1. The art of flying is to throw oneself at the ground, and miss. --Douglas Adams
2. Nine out of ten statistics are made up on the spot. --Anon.
3. "Well, if you will, go on. Know this: although you are wrong to go, your friends are right to love you." --Ismene, in Antigone, by Sophocles.
4. Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. --Albert Einstein
5. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain
1. Love Douglas Adams. There's a man with a neverending sense of wimsy. I love it.
2. Heehee. That's about right, I swear. At least, in the practice of the statistics. I read Innumeracy about a decade ago and it changed everything.
3. Blessed charity, the real kind. The kind that is patient, and forgives, and endures, even when the loved one is doing something monumentally stupid.
4. I think it is the same for service, too. Maybe that's why we don't/shouldn't campaign for church callings - because then, it is about ourselves, and that's not the point. I also love the apotheosis of art and science here.
5. Mark Twain really was amazing sometimes. This is perfect. It relates to my idea of personal freedom - never, ever having to lie.
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