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Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the stability and passing through a phase of contending forces. -- Kabbalah

Do not praise yourself / not slander others: / There are still many days to go / and any thing could happen. -Kabir

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. -Kabir, reformer, poet (late 15th century)

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. -Franz Kafka, Austrian Writer (1883-1924)

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. -Henry Kaiser

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to
crystallize its possibility. ~ Leland Kaiser ~

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. -Kalidasa, dramatist (c. 4th century)

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. -Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away." -Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay, inventor (1940- )

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. -Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)

I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free. -Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. - Bill Keane

There is a budding morrow in midnight. -John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821)

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821)

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (1942- )

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it. -Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,and success achieved. -

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. -Helen Keller

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. -Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968)

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Father James Keller

We have met the enemy and he is us. -Walt Kelly, cartoonist (1913-1973)

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible-Lord Kelvin, president, Royal society 1895

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken (1637-1711) English churchman, hymn-writer

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. -John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.- John F. Kennedy ~(1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA)

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity. John F. Kennedy,1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. -Johannes Kepler, astronomer (1571-1630)

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. -Sophie Kerr

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. -Hank Ketcham, comic artist (1920-2001)

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. -Charles F. Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things–as long as they're exactly like the old ones. Charles F. Kettering

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. -Charles F. Kettering

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Soren Kierkegaard

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. -Soren Aaby Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)

Once you label me you negate me. -Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)

To dare is to lose your footing temporarily. To not dare is to lose your life. -Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it. -Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989)

Martin Luther King, Jr . -(1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. -Stephen King, novelist (1947- )

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind, Joseph Rudyard Kipling

If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. -Rudyard Kipling, author, Nobel laureate (1865-1936)

The uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of of the future. --Kirkland

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger 1923-\

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -Donald Knuth, computer scientist (1938- )

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. -Arther Koestler

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. -Arthur Koestler

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983)

What if there were no hypothetical situations? -Andrew Kohlsmith

The word is not the meaning. The map is not the territory. -Alfred Korzybski (semantician/psychologist)

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol

TV is called a medium. This is because it is neither rare, nor well done.--Ernie Kovacs

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. -Karl Kraus

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. -Karl Kraus, writer (1874-1936)

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger, writer (1904-1980)

Without darkness there are no dreams. -Karla Kuban, novelist

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926- )

If a person is obviously mentally disabled, such as having Down's syndrome or Alzheimer's, decent people exercise sympathy and understanding in their interactions. So why, if someone merely has a low IQ, is he treated with ridicule and contempt? -Geoff Kuenning, computer science professor (1951- )