The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Oscar Wilde

History is merely gossip

Oscar Wilde

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Deepak Chopra

You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

James Branch Cabell

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

Laurel Clark

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel-

John Steinbeck

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell, Politics and the

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Helen Reddy

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Ralph Nader

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Samuel Johnson