"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." -Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925) "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." -Groucho Marx (1890-1977) "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." -Conte Vittorio Alfieri "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." -Woody Allen "Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you." -Yassir Arafat "You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds." -Barbara Bloom "What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." -Albert Einstein "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -Douglas Noel Adams "(Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.)" -Caspar de Aguilar "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." -Joseph Addison "Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." -Oscar Ameringer "But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." -Geoffrey F. Abert