"How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked."

-- Burl Ives

#Liberty Quotes #Bells Quotes #Franklin Quotes

“Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.”
“To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.109, Arthur Schopenhauer
“I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.”
“I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.”
“Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 17, 2012
“We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ and the reality of the Restoration, and we need to find a way to motivate them to write these things on the 'tablets of their hearts.'”
“What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!”
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

Source : "Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach". Book by Karl Popper, 1972.

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