"The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station."

-- Maria Semple

#Crazy Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Kindergarten Quotes

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

Source : Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”
“A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble or expense involved is honestly repaid in real decorative effect. If you find cut flowers too extravagant, stick to the greens. Laurel, rhododendron leaves, huckleberry or pine will all last many days, even weeks.”
“The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.”
“If you create a relationship that's based, to some extent, on support and money, it creates an entirely different relationship because people are going to be behaving in certain ways to please you, and not in their natural way.”

Source : "Rain in a Dry Land". "POV" Interview, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2007.
“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”

Source : Benjamin Franklin (1907). “The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher”
“I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive”
“A new Republican Congress is taking over. Sen. Ted Cruz has been appointed tooverseeing NASA in Congress. He says he wants NASA to focus on finding aliens so he can deport them.”

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