Steven Emory:  

CLASS OF 1988
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Buena High SchoolClass of 1988
Ventura, CA

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Steven is from Ventura, California. Steven's schools include Buena High School. Steven later attended California Lutheran University (Chemistry, Religion) . Music Steven likes includes Psychedelic Furs, The Velvet Underground, Wall of Voodoo. Books Steven likes include The Kite Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451. Movies Steven likes include Full Metal Jacket, National Lampoon's Animal House, Slap Shot. TV shows Steven likes include Boston Legal, KCTS 9, South Park. One of Steven's favorite quotes is:"Matthew 5:3-12 "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."-Martin Luther King, Jr. "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer “When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." -Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan " 'Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy “By doubting we come at truth.” -Cicero "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid." -Martin Luther "Conviction without experience makes for harshness." -Flannery O'Connor Sirach 6:14-17 "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." -George Orwell Luke 3:11 "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say." -Martin Luther "Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?" -Holly Near "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -Gandhi "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." -Albert Einstein "All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." -George Orwell "Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish . . . We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." -Pope John Paul II "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." -President Jimmy Carter "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" -First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." -President Thomas Jefferson "Until the great mass of th...Expand for more
e people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." -Helen Keller Proverbs 29:7 Matthew 6:24 Matthew 25:31-40 "They put him in a place where the snow could not beat in, where the cold could not eat through his bones; they brought him food and drink—why, in the name of heaven, if they must punish him, did they not put his family in jail and leave him outside—why could they find no better way to punish him than to leave three weak women and six helpless children to starve and freeze?" -The Jungle Deuteronomy 27:19 Ezekiel 16:49-50 "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." -Henry Mencken "God money's not looking for the cure God money's not concerned about the sick among the pure God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised God money's not one to choose"-from "Head Like a Hole"-Nine Inch Nails. "To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice."-Desmond Tutu "The most glaring weakness is that no matter how efficient and fair the DP may seem in theory, in actual practice it is primarily inflicted upon the weak, the poor, the ignorant and minorities."-Pat Brown, former CA governor "[I am] haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die."-George Ryan, former Illinois Governor "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."-Mohandas Gandhi "Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."-Mohandas Gandhi "Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them."-Niels Bohr "An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field."-Niels Bohr “The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting."-Robert Wilhelm Bunsen "All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."-Marie Curie "I don't even know what I was running for . . . I guess I just felt like it."-Holden Caulfield "Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about."-The Stranger "And everybody wants to be special here They call your name out loud and clear Here comes a regular Call out your name Here comes a regular Am I the only one here today?"-The Replacements "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"-St. Augustine "Charity is no substitute for justice withheld." -St. Augustine "The will to win means nothing if you haven’t the will to prepare."-Juma Ikangaa (1989 NYC Marathon Champion) "All morons hate it when you call them a moron."-Holden Caulfield".
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