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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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