Just finished "Man Without a Country"
Easy to read in a few hours (uninterrupted). Kurt has given up... and so it goes. At least he should have called one last meeting of the Royal Astronomers. I'm ready to hang with Montana Wildhack myself.
"He who slings mud generally loses ground. "
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. "
"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. "
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
"You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news."
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E. Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!". Stevenson called back "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!".
Come over to the dark side... Stevenson in 2008!
