"The
truth is rarely pure, and never simple." --Oscar Wilde,
writer (1854-1900)
Rowan
Williams, who takes over as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of
October said, "Terrorists can inflict violence on the
innocent only by not seeing certain things or by seeing them from
a distance, which denies the humanity of their victims."
"It
will make no difference whether the reasons will sound convincing
or not. After all, the victor will not be asked whether he spoke
the truth or not. We have to proceed brutally. The stronger is
always right." So said Adolph Hitler to military aides on the
eve of invading Poland in 1939.
Everything
you've learned in school as `obvious' becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are
no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a
solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no
surfaces. There are no straight lines. --R. Buckminster
Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)
"Nor
do these people who yell at the anti-war contingent consider that,
of all the studies carried out on the matter, the one that comes
in with the minimum death toll of civilians in Afghanistan, killed
by American bombs, is 3,125. Which is more than those killed in
the World Trade Centre. Maybe they are aware and enjoy the close
race. Perhaps the news programmes could have the score in the
corner throughout their broadcast, the way they do now with
football and cricket." --Mark Steel
"Sometimes
I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're
not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." --Arthur
C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917
- )
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
-- Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938),
Rowan
Williams, who takes over as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of
October said, "Terrorists can inflict violence on the
innocent only by not seeing certain things or by seeing them from
a distance, which denies the humanity of their victims."
"It
will make no difference whether the reasons will sound convincing
or not. After all, the victor will not be asked whether he spoke
the truth or not. We have to proceed brutally. The stronger is
always right." So said Adolph Hitler to military aides on the
eve of invading Poland in 1939. 
Everything
you've learned in school as `obvious' becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are
no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a
solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no
surfaces. There are no straight lines. --R. Buckminster
Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)
"Nor
do these people who yell at the anti-war contingent consider that,
of all the studies carried out on the matter, the one that comes
in with the minimum death toll of civilians in Afghanistan, killed
by American bombs, is 3,125. Which is more than those killed in
the World Trade Centre. Maybe they are aware and enjoy the close
race. Perhaps the news programmes could have the score in the
corner throughout their broadcast, the way they do now with
football and cricket." --Mark Steel
"Sometimes
I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're
not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." --Arthur
C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917
- ) 
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."