3 December 2020 John Linder While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
3 December 2020 Nigel Kneale All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you’re just playing about.
3 December 2020 Gordon Gee The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
3 December 2020 Al-Waleed bin Talal Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
3 December 2020 Edward Sapir Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
3 December 2020 Martha Beck Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don’t match our own beliefs about how we should look.
3 December 2020 M. Kathleen Casey Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
3 December 2020 Jim Coleman For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.
3 December 2020 Stephen Cambone But by providing the background picture – the universal situational awareness that we desire – by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
3 December 2020 Kristen Bell I don’t want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they’re fun, and especially for women, it’s nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.
3 December 2020 Jason Aldean I think it’s important for artists to work together. It’s great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.
3 December 2020 Burt Ward I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.