Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
~~Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Johnson (married to U.S. Pres. Lyndon Johnson)

 

[Liberty]

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth

 

[Liberty]

 

[officerripley]

"There are plenty of fish in the sea but there's also a garbage patch the size of Texas so y'all be careful out there."
~~Laurent Perrier

 

[squatting dog]

"I hear you saying that I can't, but what if I did?" Never fear failure- you can only learn and grow from it.

 

[Lewkat]

 

[officerripley]

"...[T]he consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in time that has come before."
~~from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

 

[officerripley]

"It is not hard to imagine serious public dangers emerging out of instances in which political, military, scientific or religious leaders are unable to distinguish fact from vivid fiction."

~~from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

 

[officerripley]

"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
~~Epictetus

 

[MarkinPhx]

 

[Lewkat]

 

[squatting dog]

"There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition."
Bruce Lipton

 

[officerripley]

"Most of the people my age is dead. You could look it up."~~Casey Stengel

 

[CindyLouWho]

 

[officerripley]

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~~James Baldwin

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[MarkinPhx]

 

[officerripley]

"Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps. End of list." - Denis Leary

 

[squatting dog]

 

[officerripley]

We are not the first civilization to collapse, but we will probably be the last.
~~from The Chris Hedges Report, Aug. 14, 2022

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[officerripley]

"No one does anything completely alone. Life is a team sport."
~~from There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century by Fiona Hill

 

[officerripley]

 

[Sunny]