A-F Quotes

Adams, Douglas

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
• In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
• Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ("Last Chance to See")
• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
• The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
• We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
• We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.

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Alan, Fred

• A committee is a group who individually can do nothing but, together can decide that nothing can be done.

Arafat, Yasir  (PLO leader)

• (On going to war over religion) "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better  imaginary friend."

Bestavros, Adel 

• Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with  God is Faith. 

Chesterton, G.K. 

• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Edison, Thomas Alva

• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
• Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Eddy, Mary Baker

• The highest prayer is not one of faith merely; it is demonstration. 
• We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.
• Practice not profession, understanding not belief, gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence and they assuredly call down infinite blessings. 
• Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts. 

The People's Idea of God- It's Effect on Health and Christianity

• ...our ideas of divinity form our models of humanity.

Message to the Mother Church, June 1901

• The individual who loves most, does most...

The Mary Baker Eddy Collection

• The wisdom of the wise is not as much expressed by their lips as by their lives. 

Einstein, Albert

• Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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