Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it.
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
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Criss Jami
There is more for us to gain through love than hate.
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Suzy Kassem
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
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A.W. Tozer
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
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Bill Gaede
More Quotes By John Knowles
Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
Why talk about something you can't do anything about?
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
