Friday, June 12, 2009
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A running commentary on what we as a people have already been, currently are, and may or may not become.
"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us." - Carl Sagan
“In the midst of winter, I finally found that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus
Gandalf: "Gandalf? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Gray. That was my name."
Gimli: "Gandalf..."
Gandalf: "*I* am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Gimli: "Gandalf..."
Gandalf: "*I* am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
"Be truthful to that which exists within your self." - Andre Gide
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with." - Michael Pollan
"Am I not destroying my enemies by making friends of them?" ~ Abraham Lincoln
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America." - Barack Obama
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine but it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only." ~ Bob Dylan
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." ~ Albert Einstein
"I, for one, will join in with anyone, I don't care what color you are, as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth." ~ Malcolm X
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." ~ Plutarch
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." ~ Fr. Alfred D'Souza
"It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them." ~ Noam Chomsky
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain
"What a curious life we have found here tonight..." ~ Neutral Milk Hotel
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