"The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home."

-- Dick Gregory

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Home Quotes

“As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.”
“Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.”
“Deep within each one of us lies a garden.”

Source : Julie Moir Messervy (2007). “The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning”, p.11, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.”
“It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender...”
“Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.”
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Source : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
“Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”

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