Mark Shuttleworth: Quote for May 31, 2012

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

-- Mark Shuttleworth

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Earl Nightingale: Quote for May 30, 2012

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

-- Earl Nightingale

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Margaret Mead: Quote for May 29, 2012

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

-- Margaret Mead

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Lucy Larcom: Quote for May 28, 2012 (Memorial Day)

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

-- Lucy Larcom

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Quote for May 27, 2012

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Confucius: Quote for May 26, 2012

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

-- Confucius

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Tacitus: Quote for May 25, 2012

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

-- Tacitus

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Jonah Goldberg: Quote for May 24, 2012

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

-- Jonah Goldberg

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Jamie Dimon: Quote for May 23, 2012

It’s so unfair to talk about Wall Street and ethics…The people that we deal with a lot on Wall Street are some of the most ethical people I know.

-- Jamie Dimon

Mr. Dimon is CEO of J..P. Morgan Chase that recently suffered a 2 billion dollar loss from trading on Wall Street.

J..P. Morgan Chase is a federally-insured bank and regularly receives federal bail-out money.

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Benjamin Disraeli: Quote for May 22, 2012

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Bruce Lee: Quote for May 21, 2012

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

-- Bruce Lee

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John Dewey: Quote for May 20, 2012

The teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life.... In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

-- John Dewey

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Chief Seattle: Quote for May 19, 2012

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know — the Earth does not belong to man — man belongs to the Earth.

-- Chief Seattle

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Andrew Napolitano: Quote for May 18, 2012

We are a nation of sheep, being led by a government that's shepherding us all to be shorn, fleeced, or worse.

-- Andrew Napolitano

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Susan Polis Schutz: Quote for May 17, 2012

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

-- Susan Polis Schutz

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William James: Quote for May 16, 2012

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

-- William James

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Marie Stopes: Quote for May 15, 2012

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

-- Marie Stopes

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W C Fields: Quote for May 14, 2012

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

-- W C Fields

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James Russell Lowell: Quote for May 13, 2012

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

-- James Russell Lowell

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John Locke: Quote for May 12, 2012

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.

-- John Locke

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Paul Craig Roberts: Quote for May 11, 2012

A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead it now means any explanation or even a fact that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.

-- Paul Craig Roberts

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Karl Marx: Quote for May 10, 2012

There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.

-- Karl Marx

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Robert Frost: Quote for May 9, 2012

The jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

-- Robert Frost

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John Adams: Quote for May 8, 2012

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

-- John Adams

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Seth Godin: Quote for May 7, 2012

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare your settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

-- Seth Godin

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