Quote of the Day

[Woollyhats]

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible." - Christopher Reeve



^^^ Albus Dumbledore, in regards to the dementors (literally creatures that feed by sucking out happiness and hope, and steal your soul upon reducing you to nothing, they were based on the author's interpretation of depression).

“A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it." (Haplo, the Death Gate Cycle) --- my favorite book series, the character in question here is questioning his own belief systems, which are militantly racist and uncaring for anyone but his own people, who were worse than he.

[Jovial]

"When I warned them [French Goverment] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some Chicken! Some neck! (Winston Chuchill, speech to Canadian Parliament)

[southbiochem]

[Jovial]

“He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What all my pretty chickens and their dam,
At one fell swoop?” (Macbeth, William Shakespeare)

[southbiochem]

"Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play"

Kant

[Jovial]

“Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.” (Getting Married, George Bernard Shaw)

[southbiochem]

[Jovial]

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

[southbiochem]

[Justinintendo]

"There's coffee in that nebula." -Captain Kathryn Janeway