Harriet Tubman: Quote for February 15, 2013

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

-- Harriet Tubman

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Louise Bryant: Quote for February 14, 2013

What I most want to tell you
Is that I love you
And I want more than anything
To have you strong and clear-visioned
In all this world madness…
You are the finest person I know
On both sides of the world
And it is a nice privilege to be your comrade.

-- Louise Bryant

Ms. Bryant wrote this to her lover and husband John Reed, while they both were in Russia reporting the events of the 1917 Communist Revolution.

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Robert G. Ingersoll: Quote for February 13, 2013

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

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Jennifer Jones: Quote for February 12, 2013

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

-- Jennifer Jones

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Jerome Groopman: Quote for February 11, 2013

Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.

-- Jerome Groopman

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Thomas Carlyle: Quote for February 10, 2013

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

-- Thomas Carlyle

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Aristophanes: Quote for February 9, 2013

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

-- Aristophanes

from: Plutus (Play 388 B. C.)

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Hans Holzer: Quote for February 8, 2013

I’m particularly concerned about mankind’s continuing preoccupation with violence, war, and crime. I think one of the problems with our generations is that there is no spirituality. And what I’m sort of selling if you wish – instead of religion – which means to relink with the deity, really – I sell something called the spiritual way of life. That is to say, instead of going to church at 11 on Sunday once a week, you live it seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Your conduct is spiritual no matter what you do; you follow a spiritual, moral concept. And that’s all you should do. Just live it.

-- Hans Holzer

The original 'Ghost Hunter.'

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Jim Carrey: Quote for February 7, 2013

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

-- Jim Carrey

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Jack Welch: Quote for February 6, 2013

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will.

-- Jack Welch

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Daphne Koller: Quote for February 5, 2013

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

-- Daphne Koller

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Charlton Heston: Quote for February 4, 2013

Here`s my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people.

-- Charlton Heston

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ichard Widmark: Quote for February 3, 2013

I know I`ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns.

-- Richard Widmark

Quoted in 1976.

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George Santayana: Quote for February 2, 2013

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

-- George Santayana

Today is ground hog day. This animal hopes to predict if winter will continue for the next six weeks or we should expect to get an early spring.

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Ivan Illich: Quote for February 1, 2013

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

-- Ivan Illich

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