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QUOTE OF THE MONTH MARCH 2006
The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke*
* (Attr.)
QUOTE OF THE MONTH APRIL 2006
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly.
-Proverbs [26:11]*
* The Bible (King James Version)
QUOTE OF THE MONTH MAY 2006
Unlike religion, it (science) is ethically
neutral: it assures men that they can perform wonders, but does not tell them what wonders to perform...The men at the head
of the vast organizations which it necessitates can, within limits, turn it this way or that as they please. The power impulse
thus has a scope it never had before.
-Bertrand Russell*
* A History of Western Philosophy,
Counterpoint, London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. p481.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH JUNE 2006
Physicians are like kings - they brook no
contradiction.
-John Webster*
* The Duchess of Malfi, V.2.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH JULY 2006
Every man has three characters: that which
he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-Alphonse Karr*
* Attr.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2006
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard
matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.
-Max Planck*
*In an interview with J.W.N. Sullivan. Quoted in Kenneth Walker,
The Circle of Life, Pt II, Ch. 3.
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