Sarah J. Hale: Quote for August 4, 2011.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

-- Sarah J. Hale

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Butler Shaffer: Quote for August 3, 2011

A society will remain as free or as enslaved as the conscious dispositions of individuals determine it shall be. Just as the roots of oppression are found in passivity, the foundations of our liberty reside in highly energized and focused minds that insist upon their independence. There are no shortcuts, no structures or doctrines that can be erected, no hallowed documents to be revered, to save us the effort of continually challenging those who would presume to exercise authority over our lives.

-- Butler Shaffer

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Vaclav Klaus: Quote for August 2, 2011

Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment.

-- Vaclav Klaus

Mr. Klaus is the current Czech President. (2011)

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Pamela Geller: Quote for August 1, 2011

No one can take the Jewish homeland from the Jews. Period. Jerusalem is ours. The whole world can strong arm the little Jew all they want. Good will triumph. This I promise you. This century's Nazis are the same as the last century's Nazis (only more barbaric and really badly dressed).

-- Pamela Geller

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Sergei Eisenstein: Quote for July 31, 2011

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

-- Sergei Eisenstein

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Rupert Murdoch: Quote for July 30, 2011

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

-- Rupert Murdoch

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John Ruskin: Quote for July 29, 2011

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

-- John Ruskin

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Victor Frankl: Quote for July 28, 2011

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

-- Victor Frankl

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Agatha Christie: Quote for July 27, 2011

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

-- Agatha Christie

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George V. Lunt: Quote for July 26, 2011

In modern education Entertainment replaces learning in most schools. Curriculum is dumbed down to make students happy. Teachers inflate the self-esteem of students to get good ratings on their evaluations. Courses indoctrinate students in such things as environmental extremism, political correctness, sex education, and diversity training.

This type of education will eventually lead to a generation of "politically correct sheeple" instead of free-thinking individuals.

-- George V. Lunt

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Quote for July 25, 2011

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Milton Friedman: Quote for July 24, 2011

A society that puts equality--in the sense of equality of outcome--ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

-- Milton Friedman

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John O'Donohue: Quote for July 23, 2011

There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change.

-- John O'Donohue

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Ariel Durant: Quote for July 22, 2011

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

-- Ariel Durant

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Will Durant: Quote for July 21, 2011

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

-- Will Durant

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