Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

Man has responsiblity, not power.

American Indian Proverb, Tuscaro

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

Forever doesn't seem long enough if I'm spending it with you.

Hannah Weisman

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Johann von Goethe

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

P. J. O'Rourke

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

Raymond Chandler

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Robert Reich

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

Tom McCall

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Paul Wellstone

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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