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Golden Rule
- Treat others as you wish to be treated.
Platinum Rule
- Treat others as they wish to be treated.
U-235 Rule
- Treat others as they need to be treated.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail.
- Dr. Robert Schuller, quoted in the Fall 2004 catalog of the Institute for Integrated Nutrition.

True affluence is not needing anything.
- Gary Snyder

Sub-cultures are known by their fringes.
- Kyle Cassidy

The best way I know of pursuading you of anything, is not to plead with you to trust me, not to invoke authority in general, not even to call upon some expert, but to show you just what it is that pursuaded me.
- Phillip Morrison, Technology Review, Feb/Mar 1992
from the program of his Memorial Celebration, Sat 10 Sep 2005, Kresge Auditorium

The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.
- found on an envelope from Clinical Pearls Pubications, quoted in the Fall 2004 catalog of the Institute for Integrated Nutrition.

Where you turn when you're in trouble reveals your character.
- Warren Wiersbe

To create is to touch the spirit.
- Micheal Cassou and Stewart Cubley

The point of the work is the work.
- Julia Cameron

Of all the gifts life may bestow none is so constant, steady and sure as the tender heart of a friend.

"Mystery is not an argument for the existence of God; mystery is an experience of the existence of God."
- Peter J. Gomes

With mysticism defined as one's sense of direct connectedness to God:
"Christian mysticism has emphasized the 'dark night of the soul,' but a number of religious traditions emphasize the light of the soul rather than the dark night. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, for instance, offers a marvelous Hindu concept of mystical connection without the negativity so prominent in Christianity."
- C. Norman Shealy

Word of Honor
Like flowers rising to meet the sky, we unfold in the presence of a friend. Nothing is withheld, for the trust we exchange allows us both to be all that we are. There is no greater freedom and no more natural joy.
- Robert Sexton

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years
- Simone Signoret

Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any two.

"Books!" Dibs said. "Books and books and books." He lightly ran his fingers over the books. "I love books," he said. "And isn't it funny that little black marks on paper can be so good? Pieces of paper and little tiny black marks and you've got a story."
"Yes", I replied. "It is quite remarkable."
- Virginia M. Axline,
"Dibs in Search of Self", 1964, Ballantine Books.

The beauty remains: the pain passes.
- Auguste Renoir

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
- Thomas Merton

Why is it that the dexteruty, knowledge of art, and taste do not necessarily add up to what we seek in art?
- Peter London

The Limelight is it's own curse.
- Len Tower

Look for the soul that glows with the glory of God.
- Len Tower

Some tasks are simple, but not easy.
- Len Tower

Cherish the people you love.
- Len Tower

The simple joys of intimacy with food, friends, family, home, nature are among the deepest joys.
- Len Tower

Look not backward in anger, nor forward in fear, but around with awareness.

Volunteering allows you to rise to the level of your competence, not your credentials.

"The difference between theory and practice is usually larger in practice than in theory."
- Peter Salus

Don't sweat the small things.

Lefty: "That's the other cool thing about Unix: it seems to foster multiple personality syndrome."

When sys admining, wait for it to fail twice before spending time figuring out why.
- Len Tower

Ask, rather then make an assumption.
- Len Tower

Price and value are not the same.
- Len Tower

There's a difference between "inexpensive" and "cheap".
- Len Tower

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- G. B. Shaw

Q: What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
A: An inconceivable disturbance.

Life's challenges are designed not to break us but to bend us toward God.

Fletcher's First Law of International Commerce:
People who want to sell you something will find a way to communicate regardless of all language barriers."