Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

Tom Landry

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Dean Kamen

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Richard M. Nixon

In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world.response to Mayor Allen Thompson's steadfast refusal to appoint a biracial committee to negotiate grievances regarding segregation of public facilities and discriminatory hiring in municipal jobs

Medgar Evers, said in Jackson's

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Ralph Marston