Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part

of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
George Herbert Mead

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti

So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress.
John Murray

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Cyril Connolly

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
Dan Simmons

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

To set the cause above renown.
Henry Newbolt

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown, Jr.