Fernquist And Johnson Quotes & Sayings

After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent. — Lawrence Kudlow

The true task of education, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned, is to abjure stale knowledge. "Knowledge does not keep any better than fish," he said. We need to keep it alive, vital, potent. — Howard Zinn

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. — Blaise Pascal

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives. — Thomas Merton

Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer. — William O. Douglas

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. — Kurt Vonnegut

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday. — James Joyce

'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption. — Joss Whedon