 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing is more profitable for international banksters than war. --Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 $+$++$+++$++++$+++++$++++++$+++++++$++++++$+++++$++++$+++$++$+$ Derrick Jensen's "A Language Older than Words"(NY.2000), p.223, quotes the Daily Sketch of October 26, 1939: New York Stock exchange had a boom yesterday following Von Ribbentrop's(*) speech at Danzig. Wall Street interprets the speech as meaning a long war. Stocks rose almost to the highest levels of the year. *) = Hitler's foreign minister $+$++$+++$++++$+++++$++++++$+++++++$++++++$+++++$++++$+++$++$+$ %%% 253 --------------------------------------------------------------- gegen manches kaempfen oft Goetter selbst vergebens, doch wer kaempft kann gewinnen, wer nicht kaempft hat bereits verloren. against some things the gods themselves may fight in vain but who fight may win who does not fight has already lost. --------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 254 --------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever uses machines does all work like a machine. sHe who does hir work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and sHe who carries the heart of a machine in hir breast loses hir simplicity. It is not that I do not know of such things. I am ashamed to use them. -- Chuang Tzu (4th cent. B.C.) I know a lot of and about these things. I am not ashamed to use them (occasionally). I would be ashamed to ab/over-use them; and i think it's a huge shame how (much) they are ab/over-used. -- wda 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 255 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mir schiene fuer sehr viele schwer seelenkranke Menschen der rasche Verlust ihres Vermoegens und die Erschuetterung ihres Glaubens durchaus kein Unglueck, sondern die sicherste, ja einzig moegliche Rettung zu bedeuten. Und ebenso erscheint mir inmitten unseres heutigen Lebens, im Gegensatz zum alleinigen Kultus der Arbeit und des Geldes der Sinn fuer das Spiel des Augenblicks, das Offenstehen fuer den Zufall etwas durchaus Wuenschenswertes, woran wir alle sehr Mangel leiden ... Wir sollten nicht aus der Vita activa in die Vita contemplativa fliehen, noch umgekehrt, sondern zwischen beidend wechselnd unterwegs sein, in beiden zuhause sein, an beiden teilhaben. -- Hermann Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 256 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dance of World Destruction In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must...tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. ... And so we avoid these truths, these self-evident truths, and continue the dance of world destruction. -- Derrick Jensen, "A Language Older than Words", 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 257 ------------------------------------------------------------------- In fighting against nature, man can win every battle except the last. -- Thor Heyerdahl in Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 258 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Calvin: I wonder why man was put on earth. What's our purpose? Why are we here? Hobbes: Tiger food. Calvin & Hobbes, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS GOES "BOINK" by Bill Watterson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 259 ------------------------------------------------------------------- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. .............Then you win." Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... die Kunst ist eine Tochter der Freiheit ... ... art is a daughter of freedom ... -- Joh. Ch. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 261 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear God, it is timely that we give thanks for the lives of all prophets, teachers, healers and revolutionaries, living and dead, acclaimed or obscure, who have rebelled, worked and suffered for the cause of love and joy. We also celebrate that part of us, that part within ourselves, which has rebelled, worked and suffered for the cause of love and joy. We give thanks and celebrate. Amen (anonymous) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 262 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins (1915-1990) --- Wenn jemand stirbt, nicht das allein ist Tod. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) lebt und es nicht weiss. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) gar nicht sterben kann. Vieles ist Tod, man kann es nicht begraben. In uns ist taeglich Sterben und Geburt. [my transl., draft:] If someone dies, not this alone is Death. Death is if someone lives and doesn't know. Death is if someone just can not die. A lot of things are Death, and you can't bury it. Death and Birth within us are, each and every day. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- -- zitiert von Rainer Taeni in "Latente Angst: das Tabu der Abwehrgesellschaft" (1976) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 263 ------------------------------------------------------------------- We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children. Native American saying ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 264 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have been teaching people revolution through my work with plants." 'As one Putumayo medicine man told Michael Taussig,' according to "Shamanism vs. Capitalism: The Politics of Ayahuasca" by Martin A. Lee, MAPS-post 26.07.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 265 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away. (and, occasionally *enjoying* giving them away - wda) -- Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) ... quoted in "on let ting go" (www.)adbusters(.org) #33 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 266 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Furu-ike ya Uralter Weiher. kawazu tobi-komu Ein Froeschlein springt vom Ufersaum, mizu-no-oto Im Wasser ein Ton. Der alte Weiher / Ein Frosch, der gerade hineinspringt Des Wassers Platschen. -- Basho (Matsuo Munefusa, 1644-1694) Uralter Weiher - Basho springt hinein - Im Wasser ein Platsch. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 267 07.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 268 15.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Suffering in hopefulness is the eternalist. Suffering in hopelessness is the nihilist. Beyond both hopefulness and hopelessness is the Buddhist. -- Thinley Norbu, Magic Dance (1981) Hope and fear - they chase each other's tails. -- ancient Buddhist wisdom Klugheit: "Zwei der groessten Menschenfeinde, Furcht und Hoffnung, angekettet, halt ich ab." -- Goethe, Faust II.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 269 15.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 270 16.9. ------------------------------------------------------------------- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) Unfortunately, they that are willing to give up essential freedom to obtain some illusion of safety (help) destroy liberty and safety not only for themselves but for all. -- wda 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 271 17.9. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact violence merely increase hate. So it goes... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness -- only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate -- only love can do that. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 272 7.10. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column. ... Sie bauen immer, bauen Bis in die Wolken, bauen fort und fort Und denken nicht daran, dass der schmale Grund Das schwindelnd schwanke Werk nicht tragen kann. Wallensteins Tod, 4. Aufzug Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hatred is the madness of the heart. Byron ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Sterben faellt leicht, wenn die Entfaltung taeglich gelingt. -- Peter Lauster in "Die Liebe - Psychologie eines Phaenomens" Ah! What a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible! -- Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 3.3 Wenn jemand stirbt, nicht das allein ist Tod. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) lebt und es nicht weiss. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) gar nicht sterben kann. Vieles ist Tod, man kann es nicht begraben. In uns ist taeglich Sterben und Geburt. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- -- zitiert von Rainer Taeni in "Latente Angst: das Tabu der Abwehrgesellschaft" (1976) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 276 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Just say know. -- Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 277 ------------------------------------------------------------------- A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandchild about how he felt about the ... tragedy. The grandfather said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The child asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered, "The one I feed." (author unknown) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 278 16.11.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- AN EYE FOR AN EYE HAS LEFT THE WORLD BLIND graffito on a wall in New York, October 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 279 25.11.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked, 'why are they poor', they called me a communist. Brazilian arch bishop Dom Helder Camara (+ 27th.Aug'99) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Denn der Menschheit drohen Kriege, gegen welche die vergangenen wie armselige Versuche sind, und sie werden kommen ohne jeden Zweifel, wenn denen, die sie in aller OEffentlichkeit vorbereiten, nicht die Haende zerschlagen werden. -- Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) Friedenswerkstatt Linz http://www.friwe.at/ Die weltweiten Ruestungsausgaben sind von 1999-2001 um weitere 7% gestiegen, und betragen rund 1,000,000,000,000 E/$ jaehrlich. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute schwedisches Friedensforschungsinstitut, SIPRI http://www.sipri.org/ SIPRI: 2011 total world military spending = 1,74 T$ = 1,740,000,000,000 USDD = ~70 cents/day for every human alive ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 281 ------------------------------------------------------------------- When you tug at a single thing in nature, you will find it attached to the rest of the world. -- John Muir (1838-1914) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 282 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster... When you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 283 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces 1943-45 34th US president (Rep.) 1953-1961; in his April, 1953 speech ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%% 284 ------------------------------------------------------------------- they who have put out die dem Volk the peoples eyes die Augen ausgestochen, reproach them zeihen es seiner Blindheit. of their blindness. -- John Milton (1608-74) 1642 as quoted in "Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (-A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense)" (CAN 1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- "They say: Think globally, act locally," Locally is wherever you are. Local is your mind. You can clean up the environment in every way, but you also need to clean up your mind. In order to take global responsibility your mind must take local responsibility, for your own self." -- Ngawangthongup, quoted in Tibetan Elders, by Sandy Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 286 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Nobel peace prize 1979) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 287 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 288 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. -- Terence Kemp McKenna (1946-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 289 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization. -- Edward Bellamy "Looking Backward, 2000-1887" (1888) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 290 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Day dreamers grasp many things that escape those who simply dream at night. -- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 291 2003-07-23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die wirkliche Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu erforschen, sondern darin, mit neuen Augen zu sehen. -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 292 203-08-25 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Popular Mechanics, March 1949: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only one and a half tons." Thomas Watson, IBM Vorstand, 1943: "Ich glaube, dass es weltweit einen Markt fuer vielleicht 5 Computer gibt!" Bill Gates, Mega$hit, 1981: "640 K sollten wirklich fuer jeden ausreichend sein" ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 293 ------------------------------------------------------------------- *PRACTISE* conscientious consumerism objection ! K aufe ! O hne ! N achzudenken ! S innlos ! U nseren ! M ist ! resist fa$ci$m !!! don't buy U$ $hit !!! resist fa$hi$m !!! don't buy any $hit !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 294 ------------------------------------------------------------------ God must love stupid people. Otherwise she wouldn't have made sooo many of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 295 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... So it happens that I am and look. Above me a white butterfly is fluttering through the air on wings that are its alone, and a shadow skims through my hands that is none other than itself, no one else's but its own. When I see such things, I'm no longer sure that what's important is more important than what's not. -- Wislawa Szymborska (*1923) Nobel Prize for Literature-Poetry 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 296 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Katatrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts: disasters of the 20th century: Hiroshima 45 Chernobyl 86 Windows 95 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 297 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die Zukunft ist eine undankbare Person, die grad' nur die quaelt, die sich recht sorgsam um sie kuemmern. -- Nestroy (1801 - 1862) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die Zeit wird kommen, wo unsere Nachfahren sich wundern, dass wir so offenbare Dinge nicht gewusst haben. [ Times will come, when our descendants will be amazed that we were un-aware of such obvious things. ] -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 299 ------------------------------------------------------------------- F: Wieviele Windows-ProgrammiererInnen sind noetig, um eine kaputte Gluehbirne zu ersetzen ? A1: Etwa 100. Eine(r) wechselt die Birne, waehrend die anderen versuchen, die Fehlermeldungen wegzuklicken. A2: Keine(r); Microsoft erklaert einfach Dunkelheit zum Standard. == Q: How many M$-engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? A1: About 100: one to change the bulb, while the others try to click away the error messages. A2: None at all; micro$oft just has darkness declared as standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 300 last update: 2011-09