To continue:

Nonviolence means not to put others into distress.

Tolerance means that one should be practiced to bear insult and dishonor from others.

Simplicity means that without diplomacy one should be so straightforward that he can disclose the real truth even to an enemy.

"...What clever people have not yet learned, some quite ordinary people have not yet entirely forgotten."

CM Kornbluth - The Mindworm

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

Horace Walpole 1742 in a letter to Horace Mann.

"Remember, even monkeys fall out of trees."

Korean Proverb

"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. You either laugh at stuff or you end up with your brains or your beans on the ceiling."

Wavy Gravy

Admittedly they don't all fit under the original definition, but all great nonetheless.

"...What clever people have not yet learned, some quite ordinary people have not yet entirely forgotten."

CM Kornbluth - The Mindworm

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

Horace Walpole 1742 in a letter to Horace Mann.

"Remember, even monkeys fall out of trees."

Korean Proverb

"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. You either laugh at stuff or you end up with your brains or your beans on the ceiling."

Wavy Gravy

Admittedly they don't all fit under the original definition, but all great nonetheless.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. Richard Aldington (1930)

Describing the Black Death (well, duh!;D)

"The number of the beast is 4-by-4!!!"

No.

Look.

Why?

That men and tribes and nations
And all thy hand hath made
May shelter them from sunshine
In thy eternal shade

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Where there are no people, you be a person"
'The Book of Lights' - Chaim Potok.

"Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own"
Player King, 'Hamlet' - Shakespeare.

pity this busy monster, manunkind
not. progress is a comfortable disease--
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
marvels at the bigness
of his littleness. lenses extend
unwish through curving where-when until
unwish returns on its unself.
a world of made is not a world of born--
pity poor flesh, poor stars and stones
but never this fine specimen of
hypermagical ultraomnipotence.
we scientists know a hopeless case if--
hey, there's a hell of a good world
next door; let's go

"Criticism and dissent are the indispensible antidote to major delusions."
Alan Barth

quote:

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, career infantry officer

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The monklike protaganist shoots an arrow blindfolded at a passing bird. He manages to only extract a single feather from the bird but doens't kill it or disturb it's flight. Another character asks him if he meant to hit the bird or the feather.

He says: To eat the bird is not to digest its flight.

"It's easy, you just don't lead em so much!", answered the gunner.

or

And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
Steinbeck

'ChelleAnn