More Ignorant – Less Free | Less Filling – Tastes Great

We’ll be more ignorant and less free, and we might not even know it. 
- The West Hartford Blog
http://whdad.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/courants-owner-bares-its-teeth/
This struck me as funny for some reason.  It was the last line in a post about the destruction of America’s newspapers.  Since we are firing all the reporters, we won’t have anyone to report on what we [...]

Quotes – Famous Quotes

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
 - Max Beerbohm
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in “Hierocles”, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
 - Samuel Johnson
Quotes – [...]

Sense, Reason, and Intellect

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei

Persistence – Never Give Up

Persistence – Never Give Up
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan “press on” [...]