April 19, 2005

Quotes:

Quasi-random quotes of the moment

    By Jack Grant

Character, or the lack thereof, is revealed in how someone with power treats someone without power and without the capacity to retaliate.
   -Mark Shields

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
   -Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
   -Frederick L Collins

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
   -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
   -Voltaire

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
   -David Russell

Posted by Jack Grant at 22:29 on 19 April 2005
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