Synapses famous quotes

The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a ***** howl!

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.