idel Castro: Quote for October 24, 2011

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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Emile Zola: Quote for October 23, 2011

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

-- Emile Zola

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Jamie Lee Curtis: Quote for October 22, 2011

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

-- Jamie Lee Curtis

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Walter Bagehot: Quote for October 21, 2011

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door-neighbor...Public opinion is a permeating influence and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.

-- Walter Bagehot

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Mark Twain: Quote for October 20, 2011

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

-- Mark Twain

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Albert Einstein: Quote for October 19, 2011

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

-- Albert Einstein

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George Orwell: Quote for October 18, 2011

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

-- George Orwell

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Dan Rather: Quote for October 17, 2011

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

-- Dan Rather

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Don Miguel Ruiz: Quote for October 16, 2011

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

-- Don Miguel Ruiz

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Friedrich Schiller: Quote for October 15, 2011

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

-- Friedrich Schiller

This quote comes from the eighteenth century.

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Ernest Hemingway: Quote for October 14, 2011

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

-- Ernest Hemingway

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Albert Schweitzer: Quote for October 13, 2011

Success is not the key to happiness, Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

-- Albert Schweitzer

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Christopher Columbus: Quote for October 12, 2011

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

-- Christopher Columbus

Columbus is talking about the people of the "New World."

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Steve Jobs: Quote for October 11, 2011

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

-- Steve Jobs

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Ernestine Rose: Quote for October 10, 2011

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

-- Ernestine Rose

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