"For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life."

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#America Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Apathy Quotes

“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.”
“I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.”
“I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]”
“Opposition is the very spur of love.”
“I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.”
“Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.”
“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
“I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.”

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