Quote: Dorothy Parker on Yale Girls
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end - I wouldn’t be surprised."
- Dorothy Parker, writer and poet
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Freedom, According to Justice William O. Douglas
The following is an article
from Uncle John’s Supremely
Satisfying Bathroom Reader
William
O. "Wild Bill" Douglas (1898 - 1980) was the longest-serving
justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here’s what he has to
say about free speech, freedom, and the government:
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all
freedom."
"It was against a background poignant with memories of evil
procedures that our Constitution was drawn."
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there is a twilight when […]
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Quote: John Kenneth Galbraith on the Truth About Organizations
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
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Quote: Bill Cosby on Children
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come home."
- Bill Cosby, comedian and actor
(20 words)
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Quote: Galbraith on US Death From Food
"More die in the United States of too
much food than of too little."
- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
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Quote: Robert Ingersoll on Rewards and Punishments
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences."
- Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator
(22 words)
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Quote: Helen Keller on Security
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. . .Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. . . Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller, deafblind American author, activist and lecturer
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