Do Law-Making, Sausage-Making and Quote-Making Have Something in Common?

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."
(unknown source)

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
- Ernest Borgnine

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

 Isabeau wrote: 
Maj. Eaton: We have top men working on it right now.
Indiana: Who?
Maj. Eaton: Top... men.

"Coin collecting is the only hobby where you can spend all your money and still have some left." 

unattributed

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Milton Friedman

"And you left ... just as you were beginning to become interesting."        â€” Senior Doctor Jones to Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.”

Joseph Conrad

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1

There is either understanding, or no understanding.
(Mis-understanding is nothing but an illegitmate feat, used to excuse oneself.)

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961.

The late Townes Van Zandt famously said of Olney: "Any time anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are... I say Mozart, Lightnin Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard — and that's true. I mean that from my heart."

Hypocrisy is a two-edged sword with a broken point.

Hack em and stack em...

 miamizsun wrote: 

"Occasionally one might turn their back on the whole fandango, move to an acutely decipherable distance and acutely observe whilst deciphering..."

- odd old v

The role of politics is to keep things in order,
and not to regulate our inner problems.

you can have money from the floor up to the ceiling , but the size of your funeral will depend on the weather!

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

Society without trust is hell on earth.