When you think everything is somebody else's fault you will suffer a lot.

~ Dalai Lama

 

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. 

~ Thor Heyerdahl

 

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.  Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. 

~ Thomas Merton

 

  Voltaire 

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

~ Voltaire

 

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. 

~ Buckminister Fuller

 

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.  

~ Commissioner Prain Lal, UN Declaration of Rights

 

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.  

~ Lord Raglan

Death Valley was named 

by the 49ers because it was a dead end and not a short cut.

 

Florida is the flattest U.S. state.

 

Laser stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."

 

Louis XIV was born with two teeth. 

 

Poland lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II.

 

Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu banned Scrabble because he deemed it too intellectual.

 

Christopher Columbus introduced pigs to North America.

 

Spain's King Charles V proposed to build a canal on the Isthmus of Panama in 1534.

 

The Montreal Canadiens have won the most championships than any other professional sports team.

 

Nevada was the first state to outlaw gambling.

 

American Airlines invented the Frequent Flyer concept in 1981.

 

Iceland is threatened by over 100 active volcanoes. 

 

Jesse James led the first band of outlaws to rob a train in Adair, Iowa in 1873.

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