Friday, April 15, 2011

Henry Kissinger: Quote for April 15, 2011

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hannah Arendt: Quote for April 14, 2011

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

William Butler Yeats: Quote for April 13, 2011

Men Improve With The YEARS

I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady's beauty
As though I had found in a book
A pictured beauty,
Pleased to have filled the eyes
Or the discerning ears,
Delighted to be but wise,
For men improve with the years;
And yet, and yet,
Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth!
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Kate Millet: Quote for April 12, 2011

And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just out of reach. It is not lack of interest, but interest frustrated, cut off, imperfectly held. So says the Chronicle today. But for me it is the fear of emptiness.
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Doctor Faustus: Quote for April 11, 2011

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
from: Doctor Faustus (1967)
Richard Burton acted as Doctor Faustus
Elizabeth Taylor appears in this clip acting as Helen of Troy.

From Christopher Marlowe's play: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Pat Robertson: Quote for April 10, 2011

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Quote for April 9, 2011

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Tom Robbins: Quote for April 8, 2011

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Paris Hilton: Quote for April 7, 2011

One of my heroes is Barbie. She may not do anything, but she always looks great doing it.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Richard Salant: Quote for April 6, 2011

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
President of CBS News Division 1961-64 and 1966-79.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

George Bernard Shaw: Quote for April 5, 2011

Under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner, but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Mary Pickford: Quote for April 4, 2011

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Rosalynn Carter: Quote for April 3, 2011

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor: Quote for April 2, 2011

I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.
Ms. Taylor died on March 23, 2011.
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Abraham Lincoln: Quote for April 1, 2011

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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