There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
Carl Zwanzig

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
-George Orwell

All retaliation for wrong by inflicting a pain without any object for the future is revenge, and can have no other purpose than consolation for the suffering one has endured by the sight of the suffering one has caused in another. Such a thing is wickedness and cruelty, and cannot be ethically justified. Wrong inflicted on me by someone does not in any way entitle me to inflict wrong on him.

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation.


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I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Theodor S. Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss"

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Nelson Mandela

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where " said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
" so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

-Lewis Carroll

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head."

-Theodore Roosevelt

This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

Ronald Reagan -October 27, 1964

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury our glory in profound obscurity."

-Daniel Webster

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing"
-Albert Einstein

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." Golda Meir

"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself
he'll never cease to be amused."