Warren Buffett, Investor, Author
“I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.” – Warren Buffett, Investor, Author
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” – Warren Buffett, Investor, Author
Liam O’Flaherty, Irish Author
October 25, 2008 
“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones.” – Liam O’Flaherty, Irish Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Author
October 25, 2008
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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Author
Theodore Dreiser
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon wrote that he began his journey “with a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land. … I took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.”
“I wanted a journey that would present people, specific people, with names and addresses almost, so that the reader could pick up a Rand McNally and follow along and know almost mile by mile where this particular traveler was.” – William Least Heat-Moon
the 19th Amendment
October 25, 2008
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On August 26 in 1920 that the 19th Amendment was formally incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. It proclaimed, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It ended more than 70 years of struggle by the suffragist movement.
Dr. Mary Mahoney, director of breast imaging at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center
October 25, 2008
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“Patients are practically in tears because they’re so worried. But I think in the long run it’s going to be to everybody’s benefit.” – Dr. Mary Mahoney, director of breast imaging at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, on women who are asked to come back for a second mammogram.
Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit. – Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
General David H. Patraeus, the American commander in Iraq.
“We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.” – General David H. Patraeus, the American commander in Iraq.
