Thoughtful Thursday (2 weeks)

"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed."
- Anne Rice

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
- Franklin P. Adams

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
- Winston Churchill

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin

"The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol

"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
- Aristotle

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
- Oswald Spengler

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
- Thomas Jefferson

"A conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice."
- Norbert Wiener

"Ideas without action are worthless."
- Harvey Mackay

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
- John Dewey