March 2011
18 posts
Fezzik: Inigo?
Iñigo Montoya: What?
Fezzik: I hope we win.
“Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
– often attributed to Albert Einstein
February 2011
20 posts
“Purity in martyrdom is for suicide bombers.”
– Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN)
“O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—...”
– Langston Hughes
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110,...”
– Justice Thurgood Marshall
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the...”
– Amendment XIV, Section 1
“Son, if anyone ever calls you a nigger, you not only got my permission to fight...”
– Thurgood Marshall, quoting his father William Marshall
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lena Horne
“Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings
but you push too hard, even...”
– Mos Def
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– Henry Ford (via polastre)
“What is the chief end of man?—to get rich. In what way?—dishonestly...”
– Mark Twain
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.”
– William Jennings Bryan
“…behind every great fortune there is a great crime.”
– Richard O’Connor, The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur, paraphrasing Honoré de Balzac
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
– Karl Marx
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via amiquote)
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov (via amiquote)
“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than...”
– Steven Jay Gould
“I asked an old friend here in Cairo, a woman with Western tastes that include an...”
– Nicholas Kristof, “Militants, Women and Tahrir Sq.”
“Socialism” is no more an evil word than “Christianity”....”
– Kurt Vonnegut 