Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

The profound nature of relativity is not merely an abstraction of physics, it also explains why the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than from 3 million to 5 million.

Eric Parslow

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

Harrison Christian, 1999 paper,

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Margaret Drabble

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Ashley Montagu

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

Joseph Campbell

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Sydney J. Harris

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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