Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Charles E. Wilson

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Edith Hamilton

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

Janet Jackson

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal