Observing

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

 - Marcus Aurelius 

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

- Thomas Jefferson 

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

- Thomas Jefferson 

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Benjamin Franklin 

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

- Edward F. Halifax 

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

- Douglas Adams 

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

- Blaise Pascal 

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

- Brad Dourif 

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

- Barack Obama