"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." - Henry David Thoreau

""In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters."
It's an oral history. It was passed down, word-of-mouth, father to son, from Adam to Seth, from Seth to Enos, from Enos to Cainan, for 40 generations, a growing, changing, story, it was handed down, word-of-mouth, father to son. Until Moses finally gets it down on lambskin. But lambskins wear out, and need to be recopied. Copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.
From Hebrew it's translated into Arabic, from Arabic to Latin, from Latin to Greek, from Greek to Russian, from Russian to German, from German to an old form of English that you could not read. Through 400 years of evolution of the English language to the book we have today, which is: a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.  You can't put a grocery list through that many translations, copies, and re-telling, and not expect to have some big changes in the dinner menu when the kids make it back from Kroger's.  And yet people are killing each other over this written word. Here's a tip: If you're killing someone in the name of God — you're missing the message." - Nick Annis (musician) in the preface to God is Good.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt (speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910)

"If you hear no complaints about the price then you are not charging enough."- Steven Bristol

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain

“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” - Muhammad Ali

“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein

"Those who live by the sword...will be shot by those who don't!" - Gary Hamel(?)
 

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day" - Dean Martin