Jack Prelutsky: Quote for October 31, 2012

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween!

-- Jack Prelutsky

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William Shakespeare: Quote for October 30, 2012

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

-- William Shakespeare

from: Macbeth (Play - 1606)

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Jean Baudrillard: Quote for October 29, 2012

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

-- Jean Baudrillard

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Michelle Malkin: Quote for October 28, 2012

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

-- Michelle Malkin

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J. R. D. Tata: Quote for October 27, 2012

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

-- J. R. D. Tata

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Charles Fort: Quote for October 26, 2012

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

-- Charles Fort

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Clare Boothe Luce: Quote for October 25, 2012

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

-- Clare Boothe Luce

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Walter Mondale: Quote for October 24, 2012

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

-- Walter Mondale

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Henry A. Wallace: Quote for October 23, 2012

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

-- Henry A. Wallace

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Lord Byron: Quote for October 22, 2012

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

-- Lord Byron

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Margaret Mead: Quote for October 21, 2012

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

-- Margaret Mead

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Ayn Rand: Quote for October 20, 2012

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

-- Ayn Rand

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Phyllis Schlafly: Quote for October 19, 2012

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

-- Phyllis Schlafly

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Kahlil Gibran: Quote for October 18, 2012

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

-- Kahlil Gibran

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William Gibson: Quote for October 17, 2012

All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

-- William Gibson

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Henry David Thoreau: Quote for October 16, 2012

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find one who’s hacking at the roots.

-- Henry David Thoreau

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Aristotle: Quote for October 15, 2012

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

-- Aristotle

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Frank Perdue: Quote for October 14, 2012

You can make me sell them cheaper. You can’t make me reduce the quality.

-- Frank Perdue

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Salvador Dali: Quote for October 13, 2012

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

-- Salvador Dali

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Christopher Columbus: Quote for October 12, 2012

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous Presence.

-- Christopher Columbus

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Saul Bellow: Quote for October 11, 2012

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

-- Saul Bellow

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Oscar Wilde: Quote for October 10, 2012

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Samuel Hahnemann: Quote for October 9, 2012

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

-- Samuel Hahnemann

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Samuel Johnson: Quote for October 8, 2012

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

-- Samuel Johnson

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