Emile Zola: Quote for October 15, 2010

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

-- Emile Zola

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Victor Hugo: Quote for October 14, 2010

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

-- Victor Hugo

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George Eliot: Quote for October 13, 2010

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

-- George Eliot

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Christopher Columbus: Quote for October 12, 2010

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

-- Christopher Columbus

Read Edward Everett Hale's "The Life of Christopher Columbus".

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Thomas Paine: Quote for October 11, 2010

Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

-- Thomas Paine

from: The Age of Reason (Book 1796).

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: Quote for October 10, 2010

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Igor Shafarevich: Quote for October 9, 2010

All the aspects of life that make it attractive and give it meaning are connected with manifestations of individuality. Therefore, a consistent implementation of the principles of socialism deprives human life of individuality and simultaneously deprives life of its meaning and attraction. -- It would lead to the physical extinction of the group in which these principles are in force, and if they should triumph through the world--to the extinction of mankind.

-- Igor Shafarevich

from: The Socialist Phenomenon (Book 1980)

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Charles Caleb Colton: Quote for October 8, 2010

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsellor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

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H. G. Wells: Quote for October 7, 2010

That furious, hungry, desperate, brutal mob was the outcome of generations of Catholic rule, Catholic morality and Catholic education. The King of France was the "Most Christian King, the eldest son of the Church", he was master of the economic and financial life of the community, and the Catholic Church controlled the intellectual life of the community and the education of the people absolutely. That mob was the outcome.

-- H. G. Wells

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Edward Bernays: Quote for October 6, 2010

Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group.

This practice of creating circumstances and of creating pictures in the minds of millions of persons is very common. Virtually no important undertaking is now carried on without it.

-- Edward Bernays

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Agatha Christie: Quote for October 5, 2010

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

-- Agatha Christie

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Maria Montessori: Quote for October 4, 2010

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

-- Maria Montessori

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Cree Indian Saying: Quote for October 3, 2010

Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.

-- Cree Indian Saying

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Tony Curtis: Quote for October 2, 2010

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

-- Tony Curtis

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Edward Mandell House: Quote for October 1, 2010

Our Government is, perhaps, less responsive to the will of the people than that of almost any of the civilized nations. Our Constitution and our laws served us well for the first hundred years of our existence, but under the conditions of to-day they are not only obsolete, but even grotesque.

-- Edward Mandell House

from: Philip Dru: Administrator (Book 1912)

Edward Mandell House is the object of many "New World Order Conspiracy" theories. One reason for this, is his book Philip Dru: Administrator, where he expresses many of his political ideas. In the book his hero Philip Dru becomes the benevolent dictator of the United States.
In real life, he was president Woodrow Wilson's trusted advisor and helped to establish the United States Federal Reserve.

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