Thomas B. Reed: Quote for March 15, 2012

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

-- Thomas B. Reed

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Joseph Brodsky: Quote for March 14, 2012

Life — the way it really is — is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.

-- Joseph Brodsky

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Henry Ford: Quote for March 13, 2012

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

-- Henry Ford

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Mae West: Quote for March 12, 2012

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

-- Mae West

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Grey Owl: Quote for March 11, 2012

Man's general reaction to his contacts with the animal world...are contempt or condensation towards the smaller and more harmless species, and a rather unreasonable fear of those more able to protect themselves.... Whole species of valuable and intelligent animals have been exterminated for temporary gain.

-- Grey Owl

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Niccolo Machiavelli: Quote for March 10, 2012

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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Helen Keller: Quote for March 9, 2012

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

-- Helen Keller

Ms. Keller delivered the above quote in 1911. Isn't it amazing that her sentiments are even more valid today, in 2012?

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Quote for March 8, 2012

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jack London: Quote for March 7, 2012

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

-- Jack London

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Adam Weishaupt: Quote for March 6, 2012

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

-- Adam Weishaupt

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Nikita Khrushchev: Quote for March 5, 2012

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

-- Nikita Khrushchev

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Madame Blavatsky: Quote for March 4, 2012

There is no religion higher than the truth.

-- Madame Blavatsky

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Charlton Heston: Quote for March 3, 2012

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

-- Charlton Heston

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Aubrey de Grey: Quote for March 2, 2012

I think that given sufficient funding we have a 50-50 chance of completely stopping people from dying of old age within about 25 or 30 years from now.

-- Aubrey de Grey

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E. L. Doctorow: Quote for March 1, 2012

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

-- E. L. Doctorow

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