tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:40:35 +0000chaoscatgovernmentinsultshouseworkLife LessonsThursday InsulthistorycommunicateLearnPhilosphygratitudePersevereintoxicationReligionServiceWritingartattitudedoquotesriskA daily (or nearly daily) quote of my choice.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)Blogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-5285305751363866337Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-07-01T00:00:02.210-04:00religionEverything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/07/buckminster-fuller.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-968996798831236771Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-30T00:00:01.835-04:00religionDo not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.  Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.  But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/buddha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-1769029557378605647Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-29T00:00:00.807-04:00ReligionBut the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/herbert-butterfield.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-6591009641754534542Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-28T00:00:04.641-04:00religionDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/tom-robbins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-1774847153641397726Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-27T00:00:01.442-04:00historyThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-santayana.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-7005823440457098787Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-26T00:00:04.292-04:00historyHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/napoleon-bonaparte.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-7291203120118433349Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-25T00:00:05.631-04:00historyHistory is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/edward-gibbon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-4253808386339510497Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-24T00:00:01.714-04:00historyHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-bernard-shaw_24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-5022293681231766544Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-23T00:00:04.338-04:00historyAfter all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/after-all-science-is-essentially.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-2387087547894898714Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-22T00:00:04.647-04:00gratitudeI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/e-e-cummings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-3147512668125593617Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-21T00:00:00.983-04:00gratitudeI feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/benjamin-disraeli.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-7353068084725835887Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-20T00:00:02.417-04:00gratitudeAll receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.  Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/khalil-gibran.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-6812093532279233371Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-19T00:00:03.562-04:00communicateThe meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with but.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/henry-ward-beecher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-353576813476147744Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-19T00:00:01.739-04:00communicateSilence is the most perfect expression of scorn.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-bernard-shaw.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-3984162297379034205Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-18T00:00:03.294-04:00communicateOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/friedrich-nietzche.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-4201855686068831622Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-17T00:00:04.852-04:00communicateA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/georg-christoph-lichtenberg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-7925455010059813366Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-16T00:00:05.247-04:00catYou will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/proverb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-9194933453826551816Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-15T00:00:01.198-04:00catYou own a dog but you feed a cat. http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/jenny-de-vries.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-514564224896499482Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-14T00:00:00.678-04:00catYou can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/george-mikes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-1123330626173670637Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-13T00:00:03.825-04:00catWhat greater gift than the love of a cat? http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/charles-dickens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-6360063135112375692Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-12T00:00:03.676-04:00catTo bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat.  The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/stephen-baker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-4761067632569296237Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-12T00:00:03.489-04:00catTime spent with cats is never wasted.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/sigmund-freud.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-4753033471499768007Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-11T00:00:02.842-04:00catThere's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/wesley-bates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-596381415754397204Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-10T00:00:00.600-04:00catThere is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/dan-greenberg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140792516900643822.post-131055049479260685Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +00002010-06-09T00:00:03.918-04:00catThere is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.http://schmarvelous.blogspot.com/2010/06/author-unknown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sara Davis)