function makeArray(len) {
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null;
this.length = len;
}
// you add as many quotes as you want here just make sure to change the makeArray(number)
thought = new makeArray(380);
thought[0]="Change is unrelenting, and resisting change is unrewarding.
(06 Nov 2001)";
thought[1]="Hoping rarely affects happening.
(20 Oct 2001)";
thought[2]="Organization leads to efficiency if and only if efficiency was valued and desired initially by the designer of the system of organization.
(20 Sep 2001)";
thought[3]="To defeat those who oppose us, we must become more ourselves.
(20 Sep 2001)";
thought[4]="One of the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of the United States is that the government will always be controlled and contained by a series of checks and balances.
The people are the final check, the ultimate balance. And the higher levels of government can never be allowed to take any action which would inhibit this prime mechanism from functioning as intended.
(15 Sep 2001)";
thought[5]="Without expectation, there can be no disappointment.
(06 Sep 2001)";
thought[6]="There is truth in even the most vile lie, as there are gaps in the most incontrovertible truth.
(05 Sep 2001)";
thought[7]="Possibility is a matter of vision; probability, of understanding.
(22 Jun 2001)";
thought[8]="To forget is to lie.
(22 Jun 2001)";
thought[9]="Those who refuse to be constrained by history are destined to create it.
(21 Jun 2001)";
thought[10]="Superstition is sanctioned insanity.
(20 Apr 2001)";
thought[11]="Justice, not Jesus.
(08 Oct 2000)";
thought[12]="There can be no accountability without responsibility...and vice versa.
(27 Sep 2000)";
thought[13]="A person can do anything he chooses, so long as he's willing to accept the consequences.
(25 Sep 2000)";
thought[14]="No one ever knows what everyone knows, and everyone never knows what one knows.
(21 Sep 2000)";
thought[15]="It is harder to reflect than to object.
(17 Sep 2000)";
thought[16]="We will continue to evolve. For every mechanism of evolution which we alter or eliminate through the application of technology, another will rise and become paramount.
(11 Sep 2000)";
thought[17]="The greatest priority must be to design and implement systems capable of defining, directing, accommodating and adapting to change.
(11 Sep 2000)";
thought[18]="Ambiguous does not mean arbitrary.
(27 Jul 2000)";
thought[19]="Adapt, don't transfer.
(15 Jun 2000)";
thought[20]="The triggers may vary, but the explosions of experience remain the same.
(06 Jun 2000)";
thought[21]="Your brain should choose the steps, but your heart must choose the direction.
(Summer 2000)";
thought[22]="Maps teach cartography, not geography.
(23 May 2000)";
thought[23]="The preposterous challenges our complacency.
(11 May 2000)";
thought[24]="We are all exiled from the naive garden of childhood.
(10 May 2000)";
thought[25]="Superstition is born of unhappiness.
(13 Apr 2000)";
thought[26]="I abhor the school that maintains that American literature must be about bad grammar, bad thinking and bad behavior.
(08 Mar 2000)";
thought[27]="Love dies and leaves a leech attached to us, draining away whatever we had that allowed us to love in the first place.
(19 Feb 1999)";
thought[28]="Sentiment is sediment.
(17 Jan 1999)";
thought[29]="My heart is an ash; my soul, a cinder.";
thought[30]="That which you most despise
you shall inevitably become.
(1995)";
thought[31]="Anyone is capable of anything at any time. (1995)";
thought[32]="Tears tell us all we know:
Weeping is an education.
(04 Nov 1994)";
thought[33]="There is nothing so tentative as the future.
(28 Nov 1990)";
thought[34]="A person's history is a person
and to avoid the one
is never to know the other.
(10 Sep 1990)";
thought[35]="Beauty is the only remedy for loneliness.
(07 Aug 1990)";
thought[36]="20th century man, unable to empirically prove/disprove the existence of a soul, has done his best to structure his society in such a way that, if there is a soul, it will starve; thus, certainty is achieved.
(27 Jul 1990)";
thought[37]="An action can be good or evil, but a result is only productive or non-productive.
(27 Jul 1990)";
thought[38]="Strive continuously to grow
and someday you will blossom.
(24 Jan 1990)";
thought[40]="I am not a cog in anyone's religious machine; I am only a person with a mind apart, a love of truth, and a few tentative beliefs—not convoluted enough to be a system—based upon certain observations and reasonings, not necessarily all my own.
(30 Oct 1989)";
thought[41]="The god that could be responsible for the world as we know it would be a very human god indeed.
(02 May 1989)";
thought[42]="Plot is only possible when story is limited; character is infinite in cross-section.
(25 Apr 1989)";
thought[43]="My first contemplation was of death; my last, no doubt, will be of life.
(25 Apr 1989)";
thought[44]="At all times, remember that you're dying and proceed from there.
(17 Oct 1987)";
thought[45]="There isn't enough joy in the world to go around; I fear I won't get a share.
(16 Oct 1987)";
thought[46]="Problems are best brought to one's attention by their solutions.
(08 Oct 1987)";
thought[47]="A basic need is to share experience with a like and sympathetic mind.
(23 Sep 1987)";
thought[48]="We must remember, when discussing experimental fiction, that most experiments are not successful.
(19 Mar 1987)";
thought[49]="All happy endings are wishful thinkings toward the one Happy Ending.
(30 Oct 1986)";
thought[50]="It seems entirely possible that the root of all mental illness is loneliness.
(23 Oct 1986)";
thought[51]="It hasn't been fun but it has been done.
(15 Oct 1986)";
thought[52]="Life is sentient Death.
(02 Oct 1986)";
thought[53]="I can be owned for a pleasant word.
(03 Sep 1986)";
thought[54]="Beans are for the settled.
(04 May 1986)";
thought[55]="Books can be written; lives cannot. Would that I could stop trying to write my life.
(04 Mar 1986)";
thought[56]="There is more to be learned in life than there is to be taught.
(03 Mar 1986)";
thought[57]="It is my ambition to defy tradition.
(20 Jan 1986)";
thought[58]="Our society both promotes and condemns dreams and ambition, leaving it up to each individual to find his own happy medium; however, one man's medium is another man's extreme.
(02 Dec 1985)";
thought[59]="What one experiences with his eyes closed, he can never truly perceive as real.
(14 Nov 1985)";
thought[60]="How much we take the language for granted! There are so many things that, when questioned, we cannot explain, or can explain only with great difficulty.
(01 Nov 1985)";
thought[61]="I am a tourist in the realm of life.
(18 Oct 1985)";
thought[62]="Just because a hammer has never been used doesn't mean it won't hang a picture.
(11 Sep 1985)";
thought[63]="It's all right to count unhatched chickens if you want them for scrambled eggs.
(12 Jun 1985)";
thought[64]="Everyone projects his own reality which, like an assertive aura, extends itself a distance into the world, weakening as it gets further from its source until, finally, it is undetectable, having combined with every other person's to form the fabric of the reality accepted as standard.
(25 Mar 1985)";
thought[65]="There is no waste like the extravagence of an idle mind.
(1985)" ;
thought[66]="There is no music more beautiful than the song of the moment, barely heard.
(10 Sep 1984)";
thought[67]="If tomorrow is another today, I'll take my pick of yesterdays.
(23 Jun 1984)";
thought[68]="Everyone entertains evil thoughts on occasion; but while the good man soon turns them away like the gatecrashers that they are, the bad invites them to return again and again.
(12 Mar 1984)";
thought[69]="The ability to transform mundane moments into memorable events is to be highly prized.
(03 Jan 2002)";
thought[70]="Time can only be perceived or measured in units of change.
(19 Feb 2002)";
thought[71]="There are no guilty pleasures; either a thing triggers a pleasurable response or it doesn't. Moral judgement and practical restriction or repression is appropriate to choices and to actions, but never to simple perception or sensation. Assessment of what is pleasurable is not comparable to and should not be confused with assessment of what is proper.
(01 Jan 2003)";
thought[72]="You don't conform truth to delusion, you confront delusion with truth.
(12 Jan 2003)";
thought[73]="All representation is caricature.
(12 Jan 2003)";
thought[74]="When pebbles lie all about a still pond's edge,
few can resist the temptation to create a disturbance.
(29 Sep 2003)";
thought[75]="The idea of the social norm is perhaps the most destructive to our happiness and success.
(30 Oct 2003)";
thought[76]="Everything is both more and less complex than it at first appears.
(26 Nov 2003)";
thought[77]="Ignorant of physics, biology, history, sociology and psychology, one has little choice but to invent a god.
(11 Jan 2004)";
thought[78]="Respiration is desperation.
(07 May 2004)";
thought[79]="The unlived life is not worth examining.
(12 May 2004)";
thought[80]="Eclecticism is the only tradition robust enough for the modern mind.
(02 Jun 2004)";
thought[81]="Reality is limitation.
(18 Jun 2004)";
thought[82]="A spontaneous smile is to the heart what the sun is to the eye.
(26 Jun 2004)";
thought[83]="Arbitrary is not just, and justice is not arbitrary.
(20 Jul 2004)";
thought[84]="Creativity is to recombination as genius is to mutation.
(14 Aug 2004)";
thought[85]="As the gnat sees geography, as the fruit fly sees history, as a mirror sees identity, such is man's view of reality.
(04 Nov 2004)";
thought[86]="The more one looks at a thing, the more it is reduced.
(07 Nov 2004)";
thought[87]="Like so much else in the Bible, sin is almost certainly more often intended to be understood metaphorically than literally.
(07 Nov 2004)";
thought[88]="Ignorance is not bliss, but ignorance of evil may be.
(17 Nov 2004)";
thought[89]="People describe the maps of their own limitations every time they speak.
(24 Nov 2004)";
thought[90]="It is easy to see the bad in someone, but how to measure the good when our vision is so colored by projection, gullibility, and wishful thinking?
(25 Nov 2004)";
thought[91]="A provocation inoculates against forgetting.
(30 Nov 2004)";
thought[92]="One has to be crazy to see the truth, but that doesn't mean everything crazy is true.
(02 Dec 2004)";
thought[93]="Human beings habitually lie and misdirect and obfuscate because deep down they believe that revelation is a capitulation, a denouement, a prelude to a death, not the catalyst for a more stable existence with consistent and ongoing rewards.
(03 Dec 2004)";
thought[94]="I care some about what other people like, but not a whit about what they don't like.
(04 Dec 2004)";
thought[95]="Anyone who would say or sign a loyalty oath of any kind has already demonstrated himself unfit to fulfill it by betraying their prime loyalty to their own liberty.
(04 Dec 2004)";
thought[96]="The only real sin is to interfere with another's growth.
(16 Dec 2004)";
thought[97]="Human culture is a rich and enticing smorgasbord, and he who limits himself to servings from a single dish shall soon wither of malnutrition.
(18 Dec 2004)";
thought[98]="The simplistic, derivative, repetitive (and fundamentally satisfying) imagery of television programming, like the verbal and written transmission of myth before it, is an external creation homologous to (and unconsciously mimicking) the products of the dreaming process. The question is, why have we evolved not only to respond to these ongoing affirmations and recapitulations of social and ethical axioms but to ceaselessly whisper reassurances to ourselves sotto voce as a co-linear thread of consciousness?
(20 Dec 2004)";
thought[99]="The desire to belong should, in maturity, be trumped by the confidence to stand alone.
(21 Dec 2004)";
thought[100]="It is all too easy to assume or postulate that aspects of one's own culture are universal and innate, particularly when one's culture is dominant in the region or in one's experience, when in fact it is just as likely that they may simply be the result of fashion and the moment, the product of coincidence or local social process.
(22 Dec 2004)";
thought[101]="Complexity resists reductionism.
(22 Dec 2004)";
thought[102]="Belief is a simplistic response to complexity.
(06 Jan 2005)";
thought[103]="Failure can be just as interesting as success, in its own way.
(13 Jan 2005)";
thought[104]="Life becomes surreal in direct proportion to the degree to which it is indistinguishable from hyperbole.
(19 Jan 2005)";
thought[105]="The only real objection to death is as an interruption of continuity.
(25 Jan 2005)";
thought[106]="Villains often rise, but heroes always fall.
(25 Jan 2005)";
thought[107]="Unrequited love is not love, but desire;
unqualified love is not love, but worship.
(31 Jan 2005)";
thought[108]="It grows more difficult each day to embrace bitterness in an increasingly mad world, for the crazy cannot be culpable, only pitiable.
(23 Feb 2005)";
thought[109]="Is there any evidence that the products of information processing are any different than the products of nutrient processing?
(27 Mar 2005)";
thought[110]="The term 'supernatural' is nonsensical. A better term for what most people mean when they use it is 'superordinary.'
(07 Apr 2005)";
thought[111]="More human history was both discovered and destroyed during the 19th and 20th centuries than in perhaps all of preceding time.
(24 Apr 2005)";
thought[112]="Nothing can be divorced from its natural consequences.
(12 May 2005)";
thought[113]="Effort uncoupled from reward is madness.
(09 Jun 2005)";
thought[114]="The long view is essential, but must never interfere with the windy whorls of change.
(02 Jul 2005)";
thought[115]="Which is responsible for more of the ills of the world, malice or apathy? dishonesty or naivete?
(28 Jul 2005)";
thought[116]="If it comes from the mist
to kiss you on the lips,
don't walk away.
(29 Dec 2005)";
thought[117]="If one accepts that there could exist a standard of sanity of which he is not aware, it follows that he might plausibly fall within the population of exclusion therein defined, with no awareness of this fact or its implications.
(11 Jan 2006)";
thought[118]="The purity of the naive is the simplicity of error.
(21 Jan 2006)";
thought[119]="Entropy is higher order potential.
(21 Jan 2006)";
thought[120]="I don't prefer anarchy to what could be; I prefer anarchy to what is.
(01 Feb 2006)";
thought[121]="Simplicity leads to complexity;
complexity leads to consolidation;
consolidation results in a new simplicity.
(11 Feb 2006)";
thought[122]="Sincerity doesn't excuse error.
(19 Feb 2006)";
thought[123]="It is a severe indictment of 21st-century society in the United States that we have established so little sense of community that those with a high-level need for it must yet seek it in the intellectually- and morally-bankrupt cults of organized religion.
(01 May 2006)";
thought[124]="Winning is a loser's strategy.
(08 May 2006)";
thought[125]="There is none so blind as he who is not me.
(08 May 2006)";
thought[126]="Consciousness must be lost in death as dreams are often extinguished on waking, inexorably.
(11 May 2006)";
thought[127]="Tattoos are a pretence to permanence that I find profoundly revealing of a particular lack of self-knowledge.
(11 May 2006)";
thought[128]="But why is He necessary?
What insufficiency in the world demands Him?
(15 May 2006)";
thought[129]="Entropy assures us that one and one can never make two.
(21 May 2006)";
thought[130]="Scruples are the signals of the soul.
(22 May 2006)";
thought[131]="Emotions are clouded cognition.
(23 May 2006)";
thought[132]="The chains of authority should be consensual, light, and long.
(26 May 2006)";
thought[133]="The first planet humanity will have to terraform will be the Earth.
(02 Jun 2006)";
thought[134]="In cognitive dissonance, somewhere, lies the soul.
(07 Jun 2006)";
thought[135]="People often argue against the pursuit of 'empty pleasures,' yet I rarely see anyone choosing to decline them in favor of 'full miseries.' Surely a subtle gradient of satisfaction and enrichment is more realistic than such a stark, puritanical contrast.
(12 Jun 2006)";
thought[136]="Excuses are tedious.
(17 Jun 2006)";
thought[137]="Sometimes in order to do more you have to risk doing less.
(18 Jun 2006)";
thought[138]="The Villain steps always in darkness; the Hero, in shadows.
(21 Jun 2006)";
thought[139]="If even love is subject to the grim arc of gravity, then what bliss teases and tempts us so relentlessly with the prospect of endless flight? Is it death?
(07 Jul 2006)";
thought[140]="If life is accidental, then death must be as well.
(07 Jul 2006)";
thought[141]="Even while battered to an unprecedented degree by Change at the crest of her power, no population has ever lived so sheltered from consequence, so removed from so much of what has been the very core of reality to so many.
(07 Jul 2006)";
thought[142]="Reason is reason enough.
(07 Jul 2006)";
thought[143]="What portion of an era's distinctive specificities derives from its particular necessities?
(07 Jul 2006)";
thought[144]="The first thing to understand about the world of men is that every man is mad. Women too. Even me. Even you.
(14 Jul 2006)";
thought[145]="So long as 'to govern' is interpreted as 'to rule' rather than 'to guide,' tyranny will ensue.
(19 Jul 2006)";
thought[146]="An unbeliever or skeptic, for whom fantasy remains properly restricted to the imagination, is at an inherent disadvantage when religions seek to make war upon one another, being unable to see sense or profit in a slaughter intended to determine the temporary ascendency of one invented folly over another. It seems to such a one of little importance ultimately whether the advocates of the green fairies should triumph over the forces of the blue fairies, and he wonders that it can matter enough to anyone to warrant the resulting violence and suffering and destruction.
(26 Jul 2006)";
thought[147]="To be complacent is to be complicit.
(03 Aug 2006)";
thought[148]="All traditionalists are both selective and shortsighted.
(04 Aug 2006)";
thought[149]="A man who has an opinion that runs counter to a fact is a fool.
(21 Aug 2006)";
thought[150]="I embrace idleness like the proverbial drunk, yet it is not the dulling lure of alcohol or the reverse stimulant of inaction that intoxicates me. What, then? The exercise of freedom? The pursuit of knowledge? of happiness?
(30 Aug 2006)";
thought[151]="Understanding is not a requirement of living, of survival. How could it be? The ability to understand evolved long after we were already living successfully. But to take the next step, from existence to something more, will be impossible without a commitment to understanding far beyond that which society has yet made or encouraged.
(15 Sep 2006)";
thought[152]="Monoculture is the goal of corporatism, for it is inefficient to cater to multiple markets when you can manufacture one.
(26 Sep 2006)";
thought[153]="To locate the faults and fissures in a society, listen for the bubbling sound.
(27 Sep 2006)";
thought[154]="It is important to remember that it is precisely the poverty of the past-a poverty grossly magnified through the partial and providential preservation of what has gone before-which so impresses its exceptional productions upon us.
(27 Sep 2006)";
thought[155]="Justice is as simpleminded as the sword slashing at the knot, rending even as it releases.
(27 Sep 2006)";
thought[156]="Transgression in society is often trivial; transgression in nature, rarely so.
(01 Oct 2006)";
thought[157]="Love is expensive; affection is free.
(08 Oct 2006)";
thought[158]="Perspective is error. And insight.
(08 Oct 2006)";
thought[159]="To embrace without needing is to experience without suffering. Once habit has been exploded, only the requirements of the body keep us from being truly free.
(09 Oct 2006)";
thought[160]="Standard causality is demonstrated by reliable repetition and by noting the lack of effect when the proposed cause is removed. But what if there were another type of causality, independent of (and undetectable by) these objective measures? A correlation which existed only in expectation, or intent? Would this be delusion? Or magic?
(10 Oct 2006)";
thought[161]="Agreement requires understanding.
(12 Oct 2006)";
thought[162]="There is no right to delusion.
(18 Oct 2006)";
thought[163]="A commitment to rationalism is not a death pact with simplistic equations.
(20 Oct 2006)";
thought[164]="To be diverse and rapidly-evolving is heaven; extinction is hell.
(22 Oct 2006)";
thought[165]="Life, or being, exists in absolute contrast to non-being. Death initiates non-being. Therefore the only life-affirming philosophy is one which resists death. It is a binary decision: 1 or 0. Evolution can only provide for life at a species level, and so it concerns itself with reproduction and replacement. We can do better. We can assess and address the needs of the individual, and so we must concern ourselves with extension and maintenance.
(27 Oct 2006)";
thought[166]="Change without creation is necessarily directed by its initial limitations.
(27 Oct 2006)";
thought[167]="The process of refinement is an ouroboros. Because nothing is excreted by this autophage, nothing is produced-it is merely repurposed.
(27 Oct 2006)";
thought[168]="Repetition is the engine of aging.
(01 Nov 2006)";
thought[169]="Diversity includes perversity.
(04 Nov 2006)";
thought[170]="To deny the possibility of a thing, without evidence to negate it, is as irrational as guaranteeing its occurrence on the basis only of its possibility. And yet things fail to happen far more frequently than they happen, so one can seem a savant merely by promoting negative probabilities.
(18 Nov 2006)";
thought[171]="Enlightenment doesn't equip one to live more successfully in the world; it only transcends the illusions of mind.
(02 Dec 2006)";
thought[172]="A writer struggles to intensify the reader's struggle, not necessarily to clarify it.
(03 Dec 2006)";
thought[173]="Rush's Rule of Discriminatory Homeopathy: Exposure to a single superior exemplar of any category can cause one to appreciate and approve even mediocre representatives of the same category in the future, even in cases where they were eschewed in the past.
(15 Dec 2006)";
thought[174]="The most important thing about democracy is not that it safeguards the normal, the mundane, the trivial, but that it allows the excellent to more readily emerge by challenging it with the least resistance.
(18 Dec 2006)";
thought[175]="Unfamiliar words can initiate unfamiliar thoughts.
(30 Dec 2006)";
thought[176]="You can't perceive an opportunity without first acknowledging a fault.
(31 Dec 2006)";
thought[177]="Only a reactionary identifies too closely with gender, race, culture, habit, age. A tree can grow branches in any direction and doesn't confuse itself with the moss on its bark or the transient shadows it casts upon the ground.
(10 Jan 2007)";
thought[178]="Love is obsessive, possessive affection.
(15 Jan 2007)";
thought[179]="Everything is a negotiation, but not everything is negotiable.
(18 Jan 2007)";
thought[180]="Lies are confusion, truth is chaos.
(19 Jan 2007)";
thought[181]="Never mistake the preferred for the necessary.
(26 Jan 2007)";
thought[182]="Madness is divergence from reality, denial of fact, distance from the truth. Given the way our brains work, as aggressive model-making engines of approximation, each of us is demonstrably mad, distinguished only by the amplitude of our deviation.
(02 Feb 2007)";
thought[183]="Anticipation focuses the attention, but hope smothers reason.
(02 Feb 2007)";
thought[184]="I would rather enjoy a person, place, thing or experience than love it, for the same reason I prefer to walk about freely rather than in chains. There is a neediness to love, a whiff of obsession, which often strikes me as subtly demeaning to everyone involved.
(31 Mar 2007)";
thought[185]="Unlike, say, bad medicine or bad math, one can do some good with bad poetry.
(01 Apr 2007)";
thought[186]="The key to growth is to make a lot of mistakes but to never repeat one.
(21 Apr 2007)";
thought[187]="Denial of one's desires decreed and imposed by others can never be enjoyed as self-denial sometimes can. The pleasures of self-denial, such as they are, are rooted in celebration of self-control and self-determination, the very opposite of external restriction.
(22 Apr 2007)";
thought[188]="With an infinite number of ways of being wrong and usually just one way of being precisely correct, the wonder is not that people are so often wrong but that anyone ever gets it right.
(30 Apr 2007)";
thought[189]="Emergent patterns and phenomena don't necessarily mean anything. It is enough that they can be interesting.
(05 May 2007)";
thought[190]="The entire historical trend has been for humans to investigate the mysteries of causation at ever-closer range and in ever-finer detail, and the closer we have learned to look, the further we have banished ignorance and the ineffable. It now seems reasonable to conclude that there is nothing inscrutable, that 'mystery' truly means no more than 'not yet understood.'
(22 May 2007)";
thought[191]="Cooperation does not require compliance.
(22 May 2007)";
thought[192]="Knowledge increases uncertainty as least as often as it diminishes it. (This is not, however, a reason to avoid knowledge.)
(11 Jun 2007)";
thought[193]="Within every rule is a calcified misunderstanding.
(14 Jun 2007)";
thought[194]="The compulsion of sexual attraction may lie not only behind all human culture, but behind all human association.
(25 Jun 2007)";
thought[195]="Identity is born of decision-making; character develops in response to the consequences of one’s decisions.
(01 Jul 2007)";
thought[196]="Lies suffice
Until someone speaks the truth.
(25 Jul 2007)";
thought[197]="Sorting and categorizing poems, and poets, is too a kind of poetry, though a bit tuneless and insensate a form for my taste.
(05 Aug 2007)";
thought[198]="There is satisfaction, too, in the unconsumed.
(05 Aug 2007)";
thought[199]="Every trail is a trial; every trial is a trail.
(10 Aug 2007)";
thought[200]="Assertion is pretentious.
(12 Aug 2007)";
thought[201]="The inattentive celebrate the passing of bad
without guarding against the approach of worse.
(27 Aug 2007)";
thought[202]="All categories are provisional and contingent.
(30 Aug 2007)";
thought[203]="Government should exist to administer society's responsibility to maximize its members' liberty, autonomy, opportunity, and time. In practice, however, it more often works to diminish them.
(02 Sep 2007)";
thought[204]="Cry occasionally
or go blind.
(07 Sep 2007)";
thought[205]="Ideally, spontaneity should occur within established parameters.
(10 Sep 2007)";
thought[206]="Poetry is the provocation of birdsong,
not the proclamation of divinity.
(15 Sep 2007)";
thought[207]="An explanation is not a justification. Many things can be understood that cannot be excused.
(20 Sep 2007)";
thought[208]="It is easy to lust for a lie, impossible to love one.
(23 Sep 2007)";
thought[209]="The universe, life included, is not based on expertise but on concatenated accident.
(27 Sep 2007)";
thought[210]="Conscience can't match villainy.
(13 Oct 2007)";
thought[211]="What poets do is not so different from what everyone does. We just leave a more visible stain.
(14 Oct 2007)";
thought[212]="A poem is a song of discovery
sung to oneself.
(18 Oct 2007)";
thought[213]="The most transcendent magic is to make
poems asleep and dreams awake.
(18 Oct 2007)";
thought[214]="It is wiser to be confused than to be mistaken.
(20 Oct 2007)";
thought[215]="There is no bit of history so well documented that it cannot be occluded by fabulation.
(20 Oct 2007)";
thought[216]="Men are volcanic; women, oceanic.
(21 Oct 2007)";
thought[217]="Much is accomplished at a relatively low level of precision.
(27 Oct 2007)";
thought[218]="Understanding feels like recognition because of the repetition of memory.
(05 Nov 2007)";
thought[219]="Compelling dreams delay waking. They are often worth it.
(06 Nov 2007)";
thought[220]="The problem with the crass and the coarse is that they are so often shallow and unoriginal.
(19 Nov 2007)";
thought[221]="All aspiration is pretentious. And so what?
(24 Nov 2007)";
thought[222]="It is unthinkable to build anything without incorporating secrets.
(27 Nov 2007)";
thought[223]="Negativity creeps and clings like kudzu: guard your throat so you don't choke.
(28 Nov 2007)";
thought[224]="The spells of the proficient are not so much hidden as ignored.
(02 Dec 2007)";
thought[225]="Labels overlap. Find freedom in a gap.
(03 Dec 2007)";
thought[226]="Understanding doesn't diminish a mystery.
(03 Dec 2007)";
thought[227]="My madness is prosaic; I long to taste the true surreal (while avoiding the dysfunctional).
(07 Dec 2007)";
thought[228]="Toleration without communication comes hard.
(08 Dec 2007)";
thought[229]="No programming is complete
without provision to delete.
(08 Dec 2007)";
thought[230]="Just as an actor becomes identified with his role (or even typecast by it), so, too, do we with ours.
(09 Dec 2007)";
thought[231]="Space is ego; time, superego; awareness is id.
(12 Dec 2007)";
thought[232]="A cross hanging between even very nice breasts is a deal-breaker. A woman should have more sensible fantasies.
(12 Dec 2007)";
thought[233]="What use a duo with no duet?
(15 Dec 2007)";
thought[234]="Arrogance coupled with error births authoritarianism.
(17 Dec 2007)";
thought[235]="Clarity over clutter, but profusion before aridity.
(17 Dec 2007)";
thought[236]="To the past you’re unimaginable; to the future, unintelligible.
(18 Dec 2007)";
thought[237]="Those who do, can.
(18 Dec 2007)";
thought[238]="I would rather communicate, connect, or share something significant than play games or otherwise amuse myself—not that the two categories need always prove mutually exclusive!—both socially and as a writer.
(20 Dec 2007)";
thought[239]="The authoritarian is the enemy. Everyone else is a friend in strange or unfamiliar clothing.
(04 Jan 2008)";
thought[240]="Dreams are naked memes.
(11 Jan 2008)";
thought[241]="Culture is a non-random but non-inevitable aggregate of various adaptations to historical social challenges.
(12 Jan 2008)";
thought[242]="Fear can be irrational, but love always is.
(13 Jan 2008)";
thought[243]="Gratitude cannot excuse.
(14 Jan 2008)";
thought[244]="There are two types of people in the world: those who would choose wonder and those who would choose love.
(16 Jan 2008)";
thought[245]="Not to struggle against extinction is always a rejection of being, a denial of oneself, a passive suicide.
(19 Jan 2008)";
thought[246]="We are programmed to loop and restart until we learn how to code ourselves and replace iteration with adaptation.
(19 Jan 2008)";
thought[247]="When belief in the magnificent wanes,
like gods and dragons it dissipates.
(20 Jan 2008)";
thought[248]="A good friend
is one who is a good friend to you
until they aren't.
(20 Jan 2008)";
thought[249]="The imposition of order can be productive, but it is never honest.
(20 Jan 2008)";
thought[250]="Information wants to be free, but memes have to be.
(22 Jan 2008)";
thought[251]="Disillusionment is the core of wisdom.
(26 Jan 2008)";
thought[252]="What humans want is offsite backup.
(02 Feb 2008)";
thought[253]="People strive to be like Bugs Bunny, but most of us, most of the time, are more like the Tasmanian Devil.
(02 Feb 2008)";
thought[254]="It's an odd thing about intimacy, how often an inch can seem more remote than a yard.
(02 Feb 2008)";
thought[255]="There is nothing more difficult to deduce than the motives of the irrational.
(02 Feb 2008)";
thought[256]="Misfits are genetic insurance.
(05 Feb 2008)";
thought[257]="Learning happens early; afterwards, the goal of nearly all perception is merely recognition.
(05 Feb 2008)";
thought[258]="Is is not intent. Is is not interpretation. Is is is.
(07 Feb 2008)";
thought[259]="To be successful, utilize, but don't rely on, other people.
(08 Feb 2008)";
thought[260]="Monotheism is egotism externalized.
(08 Feb 2008)";
thought[261]="Creation is coercion.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[262]="Life may imitate art, but not proactively.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[263]="There is nothing more sophomoric than the epithet 'sophomoric.'
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[264]="What one wants always follows directly from one's deepest sense of how things are meant to be.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[265]="Without intent, no accident.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[266]="Fools worship the light the wise use to see.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[267]="Doubt and madness, the yellow flame and the blue, make the only heat that can melt the brittle ice of conviction.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[268]="Identity is aptitude plus attitude.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[269]="Betrayal is a concession that honor is a construct.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[270]="There is no profane mania.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[271]="All teaching is assertion or demonstration.
(09 Feb 2008)";
thought[271]="It's a problem for ambitious (but not sufficiently ambitious) artists that clichés are comforting and the trite is often true.
(10 Feb 2008)";
thought[273]="We relate to the revelation of ruins.
(11 Feb 2008)";
thought[274]="The limitations of humans are legion; the limitations of humanity have yet to be established.
(12 Feb 2008)";
thought[275]="Loving is the opposite of having.
(17 Feb 2008)";
thought[276]="Words are acute; music is chronic.
(17 Feb 2008)";
thought[277]="The problem with the rule of law, of course, is that truth supercedes the rulemakers.
(24 Feb 2008)";
thought[278]="The prohibitions of historical powers—or current ones, for that matter—make a pretty good roadmap to freedom.
(24 Feb 2008)";
thought[279]="No law should ever be enacted to achieve an effect that the majority desires if it is not also necessary to ensure equality of opportunity or consequence. Society can, and will, establish a de facto preference based on consensus, but it should never attempt to impose this preference over its lawful alternatives upon free individuals who choose contrary to the majority.
(25 Feb 2008)";
thought[280]="Identity = Accident + Intent
(25 Feb 2008)";
thought[281]="The category of 'free speech' must also include speech which is not intended to be heard, or which is only intended to be heard by certain parties. It is inconceivable to think that one could ever speak freely without the right and ability to select and limit one's audience.
(26 Feb 2008)";
thought[282]="Interest is a prerequisite of attention.
(28 Feb 2008)";
thought[283]="The lesson of life is that homogeny leads to extinction.
(01 Mar 2008)";
thought[284]="Heresy isn't always truth, but neither is doctrine.
(04 Mar 2008)";
thought[285]="How much is association? Everything??
(05 Mar 2008)";
thought[286]="Being wrong is not a sin, but being content to remain so is.
(05 Mar 2008)";
thought[287]="It is easier to forgive someone for devastating you than for inconveniencing someone you love.
(06 Mar 2008)";
thought[288]="When the commonplace is made illegal, the category of 'criminal' becomes indefensible.
(10 Mar 2008)";
thought[289]="Religion = Inspiration + Intimidation
(15 Mar 2008)";
thought[290]="The human brain is tuned to trivia.
(16 Mar 2008)";
thought[291]="The greatest barrier to freedom is people's desire for the illusion of security.
(25 Mar 2008)";
thought[292]="Suspense, not absence, is the greatest aphrodisiac.
(31 Mar 2008)";
thought[293]="My life has never been improved directly or indirectly by the efforts or existence of any church. The same cannot be said of schools, libraries, hospitals and laboratories.
(03 Apr 2008)";
thought[294]="Conditioning is the arbiter of reaction; reason, just the newest and weakest emotion.
(06 Apr 2008)";
thought[295]="Revelation is only worth as much as its providence.
(11 Apr 2008)";
thought[296]="The greatest foolishness is to expect consistency from people.
(13 Apr 2008)";
thought[297]="Consensus is always provisional.
(15 Apr 2008)";
thought[298]="People aspire to wealth themselves, even those furthest from it, so 'wealthy' used as an epithet doesn't wound; however, few strive any longer to be elite, so an accusation that one is 'elitist' bites with a particularly resentful venom.
(17 Apr 2008)";
thought[299]="Worse than the provocations of lust are the deprecations of equanimity.
(28 Apr 2008)";
thought[300]="Pretending, resisting, complaining…won't make tomorrow another today.
(05 May 2008)";
thought[301]="Pleasure flees, pain lingers.
(07 May 2008)";
thought[302]="Poetry dances on verbal bones.
(08 May 2008)";
thought[303]="All security measures are barriers of inconvenience, not shields of salvation.
(09 May 2008)";
thought[304]="Freedom, in the future, will be, like today, not a birthright or a perk of good government but a commodity leased in whatever quantity you can afford, only the range of customization will be greater.
(15 Jun 2008)";
thought[305]="It is as immoral—and unwise—to support a good person co-opted for evil purposes as it is to support a wicked person.
(22 Jun 2008)";
thought[306]="Unasked questions are much worse than unanswered ones.
(24 Jun 2008)";
thought[307]="Nothing is easier than to accept the plausible as the true. Nothing is more likely to lead to error.
(06 Jul 2008)";
thought[308]="Sell a product, make a buck;
Sell a fear, feast for years.
(10 Jul 2008)";
thought[309]="Remember that the admonition that 'You can't take it with you' applies equally to memories as it does to material goods.
(14 Jul 2008)";
thought[310]="Life is more precious than lives.
(14 July 2008)";
thought[311]="Art is choice.
(17 Jul 2008)";
thought[312]="Uncertainty opens everything.
(18 Jul 2008)";
thought[313]="We are compelled to test the limits of love, and in so doing, create them.
(23 Jul 2008)";
thought[314]="Faith is the attitude of the infant, who, not having developed more sophisticated cognitive tools for understanding and influencing his environment, relies upon it for comfort and for shielding from bewildering complexity.
(25 Jul 2008)";
thought[315]="The most selfless gift is that which no one wants, for it is given with no expectation of the recompense of gratitude or appreciation.
(25 Jul 2008)";
thought[316]="Controversy can be convened by one loud voice.
(30 Jul 2008)";
thought[317]="Everything is revelatory to someone.
(3 Aug 2008)";
thought[318]="Greed is just unregulated desire.
(20 Sep 2008)";
thought[319]="What is madness but a pattern of errors?
(25 Sep 2008)";
thought[320]="Thought is the sixth sense.
(1 Oct 2008)";
thought[321]="The Bible is not an answer; it's a cop-out.
(18 Oct 2008)";
thought[322]="If happiness is your goal, ask how; if wisdom, ask why.
(10 Nov 2008)";
thought[323]="When you choose to identify with a group that has extremist elements, you legitimize suspicions concerning your own extremism.
(19 Nov 2008)";
thought[324]="Tolerance does not imply approval, and tolerance must be reciprocal. To tolerate the intolerant is to embrace the rapist, to bare the throat to the murderer.
(27 Nov 2008)";
thought[325]="Nostalgia is the only love some people will ever know.
(26 Feb 2009)";
thought[326]="Why do we love love? Because it frees us from the strictures of sanity.
(27 Feb 2009)";
thought[327]="Even though I starve, I will not be grateful for crumbs.
(18 Mar 2009)";
thought[328]="I don't envy what others have; I have never wanted to take from others anything that they desired—why deprive them? My concern is entirely with my own status. But what others enjoy can, by illustration, suggest—provoke—contemplation of satisfactions and pleasantries as yet unimagined or unobtained.
(18 Mar 2009)";
thought[329]="Expectation sketches the world;
experience paints it.
(29 Mar 2009)";
thought[330]="Not every boundary should be a border.
(13 Apr 2009)";
thought[331]="There are none so pathetic as those who dream themselves essential.
(25 Apr 2009)";
thought[332]="Poetry is the enjoyment of echoes.
(3 Jul 2009)";
thought[333]="Speaking only with the words of others is like walking always in footprints.
(14 Jul 2009)";
thought[334]="Many grievances are born of an irrational catalyst; all loves are.
(15 Jul 2009)";
thought[335]="Poetry can exist in a few breaths as readily as in a lengthy oration. Perhaps more readily.
(27 Aug 2009)";
thought[336]="It is easier to judge wrong and avoid it than to determine right and seek it.
(29 Sep 2009)";
thought[337]="Who cares about the purported meaning of life when so much remains unsettled in the method of life?
(29 Sep 2009)";
thought[338]="Not all error is delusion, but all delusion is error.
(30 Sep 2009)";
thought[339]="One must be able to stomach repetition in order to enhabit skill.
(12 Oct 2009)";
thought[340]="The only thing worse than narrative in poetry is personal narrative in poetry.
(4 Nov 2009)";
thought[341]="A hermit can afford to be polite.
(16 Nov 2009)";
thought[342]="The fundamental problem with communism is that the basis of society is shared responsibility, not property. Capitalism, too, suffers from its own obsession with property.
(3 Dec 2009)";
thought[343]="It is absurd to fear the dark in the twenty-first century: all the terrors walk openly in the sun.
(21 Dec 2009)";
thought[344]="Which compels more study, the world or one's reaction to it?
(28 Dec 2009)";
thought[345]="People arouse our dislike and disgust in proportion to the degree to which they disabuse us of our illusions of what they should be as people.
(20 Jan 2010)";
thought[346]="The futility of tomorrow is born of today's inadequacy.
(23 Jan 2010)";
thought[347]="Life is a kaleidoscope--how absurd to choose this or that bit of glitter and try to press it in permanence against the glass!
(23 Jan 2010)";
thought[348]="Never opt into a system of top-down control unless you can matriculate on top.
(29 Jan 2010)";
thought[349]="There is no beauty without truth; however, the illusion of beauty is often true.
(29 Jan 2010)";
thought[350]="There is a moral imperative to defy silly prohibitions grounded in fear and the lust for control.
(11 Feb 2010)";
thought[351]="It is ridiculous to be concerned exclusively with the means of production when the methods of production are so much more important.
(13 Feb 2010)";
thought[352]="There is no correction without concern.
(16 Feb 2010)";
thought[353]="Only one who can perceive justice can render it.
(17 Feb 2010)";
thought[354]="The most difficult anger to release is a rage at thwarted justice.
(19 Feb 2010)";
thought[355]="It sometimes seems that the purpose of life is to teach us how not to love.
(20 Feb 2010)";
thought[356]="If one is going to defend oneself against the world with any success, one must take up two weapons: curiosity and a sense of humor.
(20 Feb 2010)";
thought[357]="What some call evil is only disinterest, lack of empathy, and cruelty.
(23 Feb 2010)";
thought[358]="Labels are mnemonics for the unimaginative.
(5 Mar 2010)";
thought[359]="There is often more honesty in the ridiculous than in the profound.
(9 Mar 2010)";
thought[360]="The comforts of ritual are mostly illusory, yet this doesn't diminish their popularity.
(17 Mar 2010)";
thought[361]="Of all the religious, surely the fundamentalist is most correct in his error.
(24 Mar 2010)";
thought[362]="Capitalism is merely utilitarianism + marketing.
(4 Apr 2010)";
thought[363]="Which requires a stronger will and a finer character, tolerance or condemnation?
(18 Apr 2010)";
thought[364]="When people go mad, go elsewhere.
(18 Apr 2010)";
thought[365]="Madness doesn't protect against consequence.
(27 Apr 2010)";
thought[366]="Do I decide or discover my opinions?
(2 May 2010)";
thought[367]="Clearly, if God had to 'die' on Earth to atone for original sin, then the sin was his, not ours (one cannot logically do penance for the actions of another). Indeed, which is more plausibly sinful, eating once of a forbidden fruit or overreacting to that act with banishment from paradise and a condemnation to suffering and death (and eternal suffering after death) not only of those who did it but of their descendants thousands of years forward and into the billions? A chastened god should well repent of such immoral fury!
(3 May 2010)";
thought[368]="The only people more misguided than the religious faithful are the religiously adamant.
(10 May 2010)";
thought[369]="What the wise devise,
the rest will test.
(10 May 2010)";
thought[370]="Even that which I hate most someone is eager to emulate.
(10 May 2010)";
thought[371]="It's a misfortune to become hooked on other people's dreams.
(10 May 2010)";
thought[372]="Mercy is a relative, not an absolute, good.
(11 May 2010)";
thought[373]="No authority negates the right of self-defense.
(21 Jun 2010)";
thought[374]="Try saying something that is heard, noted, judged important (or merely interesting), remembered, repeated. Something that competes and somehow survives among the hundred billion daily utterances of the world. This is the mad dream of the poet.
(22 Jun 2010)";
thought[375]="For most, poetry is just another way to socialize.
(26 Jul 2010)";
thought[376]="You can only see through your I.
(26 Jul 2010)";
thought[377]="Brain without kindness is a curse.
Heart without reason is worse.
(26 Jul 2010)";
thought[378]="Too much of what poses as poetry is mere anecdote: character sketches of old flames; childhood scenes recollected in tranquility decades later; backyard animal studies; clever jokes. But a true poem, it seems to me, isn't just a pleasantry. It changes something for the reader. Maybe everything.
(11 Aug 2010)";
thought[379]="Banality is a transient condition.
(11 Aug 2010)";
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