After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Sean Parker

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

William Shakespeare

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

George Carlin

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Daniel Kahneman

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

English Proverb

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

Jim DeMint

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway