Julian Borrowdale:
CLASS OF 1982
Johnson High SchoolClass of 1982
Sacramento, CA
Julian's Story
Julian is from Sacramento, California. He is ... well, It's complicated. His schools include Johnson High School. He later attended California State University, Sacramento and studied Philosophy, Religious Studies. He works(ed) at Lane Community College.
Julian's interests include Business, Marketing, Economics, Martial arts, Fencing, Tae Kwon Do, Cory Everson, Jack LaLanne, Michelle Kwan. Music he likes includes Tony Clifton, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman. Books he likes include C. S. Lewis Society of California, Role Playing Games, Slaying Leviathan. Movies he likes include FrackNation, Flight Movie, The Big Lebowski. TV shows he likes include The Victoria Jackson Show, Face Off, Uncommon Knowledge.
One of Julian's favorite quotes is:"âIf you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.â - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason because bad philosophy needs to be answered." - C.S. Lewis
"Do or do not; there is no 'try.'" - Master Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back"
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.â - Babe Ruth
"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."
"Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk." -Dean Karnazes
"Who begins too much accomplishes little."
"A man's got to know his limitations." - Harry Callahan, "Magnum Force" (1973)
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner."
"In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes."
"If Pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress is Congress."
"Republicans may behave as if every day is the 4th of July, but Democrats behave as if every day is April the 15th."
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt...Expand for more
not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." -John Adams
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. " -Thomas Paine, Sept. 11, 1777
âIt does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.â -Samuel Adams
âThe cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.â - W.E.B. Du Bois
ââ¦man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.â -Ronald Reagan
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free." -Göthe
They came first for the Communists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
And then they came for me, and, by that time, there was no one left to speak up."
-Pastor Martin Niemöller discussing the the Nazi rise to power
"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way." - Jack Handy".
More about Julian:"Deep thinker, creative genius, and all around nice guy. Humble, too!
Polymath, emerging screenwriter and filmmaker, creative genius and all around nice guy. Currently earning my keep as Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Lane Community College. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, the faculty at Harvard, the first 400 names from the Boston phone directory, Socrates, Jesus, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Mark Zuckerberg or my cats.".
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