Scholars Bowl Quotes

#1. The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B.F. Skinner

#2. This is so much better than the 60's. So much less self indulgent and desperate. What you have here is a large group of people trying to practice unconditional love for strangers, and for the most part, succeeding.

John Perry Barlow

#3. In Buddhism, since the definition of "living" refers to sentient beings, consciousness is the primary characteristic of "life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. 'I don't know why you stuck with me. I just wanted to be worth it, that's all.'

Amy Lane

#5. So. Are we concocting some elaborate scheme where we pretend to be twins to get your parents back together?

Melissa Keil

#6. Men are a strange breed.

Richard Ford

#7. That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

Frederick Lenz

#8. A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.

Janny Wurts