Friday, January 15, 2010

John Keats: Quote for January 15, 2010

Give me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Senator: Quote for January 14, 2010

You know it's not vigilance anymore, general, it's surveillance. Eternal surveillance is the price of liberty.
from: The Brain Machine (1977)
Stuart Lancaster acted as The Senator
Many cities world-wide have adopted Eternal Surveillance to pay the price of maintaining our Liberty.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

George Orwell: Quote for January 13, 2010

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

General Omar Bradley: Quote for January 12, 2010

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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Monday, January 11, 2010

John Adams: Quote for January 11, 2010

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Oscar Wilde: Quote for January 10, 2010

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Marco Polo: Quote for January 9, 2010

Picking the right maidens to serve in Kublai Khan's Court.

I asked each one of them the same question which is, "How many teeth has a snapping turtle?" Now the girls in this group all gave a definite number. Some said one hundred teeth, some said twelve. They were all guessing. I should discard them.
Kublai Khan: You're right. I don't like guesses. Send them home.
My apologies,girls. Now, this group contains the girls who gave the correct answer, which is a snapping turtle has no teeth at all.
Kublai Khan: Then I should select them.
I should not. These girls know too much.
Kublai Khan: Right you are. Group two, dismissed.
I'm sorry girls. Now the remaining girls are recommended to Your Majesty's attention. In answer to my question, they all replied, "i don't know." proving they are both honest and reasonable.
Gary Cooper acted as Marco Polo
George Barbier appears in this clip acting as Kublai Khan.
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Clark Gable: Quote for January 8, 2010

I am intrigued by glamorous women....A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Alan Turing: Quote for January 7, 2010

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

O. Henry: Quote for January 6, 2010

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Abraham Lincoln: Quote for January 5, 2010

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
from: A Letter to Col. William F. Elkins (1864)
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Monday, January 4, 2010

John Dillinger: Quote for January 4, 2010

You're being robbed by the John Dillinger gang, That's the best there is! These few dollars you lose here today, they're going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
from: Dillinger(1973)
Warren Oates acted as John Dillinger
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Florence Nightingale: Quote for January 3, 2010

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Armand Duval: Quote for January 2, 2010

I wish I were a relative — your servant — a dog — that I might care for you — nurse you — make you well!
from: Camille (1921)
Rudolf Valentino acted as Armand Duval
Alla Nazimova appears in this clip acting as Marguerite Gautier.

To have a man like Armand is the secret desire many modern women.
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Friday, January 1, 2010

William Arthur Ward: Quote for January 1, 2010

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me.
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
Happy New Year
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