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Ten Random Quotes

"For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over."
Edgar Cayce

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
George Orwell

"There is always an easy solution to every...problem - neat, plausible, and wrong"
H. L. Mencken

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
Abraham Lincoln

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."
Erich Fromm

"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."
Aung San Suu Kyi

"Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body."
Estella Warren

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
Doug Larson

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
Publilius Syrus

"When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill."
Ted Morgan

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