I have always kinda liked quotes so here is a collection of all the quotes I have ever used on the main page. They were chosen because they made sense to me at that moment and because they brought with them a kind of new understanding. Ignore this page if you aren't interested in non-Slam Dunk stuff. I'm awfully guilty of mixing everything up. Quotes seen in 1999 aren't here at all.

190901
But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, as if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig, in "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"

020901
The other day I heard a joke about an American and a Japanese who were walking through a jungle together when they saw a hungry lion running towards them. The Japanese immediately sat down and began putting on his running shoes.

"If you think you can outrun a hungry lion." scoffed the American, "you are the fool."

"I don't have to outrun that hungry lion," said the Japanese. "I only have to outrun you."

Akio Morita, in his book Made in Japan

190401
The great Christian theologian Saint Augustine (AD 354 - 430) was once asked what God did before he created the universe. Augustine's reply : He was busy preparing hell for the people who would ask such questions. ~ Paul Zane Pilzer

050401
I will not deny you anything. Only you can do that - G.S

300400
Do not stand there and tell me that you do not kill, for do you not eat meat? Do you not eat vegetables? Aren't these animals and plants once alive?
Animals kill for survival - we kill because others stand in our way. We would kill even if the other is a human being just like us. Even if I am not cruel, I still have to kill these lifeforms one way or the other.
If this is so, why is it only considered wrong when a human is killed? Is it because humans are superior? ... so as long as one has more power, it would be all right to kill?
Let me ask you again - why can't we kill other human beings?
Satsuki Yatouji, Dragon of Earth - as loosely translated from X Clamp Book 13.

170300
... that what humans begin, Satan often finishes. ~Austin and Perry "Angel Child"

Pride was the female side of Satan in the human race, the quiet egg of sin, always fertile. Pride had kept Moses out of Canaan, where the grapes were so big the men had to carry then in slings. "Who brought the water from the rock when we were thirsty?" The Children of Israel had asked, and Moses had answered."I did it." ~Stephen King "The Stand

270100
Kids fall in love with Pokemon because it presents youth as dignified and important, something young people desparately want. ~Mildred Vonltidegarde, Narrowsburg, NY