Nothing is so corrupting as a great idea whose time is past.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ideas
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Beliefs
Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Service
Prejudices are the principles of people we dislike.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Prejudice
If it exists, it’s possible.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Opportunities
From its very beginnings ambition was a political word, born of the Latin ambitus, the walking around that a Roman politician did when buttering up the voters.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ambition
Poetry is the shortest way of saying something. It lets us express a dime’s worth of ideas, or a quarter’s worth of emotion, with a nickel’s worth of words.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Poetry
Getting old is not for sissies.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Aging
There is no such thing as a good excuse.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Failure
Each man has, each year, his moment of madness, when he ties a rope around his neck, hands the end to his worst enemy, and says “Pull”.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Mind
The function of values is to give us the illusion of purpose in life.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Values
Why should a country worship another country’s tin gods, when it has tin gods of its own?
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Religion
The reason history is by turns gripping, boring and threatening is that it is a play in which the characters make up their lines as they go along.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: History
Illusion is always based on reality, for its strength depends upon its fit with the desires, fears and experiences of countless humans.
—Dero A. Saunders
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