Information is Power

The future

2009-03-03T10:52:00.001-08:00

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."--Eleanor Roosevelt

Work

2009-02-12T22:49:00.000-08:00

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

Love

2009-02-12T22:38:00.000-08:00

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."--Lao Tzu.

Ignorance

2009-02-12T22:36:00.000-08:00

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."--James Baldwin.

successful people have a goal

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"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do."--Norman Vincent Peale

Yesterday

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"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."--Pearl S. Buck

History

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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."--James A. Baldwin

Humor

2008-06-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, Barbara,
you should have remained a virgin."--Barbara Bush (mother of G.W.)

"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not
pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.""--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever
seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to
withdraw that statement."--Mark Twain

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."--George Burns

"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year."--Victor Borge

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."--Mark Twain

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."--Socrates

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."--Groucho Marx

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time
for my nap."--Bob Hope

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do
in it."--W.C. Fields

"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work
its way through Congress."--Will Rogers

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older,
it will avoid you."--Winston Churchill

"Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else
starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out."--Phyllis Diller

"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to
go anywhere."--Billy Crystal

Elevate your life

2008-06-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability
of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."--Henry David Thoreau

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."--Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who cannot read them."--Mark Twain

passionately curious

2008-06-02T08:12:00.000-07:00

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."-–Albert Einstein

Universe

2008-01-28T16:02:00.000-08:00

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."--Carl Sagan.

Knowledge

2008-01-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

"Knowledge is power."--Francis Bacon.

Nothing

2007-12-13T14:42:00.000-08:00

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."--Ben Franklin.

Life and kindness

2007-12-07T08:22:00.000-08:00

"I expect to pass through life but once. if, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, as I shall not pass this way again."--William Penn.

Choices

2007-04-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."--Denis Waitley, American Author/Speaker/Peak Performance Expert.

Roads

2007-04-19T08:18:00.000-07:00

"Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."--Robert Frost

The Secular Web Library

2007-04-18T09:05:00.001-07:00

clipped from www.infidels.org

Modern Library

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Author Index

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Testimonials

The Banana: The Atheist's Nightmare

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clipped from www.atheisteye.com

The Banana: The Atheist's Nightmare

The
banana...

is perfectly shaped for the human
hand.

has a non-slip surface.

has outward indicators of inward
content. Green lets you know that it's not ready to eat yet.
Yellow lets you know that it's just right to consume. Black lets
you know that it's far too late to put it in your belly.

has a tab at the bottom to facilitate
removal of its wrapper.

has a perforated wrapper for easy
peeling.

has a bio-degradable wrapper.

is perfectly shaped for the human
mouth.

has a point at its top for ease of
entry.

is pleasing to the taste buds.

is curved towards the face to make
the eating process easy.

To
say that the banana happened by accident is even more unintelligent than to
say that no one designed the Coca Cola can.

The road to winning.

2007-03-31T14:20:00.000-07:00

"First, they Ignored us. Then they laughed at us. Next, they went for us. Last, we won!"--Gandhi.

Life

2006-10-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

"Life is not measured by the breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."--got this from online friend.

Tragic life

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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, but whatever happens to you, you
have to keep a slightly comic attitude.  In the final analysis, you have got not to forget
to laugh." -- Katharine Hepburn

voting

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"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."--Revolution Books, New York, New York.

Bathroom sign

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"At the feast of ego. everyone leaves hungry."--Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson, AZ

Hope

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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."--French proverb.

Teachers

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"Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself."--Chinese Proverb

Technology

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"To redirect technology so that it serves man instead of
destroying him requires primarily an effort of the imagination and an
abandonment of fear."--EF Schumaker

Trust

2005-10-27T22:53:00.000-07:00

“Whoever can be trusted with very little things can also be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much” Luke 16:10

Genius

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"There's something about the author that comes through to me. You get something that is spirit and intangible and that spells what is genius."--Ruby Dee.

Storytelling

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"I see myself as having an advantage of coming up in surroundings where people had a particular affection for the word. My mother and father were storytellers."--Ossie Davis.

Blogging Predicted by 19th Century Russian Prince

2005-10-21T00:43:00.000-07:00

Blogging Predicted by 19th Century Russian Prince
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/10/12/blogging-predicted-by-19th-century-russian-prince/

questions

2005-10-12T22:58:00.000-07:00

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."-- Voltaire

Life

2005-10-01T21:50:00.000-07:00

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."--Abraham Lincoln

Good Goals

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"There's nothing wrong with setting good goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details."--Don Shula, Coach, Miami Dolphins

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Discipline

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"Discipline is the sinew of struggle."--Mack Jones

History again

2005-09-01T01:49:00.000-07:00

"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."--El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X).

History

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"History is not everything, but it is the starting point."--Dr. John Henrik Clarke

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"We have to understand that the labor of many who have passed away from their suffering and sacrifices have worked to make possible whatever conveniences, whatever opportunities we have today."--Iman Warith Deen Muhammad, A.M. Journal, Vol. 9, No. 48, (28 Sept. 1984), p. 5.

dreaming

2005-08-27T01:05:00.000-07:00

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow."--James Dean

those in power

2005-08-26T23:12:00.000-07:00

"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think"--Adolf Hitler, as quoted by Joachim Fest.

History

2005-08-26T23:11:00.000-07:00

"We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world."--Marcus Garvey

Awe

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"To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."--William Blake

The mysterious

2005-08-25T22:58:00.000-07:00

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."-- Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies, 1931

Life

2005-07-29T01:26:00.000-07:00

"Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans."--John Lennon

Success

2005-07-27T01:04:00.000-07:00

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."--Lao-Tzu

The wisest

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"The wisest follow their own direction."--Euripides

workmanship

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"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."--Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

Gifts

2005-07-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

"Each one should use whatever gift he's received to serve others."--1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

Generosity

2005-07-25T02:23:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."–-Margaret Cho

Get worse

2005-07-25T00:25:00.000-07:00

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."--Lily Tomlin

One day at a time

2005-07-25T00:21:00.000-07:00

"I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once."--Jennifer Unlimited

Watch carefully

2005-07-25T00:18:00.000-07:00

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies forthe big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wearsyou out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."--Robert Service

Les Brown

2005-07-25T00:16:00.000-07:00

"If you keep on doing what you are doing, you are going to keep ongetting, what you get, so if you don't like what you've been getting,you should look at what you you've been doing."--Les Brown

Doing

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"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."--Bob Beamon

Injury

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"Injury to one is an injury to all."--Picket sign, 4-14-05

Music

2005-07-23T23:00:00.000-07:00

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream and our dream is heaven."--Amiel

Imitation

2005-07-19T21:39:00.000-07:00

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."-- Fred Allen

positive attitude

2005-07-19T02:04:00.000-07:00

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."--Herm Albright

Quotes (from Sassygirlie414)

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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."--Gilbert K. Chesterson

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."--Plato

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that"--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be kind, for everyone one you meet is fighting a harder battle."--Plato

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"--Marie Curie

More quotes

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"The gardens of kindness never fade."--Greek Proverb.

"I will not be satisfied any more living my life simply for myself. Other issues are much broader than my own little world."--Anita Hill (1956- ), American lawyer, educator and writer.

Important Quotes

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"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing."--Quincy Jones (1933- ), American musician and entrepreneur.

"We can only learn to love by giving."--Iris Murdoch (1919-99), British writer.

"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."--James Freeman Clarke (1810-88), American writer and clergyman.

Love

2005-07-10T18:44:00.000-07:00

According to BoundBrook, Citizen Member # 4722, of the Jamaicans.com website, says: "Love-when someone else's happiness is as important as your own."

*(See also my friendship and VJ blogs).

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me in Coalinga, CA, returning from Union trip to Sacramento, Aug. 2002
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me at kiosk in local mall, early 2001 ?
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Me in home office, early 2004
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Montgomery, Alabama, Aug. 1996

The Real God

2005-07-10T02:09:00.000-07:00

When we have a problem or critical situation, God is there with helpful information and action. The next best thing to God is a multitude of (or a few) good friends with share good advice with us in that same time of need.