“Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings
“Religion is a form of indoctrination, which requires a considerable amount of literacy. You cannot get religion into people minus literacy. And as literacy weakens, people lose their religious affiliations.”
Marshall McLuhan “Violence as a Quest for Identity” (1977) in Marshall McLuhan Understanding Me
“tennis purists still regard the western grip as having the same relationship to good tennis as leprosy has to good health.”
Burling Lowrey in Verbatim Vol. XX # 4
“Unconditional surrender of our enemies [is] the signal for the greatest outburst of joy in the history of mankind. Holiday rejoicing is necessary to the human spirit.”
“Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in his May 8 Victory in Europe day broadcast” quoted by Ted Barris in National Post May 6, 2005
“Now in the case of water, by splashing it one can make it shoot up higher than one’s forehead, and by forcing it one can make it stay on a hill. How can that be the nature of water? It is the circumstances being what they are. That man can be made bad shows that his nature is no different from that of water in this respect.”
Mencius in a collection of his writings titled simply Mencius
“no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse”
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government
“The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.”
Graham Greene, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 29, 2005
“Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.”
“Igor Stravinsky, responding to his publisher’s request that he hurry his completion of a composition” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 6, 2004