A committee may function very well indeed as a clearing house for thoughts, but more commonly a committee or organization is just an elaborate means of fooling one’s self into believe that a spell spent in talking is the same as a spell spent in thinking. Harvey S. Firestone
Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber (1869-1938)
Monthly Archives: March 2022
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our …
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploringĂ Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always – A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are infolded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. T.S. Eliot
from Little GiddingĂ (in the Four Quartets) 1888-1965
My best friend was Richard, a queer. Twenty years ago, who’d …
My best friend was Richard, a queer. Twenty years ago, who’d have ever thought I’d be friends with a queer. I was friends with Richard for three days before I found out he was queer. He was a nice guy. I’m gonna keep in touch. Rudy Boesch
72-year old retired Navy SEAL on Survivor, August 2000
A representative government, responsible at short intervals of election … produces the greatest …
A representative government, responsible at short intervals of election … produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826). (Investor’s Business Daily, November, 3, 1998)
Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a …
Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not invoke them in any public sphere. Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (1908-1993) [not sourced]
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. …
Actually, it is foolish inconsistency that is the hobgoblin of little minds. Well considered consistency with all the evidence available is the hallmark of an ordered mind and ordered thought. Anyone who says otherwise is either too dumb to realize it or too dishonest to acknowledge it. Christian H F Riley
July 6, 1991
Stand your ground, Harry! Your cause is just and God will bless …
Stand your ground, Harry! Your cause is just and God will bless you! William Emerson
Concord minister to eighteen year old Harry Gould at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail …
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly …
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we’d be …
Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we’d be against it. Ingrid Newkirk
PETA