Jon

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
― Alan Wilson Watts