"I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in."

-- Jay Leno

#Thinking Quotes #Phones Quotes #Government Quotes

“Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time”
“The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment.”
“A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

Source : "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.”
“The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.”
“If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.”
“In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.”

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