Peter Norton:
CLASS OF 1975
Kensington - Parkwood Elementary SchoolClass of 1975
Kensington, MD
Washington High SchoolClass of 1981
Fremont, CA
Washington High SchoolClass of 1981
Fremont, CA
Kensington Junior High SchoolClass of 1978
Kensington, MD
Centerville Junior High SchoolClass of 1977
Fremont, CA
Peter's Story
Peter's schools include Kensington - Parkwood Elementary School, Sunnyside School, Key School, Larchmont Elementary School, Kensington Junior High School, Washington High School, West Park Place Elementary School, Centerville Junior High School. Peter works(ed) at University Of Virginia.
Music Peter likes includes Opera Viva, Frédéric Chopin, Chopin. Books Peter likes include Stephen Mitchell, The Day the Universe Changed, Les Misérables. Movies Peter likes include The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life. TV shows Peter likes include With Good Reason radio, Science Patrol.
One of Peter's favorite quotes is:"It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
—Aung San Suu Kyi
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson (March 13, 1789)
Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to Willia...Expand for more
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Many people will express a confident opinion on almost any question which is put before them, but they thereby manifest not strength, but weakness and narrowness of mind.
—W.S. Jevons (1874)
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
— Mark Twain, speech in Hartford, late 1884.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
—Mark Twain, Notebook, 1894
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
—Mark Twain
και γνωσεσθε την αληθειαν και η αληθεια ελευθερωσει υμας
Lapis quem reprobaverunt aedificantes hic factus est in caput anguli.
The Kingdom of God is within you.
Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be at one.
—Socrates, Phaedrus
As through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
—Woody Guthrie
ILLEGITIMATI CARBORUNDUM NON ESSE
—Gen. Vinegar Joe Stilwell
A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
—David Akin, 20th Law of Spacecraft Design
Chance favors only the prepared mind.
—Pasteur
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
—Orson Scott Card
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