Saturday, October 15, 2011

Friedrich Schiller: Quote for October 15, 2011

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
This quote comes from the eighteenth century.
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Ernest Hemingway: Quote for October 14, 2011

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Albert Schweitzer: Quote for October 13, 2011

Success is not the key to happiness, Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Christopher Columbus: Quote for October 12, 2011

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
Columbus is talking about the people of the "New World."
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Steve Jobs: Quote for October 11, 2011

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Ernestine Rose: Quote for October 10, 2011

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Sophy Burnham: Quote for October 9, 2011

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Ansel Adams: Quote for October 8, 2011

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Friday, October 7, 2011

Immanuel Kant: Quote for October 7, 2011

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Quote for October 6, 2011

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Quote for October 5, 2011

May those whose holy task it is,
To guide impulsive youth,
Fail not to cherish in their souls
A reverence for truth;
For teachings which the lips impart
Must have their source within the heart.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Abraham Maslow: Quote for October 4, 2011

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Oscar Wilde: Quote for October 3, 2011

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Joseph Goebbels: Quote for October 2, 2011

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Paddy Chayefsky: Quote for October 1, 2011

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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