Religion will not regain its old power
until it can face change
in the same spirit as does science.
Its principles may be eternal,
but the expression of those principles
requires continual development.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.
Langston Hughes
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
Hank Aaron to catcher Yogi Berra, who told him to turn his bat around so he could see the trademark during the 1957 World Series, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Somebody once said we never know
what is enough until we know
what's more than enough.
Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues
I could enjoy the simple life
with a small living quarters,
a scratched album of Johnny Cash
and a Box of Twinkies
Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland
[Continental Bakery created Twinkies April 6, 1930]