"The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state."

“Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.”

“Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.”

“In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare”

Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

“As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.”

Source : "The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 3, 2015.

“It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .”

Source : "The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”