Ken Smith:
CLASS OF 2012
University of WisconsinClass of 2012
Eau claire, WI
Ken's Story
Ken is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ken later attended University of WisconsinâEau Claire (History, Political Science, Spanish) , Universidad de Valladolid (Español para extranjeros) .
Books Ken likes include Star Wars, La voz de los muertos, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo. Movies Ken likes include Star Wars, We Were Soldiers, Indiana Jones. TV shows Ken likes include Stargate SG-1, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Battlestar Galactica.
One of Ken's favorite quotes is:""Some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?" -Ted Kennedy paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw"Through the initiative, referendum and recall the people in any emergency can absolutely control. The initiative and referendum make it possible for them to demand a direct vote and repeal bad laws which have been enacted, or to enact by direct vote good measures which their representatives refuse to consider. The recall enables the people to dismiss from public service those representatives who dishonor their commissions by betraying the public interest. These measures will prove so effective a check against unworthy representatives that it will rarely be found necessary to invoke them." --Robert M. LaFollette Sr.""Men always praise the olden days and criticize the present, but they do not always have good reason for doing so. They are so biased in favor of the past that they do not celebrate only those periods they know about because of the surviving descriptions of them writtten by men alive at the time..." -Machiavelli, The Discourses, Book II, Preface"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice." -Woodrow Wilson"[G]reatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." -Richard Nixon "One is left only with the saddest and most illusory conclusion of human affairs, the vision of what might have been...." -James L....Expand for more
Stokesbury"To be ignorant of what has happened before your birth is to remain always a child. For what is the meaning of a man's life unless it is intertwined with that of our ancestors by history?" -Cicero (Orator 120)"Words that everyone once used are now obsolete, and so are the men whose names were once on everyone's lips: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus, and to a lesser degree Scipio and Cato, and yes, even Augustus, Hadrian, and Antoninus are less spoken of now than they were in their own days. For all things fade away, become the stuff of legend, and are soon buried in oblivion. Mind you, this is true only for those who blazed once like bright stars in the firmament, but for the rest, as soon as a few clods of earth cover their corpses, they are 'out of sight, out of mind.' In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself." -Marcus Aurelius"We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life." -J. Robert Oppenheimer on the US/USSR (Foreign Affairs, July 1953)"Nuella avaritia sine poena." tr. "No greed is without penalty." -Seneca"Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body" -Binnebose"Sine amore, nihil est vita." -Unknown"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." -Aristotle"Friendship is like wetting your pants, everyone can see it but only you can experience the warm feeling." -Unknown"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only 6% of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem." -JFK".
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