"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."
George Eastman
"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
Dave Barry
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
Omar Bradley
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aurelius
"History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club."
John W. Campbell
"I think one reason they call them ‘Relaxed Fit’ jeans is that ‘Ass The Size of Texas’ jeans would not sell very well."
Jim Rosenberg
"My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
Clarence Buddinton Kelland
"Good thing justice is blind; otherwise she’d be appalled by what’s going on inside our legal system."
Jason Love
"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
Wendell Berry
"For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, and not the external manner and detail, is true reality."
Aristotle
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
Abbie Hoffman
"Everybody likes everything these days. Nobody specializes anymore. It’s almost as if these people are an amalgamation of every single influence ever blasted through the television…and in the worst way."
"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
Ivan Panin
