Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life itself is a quotation. - Jorge Luis
Borges

"Time is a companion that goes

with us on a journey. It reminds us
to cherish each moment, because it
will never come again. What we
leave behind is not as important as
how we have lived." - Jean-Luc Picard

"Cogito ergo sum" - Descartes

"The universe is the ultimate free lunch." - Hawking

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George
Bernard Shaw

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac
Asimov

"Dogs have masters. Cats have

staff." - ?

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." - Jim Carrey
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot
cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
Edmund Burke - All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for few good men to do nothing.

Mark Twain - To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Aristotle - He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for
himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche - The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem
those who think alike than those who think differently.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to
the trip." - Caskie Stinnett

"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water." - ?

"To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential." - ?

"Evening news is where they begin with Good evening, and then proceed to tell you why it isnt."
-?

"Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples." - George Burns

"Stay Hungry; Stay Foolish" - Steve Jobs

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life-think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the
brain,muscles,nerves,every part of your body, be full of that idea,and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to success".
- Swami Vivekananda
"Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish and you lose a great
business opportunity." - Karl Marx
"The pen is mightier than the sword" - Edward Lytton (Father of Robert Lytton, Governor General
of British India)

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell in Animal
Farm (A satirical take by Orwell on the Russian revolution/Stalin/etc)

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Zedong (Something that still resonates
among Naxals in India, albeit more on theoretical basis than otherwise)

"All men are created equal" - Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to
die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A
coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and
women. - Mahatma Gandhi
"I would imagine that if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy"
Anonymous
Never have children, only grandchildren.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One
hopes it is the same half.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen
them since.

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

-Gore Vidal

"All generalizations are false, including this one"

- Mark Twain.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or
worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -Karl Marx

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. -Hannah Arendt

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what
comes. -Arendt

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. -Karl Marx

1. One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a
thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams
of one nation are bequeathed to the next

Subhash Chandra Bose

2. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are
swadeshi and boycott.'

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

3. If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the
flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

Chandra Shekhar Azad

4. Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of

all. Labour is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the
workers.

Bhagat Singh

5. "We cannot change our Rulers, but we can change the way they Rule Us."

Dhirubhai Ambani

6. "There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the
Upanishads." ('Sacred Books of the East') Max Mueller
"When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly." - Michel de
Montaigne
Long time ago, people who sacrifice their sleep,family,food,laughter and other joys of life were
called 'SAINTS'.
But now they are called 'CSE ASPIRANTS'.
"Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem
our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India
will awake to life and freedom."-Jawaharlal Nehru

" Be the change you wish to see in the world."-Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."-Gandhi

"If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of
youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.-"Chandra Shekhar Azad

"Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"-Bal Gangadhar Tilak

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.- Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.- O. Wilde

I hated every minute of training , but I said don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as
champion.-Muhammad Ali

By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail-B. Franklin

Alright everyone line up alphabetically according to your height.- Casy Stegnel
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them - Albert
Einstein
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." - Martin Luther King
from "I have a dream" speech

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are
treated. - Mahatma Gandhi. It was also quoted in one of the articles I read on Animal Rights and
how Animals too deserve fair treatment.

"Six feet of land was all that he needed" - Leo Tolstoy, in "How much land does a man need?"
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire
Some Voltare classics:

1. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

2.Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

3.All men are equal; it is not their birth, but virtue itself that makes the difference.

4.Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

5.One always speaks badly when we have nothing to say.

6.May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and
fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their
disciples?

7.It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

8.To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

9.If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
10.It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

11.It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

12.A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has
forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

13.When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

14.There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

15.Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

16.Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man
condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

17.Common sense is not so common

18.All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty
connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is
the real misfortune, it is dependence.

19.Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to
one's neighbors.

20.Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

21.It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers
and to the sound of trumpets.

Conscience is the summation of what is legally right and what is morally right.

V K Krishna Menon to a British novelist B A Brophy :

"My English is better than yours. You merely picked it up; I learnt it."
The inimitable George Carlin

1)Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

2)Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going
faster than you is a maniac?

3)Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

4) "No comment is a comment.

5) In America, anyone can become president. Thats the problem.

6) Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

7)Meow means woof in cat.

8)I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.

9)I dont have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

10)The status quo sucks.

11)It isn't fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory.

12)Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

13) Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. Thats just common
sense!

14) Its never just a game when youre winning.

15)I think its the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it
deliberately.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say
that your first victory was just luck. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Im not a HANDSOME guy, but i can give my HAND-TO-SOME one who needs help. Beauty is
in heart, not in face." ~ Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential
and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult." ~ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom."-Dr A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam

An astounding line By Dr Kalam:

"Pyar karne ke liye toh yeh zindagi bhi kam pad jati hai.
Pata nahi log nafrat ke liye waqt kaise nikal lete hain."

"I count the number of laughs that I was responsible for eliciting; I find it more invigorating than
the number of battles I've won." - Unknown (probably military man

V to Evie in V for Vendetta:

"Voil! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the
vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now
vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has
vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the
violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta
held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant
and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add
that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
If I may say so -

An admirable achievement in alliterative assertion at its adroit and articulate best.

" However many holy words you read,

However many you speak,
What good will they do you, if you do not act upon them " ... Buddha

"When I give food to hungry, they call me a Saint..

When I talk about hunger they call me a Communist"
Plato's words which should resonate with us:
The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in government, is to suffer
under the government of bad men.
It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do defines you"
- Rachel Dawes to Bruce Wayne (Batman Begins)

Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

It is the level-headed man, the calm man of good judgement and cool nerves, of great sympathy
and love, who does good work and does good to himself.
- Swami Vivekananda.

This one is for all my fellow aspirants -

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.
A quote by John Maynard Keynes, when he was accused of being inconsistent. He said,
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?
you are what your deep driving desire is;as your deep driving desire is,so is your will;as your will
is,so is your deed;as your deed is so is your destiny-upanishad
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death.
What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the
way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a
gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your
retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade
school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you
go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating... and you finish off as an ******. -
George Carlin

Oxymorons:
- We are not anticipating any emergencies.
- It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.
- Act natural.
- I can't remember having a more memorable time.
- No one goes to that restaurant anymore - it's always too crowded.
- By definition, one divided by zero is undefined.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (18041881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics."

It's not time for asking what this country does for you, it is time for asking what you have to offer
to this country .. J F Kennnedy
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and
tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the
scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

The Joker : I took Gothams white

knight, and brought him down to our
level. It wasnt hard. Ysee,
madness, as you know, is like
gravity. All it takes is a littlepush.

if you are good at something never do it for free.. - Joker

The Joker : The only sensible way to

live in this world is without rules.
And tonight youre gonna break your
one rule
Nobody panics when things
go according to plan. Even if the
plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell
the press that like a gang banger,
will get shot, or a truckload of
soldiers will be blown up, nobody
panics, because its all, part of the
plan. But when I say that one, little
old mayor will die, well then
everyone loses their minds!...
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the
established order, and everything
becomes chaos. Im an agent of
chaos. Oh and you know the thing
about chaos, its fair.

Some of Mark Twain's witty quotes

1.If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

2.Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

3.Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

4.Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is
either mad or an economist.

One of the most awe-inspiring dialogue from the movie Rocky:

The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very mean and nasty place. And I dont
care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it. You
me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. Butit aint about how hard you can hit, its
about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward; how much you can take and
keep moving forward.That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth
then go out and get what you're worth! But you gotta be willing to take the hits and not
pointing' fingers saying, you aint where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody!
Cowards do that and that ain't you! ~ Rocky Balboa

"Heres to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the
square holes. The ones who see things differently. Theyre not fond of rules. And they have no
respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About
the only thing you cant do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human
race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the
people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs.
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just
go one god further."

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of
discouraging rational inquiry."

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers
which are not really answers at all."

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."

"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to
tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they
are atheists."

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions
and the passage of time."

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is
socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in
mathematics."

"Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly
follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'."

"My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism."

- Richard Dawkins.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence
plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided
men."

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the
strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Arise, awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached."

"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the ocean,
says the persevering soul; at my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of energy, that
sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal."

"Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What
would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would
be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes."

"Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world."

"External nature is only internal nature writ large."

"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."

"The goal of mankind is knowledge."

"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of
everything."

"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!"

"All truth is eternal."

"Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as
they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest."

"Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse."

"Desire, ignorance, and inequalitythis is the trinity of bondage."

"Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be."

"Each work has to pass through these stagesridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those
who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood."

"Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward."

"Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings,
because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities."

"The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on
no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free."

"To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe
in anything unquestioningly."

"Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to
Truth or die."
"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has
the praise."

"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite
perseverance."

"Women will work out their destinies much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the
mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women."

"This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others,
the rest are more dead than alive."

- Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta)

"Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what
happen when you dont have a plan."

--Larry Winget
"The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge
encountered there is opportunity for growth."

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun. - APJ Abdul Kalam
Dwell in the thoughts upon the grandest and the grandest you shall see,
Fix your mind upon the highest and the highest you shall be
-Anonymous

Some awesome quotes courtesy the legendary T.N. Seshan(my favorite administrator till date):

Do you know how elections are run in this country? Liquor for the father, cloth for the
mother and food for the baby.

In a booth in Bihar where the voting starts at 7 o'clock in the morning and at 7.15, 105
percent of the votes have been cast.

If equality of hatred is a test of my partiality, I will pass with flying colors.

And there are electoral rolls which are extremely defective. There are names which appear
five times, there are names which don't appear at all, there are dead names which are still
alive and there are live names which are dead.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-

tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've
had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear
would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

Sam Hughes
Life is the only game where you can fight to win even after losing.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe
-Abraham Lincoln

One often finds his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it.

I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a
breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time.

Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be but it's not who you are
underneath, it's what you do that defines you.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread then they can sure make something out of me.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

Google before you Tweet

is the new
Think before you speak.

Between fake optimism and cynical pessimism ,there lies a territory called hope.
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

Vincent Van Gogh

"They buried us, they didnt know we were seeds."

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard Feynman

The saddest leitmotif in the history of the world is this inclination of the living to fight battles of the
dead and to ruin their lives in the process. - Yo Urst Uly

If you can't care to fight against an injustice with all your might, then you don't get to question
others about why it still exists either. - Yo Urst Uly

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do
what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you
haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when
you find it.

Steve Jobs
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up.

Thomas A. Edison
When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at
church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my
sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasnt for me." In-Fidel
Castro
"Even fortune sides those who are virtuous- men of wisdom; of virility- of rash energy..............
because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use
her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those
who go to work more coldly. Fortune is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men,
because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her."

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Females are weaker and colder in nature, and we must look upon the female character as being
a sort of natural deficiency."

Aristotle

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the
day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night."

Kautilya
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney

...
, ...!
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant
people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is
unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See
if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and
churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet
anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

William Saroyan

Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya, Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,

Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya, Tadatmanam Srijami Aham'

Praritranaya Sadhunam, Vinashaya Cha Dushkritam

Dharamasansthapnaya, Sambhavami Yuge-Yuge."

"Whenever there is decay of righteousness O! Bharatha And a rise of unrighteousness then I

manifest Myself! For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked and for the
establishment of righteousness, I am born in every age."

Geeta. Chapter 4, Verse 7-8

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You
may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for
you. Walt Disney

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go
through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Winning is great, sure, but if you
are really going to do something
in life, the secret is learning how
to lose. Nobody goes undefeated
all the time. If you can pick up
after a crushing defeat, and go on
to win again, you are going to be
a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

Success is not final, failure is

not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts. - Winston
Churchill
For what its worth: its never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life youre
proud of, and if you find youre not, I hope you have the strength to start over again. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
The only ones who should kill, are those who are prepared to be killed.

It wasn't me who was wrong, it was the world.

What do you do when there is an evil you cannot defeat by just means? Do you stain your
hands with evil to destroy evil? Or do you remain steadfastly just and righteous even if it means
surrendering to evil?

To defeat evil, I must become a greater evil

If the king doesnt move, how can his subjects follow

If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime?

You can't change the world without getting your hands dirty.

The trick of real combat is that everyone is human

Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all.
That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a
hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward

If I deliver to you the impossible, then I might have earned your trust.

--Lelouch Vi Britannia
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
"Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make
money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future
that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the
future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
- Dalai Lama
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live
without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at
all in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K Rowling
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should
we let them have ideas?
Joseph Stalin

It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are
perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side
can only be discovered by diligent search.

Bertrand Russell
Dare to think for yourself.

Voltaire

Dogma is a defence against the brains capacity for free thought based on the fear that
such thought might lead to a scary place."

Joe Blow

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good
American because I like to form my own opinions.

George Carlin

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain,
he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.

Flemming Rose
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on
the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and
comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us
just because he is a scoundrel.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be
taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of
love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one
derived from fear of punishment.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are
dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills
are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills
underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt
on the past, there is no thorough repair.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

C. JoyBell C.
I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in
the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have
problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look
pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high
and you carry the universe in your heart.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value -
Bertrand Russell