“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. … Continue reading
Category: Quotations
Beyond Childhood
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Author unknown
Philosophy As We Haven’t Known It
Philosophy is nothing more than common sense in a dress. (Unknown)
It’s Called Rational Self-Interest
I try to hire people who want my job; they make me look good. –Larry Flynt
Stress
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg
Church & State: Opponents of the Human Spirit
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. –Denis Diderot
Way to Go
“Turn pain into purpose. Make sense out of the senseless.” –Fran Drescher, actress
A Thought in the Era of Obama Amnesia
“I have long thought it would be a good idea to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his accomplices to lower Manhattan. In my concept, the men would be taken by helicopter to a height of about 1,000 feet … Continue reading
1984–Excuse Me, 2009
‘The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to … Continue reading
Caesar Obama
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions … Blame the people who hail … Continue reading
It’s a Jungle Out There
“I don’t like to judge people … but I’m sorry, you’re wrong.” — detective Adrian Monk, from the television series “Monk”
What Makes Love Special
To the world you may be just one person; but to one person, you might be the world. –author unknown