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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication.
- Thomas Jefferson

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If nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture, and I prefer houses to the open air.
- Oscar Wilde

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman

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No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- Samuel Johnson

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
- Emo Philips

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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen J. Gould

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
- Franklin P. Jones

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

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The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
- Dave Barry

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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
- Alexandre Dumas

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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
- Thucyclides

My final itinerary for the US

Ok, I think I have the intinerary for my summer trip to the US ready now.

6/22 Oslo - London - Los Angeles. Flying out wth a looooong wait in London. Getting mah rental car.
6/23 Los Angeles - Victorville - Death Valley. Hooking up with friends in Victorville.
6/24 Death Valley - Mammoth Lakes. Drive through Death Valley NP, up by Lone Pines (and possibly up Mt Whitney) to Mammoth Lakes.
6/25 Mammoth Lakes - Yosemite NP - Fresno. Visit one of Americas purdiest places.
6/26 Fresno - Victorville - El Cajon. Back through King's Canyon NP and Sequoia NP, drop friends off in Victorville.
6/27 El Cajon - Yuma. Hand over some stuff to friends in San Diego, continue on with mah looooonesome part of the trip.
6/28 Yuma - Phoenix. Visit Yuma Territorial Prison and Yuma Quartermaster Park to get some history & culture. Maybe hit Phoenix early enough to visit AZ statehouse.
6/29 Phoenix - Albuquerque. Visit Barry Goldwater's gravesite. Continue on through some lovely national forest lands and Petrified Forest.
6/30 Albuquerque. Drive up to Sandia Peak, maybe a stroll around old town and Albuquerque museum.
7/1 Albuquerque - Santa Fe. Palace of the Governors, New Mexico State Museum.
7/2 Santa Fe. Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera.
7/3 Santa Fe - Farmington. Chaco Culture National Historical Place.
7/4 Farmington. Roundtrip to see Durango, Mesa Verde and Canyons of the Ancients.
7/5 Farmington - St George. See Canyon de Chelly and Horseshoe Bend.
7/6 St George - Carson City. Drive past Area 51.
7/7 Carson City. Nevada State Museum and Nevada State Capitol.
7/8 Carson City - Yreka. Some lovely scenery, including Mount Shasta.
7/9 Yreka - Crater Lake - Eureka. More lovely scenery in Oregon and Northern California.
7/10 Eureka - Red Bluff. Several purdy areas in the forests between I-5 and the Pacific Ocean.
7/11 Red Bluff - Sacramento. Old Sacramento and Sacramento History Museum.
7/12 Sacramento, Sutter’s Fort and California Museum.
7/13 Sacramento - Palo Alto.
7/14 Palo Alto.
7/15 Palo Alto - Fresno.
7/16 Fresno. Meeting up with friends.
7/17 Fresno - Three Rivers. Had in mah rental car in Fresno in the afternon. Meeting up with yet more friends.
7/18 Three Rivers. Doing Sequoia and King's Canyon again.
7/19 Three Rivers - Mammoth Lakes. Driving up to Yosemite.
7/20 Mammoth Lakes roundtrip. Doing Yosemite in depth.
7/21 Mammoth Lakes - Carson City. Doing the Lake Tahoe area.
7/22 Carson City - Klamath Falls.
7/23 Klamath Falls - Crater Lake Lodge. Doing Crater Lake. Again. Because I can.
7/24 Crater Lake Lodge - Twin Falls. Drive through rural Oregon. Should be interesting.
7/25 Twin Falls - Jackson - Gardiner. See the Shoshone Falls area and then the Tetons. Might suffer from purdiness overload.
7/26 - 7/28 Gardiner. Yellowstone ad nauseam for three days.
7/29 Gardiner - Kalispell. Up to Glacier Park through rural Montana.
7/30 Kalispell - Dillon. Glacier National Park.
7/31 Dillon - St George. Long ass trasportation day.
8/1 St George roundtrip. Bryce NP & Zion NP.
8/2 St George - Inglewood. Wave goodbye to my friends.
8/3 Inglewood - London. Fly home late in the evening.
8/4 London - Oslo. Touchdown late in the evening.

Quote of the Day

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
- Cullen Hightower

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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
- The Harvard Lampoon

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
- Rose Macaulay

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
- William Hazlitt

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Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
- Orson Scott Card

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
- Emile Zola

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The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual'.
- Winston Churchill

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilized body.
- Oscar Wilde

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Take all your dukes and marquises and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.
- Charles Krauthammer

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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nor is the people’s judgement always true
The most may err as grossly as the few
- John Dryden

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev

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My prayer to God is a very short one: "O Lord, make mine enemies ridiculous." God has granted it.
- Voltaire

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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
- Ed Koch

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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place.
- Bob Dole