Ed Asner: Quote for July 13, 2009

I fear that if the underlying issues of 9-11 truth are not demanded, that Iraq may be but a flame on an ocean of gasoline that may be used to ignite war after war after war. We cannot, as a peace & justice movement only address the flames. We must look at the fuel being used to justify the flames of war and repression at home and abroad.

We must look deeply at the events leading up to, on and since 9-11. We must demand full 9-11 truth.

-- Ed Asner

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Dr. Alexander Tower: Quote for July 12, 2009

In the 13th Century, man was happier and more comfortable in his world than he is now. I'm speaking of psychic man and his relationship with his whole universe.

But in this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide. I don't know what's going to happen to this world in the next hundred years or so, but I can guarantee you life isn't going to get any simpler. Worry and doubt bring on a bellyache. Mankind's building up the biggest psychic bellyache in history.

-- Dr. Alexander Tower

from: King's Row (1942)

Claude Rains acted as Dr. Alexander Tower

Robert Cummings appears in this clip acting as Parris Mitchell.

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Diego Rivera: Quote for July 11, 2009

The painter can and must abstract from many details in creating his painting. Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

-- Diego Rivera

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John Koestler: Quote for July 10, 2009

I want you to think about the perfect set of circumstances that put this celestial ball of fire at just the correct distance from a little blue planet for life to evolve, making it possible for you to be sitting here in this riveting lecture. That's a nice thought, right? Everything has a purpose, the order to it is determined.

But then there's the other side of the argument. The theory of randomness, which says that it's all simply coincidence. The very fact that we exist is nothing but the result of a complex yet inevitable strain of chemical accidents and biological mutations. There is no grand meaning. There's no purpose.

-- John Koestler

from: Knowing (2009)

Nicolas Cage acted as John Koestler

Ben Mendelsohn appears in this clip acting as Phil Beckman.

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Albert Schweitzer: Quote for July 9, 2009

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

-- Albert Schweitzer

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Grusinskaya: Quote for July 8, 2009

I want to be alone......I just want to be alone!

-- Grusinskaya

from: Grand Hotel (1932)

Greta Garbo acted as Grusinskaya

This is the movie line that the actress Greta Garbo was most remembered for.

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Ethel Barrymore: Quote for July 7, 2009

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

-- Ethel Barrymore

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Dr. Andreas von Buelow: Quote for July 6, 2009

I can state: the planning of the [9/11] attacks was technically and organizationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes, and within one hour to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from secret apparatuses of the state and industry. ...I have real difficulties, however, to imagine that all this all sprung out of the mind of an evil man in his cave.

-- Dr. Andreas von Buelow

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Lewis Mumford: Quote for July 5, 2009

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

-- Lewis Mumford

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President Thomas Whitmore: Quote for July 4, 2009

Today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

-- President Thomas Whitmore

from: Independence Day (1996)

Bill Pullman acted as President Thomas Whitmore

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter: Quote for July 3, 2009

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

-- Gaius Petronius Arbiter

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Charles Caleb Colton: Quote for July 2, 2009

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

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Jules Winnfield: Quote for July 1, 2009

Ezekiel 25: 17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

-- Jules Winnfield

from: Pulp Fiction (1994)

Samuel L. Jackson acted as Jules Winnfield

Frank Whaley appears in this clip acting as Brett.
John Travolta appears in this clip acting as Vincent Vega.

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Calvin Coolidge: Quote for June 30, 2009

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-- Calvin Coolidge

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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Quote for June 29, 2009

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quote for June 28, 2009

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Chancellor Palpatine: Quote for June 27, 2009

Anikan, if one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic, narrow view of the Jedi. If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the Force.

-- Chancellor Palpatine

from: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Ian McDiarmid acted as Chancellor Palpatine

Hayden Christensen appears in this clip acting as Anakin Skywalker.

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Henry Ford: Quote for June 26, 2009

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

-- Henry Ford

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Jenda: Quote for June 25, 2009

Wouldn't it be better, sire, if the "Purple Death" spared those millions of slaves to labor for you and killed only those with intelligence enough to oppose you?

Name your own reward if you can prove this to me.

This man of low intellect has a type mind that is easily controlled by a superior will. And this man has a type of thinking brain that exercises a will of its own, a type we must destroy.... Ready, your majesty.....Turns on test chamber. The intelligent man gets vaoprized....You see, your majesty, the man of simple intellect is saved.

-- Jenda

from: Flash Gordon Conquers the Univers (1940)

Earl Dwire acted as Jenda

Charles Middleton appears in this clip acting as Emperor Ming.

Modern governments are probably all working on their own versions of the "Purple Death."

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Milan Kundera: Quote for June 24, 2009

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

-- Milan Kundera

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