Lee Greenwood: Quote for May 31, 2010

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

-- Lee Greenwood

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: Quote for May 30, 2010

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

-- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Henry VIII: Quote for May 29, 2010

Thomas, if you want to be happy, marry a girl like my sweet little Jane, marry a stupid woman. Ha, Ha, Ha ......

-- Henry VIII

from: The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Charles Laughton acted as Henry VIII

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Quote for May 28, 2010

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Dr. Wayne Dyer: Quote for May 27, 2010

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Mark Zuckerberg: Quote for May 26, 2010

We built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more. If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that's more open and connected is a better world. These are still our core principles today.

-- Mark Zuckerberg

Does a more socially connected world, really mean a better world, or a more mediocre, easier to control world?

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Ronald Reagan: Quote for May 25, 2010

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

-- Ronald Reagan

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Amelia Earhart: Quote for May 24, 2010

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

-- Amelia Earhart

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Bertrand Russell: Quote for May 23, 2010

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

-- Bertrand Russell

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Michael Jordan: Quote for May 22, 2010

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan

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Charles Babbage: Quote for May 21, 2010

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

-- Charles Babbage

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George Eliot: Quote for May 20, 2010

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

-- George Eliot

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Malcolm X: Quote for May 19, 2010

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

-- Malcolm X

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Sigmund Freud: Quote for May 18, 2010

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

-- Sigmund Freud

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Ayn Rand: Quote for May 17, 2010

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

-- Ayn Rand

Read Ayn Rand's Novella "Anthem" for free. Click here.

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G. K. Chesterton: Quote for May 16, 2010

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

-- G. K. Chesterton

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Abraham Flexner: Quote for May 15, 2010

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

-- Abraham Flexner

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C. S. Lewis: Quote for May 14, 2010

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

-- C. S. Lewis

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Ray Bradbury: Quote for May 13, 2010

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

-- Ray Bradbury

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Pearl S. Buck: Quote for May 12, 2010

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

-- Pearl S. Buck

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Anton Szandor LaVey: Quote for May 11, 2010

One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of "it cannot be done" and "should not be done."

-- Anton Szandor LaVey

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E. E. Cummings: Quote for May 10, 2010

To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else — is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting.

-- E. E. Cummings

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Emma Goldman: Quote for May 9, 2010

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgment. Lacking utterly in originality and moral courage, the majority has always placed its destiny in the hands of others. Incapable of standing responsibilities, it has followed its leaders even unto destruction. ... Without ambition or initiative, the compact mass hates nothing so much as innovation. It has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

-- Emma Goldman

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Samuel Gompers: Quote for May 8, 2010

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

-- Samuel Gompers

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