Take Care

I'm about community. If you do things right, if you look at the long term, if you're fair, you don't have to look at the bottom line every two seconds. That'll take care of itself.
--Greg O'Connell (developer, Mount Morris NY)

Present Future

For the importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future.
--John Maynard Keynes

Look To...

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.
--Alan Cohen

Right Wrong

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
--William Penn

Long

Je n'ai fait cell-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
(I have only made this so long because I did not have the time to make it shorter.)
--Blaise Pascal

Stellar Fire

A stumbling, imperfect, probably imperfectable creature like ourselves is unfit to wield the stellar fire released by the split or fused atom.
--Jonathan Schell

Not Looking

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
--Johann von Goethe

E-Mail

We don't know how many e-mails puts a person over the edge, but clearly at some point, it no longer leads to greater productivity.
--Adam Cox

River

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Climate Change

Climate change has become an ideologically polarizing issue. It taps into deep personal identities and causes what Dan Kahan of Yale calls "protective cognition"--we judge things in part on whether we see ourselves as rugged individualists mastering nature or as members of interconnected societies who live in harmony with the environment.
--Thomas Homer-Dixon

Difficult

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
--Upton Sinclair

Merely

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
--Henrich Heine

Resentment

Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
--Malachy McCourt

Escaping

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
--John Maynard Keynes

Nothing's Lost

Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
--Tony Kushner

Sitcom

I live in a sitcom that nobody would watch.
--Joe Posnanski

Work

Work only starts when the fear of doing nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing something badly.
--Alain de Botton

Duty

Duty is not a particularly pleasant concept to me--not because it can be physically difficult, but because it is often empty of true feeling.
--Elizabeth Fuller

Little Bit Crazy

I think conservatives have gotten so much air time for the same reason that Charlie Sheen has. People will tune in to watch something edgy, dangerous, and a little bit crazy.
--Gemli Boston

Both Kinds

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins. He is both these kinds of person.
--Hilary Mantel

Wealth and Morality

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues.
--John Maynard Keynes

Awakes

The dreamer awakes, not from a body but to a body. Not an ascent from body to spirit, but the descent of spirit to body.
--Norman O. Brown