Simplicity, Mythology, Patriots

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~ Groucho Marx

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to
believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
~ Douglas Adams

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing
for their country.
~ Bertrand Russell

Bonus quotes for the New Year

Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Dean Acheson

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
~ John Quincy Adams

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle

Range of Influence

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to. 
~ Advice

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
~ Edward R. Murrow

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams

Problems and opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ Thomas Edison

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
~ Theodore Rubin

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
~ Scott Adams

Election Day

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

-- John Quincy Adams

Liberty

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

— David Hume

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

— John F. Kennedy

Man is not once-and-for-all

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...

~ Karl Jaspers

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

~ Henry Adams

And when you're all grown up to become your self, won't that turn out to be a wonderful thing, after all?

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.

~ Raymond Chandler

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

~ Albert Einstein

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

~ Douglas Adams

Definitions: Creativity, Art, Success, Happiness

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~ Scott Adams

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

~Dale Carnegie