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quote[0] = "\"A cage went in search of a bird.\"<BR><i> ~ Franz Kafka<BR>";
quote[1] = "\"The future will be better tomorrow.\"<BR><i> ~ Dan Quail<BR>";
quote[2] = "\"In death ground, fight\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[3] = "\"Become the change you seek in the world.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[4] = "\"Live simply so that others may simply live.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[5] = "\"We cannot possess what we do not understand.\"<BR><i> ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<BR>";
quote[6] = "\"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.\"<BR><i> ~ Greek Proverb<BR>";
quote[7] = "\"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.\"<BR><i> ~ Edward R. Murrow<BR>";
quote[8] = "\"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[9] = "\"He who has a why to live, can bear with almost any how.\"<BR><i> ~ Friedrich Nietzsche<BR>";
quote[10] = "\"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.\"<BR><i> ~ Swedish Proverb<BR>";
quote[11] = "\"The worst of evils and the greatest of crimes is poverty.\"<BR><i> ~ George Bernard Shaw<BR>";
quote[12] = "\"To surround your enemy you must leave a way of escape.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[13] = "\"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[14] = "\"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[15] = "\"I did find [the Fair Choice] of great interest.\"<BR><i> ~ Bev Stohl, Assistant to Noam Chomsky<BR>";
quote[16] = "\"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.\"<BR><i> ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy<BR>";
quote[17] = "\"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[18] = "\"It's hard to wake up someone who pretends to sleep\"<BR><i> ~ Saying from the Narmada Valley, India<BR>";
quote[19] = "\"Fear makes you laugh - until itdoesn't, that is.\"<BR><i> ~ Paul William Roberts, The Demonic Comedy<BR>";
quote[20] = "\"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[21] = "\"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.\"<BR><i> ~ Helen Keller<BR>";
quote[22] = "\"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.\"<BR><i> ~ Jimi Hendrix<BR>";
quote[23] = "\"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.\"<BR><i> ~ George Orwell<BR>";
quote[24] = "\"If you keep going where you are going, you are going to get where you are going\"<BR><i> ~ Chinese proverb<BR>";
quote[25] = "\"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[26] = "\"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.\"<BR><i> ~ Steve Biko<BR>";
quote[27] = "\"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.\"<BR><i> ~ Steve Biko; Biko<BR>";
quote[28] = "\"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'\"<BR><i> ~ Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)<BR>";
quote[29] = "\"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.\"<BR><i> ~ George Hegel; Philosophy of History<BR>";
quote[30] = "\"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts--for support rather than for illumination.\"<BR><i> ~ Andre Lang<BR>";
quote[31] = "\"The message is nothing new. It's the implementation that's very creative, very new.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[32] = "\"A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.\"<BR><i> ~ Blaise Pascal<BR>";
quote[33] = "\"At first I didn't understand, then it sort of exploded on me: This is a wonderful idea!\"<BR><i> ~ H. Dyer, Lachine, Quebec<BR>";
quote[34] = "\"Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.\"<BR><i> ~ Brendan Francis<BR>";
quote[35] = "\"We are what we think.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make the world.\"<BR><i> ~ The Buddha<BR>";
quote[36] = "\"The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing.\"<BR><i> ~ Proverbs 20:4 The Bible<BR>";
quote[37] = "\"What lies between us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.\"<BR><i> ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<BR>";
quote[38] = "\"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.\"<BR><i> ~ Nelson Mandela 1994 inaugural speech<BR>";
quote[39] = "\"An extraordinary concept, trenchant in its simplicity and potentially profound in its implications.\"<BR><i> ~ R. Buckland, Montreal<BR>";
quote[40] = "\"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.\"<BR><i> ~ Jean-Paul Sartre<BR>";
quote[41] = "\"Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it.\"<BR><i> ~ Hebrews 13:2<BR>";
quote[42] = "\"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[43] = "\"A non-secular democratic state is not truly democratic; a non-democratic secular state is a tyranny.\"<BR><i> ~ Octavio Paz, In Light of India<BR>";
quote[44] = "\"A man does not get old because he nears death; a man gets old because he can no longer see the false from the good.\"<BR><i> ~ Charles Bukowski<BR>";
quote[45] = "\"We're pro government, pro capitalism and pro wealth. It's only the relationship between them we want to change.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[46] = "\"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!\"<BR><i> ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1759<BR>";
quote[47] = "\"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.\"<BR><i> ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Minister, Civil Rights Leader<BR>";
quote[48] = "\"Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so that I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, with lies well steel'd with weighty arguments.\"<BR><i> ~ Shaekspeare, Richard III<BR>";
quote[49] = "\"What sounds like a contradiction is actually a sign of our ongoing engagement with reality.\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[50] = "\"Those who know they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.\"<BR><i> ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science<BR>";
quote[51] = "\"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[52] = "\"He who excels at resolving difficulties does so before they arise. He who excels in conquering his enemies triumphs before threats materialize.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[53] = "\"In life men seek to things, exceptance and meaning, while finding only exceptance one can never find meaning, but when one seeks meaning he will be excepted.\"<BR><i> ~ Robbie Mcdonald<BR>";
quote[54] = "\"With our current technology, there is absolutely nothing difficult about implementing the Fair Choice. The only thing needed is the will of the people.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[55] = "\"When I wish to give battle, my enemy, even though protected by high walls and deep moats, cannot help but engage me, for I attack a position he must succour.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[56] = "\"The Fair Choice Party does not wish to be yet another party speaking on behalf of the poor the FCP wishes instead to give a voice to the poor through a weighted vote.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[57] = "\"The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all\"<BR><i> ~ Amnesty International, 19 Jan 2001<BR>";
quote[58] = "\"The striking thing about Steve [Biko] and his followers was that ironically, for purveyors of Black Consciousness, their blackness was the easiest thing about them to forget.\"<BR><i> ~ Donald Woods; Biko<BR>";
quote[59] = "\"It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among the shadows men get lost.\"<BR><i> ~ Chief Black Elk, (Translated by) John G. Heihardt, Black Elk Speaks<BR>";
quote[60] = "\"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.\"<BR><i> ~ Benjamin Franklin<BR>";
quote[61] = "\"He ponders the dangers inherent in the advantages, and the advantages inherent in the dangers. … Advantage and disadvantage are mutually reproductive. The enlighteden deliberate.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[62] = "\"When the sky is rent asunder; when the stars scatter and the oceans roll together; when the graves are hurled about; each soul shall know what it has done and what it has failed to do.\"<BR><i> ~ The Holy Koran, 82:1<BR>";
quote[63] = "\"Universal history - as already demonstrated - shows the development of the consciousness of Freedom on the part of Spirit, and of the consequent realization of that Freedom.\"<BR><i> ~ George Hegel; Philosophy of History<BR>";
quote[64] = "\"If we are content to just let our money sit and grow for no other purpose – then we are not really experiencing anything. That is the opposite of experience; that is a negative experience.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[65] = "\"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.\"<BR><i> ~ Franz Kafka<BR>";
quote[66] = "\"Therefore when using troops, one must take advantage of the situation exactly as if he were setting a ball in motion on a steep slope. The force applied is minute but the results are enormous.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[67] = "\"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.\"<BR><i> ~ Florence Scovel Shinn<BR>";
quote[68] = "\"Let go of grief. Let go of joy. Let go of hope. Let go of fear. Let go of history. Let go of coming and going. Let go of culture. Let go of waiting. Let go of letting go.\"<BR><i> ~ Rudolph Wurlitzer; Hard Travel to Sacred Places<BR>";
quote[69] = "\"If a man were to conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and another conquer one, himself, he indeed is the greatest of conquerors.\"<BR><i> ~ Dhammapada, quoted in Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1981)<BR>";
quote[70] = "\"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.\"<BR><i> ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Address at Lincoln Memorial during March on Washington, 28 Aug 1963<BR>";
quote[71] = "\"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[72] = "\"It's what the writers of the U.S. constitution wanted: one man, one vote, not one millionaire, one Senate seat. It's a great idea and it should be done. It's a tragedy if it doesn't happen in our lifetimes.\"<BR><i> ~ Celine Jackson, New York, NY<BR>";
quote[73] = "\"When I think of the kindness of these people, I think one can overlook thoughts of revenge; and even at this moment, I feel something warm in my heart when I recall those days and those friends.\"<BR><i> ~ Michihiko Hachiya, M.D., Hiroshima Diary<BR>";
quote[74] = "\"The idea of Fair Choice is to move everyone equal distance away from having no money and no power. It’s not supposed to mean anything but that. It makes everyone equal in terms of the sum of their wealth and vote.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[75] = "\"It is within this fathom-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.\"<BR><i> ~ The Buddha; Samyutta Nikaya<BR>";
quote[76] = "\"Its implications are revolutionary, but not destructive. You'll recognize that the Fair Choice is not a proposal from the 'left' or the 'right'. It aims at a better, more cohesive and compassionate society for all.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[77] = "\"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.\"<BR><i> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<BR>";
quote[78] = "\"Thus, those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[79] = "\"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.\"<BR><i> ~ Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)<BR>";
quote[80] = "\"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.\"<BR><i> ~ Pope John XXIII<BR>";
quote[81] = "\"I realized that for a long time I had been holding onto this whole dogma of nonracism almost like a religion, feeling that it was sacrilegious to question it; and therefore not accommodating the attacks I was getting from other students.\"<BR><i> ~ Steve Biko; Biko<BR>";
quote[82] = "\"But tampering with the essence of democracy has historically had only one end: to give the vote to fewer people and those fewer always the tamperers. Rarely has anyone thought of giving additional voting power to the less privileged.\"<BR><i> ~ R. Buckland, Montreal<BR>";
quote[83] = "\"All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are near. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[84] = "\"Nowadays, we see the information that controls everything in the hands of big business, while for the rest of us it's just a giant competition fed by petroleum. We need to find a way to use our technology to once again establish equality that's the innovation of the FCP.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[85] = "\"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.\"<BR><i> ~ Mother Theresa<BR>";
quote[86] = "\"It would also a good idea to hold referendums on a regular basis to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. That would provide an opportunity for the government to listen to people on a one person, one vote basis; just to see that everything is going well for everybody.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[87] = "\"In a feasible and practical way, the FCP offers an epoch in social evolution where by once again learning to share we see a better quality of life for all. All the while keeping the nurturing engines of capitalism and free elections intact, even accented, in their place in society.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[88] = "\"Personally, I like the idea that the base of weighted voters would be constantly evolving. If you are poor, you should have a little more say as to what things might improve your situation. Once you are no longer poor, you should have less of a say. It seems very intuitive to me.\"<BR><i> ~ Jeff Barnes, Mesa, Arizona<BR>";
quote[89] = "\"Aristotle clearly conceives of the virtues as essentially social. They have to do with getting along with other people. In Nietzsche, by contrast, the virtues are better understood in an extremely individual context, even the life of a solitary hermit.\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[90] = "\"But should it really matter which comes first? Is there any way for us to achieve peace when our scholars and leaders are busy choosing sides and seeking confrontation? Perhaps true wisdom comes from balancing opposing perspectives? Let’s take a look at some different philosophical views of the world.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[91] = "\"A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.\"<BR><i> ~ Elbert Hubbard<BR>";
quote[92] = "\"The result of all our efforts is this: It’s the existence of this huge grey area where we are encouraged to buy things from someone even if their government does nothing to protect their rights; while the things produced are done so to satisfy those who are farthest from appreciating the real costs involved.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[93] = "\"But the reality is that when we can balance creative and destructive forces, then everything is good. That’s when we can grow, that’s when we’ll find the most harmony and the most variety, the most originality and efficiency in people. All those things come from balancing creation and destruction, reason with reaction.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[94] = "\"In the Torah We decreed for them a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and a wound for a wound. But if a man charitably forbears from retaliation, his remission shall atone for him. Transgressors are those that do not judge in accordance with Allah's revelations.\"<BR><i> ~ The Holy Koran, v, 45<BR>";
quote[95] = "\"One can ask oneself for a start: Am I free of resentment? And if not, what do I resent? What precisely? And how rational is it that I … resent this but not that? Never mind at that point whether you think that you can let go. Just ask yourself whether you might be better off if you did, and whether you would like yourself better.\"<BR><i> ~ Walter Kaufmann<BR>";
quote[96] = "\"When you stop and consider the incredibly imbalanced distribution of wealth here and around the world, you will realize that we are one political movement with legs. It's really only a matter of time before we establish ourselves in the forefront of the political arena. Everywhere. It's human evolution. The question is: Are we ready?\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[97] = "\"I am turning over new ground in an effort to stimulate ideas; I want to plant a seed of trust. I want each person to search inside themselves for trust; to see that, although it seems difficult, it is not impossible to change things for the better, to get control of our future, and to shape that future into something beautiful and kind.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[98] = "\"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.\"<BR><i> ~ Isaac Asimov<BR>";
quote[99] = "\"The nature of water is that it avoids heights and hastens to the lowlands. When a dam is broken, the water cascades with irresistible force. Now the shape of an army resembles water. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; attack him when he does not expect it; avoid his strength and strike his emptiness, and like water, none can oppose you.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[100] = "\"Meditative states are samkhata. They are attained by the will or intention of the meditator, and this also means that they are caused and conditioned. They are attributable to certain preceding causes and dependent on certain contemporaneous conditions being fulfilled. As such they are not at all 'unborn', nor are they independent of circumstances.\"<BR><i> ~ Micheal Carrithers; The Buddha<BR>";
quote[101] = "\"He relishes the ad hominem, the attack on the person and not just the view. Many logic texts cite the ad hominem arguments as an informal fallacy, insisting that the merits of a view should not be assessed on the basis of the person who holds it. Nietzsche, by contrast, urges this as a very good test of a view.\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[102] = "\"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own understanding!\"<BR><i> ~ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)<BR>";
quote[103] = "\"The ultimate test of a maxim, according to Kant, is whether when universalized it is something that logically cannot be done. Nietzsche, of course, thinks that universalization is utterly irrelevant to virtue. Indeed, insofar as it can be universalized (or even generally described!) a virtue is diminished or destroyed.\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[104] = "\"Now we're asking you to make a small sacrifice and pledge your support to us. In return, for every ten dollars we receive we'll give you a one dollar voucher to use towards any item in our store: books, buttons, clothing, postcards, video's. Show you care and wear the FCP proudly. Just imagine the lively conversations you'll get when people ask you what we represent.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[105] = "\"It is not this feeling [of absolute dependence] that constitutes the essence of religiousness, but only the next step, the reaction to it, which seeks a remedy against this feeling. He who goes no further, he who humbly resigns himself to the insignificant part man plays in the universe, is, on the contrary, irreligious in the truest sense of the word.\"<BR><i> ~ Signund Freud, The Future of an Illusion<BR>";
quote[106] = "\"So wealth does this amazing act of separating us from the existing environment; while the government is supposed to bring them together. On the production side we have a pinching effect, where we strive towards efficiency and try to unite with the environment; and on the consumption side there is an expansion, a rejection, a vacuum, and continual movement towards more wealth.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[107] = "\"Can you imagine a world where each of us is free to choose between how much insulation and how much participation we want Can you imagine a world where privilege and power are not the same thing Can you imagine a world where we can all take responsibility for what we do and don't have Can you imagine a government system designed to resist corruption We can. We're the Fair Choice Party, and we're about to change the world as you know it!\"<BR>";
quote[108] = "\"Drastic situations sometimes call for new and provocative measures. There's been enough finger pointing and blame, it's time to find a way for each of us to look inwards and make small sacrifices so that we can all share and benefit together. Historically, this is how we have evolved and prospered. If we do nothing, the widening gulf between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' is certain to lead us into chaos.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[109] = "\"Today, many of us lead reactionary lives; most of the time we are so overwhelmed that all we can do is try to keep our reactions to a minimum. We have very little time to spend improving the world that saturates us. In fact, most of the time, we feel like we are just running around putting out fires or plugging holes in a leaky boat. Even our politicians and political movements are caught up in this cycle of reacting.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[110] = "\"So when we look at our society and how it evolved and exists, we see that it behaves a lot like we do as individuals. We take from the environment with money and react; and then we modify that new environment by voting and reasoning. We are changed by the way we use the resources, and then we invent new ways to change the resources. We breathe in by consuming; and breathe out by producing. Breath in, money. Breath out; vote.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[111] = "\"Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this… To capture the enemy's army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a battalion, a company or a five-man squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.\"<BR><i> ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War<BR>";
quote[112] = "\"A thunder storm was coming from where the sun goes down, and just as I was riding into the woods along a creek, there was a kingbird sitting on a limb. This was not a dream, it happened. And I was going to shoot at the kingbird with the bow my Grandfather made, when the bird spoke and said: The clouds all over are one-sided. Perhaps it meant that all the clouds were looking at me. And then it said: Listen! A voice is calling you!\"<BR><i> ~ (Translated by) John G. Heihardt, Black Elk Speaks<BR>";
quote[113] = "\"In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.\"<BR><i> ~ C.G. Jung; Memories, Dreams, Reflections<BR>";
quote[114] = "\"It seemed to me the discipline of education was effective only during peace time when there was law and order. Character cannot be improved by education. It reveals itself when there are no police to maintain order. Education is a veneer, a plating. Educated or not a man exposes his true character in times of stress, and the strong win. The proverbs invert and strength becomes justice, and birth more important than character. Force then rules the country.\"<BR><i> ~ Michihiko Hachiya, M.D., Hiroshima Diary<BR>";
quote[115] = "\"Man is all the time outside of himself: it is in projecting and losing himself beyond himself that he makes man to exist; and, on the other hand, it is by pursuing transcendent aims that he himself is able to exist. Since man is thus self-surpassing, and can grasp objects only in relation to his self-surpassing, he is himself the heart and center of his transcendence. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.\"<BR><i> ~ Jean-Paul Sartre; Existentialism & Humanism<BR>";
quote[116] = "\"Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life? What else does the history of ideas prove, then that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class\"<BR><i> ~ Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party<BR>";
quote[117] = "\"The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation for capital; the condition for capital is wage labour. … The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.\"<BR><i> ~ Karl Marx; Manifesto of the Communist Party<BR>";
quote[118] = "\"As wealth and power become increasingly concentrated at the top, citizens realize their votes don't count and stop voting. Freed from the constraints of a democratic society, the ruling classes begin to abuse their power in a more and more aggressive fashion. We need only look at the fiasco that took place in Florida last year to see the truth of that. An unbalanced society is a society at risk. Leaders who listen only to the rich and powerful will create a society that is unable to respond to reality.\"<BR><i> ~ Tony Seideman, Peekskill, New York<BR>";
quote[119] = "\"Once again, in another triangular twist; we see that while voting is occasional and infrequent; money permeates our everyday lives. But both are our creations: the vote is similar to the dollar; neither exists without us. Without describing people and the world we can’t describe money or votes. The vote and the dollar are like Hegel’s “becoming”. They exist, but only because they represent something non-existent. We exist by spending money. Our governments exist because people vote. Societies are organized with votes and money.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[120] = "\"The FCP is out to change the world without dismantling our government or economic structures. Our goal is to permit the necessary reforms and gradually shift politics from within so that everybody gets a more equal say in who should lead. It is a gentle revolution designed to help the poor gain equality and opportunity through a new and innovative political process. When we say 'power to the people' we mean it. We're not trying to be the spokespeople on their behalf, but rather give them a very real method to have their voices heard.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[121] = "\"This new philosophy is not some kind of magic spell that will change the world overnight. Instead, it proposes a gradual and controlled shift to a system where we can exercise more control over our lives, and where we are no longer alienated from the environment, each other, and ourselves. As we become better able to meet the needs of our poor by allowing them a more equitable chance to be heard, then hopefully we will have less craving for a life of escapism, insulation, and excess that is so resolutely promoted by the wealthy today.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[122] = "\"I knew immediately I had said the wrong thing because on mentioning the word 'baby,' she turned to the little head sleeping on her breast and began to cry softly. With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous import of the dark spots that had appeared on her chest.\"<BR><i> ~ Michihiko Hachiya, M.D., Hiroshima Diary<BR>";
quote[123] = "\"By definition producing, and regulating production, unites us with the environment and brings us closer to it. An important component of being productive is not to be wasteful, greedy, or irresponsible. In order to create anything we need to bring our thoughts in line with the environment. A person or society that is powerful and productive is one that can make do with what they have. There is a squeezing effect which takes place; a pushing away of frivolous elements and cuts itself off from continuing to progress in unhealthy directions.\"<BR><i> ~ FCP Founding Principle<BR>";
quote[124] = "\"The idea behind more votes for poor people is that it would behoove the upper class not to screw them over. As long as the wealthy are obligated to treat the impoverished well, there is little reason to think that the poor would make dangerous sweeping radical changes. The wrath of the dumbshit vote could be avoided if the upper class simply allows the lower class to improve its situation. Should we continue to punish poor people because we have created a system that keeps them stupid or should create a situation that might allow them become more educated\"<BR><i> ~ Jeff Barnes, Mesa, Arizona<BR>";
quote[125] = "\"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.\"<BR><i> ~ Albert Einstein<BR>";
quote[126] = "\"Awakening with a start, I looked around and was struck by the peculiar fact that there was not a single ant anywhere to be seen. I was filled with sudden terror. Nini the rabbit's disappearance had taught me that when I saw no animals it meant a bomb was about to drop. I learned never to set out before making sure that there were creatures about such as ants, butterflies, lizards or mice. If I could see no living things around me, I knew I must get away from there in a hurry, while if there were living creatures around, I felt I could breathe freely and look inside caves, calling, 'Nene, nene!'\"<BR><i> ~ Tomiko Higa, The Girl with the White Flag<BR>";
quote[127] = "\"That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.\"<BR><i> ~ The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776<BR>";
quote[128] = "\"Material possessions not only focus people toward private and away from communal life but also encourage docility. The more possessions one has, the more compromises one will make to protect them. The ancient Greeks said that the slave is someone who is intent on filling his belly, which can also mean someone who is intent on safeguarding his possessions. Aristophanes and Euripides, the late-eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson, and Tocqueville in the nineteenth century all warned that material prosperity would breed servility and withdrawal, turning people into, in Tocqueville's words, 'industrious sheep.'\"<BR><i> ~ Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy<BR>";
quote[129] = "\"What could be more effective against the self-righteousness pronouncements of some philosophers and theologians than an ad hominem argument that undermines their credibility, that reduces their rationality and piety to petty personal envy or indignation? What could be more humiliating for a morality that incessantly preaches against selfishness and self-interest than the accusation that it is in fact not only the product of impotent self-interest but hypocritical as well? And what could be a more effective argument against theism than ridiculing the psycho-sociological ground out of which such a belief has arisen?\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[130] = "\"The role of the Federal Reserve in this situation is like that of a dealer in a game of poker who can surreptitiously create new chips at will and dish them out to his favorite player. The dealer has to be reasonably conservative about it or the victims will become aware of what is happening, grow disgusted, and quit. The art is to create just enough funny chips so that the favorite player wins and pockets the largest possible pot. An exact determination of the point of diminishing returns is, of course, a technical and empirical question. The important point is that the banks profit as brokers of debt by inflating to their point of diminishing returns.\"<BR><i> ~ James Dale Davidson; The Squeeze<BR>";
quote[131] = "\"The same crime element that white people fear, we fear too. We defend ourselves from the same crime element that they're scared of. You know what I'm saying? While we're waiting for legislation to pass and everything, we're next door to the killer! We're next door to them - you know? Because we're up in the projects where there's eighty n****s in the building that they're letting out - they're right there in our building! But it's better? Just cause we're black we get along better with the killers or something? We get along better with the rapists cause we're black or we're from the same hood? What's that? We need protection too.\"<BR><i> ~ Tupac Shakur, Rhyme and Reason, Miramax Home Entertainment 1997<BR>";
quote[132] = "\"Secularism implies impartiality, but impartiality in itself can be mistaken for impotence. True secularism requires tact, combining tolerance with strength, and its exercise is dependent on two conditions. The first is the separation of powers, so that the judiciary may block the abuses of the executive branch or the often partisan decisions of the legislature. The judiciary is the keeper of the rule of law, without which there is no social order. The second condition is governmental prudence. For Aristotle this was the cardinal virtue of politics. In the Middle Ages the good king was called 'prudent.' Without prudence, which is cruelly absent in modern democracies, both among the leaders and among the masses, good government is impossible.\"<BR><i> ~ Octavio Paz, In Light of India<BR>";
quote[133] = "\"'And what do you think?' I said. She began to laugh: 'What vanity! Be humble and accept this prize. But accept it knowing that is worth little or nothing, like all prizes. To not accept it is to overvalue it, to give it an importance that it does not have. It would be a presumptuous gesture. A false purity, a mask of pride… True disinterest is accepting it with a smile, as you received the orange I threw you. the prize will neither make you nor your poems better. But don't offend those who awarded it to you. You wrote those poems not in the spirit of gain. Do the same now. What matters is not prizes but the way they are received. Disinterest is the only thing that matters… A few years later, I understood: to give and receive are identical acts if they are realized with disinterest.\"<BR><i> ~ Octavio Paz, In Light of India<BR>";
quote[134] = "\"Courage, for Nietzsche, refers not so much to over-coming fear (the standard account) or having 'just the right amount' of fear (Aristotle's account), and it certainly doesn't mean having no fear (the pathological conception of courage). Rather, as in so many of his conceptions of virtue, Nietzsche has a model of 'over-flowing' - overflowing with an assertiveness that overwhelms fear… Courage, in other words, is not a proper 'balance' or 'the mean between the extremes.' It is an excess, and overwhelming, an overflowing. It is not merely withstanding or enduring (as in all of those made-for-TV movies about 'heroes' and 'heroines' who suffer through horrible diseases). It is the skillful direction of 'gung-ho' emotions, incorporating rather than excluding one's sense of honor, which because of its keen focus might too easily be interpreted as calm. But it is passion, not only this apparent calm, that is its virtue.\"<BR><i> ~ Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, What Nietzsche Really Said<BR>";
quote[135] = "\"'I ran into four middle-school students near the hypocenter in Tenjim-manchi who were badly burned,' recounted Mr. Kobata. 'Desperately ill and forlorn, they sat in a small circle beside the road, and I stopped to ask one where his home was. He replied that this was his home and asked that if I should encounter his mother or sister would I tell them not to waste time looking for him or his companions because they were all going to die. The others nodded in agreement. The lot of these boys was all the more tragic because nothing could be done for them, and so there they sat under the hot sun in dust and rubble. Tears came to my eyes. One asked if I would make some shade for them, and by borrowing a few straw mats and sheets of galvanized iron from some soldiers, I made them a shelter. I asked another boy where his home was, but he was too weak to say anything but 'ya' so I couldn't discover whether he was from Yano, Yagi, or Yaga. Some tomatoes I had for my lunch I cut into halves and squeezed the juice into the boys' mouths. They could hardly swallow but all mumbled 'oishii' - 'delicious!'\"<BR><i> ~ Michihiko Hachiya, M.D., Hiroshima Diary<BR>";
quote[136] = "\"Gandhi's actions, both religious and political - which, in his case, cannot be separated - not only resolved a situation that had seemed hopeless; he turned it into a triumph. The extremists also united the religious and the political, but with Gandhi the point of the union was quite different: nonviolence and friendship with the other religious communities, particularly the Muslims. Contrary to the extremists, for Gandhi politics did not expropriate religion: religion humanized politics. The Gandhian religion was not that of the orthodoxy; it was a reform version acceptable to the masses because they approved of his personal conduct. Gandhi achieved what the moderates could not: establishing deep roots among the people, and at the same time demonstrating to the extremists that tolerance and nonviolence were not incompatible with perseverance and effectiveness. For the masses, Gandhi embodied a figure venerated by all Hindus: the ascetic who renounces the world; for political and practical minds, he was a man of action, capable of speaking both to the masses and with the authorities, skilled in negotiation and incorruptible in his principles.\"<BR><i> ~ Octavio Paz, In Light of India<BR>";
quote[137] = "\"We also read in both Buddhist sources and the Law literature that new financial arrangements - credit and debt, interest, a market in land - had come into existence. This bore the possibility that a person of rank and wealth could lose everything through rapacious business practices, or that a person of low status could rise by the same means. The difficulty for the estates theory was that it had described four ideal types of persons, and each type had been a harmonious blend of characteristics. A Warrior, for example, was a Warrior by birth, a Warrior by political power, and - since power was power over people and land, the only sources of wealth - a Warrior by wealth. But now this was too evidently contradicted by facts. There were Warriors by birth who had neither power nor wealth. There were wealthy men, merchants, who had neither birth nor power. And there were powerful men in the new states who were not Warriors by birth. A person in any of these positions could have found his actual plight at painful variance with the one attributed to him in the estates scheme. That old version of human nature and the human world simply did not express the new reality.\"<BR><i> ~ Micheal Carrithers, The Buddha<BR>";
quote[138] = "\"Besides this genetic reason, there is also a second reason why New Guineans may have come to be smarter than Westerners. Modern European and American children spend much of their time being passively entertained by television, radio, and movies. In the average American household, the TV set is on for seven hours per day. In contrast, traditional New Guinea children have virtually no such opportunities for passive entertainment and instead spend almost all of their waking hours actively doing something, such as talking of playing with other children or adults. Almost all studies of child development emphasize the role of childhood stimulation and activity in promoting mental development, and stress the irreversible mental stunting associated with reduced childhood stimulation. This effect surely contributes a non-genetic component to the superior average mental function displayed by New Guineans. That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners, and they surely are superior in escaping the devastating developmental disadvantages under which most children in industrialized societies now grow up. Certainly, there is no hint at all of any intellectual disadvantage of New Guineans that cloud serve to answer Yali's question. The same two genetic and childhood developmental factors are likely to distinguish not only New Guineans from westerners, but also hunter-gatherers and other members of technologically primitive societies from members of technologically advanced societies in general. Thus, the usual racist assumption has to be turned on its head. Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo? Why did New Guineans wind up technologically primitive, despite what I believe to be their superior intelligence?\"<BR><i> ~ Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs & Steel<BR>";

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