Bill Gates Quote – Success Is A Lousy Teacher
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
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Dr. Fred Oerther Quote – Should We Believe…
“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and “treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?” – Dr. Fred Oerther
Read moreRobert Bly Quote – We have men loosening the nails on Noah’s ark
“We have men loosening the nails on Noah’s ark.” – Robert Bly
Read moreRobertson Davies Quote – Satisfactory Future
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” – Robertson Davies
Read moreTheodore M. Hesburgh Quote – Inequality
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal […]
Read moreDouglas Adams quote – This planet has a problem
“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t […]
Read moreIgnazio Silone Quote – The Equality Of All Men
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain–the equality of all men.” – Ignazio Silone
Read moreHubert Humphrey Quote – What You Have Left
“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” – Hubert Humphrey
Read moreEleanor Roosevelt Quote – We Shape Our Lives
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreJohn F. Kennedy Quote – The Great Enemy Of Truth
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy
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