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i am not evil

Created on 2003-03-04 11:04:51 (#930990), last updated 2004-06-30

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Location:	Mt. Sinai, Egypt

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I think it's odd that I share my birthday with Saddam Hussein, Oskar Schindler, and Jay Leno.

"Since a car is made to carry and be driven by people, safety is - and must always be - the guiding principle of our design work. Except for collisions and the like, every single load-bearing part of a car must be designed to withstand every stress to which it may conceivably be exposed, and every part which is vital to safety must be designed with a high factor of safety. In this respect, we must err on the side of caution. And caution must continue to be our watchword." - In a sales manual distributed to company dealers, Volvo Founder, Gustaf Larson.

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no more ardent disciple than a reformed sinner." - J. Allan Cain

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by." - Franz Schubert

"A rare genius whose innocent yearning for affection was expressed in music as pure as spring water." - Valerie Grove, speaking of Franz Schubert

“There’s a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly…survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.”

"Why bother? Only to be alive. Only to be real, only to be made not of what we watch and acquire, but of what we think and do. Only, Winston Churchill said, to fight while there is still a small chance so we don't have to fight when there is none. Only to climb the rock face of risk and doubt in order to engage in the most extreme sport of all -- that of being a free and conscious human. Free and conscious even in a society that seems determined to reduce our lives to a barren pair of mandatory functions: compliance and consumption." - Sam Smith

"Hectored, treated, advised, instructed, and compelled at every turn, history's subjects may falter, lose heart, courage, or sense of direction. The larger society is then quick to blame, to translate survival systems of the weak into pathologies, and to indict as neurotic clear recognition of the human condition. The safest defense against this is apathy, ignorance, or surrender. Adopt any of these strategies -- don't care, don't know or don't do -- and you will, in all likelihood, be considered normal. The only problem is that you will miss out on much of your life." - Sam Smith