Mary Schmich: Quote for March 15, 2011

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

-- Mary Schmich

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James Thurber: Quote for March 14, 2011

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

-- James Thurber

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Quote for March 13, 2011

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Albert Szent-Györgyi: Quote for March 12, 2011

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

-- Albert Szent-Györgyi

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Edward Teller: Quote for March 11, 2011

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.

-- Edward Teller

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Charles Ponzi: Quote for March 10, 2011

Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over.

-- Charles Ponzi

Charles Ponzi was the inventor of the "Ponzi Scheme." This is an illegal investment scheme where current investors pay the returns of earlier investors.

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John Perry Barlow: Quote for March 9, 2011

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

-- John Perry Barlow

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Thomas Jefferson: Quote for March 8, 2011

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Quote for March 7, 2011

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Jim Butcher: Quote for March 6, 2011

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruellest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

-- Jim Butcher

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Ann Coulter: Quote for March 5, 2011

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

-- Ann Coulter

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Anne Bradstreet: Quote for March 4, 2011

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

-- Anne Bradstreet

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Friedrich Koenig: Quote for March 3, 2011

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

-- Friedrich Koenig

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Thomas Sydenham: Quote for March 2, 2011

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

-- Thomas Sydenham

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Peter Kropotkin: Quote for March 1, 2011

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

-- Peter Kropotkin

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