Lord Baden-Powell: Quote for July 15, 2010

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

-- Lord Baden-Powell

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Manly P. Hall: Quote for July 14, 2010

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body: the mind must also be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

-- Manly P. Hall

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Jamie Dimon: Quote for July 13, 2010

I don't think just because someone's underwater they say I don't have to stay there. But they're supposed to pay the mortgage, and we should teach the American people, you're supposed to meet your obligations, not run from them. Because you have a mortgage doesn't mean you should run away as it goes down.

-- Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon is the CEO of Chase, whose bank received $25 billion in government bailout funds in 2009.

Because you make $11 million, it's easy for you to criticize Working Class Americans and their mortgages. When your financial plans fail, you run to the government to save you. Where can ordinary individuals go to, to save them?

I think banks like Chase, led by people like Mr. Dimon, are the precursors of humanity's next dark age.

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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

-- Robert E. Lee

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Audrey Hepburn: Quote for July 11, 2010

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes, people as they come ... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

-- Audrey Hepburn

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Tom Bodett: Quote for July 10, 2010

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

-- Tom Bodett

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Strobe Talbott: Quote for July 9, 2010

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail over disunity, integration over disintegration. In fact, I'll bet that within the next hundred years, ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- "citizen of the world" -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st century.

-- Strobe Talbott

from: Birth of a Global Nation. Time Magazine (July 20, 1992)

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Ralph Nader: Quote for July 8, 2010

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

-- Ralph Nader

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Michael J. Astrue: Quote for July 7, 2010

For My Ambitious Colleague

Your uphill climb will never stop;
scum always rises to the top.

-- Michael J. Astrue

Michael J. Astrue is the current head of the U.S. Social Security Administration. He is also a poet who writes under the name A. M. Juster.

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William Jenings Bryan: Quote for July 6, 2010

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. 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 Jenings Bryan

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Johnny Depp: Quote for July 5, 2010

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

-- Johnny Depp

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George Washington: Quote for July 4, 2010

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

-- George Washington

More fourth of July quotes:

Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4.

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Philip Pullman: Quote for July 3, 2010

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

-- Philip Pullman

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Leonardo da Vinci: Quote for July 2, 2010

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

-- Leonardo da Vinci

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Jacob Riis: Quote for July 1, 2010

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

-- Jacob Riis

On July 1st 2007, I started collecting daily quotes. Every day on this blog I posted a different quote for three years. Some of the people quoted have been quoted more than once, but what they said was always different. I still hope to continue this blog for many more years, always adding a different daily quote. Thank you for reading this blog. I hope you've enjoyed these quotes and that some of them even inspired you. -- George V. Lunt

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