Taekwondo Instructor Quotes & Sayings

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume

Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America. — Raymond Sokolov

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way. — George Aiken

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,
when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I think I'll stay here a little while longer. There's plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you.
There's all the time I have left on Earth.
There's the rest of my life. — Ilsa J. Bick

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened. — Walter Russell