Great Thinkers of Our Time



Question:

 If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I wouldn't live forever, because we should not

live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever,

then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which

is why I would not live forever."

Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest



"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over

 the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny 

like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

Mariah Carey



"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same

reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered 

other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."

Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the

law." answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

 David Dinkins, New York City Mayor 

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of 

your life."

Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a

federal anti-smoking campaign.

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates

in the country."

Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

"They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take

 them off."

Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the

Air Force nearly $1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.





We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."

 Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.

We are the president." 

Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."

 Former French President Charles De Gaulle

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, 

and I'm just the one to do it."

A congressional candidate in Texas

"The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. 

This is a good planet."

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he'd do with a million

dollars. 

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots 

and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple:

Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. 

Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."


 Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle on the complex social issues

behind the Los Angeles Riots

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. 

There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians

were selfishly  trying to keep it for themselves."

John Wayne

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. 

It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public

mind."

General William Westmoreland

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being 

very wasteful. How true that is."

Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fundraising event for the 

United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind

is a terrible thing to waste".

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be 

cut right out from under your feet."

Former British foreign minister Ernest Bevin

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." 

Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle (6/16/98)

And just the other day, our boy Dan was quoted as saying that the 

Republicans would definitely nominate someone this time who would beat 

Bill Clinton. 

Of course the 22nd amendment precludes Bill from running again.

Obstacles 

We who lived in the concentration camps can remember 

the men who walked through the huts comforting others, 

giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been 

few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last 

of his freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set 

of circumstances, to choose one's own way.



By Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Autobiography in Five Short chapters

1) I walk, down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in. I am lost . . . I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault . 

It takes forever to find a way out.



2) 1 walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend l I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I am in the same place. 

But, it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out. 



3) I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in . . . it's a habit. 

My eyes are open I know where I am.

It is my fault. 

I get out immediately.



4) I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.



5) I walk down another street.