Rosemary Rooks:
CLASS OF 1977
East Islip High SchoolClass of 1977
Islip terrace, NY
Rosemary's Story
Rosemary is from La Jolla, California. Rosemary's schools include East Islip High School.
Music Rosemary likes includes La Jolla Renaissance Singers, John Burt Polhamus.
One of Rosemary's favorite quotes is:"âA man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.â
--Albert Einstein
âFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.â
--Albert Einstein
âBut thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!â
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra
âFew people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.â
--George Bernard Shaw
âMany persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.â
--Helen Keller
âOne can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.â
--Helen Keller
âMost are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered...Expand for more
any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.â
--Henry David Thoreau
âOnce a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.â
--Horace, Epistles
âDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.â
--J. R. R. Tolkien
âMen show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.â
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âIt is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.â
--Kahlil Gibran
âHappiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.â
--Mahatma Gandhi
âI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.â
--Mahatma Gandhi
âGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.â
--Mark Twain
âNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.â
--Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
âLove will enter cloaked in friendship's name.â
--Ovid
âOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.â
--Sophocles
âDeath is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.â
--Sophocles, Electra
âPatriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.â
--Theodore Roosevelt".
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