Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
- Michael Crichton

Ursula Le Guin

The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula Le Guin

Simon Cameron

An honest politician is one who, when
he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men.
- Herman Melville

John Dewey

We can have facts without thinking but
we cannot have thinking without facts.
- John Dewey

Marilyn French

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
- Marilyn French

Robert Orben

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

Mark Edwards

The object in life is not to be on the side
of the majority, but to be insane in such a
useful way that they can't commit you.
- Mark Edwards

Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving
- Iris Murdoch

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are
those which destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

Albert Guinon

When everyone is against you, it means that you
are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon

William Arthur Wood

Leadership is based on inspiration, not
domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Wood

John Shelby Spong

Mother Nature is not sweet.
- John Shelby Spong

Oscar Wilde

Religions die when they are proved to be true.
Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde