Random

'I watch the birds of prey that
Hunt the canyon below my house
Looking for a meal like a lizard or a mouse
I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me
To control your own direction choose to be free
And i reserve the right to be as trite as i want
And you can lick but don't bite
...
And as for you and your crew i don't hate you
...
I love it when the only sound that i hear
Is your infectious laughter
...
I get up to the sun and then i stretch out'

lyrics of Random by 311
from http://www.311.com/lyrics_311#Random

and randomly from the same page,
from the song jackolantern's weather:

'Today, tomorrow, next week and next year
I always say what i feel and that is a promise
Nothing in life is above being honest'

Believing in Purpose

"I believe in your purpose baby,
Coming up to the surface,
and maybe I'll never see you again,
then again, who knows..."
-lyrics from Purpose by 311

Consideration

"THE chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. This narrowness
arises from the idiosyncrasies and timidities of particular authors, of particular social groups, of
particular schools of thought, of particular epochs in the history of civilization. The evidence relied
upon is arbitrarily biased by the temperaments of individuals, by the provincialities of groups, and
by the limitations of schemes of thought."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

problems arising with technology

"problems of great complexity arise from the impact of new technologies upon a society whose organization and habits of thought are adapted to an older system"
--Bertrand Russell

Reason is a Regulator

"Reason is not a cause of action but only a regulator."
-Bertrand Russell

Order and Progress

"Love as a principle and order as the basis; progress as the goal"
--Comte
reflected as 'Ordem e Progresso' on the Brazilian flag...

variation

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about the grapes.

--Paracelsus

Poison

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

--Paracelsus

Understanding Money

In monetary matters as in diplomacy, a nicely conformist nature, a good tailor and the ability to articulate the currently fashionable financial cliche have usually been better for personal success than an excessively inquiring mind...

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

--John Kenneth Galbraith from Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

reason and passion

"Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions."
-David Hume