Random Quotes
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The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.James 2:10
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.Anonymous
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.Dan Quayle, 11/30/88