Female

"The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things--praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts--not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs." --C.S. Lewis, 1986

"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life." --Thomas Jefferson

about me:
• feisty, fun-loving and fearless
• sometimes easily upset, but quick to apologize
• a true friend

heh, i'm just like tinkerbell. JUST LIKE.
;o)

"King Solomon, he never lived 'round here."
--The Clash

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson

A [senior adviser to President Bush] said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' -- Ron Suskind, "Without a Doubt," New York Times

"The value of money increases with its mobility. That is, the more that money changes hands, the greater its economic value. On the other hand, the more that money is kept immobile in a safe, the more it loses its utility, and thus its economic value decreases. This is the most fundamental principle of economics. " —P R Sarkar

"The authoritarian will in general select those who obey, who believe, who respond to his influence. But in doing so, he is bound to select mediocrities. for he excludes those who revolt, who doubt, who dare to resist his influence." --Plato

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1755

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
--Oscar Wilde

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left". Hm, 2011.

"Whatever authority I may have rests solely upon my knowing how little I know." --Socrates

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure." --Lord Byron

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." --Alfred Lord Tennyson

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." --Abraham Maslow

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan

"...a mistake in The New York Times is one thing; a mistake in The New York Times that the rest of the media spends weeks repeating can change the course of history." --Media Matters for America, 2006

"The height of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." --Albert Einstein

"Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? -- stupid." --Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Arthur Sylvester, 1966.

"That's the pot calling the kettle FABULOUS." --miss jessica, 2006 and counting

"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth doth murder sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath..."
---Billy Shakespeare

Plato sez:
"The transition from democracy to tyranny is most easily brought about by a popular leader who knows how to exploit the class antagonism between the rich and the poor within the democratic state, and who succeeds in building up a bodyguard or a private army of his own. The people who have hailed him first as the champion of freedom are soon enslaved; and then they must fight for him, in ‘one war after another which he must stir up… because he must make the people feel the need of a general’
"The alleged clash between freedom and security, that is, a security guaranteed by the state, turns out to be a chimera. For there is no freedom if it is not secured by the state; and conversely, only a state which is controlled by free citizens can offer them any reasonable security at all."

"To preserve Nature’s chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords." --Leonardo da Vinci, on politics (translation 1880)

"People must be amused, squire, somehow. They can't be always a-working, nor yet they can't be always a-learning." --Mr. Sleary from Charles Dickens' "Hard Times"