"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." ....."I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."


-George McGovern




Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

-Salvador Dali


"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-Will Rogers

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

- Joseph Campbell

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K Dick

Nothing in the world takes the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ~Calvin Coolidge

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

-Milton Berle





"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

-Nelson Henderson




"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

~ Quentin Crisp

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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Bertrand Russell

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."


--- Aristotle