Fortune Quote #2555

Wisdom lies in being able to imagine a solution that resides outside the
realm of your own expertise. -- Jonah Goldberg

Fortune Quote #2554

Appeasement wins applause for its ethical posturing and non-belligerency;
and even when the corpses later pile up it rarely earns the disgust it
deserves for getting thousands killed. In contrast, preemption is always
equated with blood lust; and even when it saves thousands, critics sigh
that in retrospect there must have been a better way. -- Victor
Davis Hanson

Fortune Quote #2553

Neither the United States of America, nor the world community of nations
can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any
nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual
firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nations security
to constitute maximum peril. -- President Kennedy, October 1962

Fortune Quote #2552

If you miss the present, you miss all there really is. -- Joel
Kramer

Fortune Quote #2551

Knowledge is of two kinds: there is knowing a thing, and there is knowing
where we may find information upon it. -- Samuel Johnson

Fortune Quote #2550

Those who are too good for this world are adorning some other. --
Swami Sri Yukteswar

Fortune Quote #2549

Virtually everyone suffers from the deeply ingrained habit of considering
language as a medium of communication. -- Dmitri Borgmann

Fortune Quote #2548

I expect a good deal of the problem is that you are busy disbelieving a
different God than the one I am busy believing in. -- Larry Wall

Fortune Quote #2547

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies
within us. -- Emerson

Fortune Quote #2546

Love is to our moral nature exactly what the Sun is to earth. --
Balzac

Fortune Quote #2545

Be ashamed to die, until you have won some victory for humanity.
-- Horace Mann

Fortune Quote #2544

The cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, and the sea.
-- Isak Dinesen

Fortune Quote #2543

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci

Fortune Quote #2542

Dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal feelings. --
Simona Topor Pop

Fortune Quote #2541

A lot of smart people don't know the value of well-applied
stupidity. -- Ari Nieh

Fortune Quote #2540

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not
know, that is true knowledge. -- Confucius

Fortune Quote #2539

If you cannot be happy with yourself, by yourself, how do you expect to
ever be happy with another? -- Rev. Abbot Denis Farkasfalvy & Rev.
Roch Kereszty

Fortune Quote #2538

Immaturity is the inability to use one's reason without the influence of
others. -- Immanuel Kant

Fortune Quote #2537

Do one thing every day that scares you. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Fortune Quote #2536

Well, that's life: a fleeting shadow, darksome seen, as in a rear-view
mirror. -- Porky Pine, "Pogo"

Fortune Quote #2535

"This is the sort of stuff that comes out of the Northward end of a
Southward-facing bull."

Fortune Quote #2534

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons
exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- G.K.
Chesterson

Fortune Quote #2533

When they ask me, 'Who's your favorite poet?' I'd better not mention you,
Though you certainly are my favorite poet And I like your poems
too. -- Wendy Cope

Fortune Quote #2532

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in
anxiety. -- Aesop

Fortune Quote #2531

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar
Wilde

Fortune Quote #2530

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral
down a militaristic stairway into hell of nuclear destruction. I believe
that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fortune Quote #2529

...nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights
because material growth has been made an end in itself, and, in the absence
of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller as the works of man become
bigger. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fortune Quote #2528

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature
makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that
forever confronts him. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fortune Quote #2527

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
-- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #2526

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced
that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. --
Aristotle

Fortune Quote #2525

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only
great poets can read them. -- Henry David Thoreau