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Looking at my family watching TV, I remember that like ostriches poke their head into the sand when they are being attacked to avoid the problem, so humans are just like that. They poke their heads into the TV to avoid impending death.

Sow a Thought...Reap an Action.
Sow an Action....Reap a Habit.
Sow a Habit.......Reap a Character.
Sow a Character..Reap Your Destiny.

It all starts with a THOUGHT..or DESIRE.

So DESIRE intensely to go back home Back To Godhead, in the eternal service of Lord KRISHNA and His devotees!!

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
H. L. Mencken

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its students
Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom doesnt automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. Its true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960

A leader who can help others is somebody who can alwasys see the good in others.

Dont worry, I removed it. I told you it was heavy...

I think the previous comment should be removed by the administrator

When the going gets tough, the tough get going...
Heard it somewhere... Has a meaning :)

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
Noam Chomsky

"I cant do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
(George P. Burnham)

I dont know if devotees will like these quotes, but some are interesting:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/quot_rel.htm

Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, youd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion."

Thomas Jefferson:
In a letter to Baron von Humboldt, 1813: "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."

Mahatma Ghandi: "If it werent for Christians, Id be a Christian."

Albert Einstein:
"...science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself (or herself) in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."

Like the one of Einstein

From 1984 by Orwell.

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?'85 Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'85The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking'97not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."

"If youre going through hell....keep going" - Winston Churchill

Anyone have any funny quotes that make the point? Im more of a fridge magnet quotes kind of a person ...:)

"Monks, you have no mother, you have no father, who might tend to you. If you dont tend to one another, who then will tend to you? Whoever would tend to me, should tend to the sick."

- Mahavagga VIII.26.1-8
Kucchivikara-vatthu
The Monk with Dysentery

full version and background: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/mv/mv.08.26.01-08.than.html

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

'97 Lin Yutang

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Where there are too many officials, there is no fruitful government.
Where there are too many leaders, there is no guidance.
Where there are too many saints, there is no rectitude.
Where there are too many rules, there is no sincere following.

'97 JMdas

"Most people dont care how much you know until they know how much you care." - anon

"What you are is Gods gift to you, and what you become is your gift to God." - anon

"For some people faith is the beginning of a journey, for others its a destination." - anon

"The only cure for non-belief is the mystical experience." - Thomas Merton

"There is an audience just dying to hear people poke holes in dharma in general. And here is the catch - they WANT to believe it, some very badly. Imho, it is the skeptics showing all the signs of preconceived notions." - anon

"Those who preach ignorance pass through darkness. Those who are false witnesses, liars and deceitful obtain death unconsciously, just as those who abuse the Vedas." (Garuda Purana 2.2.50-51)

...on humility:
http://www.livinglifefully.com/humility.html

Character is what you have left when youve lost everything you can lose.
- Evan Esar

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

'93It does seem just a slight bit strange that we have to have scientific proof that love, compassion and joy are good for us. I guess the thinking is, "Well, it works in practice, but does it work in theory?" - Steve Bhaerman

"If current trends continue, we will not." - Daniel Maguire from The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity: Reclaiming the Revolution

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The forecast from the beginning of the twentieth century by the makers of Mercedes: "there will never be more than a million automobiles worldwide".
They knew more about automobiles than almost anyone at that time but they could not have been more wrong.

Only a short time before the Wright brothers proved that airplanes would fly, the distinguished American astronomer Simon Newcomb authoritatively demonstrated why heavier-than-air flight was impossible. He concluded: "The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."

Great quotes on vegeterianism:
http://www.vegetarianimage.com/Quotes.htm

Einstein, Thoreau, Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

*The power to be strong and the wisdom to be wise will come to you in time

*In learning you teach and in teaching you learn

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It'92s what separates us from the animals '85 except the weasel."

- Homer Simpson

(read it on someones blog recently)

Bart: "Soul? Come on, Milhouse, there is no such thing as a soul. Its just something they made up to scare kids, like the bogeyman, or Michael Jackson."
Milhouse: "But every religion says theres a soul, Bart. Why would they lie? What would they have to gain?"
[Scene cuts to Reverend Lovejoy in his office, working a change-sorting machine]
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5. God: "Thou hast forsaken My Church!"
Homer: "Uh, kind of ... but ...."
God: "But what?"
Homer: "Im not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how Im going to Hell?"
God: [pause] "Hmm ... Youve got a point there."

Nice quotes from The Simpsons... hehe :D

Happiness isnt something you experience; its something you remember.
- Oscar Levant

"I want to know Gods thoughts; the rest are details."
- Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
- Einstein

the 5th reg principle would be reading the KRSNA book every night and hot milk :-)

Its not word 4 word but its still all there...........

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Conspiracy

* "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, 1802

Power of paper money! Heavy quotes on that page, not sure how it is in other countries, but in the USA the Federal Reserve is a private organization which controls money.

yes, that'b4s how the masons took control of America and then the world

There is more that meets the eye, just see the soul that is inside...
-Avril Lavigne

"There is no such thing as an innocent bystander." ~Abbie Hoffman

Homer Simpson uvaca:

'93Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try.'94

...and...

'93Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the internet and all.'94

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah (Ronald Reagan)

"A fanatic is someone who cant change his mind and wont change the subject."

-- Winston Churchill

Holding a grudge against somebody is like drinking a cup of poison and waiting for the other person to die.

-- Anonymous

"born again Krishnian" (seen on devotee blog)

"cows may come, cows may go, but the bull is always here" (seen on devotee blog)

"energy follows thought"

"He who thinks he leads but has no-one following is merely taking a walk"