Look Out

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across, takes 11 cookies, looks at the Tea Party person, and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."
--Pathman25

1 Percent

The top 1 percent [of income earners] have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
--Joseph Stiglitz

Patient

We want solutions and resolutions, and we want them quickly, but there are several benefits to being patient with contradictions and paradoxes.
--Thomas Moore

Excess

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Forget

People change and forget to tell each other.
--Lillian Hellman

Joke

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
--George Orwell

Ignore

Perhaps as a result of a psychological coping mechanism, as a group, doctors tend to ignore what they can't fix.
--Alex Lickerman, M.D.

The End

The end may justify the means, but the end in its turn needs to be justified.
--Leon Trotsky

Uncool

Anything that betrays real passion is by definition uncool.
--Jonathan Franzen

Theology

I'm less bothered that fundamentalists are religious than that their religion lacks any real theological system. Theology offers a rich, if often biased language in which to carry on ethical and philosophical debate. In short, it's the rationalism possible within religion. But evangelical fundamentalism doesn't admit ethical or philosophical debate.
--Joe Propinka

Souls

And the thing about souls is that they yearn for connection with other souls.
--Lance Mannion

Strike Up

How often do you go to communal spaces only to see people trapped on their phones, Twittering and texting with people that aren't there? I genuinely think people want to be around and maybe even strike up a conversation with other people, but they don't know how.
--Brett Martin

Silicone

As my friend Russ Meyer complained in the early days of silicone, "It misses the whole principle of the matter."
--Roger Ebert

Create Gods

What led humans to create gods was not simply fear but a desire to harness and account for those sustaining moments when we receive our lives most abundantly.
--Giles Harvey

Wrong

We are never right. We can only be sure that we are wrong.
--Richard P. Feynman

Frolic

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Give In

When your intuitive sense overwhelms your critical voice, you have to give in.
--Cory Arcangel

Finally

I will finally get to the bottom of myself.
--Thomas Pletzinger