Merry Christmas!

For every thing there is a season
And a time for every purpose under heaven.
Eccesiastes 3:1-8

That only which we have within can we see without.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty means responsibility
That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
Bernard Malamud

I've heard you say many times
That you're better than no-one
And no-one's better than you
If you really believe that
You know you got nothing to win
And nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
You must be exactly like them
Bob Dylan - To Ramona

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire

New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

One generation's heresy is the next generation's orthodoxy.
Sigmund Freud

One climbs
One sees
One descends
One sees no longer
But one has seen
Che Guevara

Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake

May the force be with you
Star Wars