achieve through trial and error.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the fIrst stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.quoted by Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale in his talk entitled: The Stoic Warrior's Triad: Tranquility, Fearlessness, and Freedom.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Arc
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
George Gordon
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
Townsend Harris
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
Martin Luther
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'
Heather Morris
Some people live an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference in the world, Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
