"Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous."

-- Van Jones

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Mar 20, 2013
“Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.”
“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
“As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.”
“Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...”
“To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
“The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.”
“Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.”

Source : 'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113

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