2013 Road Trip: Downtown Memphis

Posted May 18, 2013, 12:18 a.m.

We arrived in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, early Wednesday evening and spent some time walking around and seeing the sights. There was some sort of big festival happening on Beale Street with a lot of people and motorcycles. And of course, I had the obligatory ‘Walking in Memphis’ stuck in my head the whole time:

Melissa had an appointment at a local gallery/museum mid-day on Thursday, so we had a long drive Thursday afternoon all the way to Norman, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City. Here are some of my photos from Memphis.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Frederick Douglass

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half-awake.

William James

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind . . . simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

C.S. Lewis

We tend to think that humans distinguish themselves from animals by greater knowledge and awareness, but the most typical difference is that . . . we are almost constantly tormented by a lack of knowledge.

Mattias Desmet

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Tertullian

People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.

Scott Adams

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Will Rogers

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Jack Handey

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

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There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. . . .

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Samuel Johnson

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

[The] power of accurate observation . . . is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Bernard Shaw

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca the Younger

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.

John Wesley

As life must be nourished, defended, and preserved; so freedom must be repurchased in each generation.

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