Linda Buyer:
CLASS OF 1973
Evanston Township High SchoolClass of 1973
Evanston, IL
Linda's Story
Linda is from Evanston, Illinois. Her schools include Evanston Township High School.
One of Linda's favorite quotes is:"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. â Albert Pines (d. 1851)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
Religion is something left over from the infancy of intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
The difference between sex for money and sex for free, is that sex for money always costs a lot less. Sebastien Horsley, playwright
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in. -Sam Harris, author (1967- )
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.-Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S. (1809-1865)
A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. -James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. -Todd Ruthman
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. -Doug Larson, Olympic Gold Medalist (1902-1981)
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. âSamuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. -Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake, English poet and writer
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser â in case you thought optimism was dead. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- )
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." Lou Brock, American baseball player
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."-- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes Magazine
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970)
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen but understanding it for the first time." Albert Szent-Gyorgy, 1937 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1893 â 1986)
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer (1954- )
Half the truth is often a great lie. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. -Alice Walker, writer (1944- )
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. -Earl Wilson, columnist (1907-1987)
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.-Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator,composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer
I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. -Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958)
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.-Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. âBertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley,novelist (1894-1963)
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. -Aldous Huxley, writer (1894-1963)
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.-Frank A. Clark
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)
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d a sad one who is only wise. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert Service, writer (1874-1958)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. -Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, author (1745-1832)
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. -Richard Steele, author and editor (1672-1729)
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. -Charles Dudley Warner, editor, and publisher (1829-1900)
I am no more humble than my talents require. -Oscar Levant, composer (1906-1972)
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809-1865)
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.-Theophile Gautier, writer (1811-1872)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (1856-1915)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation. -John Cage, composer (1912-1992)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 B.C)
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. -Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (1772-1834)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. -Cliff Fadiman
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -Sarah Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president (1809-1865)
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese proverb
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S (1809-1865)
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. -Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that,you've got it made. -Groucho Marx
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. -Dorothy Parker
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -Voltaire, philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist (1694-1778)
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (1928- )
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. -Chinese proverb
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow, novelist (1874-1945)
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. -General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
If we knew what it was we were doing it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese proverb
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes, "Le Discours de la Methode," 1637
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -Franklin P. Jones
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. -Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Orson Welles (1915-1985)
The opinions of most people are like the playthings of infants. Heraclitus (540-480 BC)
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates (470-399 BC)
Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error. Dennis Miller (born 1953)
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. George Carlin (b. 1937)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those that we don't care for. Marie von Eben-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
...to me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab. Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
The only stability is in accepting uncertainty. Pierre A. Wack
The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time. Magus Pyke (b. 1908)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with mood swings. Wayne R. Guevara (20th century cashier)
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford (1863-1947)
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. Bill Cosby (b. 1937)
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Addison Mizner (1872-1933)
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. -Dan McKinnon".
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