Temptation, Al Gore

Our founders were insightful students of human nature. They feared the abuse of power because they understood that every human being has not only "better angels" in his nature, but also an innate vulnerability to temptation — especially the temptation to abuse power over others.

- Al Gore, Address at New York University (25 May 2004) Full text online


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Temptation

Love, Matt Groening

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

- Matt Groening, Love is Hell

Love, William Adama

Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts…

- Commander William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica, The Farm


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Love

Charity
Passion
Compassion

Government, James Mill


Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

~ James Mill

Happiness, Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids (1998) by Joseph A. Michelli, p. 88.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Happiness

Science, Stephen Jay Gould


In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

- Stephen Jay Gould

과학에서 '사실'이란 '잠정적 승인을 보류하는 것이 잘못일 정도로 확정되었음'을 의미할 뿐입니다. 나는 사과가 내일부터 솟아오르기 시작할 수도 있다고 생각하지만, 물리학 수업시간에 그 가능성에 대해 동일한 시간을 할애할 만한 가치는 없습니다.

- 스티븐 제이 굴드

Language, William Shakespeare


What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

이름이란 게 무슨 소용인가? 장미꽃은 다른 이름으로 불리워져도 똑같이 향기로울 게 아닌가?

- 윌리엄 셰익스피어

Money, Western Proverb


Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

- Western Proverb

돈은 좋은 하인이지만, 나쁜 주인이다.

- 서양속담

돈이 사람을 따라야지, 사람이 돈을 따르면 안된다.

Health, Western Proverb


Anybody who thinks money is everything has never been sick.

- Western Proverb

돈이 전부라고 생각하는 이는 앓아보지 않은 사람이다.

- 서양속담