Collected Quotations

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their
distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Around the dinner table of a small family in Idaho a child asks, "Mommy what are tensors?"
the mother gentely replies, "Dear, you'll have to wait until you are a bit older to hear the answer to that."
Anonymous
The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result
with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
in "The World of Mathematics" J. R. Newman (ed.)
(Wait isnt that the theory of catagories?)
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Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through a confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation.
from the "Lorica of St. Patrick"
If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it
would be until the looting started.
...when you tell people you know what is good for them especially if you are a doctor, they will believe you. Having no
beliefs of their own they believe, It's a truism that as faith in God has declined belief in science, especially medical
science, has increased. Yet most people know even less about science than they did about God. Science is now incomprehensible
to the layman but the layman accepts it, even though one of the arguments against God is that He doesn't make sense.
"Art & Lies", Jeanette Winterson
If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what are the others like?
Voltaire, Candide.
Q: What is a leader?
A: A leader is smart and good and some fight. A leader is very very good and smart. A leader likes to ride horses and
likes to fish.
Max Maderazo (age 6)
The Pillsbury doughboy is way too happy considering
When people say "It's always in the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found
it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?
Doesn t it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single
annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian."
There is no way in the world a kid can be raised by a pack of wild wolves and not know that he/she is not a wolf.
Me (Randolph Cooper)
If God doesn't exist then who makes the next cleanex come up? Told to me by a friend
If we had our lives to live over again,
we could make the same mistakes much more easily.
Anonymous
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors African Proverb