Friday, June 30, 2017

Fortune Quote #1794

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem
to be solved. -- Gerard Straub (and/or Frank Herbert?)

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Fortune Quote #1793

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. -- C. K. Chesterton

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Fortune Quote #1792

I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both.
Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is
the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a
many-stranded texture, with color and depth. -- Norman Cousins

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Fortune Quote #1791

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. --
Voltaire

Monday, June 26, 2017

Fortune Quote #1790

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Fortune Quote #1789

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their
hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt,
without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in
the God idea, not God Himself. -- Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish
philosopher and writer

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Fortune Quote #1788

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to
be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant
superstition. -- Isaac Asimov

Friday, June 23, 2017

Fortune Quote #1787

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in
purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve
the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. -- Dr.
Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Fortune Quote #1786

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -- Edmund
Burke

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Fortune Quote #1785

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who
are prepared. -- Louis Pasteur

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Fortune Quote #1784

My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo
of the entire earth on it. On the back it said: "Wish you were
here". -- Steven Wright

Monday, June 19, 2017

Fortune Quote #1783

People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings. They
can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for
example. -- Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, "The Art of Prolog"

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Fortune Quote #1782

In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast
cereals. You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with
them. -- Robert Lucky

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Fortune Quote #1781

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham
Lincoln

Friday, June 16, 2017

Fortune Quote #1780

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Fortune Quote #1779

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from
you. -- Ramsey Clark

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Fortune Quote #1778

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own
aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant
Conant

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Fortune Quote #1777

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
-- James J. Ling

Monday, June 12, 2017

Fortune Quote #1776

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and
wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Fortune Quote #1775

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well
think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund
Burke

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Fortune Quote #1774

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no
proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats

Friday, June 9, 2017

Fortune Quote #1773

You see, but you do not observe. -- Sherlock Holmes

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Fortune Quote #1772

To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Fortune Quote #1771

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always
valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Fortune Quote #1770

The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put
first. -- Blaise Pascal

Monday, June 5, 2017

Fortune Quote #1769

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grasp on the obvious.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Fortune Quote #1768

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to
gain ground. -- Thomas Jefferson

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Fortune Quote #1767

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau

Friday, June 2, 2017

Fortune Quote #1766

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can affort to let
alone. -- Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Fortune Quote #1765

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop
into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your
chamber into the street every morning. -- Henry David Thoreau