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I've always loved a good quote. Since I was a teenager, in the early 70s, I started noting notable sayings on little index cards for quick reference. Over the years I've accumulated hundreds of these little cards so I hope to post some of the better ones, here, as time permits...

"Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means "First, do no harm."
(attributed to Galen of Pergamon - a prominent Greek physician)

Don't be evil - Google (2001)

I love this one my sister Kelly sent to me:

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence
is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
- Robert Hughes

Freedom and the Law

All of the laws that identify victimless crimes
are the result of someone's anxiety. The laws don't
limit your freedom, but necessitate caution when you
exercise it. The great challenge in contemporary culture
is being free without becoming the victim of other's anxiety.

- Camden Benares in Zen without Zen masters

" ... when you come back from the Third World to the West - the U.S. in particular - you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other. It's startling how stultifying it feels, since our opportunities are so vastly greater here."

- Noam Chomsky

"I'm not going to let you tell me who I am,
I'm going to tell you who I am."

- Maysoon Zayid (Maysoon is a Palestinian-American
Muslim with cerebral palsy who works as a stand-up comedian in New
York City. She gave me permission to use this quote from her 11-17-2003
interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!)

"The United States of Amnesia:
No memory, no context, no background..."

- David Barsamian, producer of Alternative Radio
while being interviewed about the capture of Saddam Hussein
by Sam Fuqua of KGNU radio (08:46 am, December 15, 2003)

During the summer of 2005 my friend Charlie Oriez, and environmental activist, was nearing death at the relatively young age of 53. At a party for him, on July 30th, I asked if he had any advise for environmentalists. Although it was 5 pm and Charlie was weakening from his treatments he didn't hestitate to remind me, and the rest of us, to do what Ed Abbey had told all of us so many years ago: To be half-time environmentalists so as to avoid burn-out. I then asked him if he had any advise for people who were not environmentalists and Charlie replied as quickly, "Tell 'em to drop dead!"
- Roger J. Wendell

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