Ezra Pound: Quote for March 15, 2010

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing–the rest is mere sheep-herding.

-- Ezra Pound

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Quote for March 14, 2010

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Dr. Alex Brulov: Quote for March 13, 2010

Now, here's where dreams come in. They tell you what you are trying to hide, but they tell it to you all mixed up like pieces of a puzzle that don't fit. The problem of the analyst is: to examine this puzzle, and put the pieces together in the right place, and find out what the devil you are trying to say to yourself.

-- Dr. Alex Brulov

from: Spellbound (1945)

Michael Chekhov acted as Dr. Alex Brulov

Gregory Peck appears in this clip acting as John Ballantine.

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Salvador Dali: Quote for March 12, 2010

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

-- Salvador Dali

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Oprah Winfrey: Quote for March 11, 2010

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

-- Oprah Winfrey

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Larry Ellison: Quote for March 10, 2010

The most important aspect of my personality, as far as determining my success goes, has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting the experts and questioning authority. While that can be very painful in relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

-- Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.

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Norma Desmond: Quote for March 9, 2010

Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.

I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

-- Norma Desmond

from: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Gloria Swanson acted as Norma Desmond

William Holden appears in this clip acting as Joe Gillis.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Quote for March 8, 2010

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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Ernest Hemingway: Quote for March 7, 2010

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

-- Ernest Hemingway

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Alexandre Dumas: Quote for March 6, 2010

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

-- Alexandre Dumas

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Paris Hilton: Quote for March 5, 2010

All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

-- Paris Hilton

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Aesop: Quote for March 4, 2010

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

-- Aesop

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Mikhail Bakunin: Quote for March 3, 2010

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Denis Waitley: Quote for March 2, 2010

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

-- Denis Waitley

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Ivan Panin: Quote for March 1, 2010

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

-- Ivan Panin

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