Lunt's World

Alexander Graham Bell: Quote for January 31, 2012

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Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.

-- Alexander Graham Bell

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Tom Bodett: Quote for January 30, 2012

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

-- Tom Bodett

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Benjamin Disraeli: Quote for January 29, 2012

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There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Dick Gregory: Quote for January 28, 2012

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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

-- Dick Gregory

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Frank Zappa: Quote for January 27, 2012

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

-- Frank Zappa

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Quote for January 26, 2012

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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E. E. Cummings: Quote for January 25, 2012

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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

-- E. E. Cummings

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H. L. Mencken: Quote for January 24, 2012

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

-- H. L. Mencken

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Mahatma Gandhi: Quote for January 23, 2012

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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Brian Tracy: Quote for January 22, 2012

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

-- Brian Tracy

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Eugene Ionesco: Quote for January 21, 2012

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

-- Eugene Ionesco

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Kirk Kirkpatrick: Quote for January 20, 2012

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If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

-- Kirk Kirkpatrick

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Percy Andreae: Quote for January 19, 2012

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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal? Theoretically, perhaps, all crime or vice could be stopped by chaining us all up as we chain up a wild animal, and only allowing us to take exercise under proper supervision and control.

-- Percy Andreae

from: The Prohibition Movement (Book 1915)

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Michael Pollan: Quote for January 18, 2012

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Many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals. In our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

-- Michael Pollan

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Pablo Casals: Quote for January 17, 2012

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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.

-- Pablo Casals

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Albert Camus: Quote for January 16, 2012

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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

-- Albert Camus

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Martin Luther King: Quote for January 15, 2012

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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

-- Martin Luther King

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Charlotte Iserbyt: Quote for January 14, 2012

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I realized that America's transition from a sovereign constitutional republic to a socialist democracy would not come about through warfare, but through the implementation and installation of the 'system' in all areas of government -- federal, state and local.

The brainwashing for acceptance of the system's control would take place in the school through indoctrination and the use of behavior modification, which comes under so many labels, the most recent labels being Outcome-Based Education, Skinnerian Mastery Learning, or Direct Instruction.

-- Charlotte Iserbyt

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Sloan Wilson: Quote for January 13, 2012

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

-- Sloan Wilson

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Anne Bronte: Quote for January 12, 2012

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Oh, I am very weary,
Though tears no longer flow;
My eyes are tired of weeping,
My heart is sick of woe.

-- Anne Bronte

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Buckminster Fuller: Quote for January 11, 2012

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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

-- Buckminster Fuller

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Madonna: Quote for January 10, 2012

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No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

-- Madonna

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John Adams: Quote for January 9, 2012

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Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

-- John Adams

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John Steinbeck: Quote for January 8, 2012

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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

-- John Steinbeck

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John Taylor Gatto: Quote for January 7, 2012

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It is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell at the sound of a gong for every day of your natural youth in an institution that allows you no privacy and even follows you into the sanctuary of your home demanding that you do its "homework".

-- John Taylor Gatto

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Mona Charen: Quote for January 6, 2012

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The sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors — "compassion" having become the province of the state.

-- Mona Charen

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Ellen DeGeneres: Quote for January 5, 2012

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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

-- Ellen DeGeneres

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Ronald Reagan: Quote for January 4, 2012

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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

-- Ronald Reagan

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Ron Crickenberger: Quote for January 3, 2012

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If the government can't keep drugs away from inmates who are locked in steel cages, surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, drug-tested, strip-searched, X-rayed, and videotaped — how can it possibly stop the flow of drugs to an entire nation?

-- Ron Crickenberger

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Og Mandino: Quote for January 2, 2012

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If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

-- Og Mandino

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Taylor Swift: Quote for January 1, 2012

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This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

-- Taylor Swift

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Benjamin Franklin: Quote for December 31, 2011

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Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each New Year find you
a better person.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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Arthur O'Shaughnessy: Quote for December 30, 2011

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We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.

-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Leon Trotsky: Quote for December 29, 2011

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The ancient philosopher said that strife is the father of all things. No new values can be created where a free conflict of ideas is impossible. To be sure, a revolutionary dictatorship means by its very essence strict limitations of freedom. But for that very reason epochs of revolution have never been directly favorable to cultural creation: they have only cleared the arena for it. The dictatorship of the proletariat opens a wider scope to human genius the more it ceases to be a dictatorship. The socialist culture will flourish only in proportion to the dying away of the state.

-- Leon Trotsky

Even Trotsky, a famous communist, said that freedom of speech and less government was good for socialism. I hope that the current socialist governments keep this quote in mind.

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Orville Wright: Quote for December 28, 2011

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

-- Orville Wright

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Samuel Johnson: Quote for December 27, 2011

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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

-- Samuel Johnson

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Mark Twain: Quote for December 26, 2011

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The approach of Christmas brings harrassment and dread to many excellent people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with the result, and so disappointed that they want to sit down and cry. Then they give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year.

-- Mark Twain

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Johnny Marks: Quote for December 25, 2011

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Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

-- Johnny Marks

Listen...

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Calvin Coolidge: Quote for December 24, 2011

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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

-- Calvin Coolidge

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Richard Lamm: Quote for December 23, 2011

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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

-- Richard Lamm

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Quote for December 22, 2011

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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Joan Didion: Quote for December 21, 2011

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

-- Joan Didion

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Thomas Edison: Quote for December 20, 2011

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The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

-- Thomas Edison

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Louis Pasteur: Quote for December 19, 2011

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Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur

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Hannah Arendt: Quote for December 18, 2011

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

-- Hannah Arendt

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Benjamin Rush: Quote for December 17, 2011

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Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

-- Benjamin Rush

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Jon Foreman: Quote for December 16, 2011

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Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

-- Jon Foreman

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Havelock Ellis: Quote for December 15, 2011

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

-- Havelock Ellis

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J. K. Rowling: Quote for December 14, 2011

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

-- J. K. Rowling

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Jean Baudrillard: Quote for December 13, 2011

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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

-- Jean Baudrillard

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Bikram Choudhury: Quote for December 12, 2011

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Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

-- Bikram Choudhury

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E. E. Cummings: Quote for December 11, 2011

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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

-- E. E. Cummings

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Rod Blagojevich: Quote for December 10, 2011

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We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer. - 2003

I'm not worried about anything. What I'm a little concerned about is the lack of integrity and the sensationalism of some of the reporters who exaggerate and with hysterical sensationalism overstate and are dishonest about how they report some of the things. - 2008

I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate. - 2008

For Patti and I, and especially me, this is a time to be strong. This is a time to fight through adversity. - 2011

-- Rod Blagojevich

Former Illinois Governor .Blagojevitch was sentenced to 14 years on December 7, 2011 for corruption. Probably over 90% of American politicians are guilty of greater corruption. Blagojevich was really sentenced for his individuality as governor and lack of cooperation with the crowd.

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Ambrose Bierce: Quote for December 9, 2011

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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

-- Ambrose Bierce

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William Jennings Bryan: Quote for December 8, 2011

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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-- William Jennings Bryan

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Anacharsis: Quote for December 7, 2011

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Laws are like cobwebs that entangle the weak but are broken by the strong.

-- Anacharsis

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Lily Tomlin: Quote for December 6, 2011

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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

-- Lily Tomlin

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William Penn: Quote for December 5, 2011

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

-- William Penn

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Elizabeth Warren: Quote for December 4, 2011

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There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

-- Elizabeth Warren

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Marcel Proust: Quote for December 3, 2011

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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

-- Marcel Proust

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Michael Badnarik: Quote for December 2, 2011

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I have the right to do whatever I wish with my property. If I own a pile of wood, I can set fire to it even if it is currently nailed together in the shape of a barn. Cigarettes may not be healthy for me in the long run, but I have the freedom to smoke them anyway. Drinking alcohol may or may not have negative side effects, but even if it does, the government has no authority toI prohibit you from consuming it, even if it is "in your own best interest." Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway? (For that matter, what does Congress know about the Constitution?) If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible. Hitler used the same attitude to persuade the Germans to subjugate themselves to the "Fatherland."

-- Michael Badnarik

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Eliot Ness: Quote for December 1, 2011

2011-12-01T00:01:00.000-06:00

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

-- Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness was a United States treasury agent who helped enforce the prohibition law (1920 - 1933 ).

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Robert Frost: Quote for November 30, 2011

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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

-- Robert Frost

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Quote for November 29, 2011

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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

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Harper Lee: Quote for November 28, 2011

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Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

-- Harper Lee

from: To Kill a Mockingbird (Book 1960)

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Henrik Ibsen: Quote for November 27, 2011

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

-- Henrik Ibsen

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rances Perkins: Quote for November 26, 2011

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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

-- Frances Perkins

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George MacDonald: Quote for November 25, 2011

2011-11-25T00:04:00.000-06:00

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

-- George MacDonald

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Henry Ward Beecher: Quote for November 24, 2011

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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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Kristin Armstrong: Quote for November 23, 2011

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We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

-- Kristin Armstrong

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D. H. Lawrence: Quote for November 22, 2011

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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

-- D. H. Lawrence

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Janeane Garofalo: Quote for November 21, 2011

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Borrow money from a pessimist – they don’t expect it back.

-- Janeane Garofalo

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Joseph Stalin: Quote for November 20, 2011

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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

-- Joseph Stalin

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Aldous Huxley: Quote for November 19, 2011

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And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing... a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.

-- Aldous Huxley

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Miss Piggy: Quote for November 18, 2011

2011-11-18T00:02:00.000-06:00

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

-- Miss Piggy

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Henry Hazlitt: Quote for November 17, 2011

2011-11-17T00:03:00.000-06:00

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never underrnany circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

-- Henry Hazlitt

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter: Quote for November 16, 2011

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I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.

-- Gaius Petronius Arbiter

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Frank Herbert: Quote for November 15, 2011

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

-- Frank Herbert

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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

-- Eric Hoffer

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quote for November 13, 2011

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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George Washington: Quote for November 12, 2011

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

-- George Washington

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Emma Goldman: Quote for November 11, 2011

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Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

-- Emma Goldman

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Durruti: Quote for November 10, 2011

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We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who plowed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

-- Durruti

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Kevin Costner: Quote for November 9, 2011

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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

-- Kevin Costner

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Andy Rooney: Quote for November 8, 2011

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One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.

-- Andy Rooney

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Hosea Ballou: Quote for November 7, 2011

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

-- Hosea Ballou

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William O. Douglas: Quote for November 6, 2011

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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

-- William O. Douglas

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Anonymous: Quote for November 5, 2011

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Since they will not stop ridiculing the occupiers (Occupy Wall Street), we will simply shut them down. Fox News, your time has come . . . Operation Fox Hunt. November 5th. May the hunt begin.

-- Anonymous

Threat to shut down Fox News on November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day.

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Jonathan Swift: Quote for November 4, 2011

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

-- Jonathan Swift

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George Bernard Shaw: Quote for November 3, 2011

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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Socrates: Quote for November 2, 2011

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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

-- Socrates

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Mother Teresa: Quote for November 1, 2011

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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.

-- Mother Teresa

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Necronomicon: Quote for October 31, 2011

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Legend has it that it was written by the dark ones: NecronomiconEx-Mortis. Roughly translated The Book of the Dead. The Book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond.

It was written long ago, when the seas ran red with blood. It was this blood that was used to ink the book. In the year 1300 A.D. the Book disappeared.

-- Necronomicon

from: Evil Dead II (1987)

H.P. Lovecraft used the Necronomicon in many of his stories.

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Elaine Zacharides: Quote for October 30, 2011

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Bring him back, please, we must know more.

It is of no use! there is interference. The ghosts are restless, angry. Tonight death walks again in this evil house!

-- Elaine Zacharides

from: 13 Ghosts (1960)

Margaret Hamilton acted as Elaine Zacharides

Jo Morrow appears in this clip acting as Medea Zorba.
Donald Woods appears in this clip acting as Cyrus Zorba.
Rosemary DeCamp appears in this clip acting as Hilda Zorba
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Emily Dickinson: Quote for October 29, 2011

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One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place —

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its interior Confronting —
That Cooler Host.

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a'chase —
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter —
In lonesome Place —

Ourself behind ourself, concealed —
Should startle most —
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror's least.

The Body — borrows a Revolver —
He bolts the Door —
O'erlooking a superior spectre —
rnOr More —

-- Emily Dickinson

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Noam Chomsky: Quote for October 28, 2011

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

-- Noam Chomsky

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: Quote for October 27, 2011

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The money isn't really to be made in the vaccine industry. The money is made by Big Pharma with all of the drugs that are given to treat and address all the illnesses that are subsequent to the side effects of the vaccines.

True health cannot come from a needle. Injecting people with something to try to keep them well is a 200 year mistake.

-- Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

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Edward Leedskalnin: Quote for October 26, 2011

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All girls below sixteen should be brand new. If a girl below sixteen cannot be called brand new any more, it is not the girl's fault; the mamma is to blame! It is the mamma's duty to supervise the girl to keep those fresh boys away.

-- Edward Leedskalnin

from: A Book in Every Home (Book 1936)

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Dr. Alan Cantwell: Quote for October 25, 2011

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Nowadays, scientists hunt for "ancestor" viruses of HIV in chimps in the African wild and ignore all the immunosuppressive viruses that were created in virus laboratories shortly before AIDS. No consideration is given to any of these lab viruses as possible man-made ancestors of the many "strains" of HIV (and HIV-2) that jumped species to produce AIDS in humans.

-- Dr. Alan Cantwell

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idel Castro: Quote for October 24, 2011

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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

-- Fidel Castro

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