The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Noam Chomsky

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

G.K. Chesterton

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Marguerite Gardiner

Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

What I carry in my heart Brings us so close or so far apart Only love can make love.

Peter Gabriel

It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

Gerald Griffin

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Naomi Wolf