swami vivekananda quotes on education

Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. ~e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954



I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see! ~Dave Beard



Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ~Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries



History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle, On History



Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. ~Author Unknown



I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom. ~Author Unknown



The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young



Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office. ~Author Unknown



A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown



Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm. ~Gina Rothfels



By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won't come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. The idea is to take some Joe on the street who's never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life. Get him to explode. Give him permission to beat the crap out of you. You can take it. If you win, you screwed up. "What we have to do, people," Tyler told the committee, "is remind these guys what kind of power they still have." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? ~Samuel Goldwyn



He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny



May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster



This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house. ~Jim Lemon



I can't live either without you or with you. ~Ovid, Amores



Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind. ~Author Unknown



Midnight bugs taste best. ~Author Unknown



Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ~David Gerrold