Quotes meme

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Gakked from marjun: Go here. Keep refreshing until you've collected five quotes that really resonate with you, then post them to your journal.

• We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
  - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
  
  
• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
  - Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
  
  
• If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
  - Lord Salisbury
  
  
• We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
  - Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
  
  
• We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
  - Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953

Runners up:

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)