// Created Monday, 2007-06-25
// Time-stamp: <randomquote.js, 2007-06-25 16:39:57 MDT, rhayes> 

var quotes = new Array("Nothing kills a religion more quickly than popularity with a government in power.", 
		       "The puny human mind can withstand only so much of its own insignificance before it feels a need to evolve into a gigantic ego.",
		       "Our descendants will shake their heads in amazement at a century that strove to bring an end to war by fighting wars.",
		       "The Buddha condemned war as one of the many forms of incompetent behavior, and for this I greatly admire him.",
		       "One might very well hold the view that nirvana is something like an asymptote, an ideal limit that no one ever reaches.",
		       "The only strategy that enables a person to find peace and contentment is to learn to accept things as they are. This means not striving for possessions, not striving for knowledge, not striving for change.",
		       "I have never much liked the dogma of karma, especially when it is coupled with the dogma of reincarnation.",
		       "If you find that you are becoming more forgiving and less inclined to hold grudges, more accepting and less judgmental, then you are doing something right, whether you are running or sitting or watering your garden.",
		       "The reason there are so few books and articles that are both academically respectful and useful or interesting is that the categories are defined so as to be mutually exclusive.",
                       "Untestable hypotheses are an indispensable tool for those who venture into obsession.", 
		       "Perhaps my call to make friends rather than destroying enemies is bad advice. But I am willing to take a gamble on it being a good thing to do at this juncture in history."
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