"If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack."

-- Dr. Seuss

“I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.”

Source : "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.
“The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.”
“It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.”

Source : "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.
“Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get -- sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.”

Source : "Actor: We Need To Ask Osama Bin Laden Why He's Mad At Us" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. March 30, 2010.
“I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”
“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.”

Source : U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.
“Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?”

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