Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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Education does have a great role to play in this period of transition. But it is not either education or legislation; it is both education and legislation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful.
― Ansel Adams
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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