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January 21, 2008 by kevinstilley

Monday Night, Time For Quotes

Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. ~ Henry David Thoreau, in On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter.
~ Leo Tolstoy, in What Is Art?

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to man.
~ Leon Trotsky, in Diary In Exile

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.
~ Harry Truman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, “lighthouses” (as a poet said) “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman

When I am asked a question
Here is the way things go:
I give a lengthy answer
Before saying, “I don’t know.”
~ Joshua Adams

Our children are being raised by appliances.
~ Bill Moyers

We are becoming a nation of neither children nor adults. Rather we all exist in some age zone between childhood and adulthood. We’re a nation of adolescents – preoccupied with ourselves, sexualized, moody and impulsive, seeking freedom without responsibility.
~ Joshua Meyrowitz

Data isn’t information any more than fifty thousand tons of cement is a skyscraper.
~ Clifford Stoll

We’re falling out of the world of history into the world of demographics where we count everything and value nothing.
~ George W. S. Trow

A man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.
~ William Least Heat Moon

We search the world for truth: we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful
From graven stone and written scroll:
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers read.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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