Peppertreeslo Quotes & Sayings

As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise. — Ralph Raico

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. — Bill Gates

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian. — Ama Ata Aidoo

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries. — Pico Iyer

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is. — H.L. Mencken

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait. — Charles Baudelaire

I enjoy eating and have no issues with eating. I am not going to be one of those girls who have to watch her weight. — Moon Bloodgood

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve. — Tito Ortiz

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. — Marshall McLuhan

Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew ... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound — Arthur Golden

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way. — Dogen

France has and will have political and economic problems like any other country. But it works. What makes it work is the harmony between the spirit of the French and the structures they have given themselves, structures that are genuinely theirs. — Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art. — Baltasar Gracian