Joshua C.

“It always amuses me when any one group of people takes it for granted that, because they have been privileged for a generation or two, they are set apart in any way from the man or woman who is working in order to keep the wolf from the door. It is only luck and a little temporary veneer and before long the wheels may turn and one and all must fall back on whatever basic qualities they have.” This”
― Nick Offerman, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. —Tom Waits”
― Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living

“Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. He accomplished a creative operation. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight, Wind Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras—three classic tales of daring pilots in aviation's pioneer era

“It’s amazing, the wool the people in power of any nation will try to pull over the eyes of the citizens if there’s a buck to be made. Unfortunately, human nature seems to allow this to occur regularly, out of laziness and ignorance. – Gumption”
― Nick Offerman, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers