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George Burns Quote – Too Bad
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - George Burns ...
Wendell Berry Quote – The Past Is Our Definition
"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it." - Wendell Berry ...
Simone Weil Quote – Our Great Adversary
"Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,... but the one ...
R. Buckminster Fuller Quote – The Thought Is Staggering
"Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering." - R. Buckminster Fuller ...
Quote – Processed Meats
"Processed meats = bacon, sausage, ham, salami, bologna, pepperoni, all red meat in frozen meals. They are too dangerous for human consumption because of sodium nitrite = carcinogen." ...
Dr. Seuss Quote – Individuality
“Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” –Dr. Seuss ...
Quote – Necessary Evils
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.” Margaret Mead ...
Tom Hayden Quote – I Think It’s Helpful
"I think it’s helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest ...
Barbara Sher quote – You know what to do
"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You ...