The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Walter Lippmann

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Karl Rove

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

Mark Hyman

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Tim Robbins

Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time.

Steven Wright

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Ellen Barkin

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Loretta Lynn