wmpe2000:
"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance." —Jeanette Winterson
wmpe2000:
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." Herman Melville
wmpe2000:
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." —Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, and reformer (1829-1906)
wmpe2000:
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
wmpe2000:
"Catch it if you can. The present is an invisible electron; its lightning path traced faintly on a blackened screen is fleet, and fleeing, and gone."
wmpe2000:
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
wmpe2000:
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.” Archibald MacLeish
wmpe2000:
For the first time it occurred to me this afternoon what a piece of wonder a river is – A huge volume of matter ceaselessly rolling through the fields and meadows of this substantial earth making haste from the high places, by stable dwellings of men and