Marine Crucible Sayings

#1. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca The Younger

#2. Good to evil seems evil

Ray Bradbury

#3. My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

Safra A. Catz

#4. A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#6. In other countries, the bureaucracy serves the needs of the people and the state; here, the bureaucracy itself is primary, and it takes precedence over the needs of the people and the state.

S.Y. Agnon

#7. There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death.

Hazel B. West

#8. Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.

Cornel West

#9. I shit bricks, because I'm a constructive pooper.

Jarod Kintz

#10. Only He who made man makes man happy.

Saint Augustine

#11. He'd read once that in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in time of need, to that cherished place, seeking comfort within memories that never seemed to disappoint.

Steve Berry

#12. I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Jonah Hill

#13. The tree of life is blooming with sacred fruit.

Lailah Gifty Akita