John Mark Dempsey:
CLASS OF 1972
Greenville High SchoolClass of 1972
Greenville, TX
John Mark's Story
John Mark's schools include Greenville High School. John Mark later attended East Texas State University.
Music John Mark likes includes Paul McCartney, Don Felder, Eagles. Books John Mark likes include 1776 by David McCullough, The Beatles, Happiness Is a Serious Business. Movies John Mark likes include Austin Powers, Ten Commandments, True Grit (1969). TV shows John Mark likes include The Twilight Zone, Texas Music TV, Hallmark Movie Channel.
One of John Mark's favorite quotes is:""By their fruits ye shall know them." --- Jesus Christ
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -- Jesus Christ
"Life has meaning only in struggle. Let us celebrate the struggle." -- Swahili warrior song
("The thin veneer of civilization" quote)
"Civilization has spread a veneer over the surface of the soft shelled animal known as man. It is a very thin veneer; but so wonderfully is man constituted that he squirms on his bit of achievement and believes he is garbed in armor-plate.
Yet man to-day is the same man that drank from his enemy's skull in the dark German forests, that sacked cities, and stole his women from neighboring clans like any howling aborigine."
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs
"The Blind Men and the Elephant" (how a blind man describes an elephant depends on what part of the elephant he can touch; explains a lot of why the other guy doesn't see it our way)
"Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good." -- Voltaire
"If God did not exist, he would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense...Expand for more
power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." -- Voltaire
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." -- Charles DeGaulle
"Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass. You know his faults now let his foibles pass." - George Harrison (via Sir Frank Crisp)
"We choose to go to the moon ... not because it is easy, but because it is hard." -- John F. Kennedy
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." â Benjamin Franklin
"I will be judged as a doctor would be judged if a pastry chef accused him in front
of a jury of children." - Socrates
"If it's the 'ultimate game,' why are they playing it again next year?" -- Duane Thomas (on the Super Bowl, but it could be any game)
"We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions." (thanks to my friend Randy Pennington)
"If you want any one thing too badly, it's likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things, like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself." -- Augustus McCrae
"I God, Woodrow, it's been a party." -- Augustus McCrae
âOnly a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken-fried steak.â âLarry McMurtry
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx".
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