Quotes 13

"The historian must have no country."--John Quincy Adams

"What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? I learned our government must be strong. It's always right and never wrong...That's what I learned in school."--"What Did You Learn In School Today?," Tom Paxton, 1963

"As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything."--Malcolm X

"To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world."--Paul Gagnon

"The past is never dead....It's not even past."--William Faulkner

"Never assume that your audience is any less intelligent than you are."--Rod Serling

"We know consciousness far more intimately than we know the rest of the world, but we understand the rest of the world far better than we understand consciousness."--David Chalmers, "The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory," p. 3

Music is the reminder that it is always possible to feel alright - John Mayer

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."-- Bob Dylan

"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all stories, and we most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."--The end of "The Chronicles of Narnia (The Last Battle)"

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."--Samuel Adams

‎"The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death."--Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" p. 124

‎"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?---it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."--Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" p. 156

"What my grandfather believed was that people have their responsibilities, and that if they are left alone to fulfill their responsibilities, that is freedom....Honesty and responsibility, those are the things he taught...Too many conversations today have to do with rights and wants....There is not enough talk about responsibilities and duties."--US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas