Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

The less government we have, the better - the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Jeremy Rifkin

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)

Kurt Vonnegut

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

Conan O'Brien

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman, "quoted in Newsw

Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Ambrose Pierce

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Terry Pratchett

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Source Unknown

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

Evelyn Glennie

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Cassandra Clare