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NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1852
A few days ago a powerful blast was made in the rock at Meeting House Hill,
in Dorchester, a few rods south of Rev. Mr. Hall's meeting house. The blast
threw out an immense mass of rock, some of the pieces weighing several tons
and scattered small fragments in all directions. Among them was picked up a
metallic vessel in two parts, rent assunder by the explosion. On putting
the two parts together it formed a bell-shaped vessel, 4 1/2 inches high, 6
1/2 inches at the base, 2 1/2 inches at the top, and about an eighth of an
inch in thickness. The body of this vessel resembles zinc in color, or a
composition metal, in which there is a considerable portion of silver. On
the sides there are six figures of a flower, or bouguet, beautifully inlaid
with pure silver. On the sides there are six figures of a flower or
bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver....  This curious and unknown
vessel was blown out of the solid pudding stone, fifteen feet below the
surface. It is now in the possession of Mr. John Kettell... He has taken a
drawing and accurate dimensions of it, to be submitted to the scientific.
There is no doubt but that this curiousity was blown out of the rock, as
above stated; but will Professor Agassiz, or some other scientific man
please to tell us how it came there?....
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Volume V II.  NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1852  (NUMBER 38)

"In my search for the secret of life, I
ended up with atoms and electrons, which
have no life at all. Somewhere along the
line, life has run out through my
fingers. So, in my old age I am now
retracing my steps..."
   ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI
   1937 Nobel Laureate,
   Physiology and Medicineè
"We can admittedly find nothing in
physics or chemistry that has even a
remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all
of us know that there is such a thing as
consciousness simply because we have it
ourselves. Hence consciousness must be
part of nature, or, more generally, of
reality, which means that quite apart
fromthe laws of physics and chemistry,
as laid down in quantum theory, we must
also consider laws of quite a different
kind."  NIELS BOHR 1922 NOBEL LAUREATE,
PHYSICS.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to
the truth-to see it like it is, and
tell it like it is-to find the truth,
to speak the truth, and to live the
truth-RICHARD NIXON,on accepting the
presidential nomination in 1968

A man is not finished when he's
defeated; he's finished when he quits-
RICHARD NIXON

There's nothing sadder than an old
hipster-LENNY BRUCE

When I was kidnapped my parents snapped
into action, they rented out my room-
WOODY ALLEN

When people tell you how young you
look, they are also telling you how old
you are-CARY GRANT

When a man sits with a pretty girl for
an hour, it seems like a minute. But
let him sit on a hot stove for a
minute-and it's longer than any
hour.That's relativity-ALBERT EINSTEIN

One can never consent to creep when one
feels an impulse to soar-HELEN KELLER

Man cannot live by incompetence alone-
LAURENCE PETER

"Pioneering basically amounts to finding
new and more horrible ways to die" -
John W. Campbell -

"That man is richest whose pleasures are
cheapest" - Thoreau -

Life is not one thing after another....
it's the same damn thing over and over!

The meek will inherit the Earth..... The
rest of us will go to the stars.

After all is said and done, a lot more
has been said than done.

Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes
straight to the bone.

Any given program, when running
correctly, is obsolete.

Tell a man that there are 300 billion
stars in the universe, and he'll believe
you.... Tell him that a bench has wet
paint  upon it and he'll have to touch
it to be sure.

What matters is not the length of the
wand, but the magic in the stick.

"Discovery consists in seeing what
everyone else has seen and thinking what
no one else has thought." - Albert
Szent-Gyorgi -

I really hate this damn machine, I wish
that they would sell it. It never does
just what I want, But only what I tell
it.

"Some people like my advice so much that
they frame it upon the wall instead of
using it" - Gordon R. Dickson -
è"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
 - Bert Lantz -

Ode to Turbulent Flow: Big whirls have
little whirls Which feed on their
velocity, And little whirls have lesser
whirls And so on, to viscosity.

"I   owed  a  magnificent  day  to  the
Bhagavad-gita.  It  was  the  first  of
books;  it was as if an empire spoke to
us,  nothing  small  or  unworthy,  but
large, serene, consistent, the voice of
an  old intelligence which  in  another
age  and climate had pondered and  thus
disposed  of  the same questions  which
exercise us." -RALPH WALSO EMERSON

"In God we Trust"
-UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

In 1913 Dr. Hans Reck found a modern
skeleton in the 500,000 year-od bed of
two of Olduvai Gorge in Africa.
Scientists now say it was origianlly
buried from a recent land surface in a
higher bed. But would primitive
gravediggers have penetrated the hard
limestone layer that existed between bed
2 and 5? The skull was placed in a
Brazilian museum but later mysteriously
disappeared...
-ORIGINS MAGAZINE
(The Record of the Rocks)

The bodies of organisms are complex
systems of interacting parts. To change
one species into another is not just a
simple matter of gradual remolding, as
a sculptor might remodel clay skulls.
Rather, it is likely to involve many
distinct, coordinated steps, as we see
when confronted with the task of
changing one electrical circuit into
another. This creates doubts about the
possibility of evolution by gradual
transformation...
- ORIGINS SCIENCE MAGAZINE.

Contradicting the standard picture of
human evolution over the past 2.5
million years, many fossils show the
presence of modern man throughout this
span of time in various levels of rock.
This raises the question of whether or
not the fossil record actually points to
evolution.
- ORIGINS SCIENCE MAGAZINE.

Of all the different forms of yoga,
the yoga of the Sound Current or
attunement with the holy Word
is by far the easiest, the safest, and
the speediest, yeilding results that
are verifiable with mathematical
precision. -book on Sikh religion.

"IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-
in-the-ground technique' to destroy the
competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in
the  ground and covers it with leaves.
It then puts a big POT  OF GOLD nearby.
Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at
all  this gold, get over here fast.' As
soon as the competitor  approaches the
pot, he falls into the pit" - John C.
Dvorak -

-It takes all sorts of in & out-door
schooling to get adapted to my kind of
fooling" - R. Frost -

"Confound these ancestors.... They've
stolen our best ideas!" - Ben Jonson -

Two friends met on the street after not
having  seen each other for some  time.
One of them was using crutches.
"Hello!"  said the other  man.  "What's
the matter with you?"
"Street-car  accident," said the man on
crutches.
"When did that happen?"
"Oh, about six weeks ago."
"And you still have to use crutches?"
"Well, my doctor says I could get along
without  them,  but  my lawyer  says  I
can't."

"I  shall have to give you ten days  or
$20," said the judge.
"I'll  take the $20,  Judge," said  the
prisoner.

A lawyer was cross-examining a witness.
He asked:  "And you say you called Mrs.
Jones on May 2nd? Now will you tell the
jury just what she said?"
"I    object   to    that    question!"
interrupted  the  lawyer on  the  other
side.
There  was  nearly an  hour's  argument
between counsel,  and finally the judge
allowed  the  question.  "And as I  was
saying," the first lawyer began  again,
"on  May 2nd you called on Mrs.  Jones.
Now what did she say?"
"Nothing,"  replied the  witness.  "She
was not at home."

Judge - "What is this man charged
with?"èOfficer - "Intoxication, your honor."
Prisoner - "Judge, I'm as sober as you
are this minute."
Judge - "Pleads guilty - 10 days! Next
Case!"

A couple of old codgers got into a
quarrel and landed before the local
magistrate. The loser, turning to his
opponent in a combative frame of mind,
cried: "I'll law you to the Circuit
Court."
"I'm willin'," said the other.
"An' I'll law you to the Supreme
Court."
"I'll be thar."
"An' I'll law you to hell!"
"My attorney'll be there," was the calm
reply.

"Haven't I seen you before?" asked the
judge, eyeing the tailor brought before
him.
"Maybe," replied the tailor. "So many
men owe me money I can't remember their
faces."

"You've been convicted fourteen times
of this offense - aren't you ashamed to
own to that?"
"No, your honor. I don't think one
ought to be ashamed of his convic-
tions."

"Well, what is the matter with your
husband?"
"I think, doctor, he is worrying about
money."
"Ah! I think I can relieve him of
that!"

"I   have found of twenty-five  nations
eating flesh  largely,  nineteen had  a
high cancer rate and only one had a low
rate,  and  that of thirty-five nations
eating  little or no  flesh,  none  had
a    high   rate."   - Rollo    Russell
"Notes  on  the Causation of Cancer"

Don't debate with fools.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350 -275 B.C)

He  is  a  Governor  that  governs  his
Passions, and he is servant that serves
them. BEN FRANKLIN

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no
more  than  a change of the  moon.  BEN
FRANKLIN

Where a sinful act contrary  to  right-
eousness is propagated, great disregard
of righteiousness is propagaged.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350 -275 B.C)

Is  there anything men take more  pains
about than to make themselves  unhappy?
BEN FRANKLIN

When  your intelligence has passed  out
of  the dense forest of  delusion,  you
shall  become  indifferent to all  that
has  been heard and all that is  to  be
heard. BHAGAVAD GITA

Work  as if you were to live 100 years,
pray  as if you were to  die  tomorrow.
BEN FRANKLIN

As  a  person  puts  on  new  garments,
giving up old ones,  the soul similarly
accepts new material bodies,  giving up
the old and useless ones. BHAGAVAD GITA
Chapter 2 Txt 22

The  honey is sweet,  but the Bee has a
sting. BEN FRANKLIN
è"The government of the United States is
not   in  any  sense  founded  on   the
Christian Religion" GEORGE WASHINGTON

Great  Talkers should be  cropp'd,  for
they have no need of Ears. BEN FRANKLIN

Many  have  quarrel'd  about  Religion,
that never practiced it. BEN FRANKLIN

From the  crow  one  should learn five
things: sex in secrecy, secret action,
catch in  time, unruffled behavior and
distrust of everyone.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)

You may delay,  but Time will not.  BEN
FRANKLIN

Whatever  action a great man  performs,
common   men   follow.   And   whatever
standards  he sets by  exemplary  acts,
all  the world pursues.  BHAGAVAD  GITA
Chapter 3 Text 21
èApprove not of him who commends all you
say. BEN FRANKLIN

The dog has six  qualities:  desire for
much, satisfaction  with a little, deep
slumber,  quick  awakening, devotion to
the master and bravery.
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)

He  that won't be counsell'd,  can't be
help'd. BEN FRANKLIN

A professor was teaching a medical
class. He explained the use of the
tourniquet in stopping the flow of
blood, and showed how the pressure
should be applied between the cut and
the heart.
"What would you do in case a man had a
brain hemorrhage?" continued the
professor.
"I'd put a tourniquet on his neck!" was
the bright reply of one of the
students.

Great  spenders  are bad  lenders.  BEN
FRANKLIN

Voice on Phone-"John Smith is sick and
can't attend classes today. He
requested me to notify you."
Professor-"All right. Who is this
speaking?"
Voice-"This is my roommate."

The same man cannot be both friend  and
flatterer. BEN FRANKLIN

A young city girl was vacationing in
the country and became friendly with a
farmer boy. One evening as they were
strolling across a pasture they saw a
cow and calf rubbing noses in the
accepted bovine fashion.
"Ah," said the farmer boy, "that sight
makes me want to do the same."
"Well, go ahead," said the girl, "it's
your cow."

Those  who  are fear'd are  hated.  BEN
FRANKLIN

The  eye of a master will do more  work
than his hand. BEN FRANKLIN

Policeman (producing notebook): "Name
please."
Motorist: "Aloysius-Alastair-Cyprian-"
Policeman (putting book away): "Well,
don't let me catch you again."

He  who  multiplies  riches  multiplies
cares. BEN FRANKLIN

If you have Time,  don't wait for Time.
BEN FRANKLIN

As pride increases,  fortune  declines.
BEN FRANKLIN

The  heart of the fool is in his mouth,
but the mouth of the wise man is in his
heart. BEN FRANKLIN

What you would seem to be, be really.
BEN FRANKLIN

Half wits talk much but say little. BEN
FRANKLIN

Declaiming against Pride is not  always
a sign of humility. BEN FRANKLINè
Experience  keeps  a dear  school,  yet
Fools  will  learn  in  no  other.  BEN
FRANKLIN

How  many observe Christ's's  Birthday;
How few his Precepts! O! 'tis easier to
keep  Holidays than  Commandments.  BEN
FRANKLIN

They  who have nothing to trouble  them
will  be  troubled  at   nothing.   BEN
FRANKLIN

Doing  an  Injury puts you  below  your
Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even
with  him;  Forgiving it sets you above
him. BEN FRANKLIN

If  you  would have Guests  merry  with
cheer,  be so yourself,  or so at least
appear. BEN FRANKLIN

The  family of Fools  is  ancient.  BEN
FRANKLIN

The poor may inherit the earth, but it
will appear that the rich... will
inherit the church-Reverand Pike

I'm sure Christ wore a mezuzah.He
certainly didn't wear a cross-Cesar
Chavez

God loves all men, but is enchanted by
none-Isaac Asimov

To have arrived on this earth as the
product of a biological accident, only
to depart through human arrogance,would
be the ultimate irony-RICHARD LEAKEY

The  worst wheel of the cart makes  the
most noise. BEN FRANKLIN

Well done is better than well said. BEN
FRANKLIN

Who  has  deceiv'd thee so oft  as  thy
self? BEN FRANKLIN

With the old Almanac and the old  Year,
leave thy old Vices, tho' ever so dear.
BEN FRANKLIN

(To Walter Cronkite):  "Well Walter,  I
believe  that the Good Lord gave  us  a
finite  number  of heartbeats  and  I'm
damned  if  I'm  going to use  up  mine
running up and down a street"
Neil Armstrong -

"Software suppliers are trying to  make
their  software  packages  more  'user-
friendly'....  Their best approach,  so
far,  has  been  to  take all  the  old
brochures,  and stamp the words, 'user-
friendly'    on   the   cover."    Bill
Gates,Pres.,Microsoft,Inc. -

Eight Things your computer won't do:
1) It  won't  save you money
2) It won't make your organization run
        right
3) It won't solve every problem
4) It  won't run itself
5) It won't always be right
6) It won't meet all its own needs
7) It  won't  protect itself
8) It  won't become obsolete
J. Makower -

Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too
powerful,we  can organize them  into  a
committee... that will do them in.

"The government of the United States is
not   in  any  sense  founded  on   the
Christian Religion" GEORGE WASHINGTON

"We must all hang together,  or we will
surely  all  hang separately"  Benjamin
Franklin -

"To  err is human,  to compute  divine.
Trust   your  computer  but   not   its
programmer" Morris Kingston -

"I've  seen many politicians  paralyzed
in  the legs as myself,  but I've  seen
more  of them who were paralyzed in the
head" George Wallace -

"You  don't have to  explain  something
you never said" Calvin Coolidge -

"A  little  caution outflanks  a  large
cavalry" Bismarck -

"A  billion  here,   a  billion  there,
sooner  or  later  it adds up  to  real
money" Everett Dirksen -
è"I  like  a  man  who  grins  when   he
fights." Winston Churchill -

"There   are   a  lot  of  lies   going
around....  and half of them are true."
Winston Churchill -

"Man will occasionally stumble over the
truth,  but  most  times he  will  pick
himself  up  and carry  on..."  Winston
Churchill -

"God  runs  electromagnetics  by   wave
theory   on  Monday,   Wednesday,   and
Friday,  and  the  Devil runs  them  by
quantum  theory on  Tuesday,  Thursday,
and Saturday." William Bragg -

"That  man is richest  whose  pleasures
are cheapest" Thoreau -

Life is not one thing after another....
it's the same damn thing over and over!

After all is said and done,  a lot more
has been said than done.

Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes
straight to the bone.

I really hate this damn machine, I wish
that they would sell it.  It never does
just what I want,  But only what I tell
it.

"Some  people  like my advice  so  much
that   they  frame  it  upon  the  wall
instead of using it" Gordon R.  Dickson

"We  have met the enemy and he  is  us"
Walt Kelly (in POGO) -

You  are  not  your  body...   You  are
eternal spirit soul. SRILA PRABHUPADA -
1896-1977

"We're the Phone Company.....  We don't
care. We don't have to." Lily Tomlin -

"The  one charm of marriage is that  it
makes    a   life   of   deception    a
neccessity." Oscar Wilde -

"God   is  a  comedian  playing  to  an
audience too afraid to laugh." Voltaireè
"There  are things that are so  serious
that  you  can only  joke  about  them"
Heisenberg -

"Confound  these ancestors....  They've
stolen our best ideas!" Ben Jonson

"All  good  qualities  get  hidden,  by
surrounding   oneself  with  groups  of
fools who act  like animals, as the sun
is hidden by the clouds."
CHANAKYA PANDIT (350-275 B.C)

Customer - "I want a ton of coal."
Dealer - "Yes sir. What size?"
Customer - "Well, if it's  not  asking
too much,  I would like  a  2000 pound
ton."

Boss - "You are  twenty  minutes late
again.  Don't  you  know what time we
start work at this office?"
New Employee - "No, sir, they're always
at it when I get here."

Absent minded Professor (to Pharma-
cist): "Give me some prepared
monacetic-acidester of salicyllic
acid."
Pharmacist: "Do you mean aspirin?"
Absent-minded Professor: "That's right!
I can never think of that name."

The possibility is always open that
there may exist an unlimited variety of
additional properities, qualities,
entities, systems, levels, etc. to which
apply correspondingly new kinds of laws
of nature.
DAVID BOHM, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS

"It seems to me pretty plain that there
is a third thing in the universe,to wit,
consciousness, which... I cannot see to
be matter or force,  or any conceivable
modification of either..."
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Biologist and Humanist

  "For you we are making no profit!"
           -Bengali proverb
  "Finders keepers, Loosers weepers"
           -American proverb

"And the meek shall inherit the Earth,
if that's O.K. with you..."

"Build a BBS that even a fool can use,
and only a fool will use it."

TO BE SURE OF HITTING THE TARGET, SHOOT
FIRST, AND CALL WHATEVER YOU HIT THE
TARGET.
-ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT

The working senses are superior to dull
matter; mind is higher than the senses;
intelligence is still higher than the
mind; and he [the soul] is even higher
than the intelligence.
BHAGAVAD-GITA CHAPTER 3 - TEXT 42

When, however, one is enlightened with
the knowledge by which nescience is
destroyed, then his knowledge reveals
everything, as the sun lights up
everything in the daytime.
BHAGAVAD-GITA CHAPTER 5 - TEXT 16

When the yogi, by practice of yoga,
disciplines his mental activities and
becomes situated in transcendence -
devoid of all material desires - he is
said to be well established in yoga.
BHAGAVAD-GITA CHAPTER 6 - TEXT 18

I am never manifest to the foolish and
unintelligent. For them I am covered by
My internal potency, and therefore they
do not know that I am unborn and
infallible.
LORD KRISHNA - CHAPTER 7 OF BHAGAVAD-
GITA

A rich, stingy man once came to a
priest for advice. The priest took him
to the window, which looked out on the
street, and asked him, "What do you
see?"  "People," answered the puzzled
stingy man.  Then the priest tookhim
over by the mirror and asked, "Now what
do you see?" "Myself," answered the
bewildered rich man.
   Then the priest explained his
   meaning: Both the window and the
   mirror are made of glass, except the
   glass of the mirror has a veneer of
   silver on it. When you look through
   the plain glass you see people, but
   if you cover it with silver, you
   stop seeing others and see only
   yourself.
-From the box of "Grandma's Tummy Mint
Herb Tea"

O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells
in the body is eternal and can never be
slain. Therefore you need not grieve for
any creature.
-BHAGAVAD GITA 2.30

I was in this prematurely air
conditioned supermarket and there were
all these aisles and there were these
bathing caps you could buy that had
these  kind of Fourth of July plumes on
them that were red and yellow and blue
and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I
was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach. LUCINDA CHILDS
(PHILIP GLASS: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH)

Dont let your mouth write no check that
your tail can't cash. BO DIDDLEYè
The opposite of a correct statement is a
false statement. But the opposite of a
profound truth may well be another
profound truth. NIELS BOHR

Just because everything is different
doesn't mean anything has changed.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORACLE

The most merciful thing in the world ...
is the inability of the human mind to
correlate all its contents. H P
LOVECRAFT

Take what you can use and let the rest
go by. KEN KESEY

Its not the size of the ship, its the
size of the waves. LITTLE RICHARD

It is a rather pleasent experience to be
alone in a bank at night. WILLIE SUTTON

Never invest your money in anything that
eats or needs painting. BILLY ROSE

The rich will do anything for the poor
but get off their backs. KARL MARX
If Karl, instead of writing a lot about
capital, had made a lot of it ... it
would have been much better. KARL MARX'S
MOTHER

Anything anybody can say about America
is true. EMMETT GROGAN

Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los
Angeles. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen
them all. SPIRO AGNEW

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen
them all. RONALD REAGAN

You can't underestimate the power of
fear. TRICIA NIXON

The whole earth is in jail and we're
plotting this incredible jailbreak. WAVY
GRAVY

The end move in politics is always to
pick up a gun. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Things are more like they are now than
they ever were before. DWIGHT D
EISENHOWER

You smash it - and I'll build around it.
JOHN LENNON

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
HELLEN KELLER

Politicians should read science fiction,
not westerns and detective stories.
ARTHUR C CLARKE

America, how can a write a holy litany
in your silly mood? ALLEN GINSBERG

It is necessary for me to establish a
winner image. Therefore, I have to beat
somebody. RICHARD M NIXON