2020
Just think about it...
"The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women."
British politician Nancy Astor, quoted in Forbes.com
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Philip K. Dick, quoted in the Penobscot Bay, Maine, Pilot
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Vincent Van Gogh, quoted in Buzzfeed.com
"It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night."
Homer, quoted in Lapham's Quarterly
"Never make anyone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
Maya Angelou, quoted in Women's Health
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take."
Rep. John Lewis, quoted in Essence
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Historian Daniel J. Boorstin, quoted in GoodReads.com
"Inviting people to laugh at you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be the fool, but you are the fool in charge."
Carl Reiner, quoted in Reuters.com
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
Philosopher Marshall McLuhan, quoted in Forbes.com
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
Martin Luther King Jr., quoted in the New York Times
"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."
Author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler, quoted in the Associated Press
"Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."
Writer and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater, quoted in the Associated Press
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Author and environmentalist Edward Abbey, quoted in the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
Roman poet Ovid, quoted in Carroll County, Md., Times
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the Miami New Time
"It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man."
President Calvin Coolidge, quoted in Forbes.com
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
George W.F. Hegel, quoted in The Washington Times
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
Philosopher Michel de Montaigne, quoted in Harper's
"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."
Lady Gaga, quoted in Parade.com
""The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
Philosopher Montesquieu, quoted in The Washington Post
