Dockstader Charitable Trust Quotes

#1. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North

#2. The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

Emily Oster

#3. Comrade, I say to the dead man, but I say it calmly, today you tomorrow me, but if I come out of it, comrade, I will fight against this, that has struck us both down; from you taken life-and from me-? Life also. I promise you, comrade. It shall never happen again

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. Don't make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things."
"Isn't that called murder?

G.A. Aiken

#5. Medicine has always been my calling.

Mehmet Oz

#6. I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

Fiona Shaw

#7. Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

Gustav Landauer

#8. The chief need was skill rather than machinery. It was impossible to fly without both knowledge and skill - of this Wilbur was already certain - and skill came only from experience - experience in the air.

David McCullough

#9. I was wondering if my life, the life in which I had a son and a beautiful, young girlfriend, could exist outside of the hospital. Or was the hospital its container? Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

Miranda July

#10. Crises are so valuable, in fact, that sometimes it's worth stirring up a sense of looming catastrophe rather than letting it die down.

Charles Duhigg