Thursday, February 4, 2010

Got Religion?

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
:: Carl Sandburg

The Infinity of My Nothingness

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
:: Blaise Pascal

Fight the Good Fight

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
:: Plato

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

No More For Me, Thanks, Really

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
:: Dick Cavett

Just Do It, Scaredeypants

Always do what you are afraid to do.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, February 1, 2010

The Replacements

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
:: Vic Gold

Planned Parenthood

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
:: E. B. White

Let the Children Play

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
:: Marcus Brigstocke

Friday, January 29, 2010

And It's Never Good

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
:: Alfred A. Knopf

It'll Be Your Little Secret

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
:: Henry Ward Beecher

Fuggetaboutit

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
:: Confucius

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Consumerism Has a Price

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
:: From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

So Close, Yet So Far Away

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
:: Confucius

It's Not That Bad, Is It?

Communism is like one big phone company.
:: Lenny Bruce

The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
:: Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Deadliest Art in the World

The crystal art objects created by Luke Jerram are quite beautiful. The fact that they are painstaking replicas of some of the world's deadliest viruses and bacteria make them quite intriguing and evocative. The photo on the left depicts the SARS virus. Peruse some of the Deadliest Art in the World.