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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha

“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.” -Lynn White, Jr (from “The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis”)

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act is abstinence of injury to animals.” -Leo Tolstoy

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“Traditional american values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of confort and consumer goods.” -George Carlin

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo.. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animal, also.” -Dr. Albert Schweitzer

“There is only one ozone layer. Yosemite is either there for all of us or none of us. .. So the environment is one of the great unifying, cross-cutting social issues, and that attracts me. I believe that is precisely why the extreme right hates environmentalism, because environmentalism says human beings are all in the same lifeboat together.” -Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club

“Give me the storm and stress of thought and action rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will but first let me eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Bush left no room for doubts or media opinion. He stated clearly that this war is a Crusader war. He said this in front of the whole world so as to emphasize this fact. … When Bush says that, they try to cover up for him, then he said he didn’t mean it. He said, ‘crusade.’ Bush divided the world into two: ‘either with us or with terrorism’ … The odd thing about this is that he has taken the words right out of our mouths. –Osama Bin Laden

I love that website because it’s categorized so well. You can choose a category, search by occupation, whatever.

This is definitely the place to go.

I go there almost every day just to collect some outsiders’ thoughts,

and read comedians’ quotes for a little laugh when I have even more downtime.

Edmund Burke (1729-97)

– Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

“religous bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise” -james madison

“religion is comparable to childhood neurosis” -sigmund freud

“people should reject god defiantly in order to pour all their loving solicitude upon mankind” -albert camus

“we must question the story logic of having an all-knowing god, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes” -gene roddenberry

“religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” -lucids annaeus seneca

“the bible is not my book nor christianity my profession. i could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of christian dogma.” abraham lincoln

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”. – Mahatma Gandhi

-Aristotle

aristotle- A friend is a second self.

ghandi-Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

-Yogi Berra

“Blackholes are where God divided by Zero”

Einstein

“We’re gonna turn this team around 360 degrees”

-Jason Kidd