I am not a consistent journal writer, and truthfully I go back an destroy most of my journals, lest my family 'lock me up' for reading my thoughts out of context! But I have kept one journal more or less for the irony of it..
These entries were all made in a short period of time in 1987, some entries are disturbing, some are ironic, some are just too predictable!
"When you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship" Harry Truman
"Any education worthy of the name is bound to be dangerous" L. Neil, Australian Professor
"If
you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule." Barbara Jordan
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. " Harry Truman
Mark Twain spoke of the young missionary who went among the
cannibals and Twain said " They listened with the greatest of interest to
everything he had to say...and then they ate him".
"I would be wise to remember that , considering bad news, it is never out of style to at least THINK about burning the messenger." Linda Ellerbee
"El Salvador is Spanish for Vietnam" unknown
"The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes a little longer" Edward R. Murrow.
"First one, then two of us-- pretty soon they'll think it's a movement" --"if three of us do it they'll think its a conspiracy" Arlo Guthry
"You can't get a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant" Bell Labs Engineer
"China is having a new war, and we are having trouble getting into it. We always have gunboats there, so if there is any shooting, why, one of our boats will get shot at, and that gives us the usual alibi. But this time is seems we only had one gunboat, and it had to maneuver around for days before it could get in the line of fire...." Mark Twain