Subject:  Viridian Note 00048: Viridian Aphorisms

Key concepts: Viridian Aphorisms, Viridian Ranking System

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Viridian Aphorisms
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Contribute a useful Viridian aphorism, and you will 
receive an attractive chevron >^< for your log-in name.

"Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation."  
Stanislaus Lec

"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."  
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Think.  It ain't illegal yet." George Clinton

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more 
complex, and more violent."  E. F. Schumacher

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will 
to find out, which is the exact opposite."  Bertrand 
Russell

"Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable 
to sit still in a room."  Blaise Pascal

"The natural environment is doctored up continuously and 
warped by the acts of the human brain."  Richard Neutra

"Those who will not labor mightily on their own behalf 
shall be given other masters."  Xenophon

"If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it 
can create the consoling illusion that it has been 
mastered."  Stanley Kubrick

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have 
got to succeed in doing what is necessary."   Winston 
Churchill

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is 
not of our side."  Lord Halifax

"If we were not all so excessively interested in 
ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us 
would be able to endure it."  Schopenhauer

"Man does not live long enough to profit from his faults." 
Jean de La Bruyere


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