Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O woman, perfect woman! what distractionWas meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.

William Mather Lewis

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Bobby Scott

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Helen Reddy

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Lisa Unger

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

Steven Pinker