This is a 13-minute presentation Carlin delivered on August 28, 2006. According to Carlin, as the country continues to deteriorate, “Nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.” Comment posted at the video site: “As in feudal days, it seems that the jester is the only one left allowed to…
I do love quotes! A novel in every sentence, as I see it.
I’ve been collecting quotes for years. These are quotes that I noticed or noticed anew over the past six months. There’s no particular theme here, though many of these do concern education/enlightenment:
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner , New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
Navajo proverb
[Reprinted with permission from Jeff Koterba]
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