Wisdom Quotes tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2009-12-27://1 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z Quotations to challenge and inspire Movable Type Pro 4.32-en William Hastie tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4266 2010-03-15T14:00:00Z 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.... Jone Lewis Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

]]> Oliver Wendell Holmes tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4225 2010-03-14T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T22:59:34Z I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.... Jone Lewis I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

]]> Kurt Vonnegut tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4291 2010-03-14T11:40:15Z 2010-03-14T11:42:08Z I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.... Jone Lewis I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.

]]> Izaak Walton tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4259 2010-03-12T13:00:00Z 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z Look to your health -- and value it next to a good conscience; for health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.... Jone Lewis Look to your health -- and value it next to a good conscience; for health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

]]> Ralph Waldo Emerson tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4258 2010-03-11T13:00:00Z 2010-02-01T21:49:05Z The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.... Jone Lewis The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

]]> William James tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4232 2010-03-10T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T21:47:48Z Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.... Jone Lewis Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

]]> Aldous Huxley tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4211 2010-03-09T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T14:30:27Z What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.... Jone Lewis What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

]]> Aeschylus tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4207 2010-03-08T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T01:20:31Z In war, truth is the first casualty.... Jone Lewis In war, truth is the first casualty.

]]> Edith Wharton tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4217 2010-03-07T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T18:18:34Z There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.... Jone Lewis There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

]]> Howard Zinn tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4218 2010-03-06T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T18:18:35Z I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against... Jone Lewis I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.

]]> Howard Zinn tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4215 2010-03-05T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T17:44:59Z It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women,... Jone Lewis It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

]]> Henry David Thoreau tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4216 2010-03-04T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T17:44:59Z To be awake is to be alive.... Jone Lewis To be awake is to be alive.

]]> Albert Einstein tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4210 2010-03-03T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T14:30:56Z Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.... Jone Lewis Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

]]> Abraham Lincoln tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4206 2010-03-02T13:00:00Z 2010-01-31T01:18:19Z Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose --... Jone Lewis Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

]]> Rumi tag:www.revjonelewis.com,2010://1.4290 2010-03-01T23:03:52Z 2010-03-01T23:04:51Z Let the beauty we love become the good we do.... Jone Lewis Let the beauty we love become the good we do.

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