"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“If you laugh, you think, and you cry, thatâ€™s a full day.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.”

Source : "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.
“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
“And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.”

Source : "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.
“National Socialism is applied biology,”
“I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave,”
“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.”
“Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.”

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