I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. - Studs Terkel

In memory, we find the most complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place.... The picture is one of human beings confronted by a world in which they can be masters only as they ... discover ways of escape from the complete sway of immediate circumstances. — F. C. Bartlett, Remembering

"How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care where it is. They can't tell me any different. Money, money is the thing that causes it all. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that the people that start wars and promote 'em are the men that make the money, make the ammunition, make the clothing and so forth. Just think of the poor kids that are starvin' to death in Asia and so forth that could be fed with how much you make one big shell of. ~Alvin "Tommy" Bridges"

It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling — and I don’t think this is just nostalgia — was one of excitement, of achievement, of happiness. Life was important, life was significant.