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Quote of the Quarter
«Sometimes your best is not enough, you have to do what's required.»
:: Winston Churchill
Quotes
«Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance.»
:: Debbie Hickok
«An optimist is the human personification of Spring.»
:: Susan Bissonette
«Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.»
:: Joseph Thompson
«A man sits as many risks as he runs.»
:: Henry David Thoreau
«When I run, I am an explorer, I discover what has always surrounded me that I never knew, and what I knew, but never tasted.»
:: Nicole Slater
«If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.»
:: Osage Proverb
«Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and a conscientious stupidity.»
:: Martin Luther King
«Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.»
:: Julia Cameron
«Leap and the net will appear.»
:: Julia Cameron
«No one with access to a convertible, an empty highway and a good radio station should ever need a psychiatrist.»
:: Terry Allen
«Now that I have learned to stand alone, I'm ready to stand with another.»
:: Unknown
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.»
:: George Bernard Shaw
«A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.»
:: Dave Barry
«Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.»
:: Elbert Hubbard
«Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.»
:: Groucho Marx
«In archeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.»
:: Thomas Pickering
«What if the worst of us gets the best of us?»
:: Unknown
«A human being is a lab animal that, under carefully controlled research conditions, will do precisely what they damn well please.»
:: George Sheehan
«People expect too much from modern medicine, and too little of themselves.»
:: Don Ardell
«Genes are not dictators, they are committees. They do not give orders, they make suggestions.»
:: Neal D. Barnard, M.D.
Questions and answers from Ralph Nader
Q: What product on the market today makes you think Corvair every time you see it?
A: McDonald's double cheeseburgers, a weapon of mass destruction.
Q: You've blasted corporate America for "commercializing everything it touches". What strikes you as the most obscene example of commercialization?
A: The commercialization of childhood is truly the most offensive. Basically, corporations have decided that kids under 12 are a lucrative market, and they sell directly to them, subverting parental authority. The idea is to reach these millions of kids who are in a vulnerable, impressionable state, even starting at 2, 3, 4 years old, to get them to nag their parents to buy the products. What are they selling these kids? Bad diets, fat and sugar, teaching them to be addicts. They are addicting them to watching 30, 40 hours of screens Ð video, television, computer screens. The commercialization of childhood is a pervasive form of electronic child molestation.
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