Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.

Bernard Greenhouse

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

William Shakespeare

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.This quote was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

If the world is to be understood, if we are to avoid such logical paradoxes when traveling at high speeds, there are some rules, commandments of Nature, that must be obeyed. Einstein codified these rules in the special theory of relativity. Light (reflected or emitted) from an object travels at the same velocity whether the object is moving or stationary: Thou shalt not add thy speed to the speed of light. Also, no material object may move faster than light: Thou shalt not travel at or beyond the speed of light. Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like; 99.9 percent of the speed of light would be just fine. But no matter how hard you try, you can never gain that last decimal point. For the world to be logically consistent there must be a cosmic speed limit. Otherwise, you could get to any speed you wanted by adding velocities on a moving platform.

Carl Sagan

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Nate Silver

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education

Thomas Jefferson

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana, Spanish philos