Friday, February 15, 2008

H. P. Lovecraft: Quote for February 15, 2008

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.


-- H. P. Lovecraft


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

George Bernard Shaw: Quote for February 13, 2008

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.


-- George Bernard Shaw


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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

James Barris: Quote for February 12, 2008

In this day and age, the type of society we find ourselves living in, every person of worth needs to have a gun at all times to protect themselves.


from: A Scanner Darkly (2006)


-- James Barris


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Monday, February 11, 2008

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Quote for February 11, 2008

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.


-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Sunday, February 10, 2008

John F. Kennedy: Quote for February 10, 2008

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war; we do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough, more than enough, of war and hate and oppression.


-- John F. Kennedy


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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Michelangelo: Quote for February 9, 2008

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.


-- Michelangelo


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Friday, February 8, 2008

Madame Curie: Quote for February 8, 2008

Science has great beauty, and with its great spiritual strength, will in time cleanse this world of its evils, its ignorance, its poverty, diseases, wars, and heartaches.


from: Madame Curie (1943)


-- Madame Curie


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Thursday, February 7, 2008

George Eliot: Quote for February 7, 2008

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.


-- George Eliot


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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Erin Gruwell: Quote for February 6, 2008

You don't feel respected? Well, maybe you're not. But to get respect, you have to give it.


from: Freedom Writers (2007)


-- Erin Gruwell


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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Sir Isaac Newton: Quote for February 5, 2008

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.


-- Sir Isaac Newton


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Monday, February 4, 2008

Nikolai Luzhin: Quote for February 4, 2008

Calm down. (In Russian) Anger is very dangerous, makes people do stupid things.


from: Eastern Promises (2007)


-- Nikolai Luzhin


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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Anais Nin: Quote for February 3, 2008

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.


-- Anais Nin


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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Phil Connors: Quote for February 2, 2008

Once a year the eyes of a nation turn to this tiny hamlet in western Pennsylvania to watch a master at work. The master, Punxatawney Phil, the world's most famous weatherman, the groundhog, who, as legend has it, can predict the coming of an early spring. So, I guess the question we have to ask ourselves today is: Does Phil feel lucky?


from: Groundhog Day (1993)


-- Phil Connors


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Friday, February 1, 2008

Saddam Hussein: Quote for February 1, 2008

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.


-- Saddam Hussein


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