07-10-2022, 10:17 AM
"He dropped his eyes but he could feel the relief on the part of the Bacons. It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn’t know anything was spoiled or independent."
"The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely & perplexed as one. And from this first ‘we’ there grows a still more dangerous thing:”I have a little food” plus “I have none”.
The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. Its wool. It was my mother’s blanket – take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning – from ‘I’ to ‘we. "
John Steinbeck.
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom & the enemy of growth."
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
"The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely & perplexed as one. And from this first ‘we’ there grows a still more dangerous thing:”I have a little food” plus “I have none”.
The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. Its wool. It was my mother’s blanket – take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning – from ‘I’ to ‘we. "
John Steinbeck.
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom & the enemy of growth."
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)