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1. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

2. "A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."
- Earl Wilson

3. "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
- Diane Sawyer

4. "The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
- Charles M. Schwab

5.  "To create one's own world takes courage."
- Georgia O'Keefe

6. "What's important is that one strives to achieve a goal."
- Ronald Reagan

7.  "There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above and overcome."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

8. "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
- Lucille Ball

9. "It's time to start living the life we've imagined."
- Henry James

10.  "You can never find yourself until you face the truth."
- Pearl Bailey

11.  "The man with no imagination has no wings."
- Muhammad Ali

12. "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."
- Muhammad Ali

13.  "Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemingway

14.  "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through."
- Eddie Rickenbacker

15.  "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
- Lauren Bacall

16.  "Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

17.  "Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

18.  "There's a better way to do it. Find it!"
- Thomas Edison

19.  "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put in it is ours."
- Dag Hammarskjöld

20.  "We make ourselves rich by making our wants few."
- Henry David Thoreau

21. "It is never too late to become what you might have been."
- George Eliot

22. "Every man believes that he has a greater possibility."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. "You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself."
- Mel Brooks

24.  "A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington

25.  "Trust your gut."
- Barbara Walters

26.  "One man's way may be as good as another, but we all like our own best."
- Jane Austen

27.  "Trust in your own untried capacity."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28.  "Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen."
- Jerry Brown

29.  "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- Sophia Loren

30.  "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
- Irving Berlin

31.  "Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
- Charles Kettering

32.  "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

33.  "The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- R.G. Ingersoll

34.  "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton

35.  "Great spirits have always received violent opposition from mediocre minds. "
- Albert Einstein

36.  "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
- Tom Landry

37.  "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."
- Billy Wilder

38.  "If you dig very deeply into any problem, you will get people."
- J. Watson Wilson

39.  "Organizations can be observed as a series of patterned interactions among actors."
- J. Eugene Haas and Thomas E. Drabek

40.  "Leadership is still an art despite the efforts of social science researchers to make it a science."
- James Owen

41.  "The fellow in the boat with you never bores a hole in it."
- Anonymous

42.  "Cada hora tiene su verdad."
- Alejandro Casana

43.  "He that complies against his own will, is of his own opinion still."
- Samuel Butler

44.  "An institution is like a tune. It is not constituted by individual sounds, but by relations between them."
- Peter F. Drucker

45.  "The best way to manage scientific and professional people is to give them an interesting, challenging job and then leave them alone."
- Anonymous

46.  "One of my fundamental assumptions is that the most important resources an organization has is valid information."
- Chris Argyris

47.  "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. This 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

48.  "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
 

49.  "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
- Zeno of Citium

50. "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
- Alex Carey
                                                                                                                                                                                                  
51.  "The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
- Noam Chomsky

52. "Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
- Mark Crispin Miller
 

53.  "The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable for criminal actions... Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized, branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond the pale of reasonable discussion."
- Carl Boggs

54.  "Four sorrows ... are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut. Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta. Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens."
- Chalmers Johnson

55. "Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America."
- former ambassador to Germany William Dodd in 1938

56. "If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."
- Huey Long

57.  "It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues"
- Abraham Lincoln

                                                                                                                                                                                                            
58.  "This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
- Benjamin Franklin
 

59.  "The news and truth are not the same thing."
- Walter Lippmann

60.  "Men can only be highly civilized, while other men, inevitably less civilized are there to guard and feed them."
- George Orwell

61.  "America has always viewed oil as a security consideration, and protected it by any means it deems necessary. Few of us doubt that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf has little to do with its concern for human rights and almost entirely to do with its strategic interest in oil."
- Arundhati Roy, author and activist

62.  "The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. "
- Harold Pinter
                                                                                                                                                                                                           
63.  "Truth is always subversive, otherwise why should governments spend so much energy trying to suppress it?"
- an Indonesian activist

64.  "Those countries with the most developed welfare states have far less violence than the United States, the industrial nation with the least developed welfare state."
- Elliott Currie

65.  "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."
- Laurence J. Peter

66.  "Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that 'the game belongs to the people.'  So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations."
- Theodore Roosevelt

67.  "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just as long as I'm the dictator."
- George Bush December 18, 2001 CNN

68.  "Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health."
- Ishmael

69.   "There is no evil anywhere. There is only ignorance and confusion leading people to wrong actions."
- William Reid

70.  "Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities."
- The Closing of the American Mind, by Alan Bloom

71.  "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad."
- Sheryl Crow

72.  "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred...unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come his way."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goeth

73.  "A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste. Such a society is a house built upon sand."
- Dorothy L. Sayers

74.  "We can do no great things - only small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa

75.  "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

76.  "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
- Dr. Karl Menninger

77.  "Do yourself a favor as you walk through life: Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful."
- J. Michael Thomas

78.  "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
- Henrik Ibsen
 

79.  "To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return."
- Leigh Hunt
 

80.  "Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it."
- Garrison Keillor
 

81.  "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry 

82.  "If you can’t convince them, confuse them."
- Harry S. Truman

83.  "The trouble with America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has changed to advertising copy."
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman

84.  "Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens."
- Cathy Guisewite

85.  "To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the world. To make a true religion of the heart as the ruling factor in one's life. To enable each one to love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. My goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness in life and living. This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled."
- Sant Kirpal Singh(1894-1974)

86.  "Patience is a virtue."
- ?

87.  "The more knowledge we acquire the more mystery we find. A human being is part of the whole called by us the universe. A part limited in time and space. He experiences his himself, his thoughts, his feelings as something separate from himself. A kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is kind of a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all these creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
- Albert Einstein
 

88.  "Now remember I'm not trying to create some sort of caste or class. I'm trying to create a framework in which people who want to can lead compassionate lives, meet others who do the same and learn from them and teach them and reward those who give so that we can start thinking "elite" means "him who has given everything away so is free."
- Chris Lacy
 

89.  "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation...It must be a place which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."
- Franklin Roosevelt
 

90.  "Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil." - Reverend Harrison White, a character in the Dean Koontz novel From the Corner of His Eye

91.  "A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived."
- don Juan
 

92.  "Do you know that if all the smokers were laid end to end around the world, three quarters of them would drown?"
- don Juan
 

93.  "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
- Larry King
 

94.  "If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed."
- Dan Dierdorf
 

95.  "Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
- Dick Cavett
 

96.  "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
- Dick Cavett
 

97.  "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Teresa 

98.  "Miracles do not happen in contradiction of nature, but in contradiction with what we know about nature."
- Augustine
     

99.  "There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton 

100.  "I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes given a chance."
- James A. Autry
      

101.  "When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 

102.  "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napoleon Hill
     

103.  "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
- ?
 

104.  "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
- ?
 

105.  "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

106.  "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
- Anonymous
   

107.  "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

108.  "I daresay that at any given time most anarchists understand that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths."
- Jason Mcquinn

109.  "Realize you will never be done.""
- Linzy2784@aol.com
 

110.  "I think that by 2012 you will have people that are enlightened (open, honest, caring, loving, united to the divine) and those that still seek humanity's lower natures (suffering, misery, hate, separation from the divine) but at least the scale may be tipping more toward enlightened."
- Hermes Trismegistus
 

111.  "I express the love that is within my heart to all that I encounter. I walk with Spirit as my Source. I accept, receive and allow life to flow through my being. All that I need is mine now and I am open to receive."
- Stanley Otterstrom
 

112.  "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
- George Santayana

113.  "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
- Malcolm X

114.  "He who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along."
- Clarence Darrow

115.  "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
- Thomas Brackett Reed
 

116.  "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 

117.  "The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust."
- Mr. Justice Brandeis 

118.  "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
- Theodore H White
 

119.  "Through a slick misinformation campaign, these individuals perpetrate a fraud on the American people, a fraud so devious that even some of the nation's most respected newspapers and sophisticated media are capable of echoing their falsehoods."
- Barry McCaffrey
 

120.  "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
- Thomas Carlyle
 

121.  "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer is in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all...."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
 

122.  "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -
- Thomas Jefferson
   

123.  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
   

124.  "The point is not merely to fuck the system, but to destroy it."
- Abbie Hoffman(Steal This Book)
 

125.  "There's no government like no government."
- Graffiti on People's Park bathroom in Berkeley
 

126.  "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you can't even tacitly take part...You've got to put your bodies upon the gears, the levers and all the apparatus and you've got to indicate to the people who run it and own it that unless you are free the machine will be prevented from working at all."
- M. Savio 1943-1996
 

127.  "Degrade first the arts. If you'd Mankind degrade. Hire idiots to paint with cold lights and hot shade: give high price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace. And with the labours of ignorance fill every place."
- William Blake
 

128.  "Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?"
- Some bumper sticker I saw in Silver City
 

129.  "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- In Rejuvenation Coffee Shop, Silver City, NM
 

130.  "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best night and day to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
- E.E. Cummings
 

131.  "The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."
- Arundhati Roy
 

132.  "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
 

133.  "All we need is love. Love is all we need."
- John Lennon
 

134.  "Ignorant people are easy to control."
- U.S. Government
 

135.  "The most violent element in society is ignorance."
- Emma Goldman
   

136.  "Politics is the business of governments and politicians. The world where companies use their economic influence to prop up or bring down government, would be a frightening and bleak one indeed."
- From a Propagandhi song
 

137.  "I think we aught to make America the Beautiful the national anthem. It's not about war, there's no bombs bursting in air, no rockets red glare. It's about the land, amber waves of grain. That sounds good to me. Plus, it's a lot easier so sing."
- Willie Nelson
 

138.  "Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."
- Author Unknown

139.  "The true reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
- Author Unknown
 

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

141.  "Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
- Cree Indian Prophecy

142.  "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- American Chief Seattle
 

143.  "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
 

144.  "Although they are only breaths, words which I command are immortal."
- Sappho

145.  "Serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received."
- Peter 4:10

146.  "If anyone strikes you on the one cheek, let it hit the other one also. And if someone takes away your coat, let him have your shirt as well. Give to everyone who begs from you. And if someone takes what is yours, don't ask for it back again. Do for others what you would have others do for you."
- Luke 6:29

147.  "Love your enemies, and be good to them. And lend expecting nothing back. Then you will have a great reward."
- Luke 6:27
 

148.  "Judge not and you will not be judged. Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
- John 8:7

149.  "Put no thought in your life for what you should eat. Nor for your body what you should wear. For life is more than food and a body more than clothing.
- Matthew 6:25

150.  "There is still one more thing you need to do. You must sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Follow me."
- Luke 18:22 

151.  "How hard it is for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God. It is harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle."
- Luke 18:25 

152.  "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one."
- John Lennon 

153.  "Everyone must follow the path of their own destiny, for I know that I have my own."
- Nefretiri19@aol.com's profile 

154.  "What can be said, say it clearly and what can't be said, pass over in silence. You will save a lot of trouble."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 

155.  "The magnitude of such an advance - its importance for the future of evolution itself - makes it critically necessary that we begin to guide it. To adopt a hands-off, damn-the-torpedoes approach could spell doom for ourselves and our children."
- Alvin Toffler

156.  "Thought is action in rehearsal."
- Sigmund Freud 

157.  "Hurt not the Earth. Neither the sea, nor the trees."
- Revelations 7:3 

158.  "I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Edward Everette Hale 

159.  "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
- Teddy Roosevelt

160.  "I don't pretend to understand the universe. It is a great deal bigger than I am.
- Thomas Carlyle
 

161.  "Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

162.  "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

163.  "Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best ground on which to build world peace, an equitable sharing of the world's resources, and the development of true respect for the environment on behalf of future generations."
- The Dali Lama

164.  "The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."
- Anonymous

165.  "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
- Helen Keller

166.  "A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- St. Basil

167.  "You do not have because you do not ask."
- James 4:2

168.  "People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do."
- Lewis Cass

169.  "The greatest achievements are those that benefit others."
- Dennis Waitley

170.  "Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
- William Newton Clark

171.  "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."
- Thomas Jefferson

172.  "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

173.  "Good words are worth much, and cost little."
- George Herbert
 

174.  "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James

175.  "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

176.  "You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be."
- Author Unknown

177.  "The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich

178.  "Beauty shines through in the good that you do."
- Anonymous

179.  "A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
- James Joyce

180.  "What you are is revealed by what you do. What you do reveals what you really believe."
- Anonymous

181.  "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

182.  "On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on earth."
- L. Ron Hubbard

183.  "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
- Amy Carmichael

184.  "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Josh Billings

185.  "Quality is never an accident...it is always the result of intelligent effort."
- Josh Ruskin
 

186.  "There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true."
- Edwin Louis Cole

187.  "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
- D. Elton Trueblood
 

188.  "Humanity, not legality, should be our guide."
- Winston Churchill
 

189.  "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action."
- Gandhi

190.  "Our physical body and the see-and-touch world are not life, but only one step on our spirit's journey."
- Paul Pearsall

190.  "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

191.  "There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

192.  "Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
- T.S. Eliot
 

193.  "What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable."
- Louise Nevelson

194.  "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."
- M.C. Escher

195.  "Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso

196.  "People see the world not as it is, but as they are."
- Al Lee

197.  "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
- Robert H. Goddard

198.  "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
- Malcolm X

199.  "There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen."
- Sean O'Faolain
  

200.  ". . . the most reliable way to distinguish between lightworkers and darkworkers is to focus my attention on the affect which they display rather than on the labels which they carry."
- Allisone Heartsong
 

201.  "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?"
- Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, March 23, 1775

202.  "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

203.  "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Goethe

204.  "Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you."
- Benjamin Franklin
 

205.  “Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
- Plato

206.  "When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
- Harry S. Truman

207.  "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell 

208.  "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
- Thomas Jefferson 

209.  "Failure is the path of least persistence."
- George M. Van Valkenburg, Jr 

210.  "We live in an era where rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals into a rigidity that which we mistake for stability."
- Some Management of Time book I found at The Endeavor in Arcata, didn't get the author

211.  "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
- Abbie Hoffman

212.  "If a man of this century was committed to honesty, committed to his highest integrity in all matters--with himself, his work, his loves, his friends, with all the world--would he be seen as good or evil?  Would he be acclaimed or persecuted?  What might be his life, his fate?"
- Wulf Zendik, American Philosopher(1920-1999)

213.  "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worth-while challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly."
- don Juan

214.  "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

215.  "To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

216.  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

217.  "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

218.  "Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."
- Walter C. Hagen

219.  "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

220.  "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
- Bertand Russell

221.  "He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature."
- Socrates
 

222.  "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau

223.  "Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think."
- Dale Carnegie
    

224.  "The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
 

225.  "People create their own questions because they're afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."
- Ayn Rand
 

226.  "Be content with such things as ye have."
- Hebrews 13:5

227.  "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas Gandhi
 

228.  "Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be."
- John Homer Miller
 

229.  "We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts."
- Napoleon Hill

230.  "The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end."
- Don Marquis

231.  "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
- Siddhartha Guatama[The Buddha]
 

232.  "Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by your thinking."
- Susan L. Taylor
 

233.  "Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering."
- Ali
 

234.  "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius Antonius

235.  "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
- Lao Tzu

236.  "Seems like spam could be used to actually get a message out in a very quick and widespread way about injustice, working for peace, and other political issues. Why hasn't this happened yet? Spamming is so easy and inexpensive - seems like a perfect tool for subversion."
- Squeedle

237.  "Subversion is the idea that an altered state or mutation of the status quo is a healthy solution to the mass conformity of any society."
- Wikipedia
 

238.  "How fortunate for leaders, that the masses do not think."
- Adolf Hitler

239.  "We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free."
- Marshall Sahlins

240.  "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of truth."
- John F. Kennedy

241.  "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein

242.  "We must learn to include ourselves in the round of cooperations and conflicts, of symbiosis and preying, which constitutes the balance of nature, for a permanently victorious species destroys, not only itself, but all other life in its environment."
- Alan Watts

243.  "There is no cruder tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
- Montesquieu

244.  "Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it."
- Chinese Proverb

245.  "Our lives begin to end the day we come silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King

246.  "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

247.  "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill

248.  "...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012.  This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a "holy war" against the West or by using the Chinese to cause global conflict.  Maybe both."
- David Icke

249.  "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable."
-
Henry Louis Mencken

250.  "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

251.  "If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery let them continue to create money and control the nation's credit."
- Sir Josiah Stamp

252.  "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
- Woodrow Wilson 1919

253.  "We will have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is, whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
- James Paul Warburg, to the United States Senate, 2-17-50

254.  "You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
-
Andrew Jackson, 1828

255.  "In the size of the lie there is always contained a certain factor of credibility, since the great mass of people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than a small one."
- Adolf Hitler

256.  "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
- Henry Ford

257.  "All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

258.  "Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned."
- Albert Einstein

259.  "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson

260.  "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda
   

261.  "Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
- Socrates 

262.  "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
- Dresden James

263.  "Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world."
-  Jose Ortega y Gasset

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264.  "If Jesus were alive today he'd be in jail."
- Anonymous

265.  "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature and that is because, in the last analysis, we ourelves are...part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
- Max Planck

266.  "That government is best which governs least."
- Henry David Thoreau

267.  "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
- John Stuart Mill

268.  "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Morley

269.  "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
- Anthony Robbins

270.  "Winning starts with beginning."
- Anonymous 

271.  "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
- Henry Ford 

272.  "Where there is no vision, people perish."
- Proverbs 29:18 

273.  "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that are his sincere friend."
- Abraham Lincoln


274.  "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are different in the way we percieve the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
- Anthony Robbins 

275.   "One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in the world of men."
- Japanese Proverb

276.  "The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without a struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is called intelligent non-aggresiveness. This is called mastery of men."
- Lao Tzu

277.  "One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."
- Lao Tzu

278.  "Respond intelligently, even to unintelligent treatment."
- Lao Tzu

279.  "Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries."
- Everett Dirksen

280.  "If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives, then all will go well? This is called acting naturally."
- Anthony Robbins

281.  "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

282.  "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
- Anonymous

283.  "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- MLK

284.  "He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
- Lao Tzu

285.  "Little things effect little minds."
- Benjamin Disraeli

286.  "We are not going to be able to operate out Spaceship Earth successfully, nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."
- Buckminster Fuller

287.  "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
 
288
.  "If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."
- Emmett Fox

289.  "The universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queerer than we can imagine."
- Haldane

290.  "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
- Adolph Hitler
 
291.  "
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein

292.  "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton

293.  "Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
- A. Philip Randolph

294.  "We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
- Charley Reese

295. "As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true."
- Craig Murray

296. "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

297. "Our walk counts far more than our talk."
- George Mueller

298. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- Jim Elliott

299. "You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily."
- John Maxwell

300. "If the way you live isn't consistent with what you believe, then it's wrong."
- Romans 14:23

301. "You can't light another's path without casting light on your own."
- John Maxwell

302. "Children must be valued as our most prized possessions."
- James Thompson

303. "He who has all that he wishes to have, and wishes to have nothing he ought not to have."
- St. Augustine

304. "A little lie is like a little pregnancy.  It doesn't take long before everyone knows."
- C.S. Lewis

305. "He who constantly and fervently seek the approval of others lives with an identity-crisis.  They don't know who they are and  they are defined by what others think of them."
- Charles Stanley

306. "Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
- Albert Einstein