"A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience."

-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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“Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.”
“Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America.”
“When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.”
“My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.”
“My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.”
“Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.”

Source : Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press
“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.”
“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”

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