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2.26.2006

Real security is not knowing something when you don't know it.

Real security cannot be bought or arranged or accomplished with bombs. It is deeper. It is a process. It is the acute awareness that we are all utterly interdependent and that one action by one being in one town has consequences everywhere.

Real security is the ability to tolerate mystery, complexity, ambiguity--indeed hungering for these things.

Freedom is not knowing where you are but being deeply there.
Not waiting for someone to save or rescure you or heal your terrible past but doing that for yourself.
Not putting your flag in the ground.
Being willing to get lost.


--Eve Ensler

2.25.2006

"So far, so good, right?" Donald asks, and they're all like, "Um, yeah!" Because what choice do they have? "Good, except that your fiancee is too shiny."
--Television Without Pity recap of The Apprentice, Season 2, regarding the contestants' introduction to Donald Trump's then-fiancee Melania

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
--Bill Vaughan

2.21.2006

If you wait a few minutes you can have a piece of cake. Baked it chock-full of love. Actually, it's chock-full of unrelenting, all-consuming rage and hostility, but it's still tasty.
--Dr. Isobel "Izzy" Stevens (Katherine Heigl), Grey's Anatomy, "The Self-Destruct Button"

2.20.2006

Do you know how I know it's true? I know it. And if I know it, it's true.
--Judge Judy Sheindlin

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating--in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.
--Anne Morris

2.15.2006

You've read of the great cases in our jurisprudence, the landmarks in our law. These cases didn't come into the lawyers' offices with signs on the clients' backs saying 'I am the Dartmouth College case, I am Pennoyer v. Neff, I am Marbury v. Madison.' These cases will come into your office only as humble human beings, perhaps some of them even incapable of adequate expression. These men will be great cases only as you're able to interpret their human rights to legal remedies before a jury and as a plaintiff's lawyer makes them great.
--Melvin Belli

2.06.2006

Usually, when you go to someone's house they offer you coffee. They say, "You want some coffee?" I tell them, "No thanks, I have coffee at home. But I could use a little pancake mix." I try to get things I need.
--George Carlin

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
--Doug Larson

2.01.2006

A lot of growing up takes place between "it fell" and "I dropped it."
--quoted in the magazine, Taste of Home; original source unknown

There is always an easy solution to every problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
--H.L. Mencken; quoted by Gil Grissom (William Petersen) in the CSI episode, Chaos Theory