Husband, Father, Grandfather, and Writer, living my reality in Polson, Montana.
Polson, MT
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“We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.”
Thomas Mann
“Hope is the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”
Barack Obama
Boy, how true this is:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Isaac Asimov
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
George Orwell
"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
Langston Hughes
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
William Blake
“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
Umberto Eco
“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
George Orwell
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Robert Frost
““There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Your own self,” he repeated. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you’ve worked on your own corner.”
Aldous Huxley
“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
George Orwell
“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.”
Adolf Hitler
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Robert Frost