Paul R. Ehrlich: Quote for August 19, 2011

The system as a whole is too restrictive and as a result, many errors of law can arise out of such a flawed and complicated process.

-- Paul R. Ehrlich

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Dalai Lama XIV: Quote for August 18, 2011

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

-- Dalai Lama XIV

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William Castle: Quote for August 17, 2011

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

-- William Castle

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Thomas Szasz: Quote for August 16, 2011

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

-- Thomas Szasz

Ronald Reagan: Quote for August 15, 2011

Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize.

-- Ronald Reagan

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Robert Collier: Quote for August 14, 2011

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

-- Robert Collier

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Timothy Zahn: Quote for August 13, 2011

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

-- Timothy Zahn

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Beryl Markham: Quote for August 12, 2011

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

-- Beryl Markham

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John Lubbock: Quote for August 11, 2011

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

-- John Lubbock

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Walt Whitman: Quote for August 10, 2011

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

-- Walt Whitman

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J. D. Salinger: Quote for August 9, 2011

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

-- J. D. Salinger

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King David: Quote for August 8, 2011

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

-- King David

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Douglas Noel Adams: Quote for August 7, 2011

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy.

-- Douglas Noel Adams

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Edward Bernays: Quote for August 6, 2011

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

-- Edward Bernays

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John Lennon: Quote for August 5, 2011

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

-- John Lennon

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