Clint Eastwood: Quote for September 14, 2008

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

-- Clint Eastwood

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Winston Smith: Quote for September 13, 2008

When asked to repeat a party directive regarding the control of the past.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- Winston Smith

from: 1984 (1956)

Edmond O'Brien acted as Winston Smith

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H. L. Mencken: Quote for September 12, 2008

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

-- H. L. Mencken

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Dave vonKleist: Quote for September 11, 2008

There is a war on freedom. But the war on freedom isn't being waged by those that they say it is. After all, how many of your freedoms have been legislated away by Osama Bin Laden or the Taliban or Al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein. The answer is none. Your freedoms have been legislated away by very people who take oaths to defend your freedoms, Republicans and Democrats alike: your Congress, your Senate, your President.

There is a war on freedom. And now thanks to the Homeland Security Bill, the Patriot Act, the Terrorist Bill, the Model States Emergency Health Powers Act, we have thumb scanners, and retinal scans, and face recognition, metal detectors. At the airports we have body scans, and body cavity searches. Yes, there is a war on freedom.

-- Dave vonKleist

from: 911: in Plane Sight (Director's Cut) (2008)

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Father Charles Coughlin: Quote for September 10, 2008

Oh you poor laborers and farmers, we have tried, time and again, to tell you that there can be no resurrection for America until Congress begins to coin and regulate the value money. We have endeavored to teach you, time and again, that there can be no coming out of this depression until what you earn goes to sustain your wife and your children.

But somehow or other, you are satisfied to sustain the wives and children of those do the coining and regulating of money, who live in the palaces and travel in their yachts. You want that! You voted for that! You have that! And its time that you take that!

-- Father Charles Coughlin

Look carefully at the clip of Father Coughlin. When this clip was made he was considered by some to be an antisemitic Fascist. It seems someone blended parts of Adolf Hitler's gestures into the video of Coughlin's speech. Look carefully. At times, you can even catch a shot of the Führer's face.

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Frederick Douglass: Quote for September 9, 2008

Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

-- Frederick Douglass

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Dr. Ottinger: Quote for September 8, 2008

The world will not end. Predicting the end of the world is an annual crackpot event in our society, an attempt to corner newspaper headlines.

-- Dr. Ottinger

from: When Worlds Collide (1951)

Sandro Giglio acted as Dr. Ottinger

Categories: Dr. Ottinger, Sandro Giglio, When Worlds Collide

Sarah Palin: Quote for September 7, 2008

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.

-- Sarah Palin

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James Gannon: Quote for September 6, 2008

You just asked me six very important questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why? That's what every news story should answer.

-- James Gannon

from: Teacher's Pet (1958)

Clark Gable acted as James Gannon

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Alfred E. Neuman: Quote for September 5, 2008

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

-- Alfred E. Neuman

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William Foster: Quote for September 4, 2008

This is what I'm talking about. Turn around look at that. (Points to marketing photo of hamburger.) You see what I mean. It's plump, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. (Compares to hamburger actually being served.) Now, look at this sorry miserable squashed thing. Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture? Anybody? Anybody at all?

-- William Foster

from: Falling Down (1993)

Michael Douglas acted as William Foster

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Gro Harlem Brundtland: Quote for September 3, 2008

There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Dr. Ira Kane: Quote for September 2, 2008

You can see there was a shocking statistical anomaly; pretty much all of you got 'A's. Congratulate yourselves, I got a real good feeling about this group. And I think that the parade of 'A's is going to continue straight through to the end of the semester. So much for the Bell Curve!

-- Dr. Ira Kane

from: Evolution (2001)

David Duchovny acted as Dr. Ira Kane

In the American Educational System, these days, such statistical anomalies are common at colleges everywhere.

Categories: Dr. Ira Kane, David Duchovny, Evolution

William Morris: Quote for September 1, 2008 (Labor Day)

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

-- William Morris

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Martin Luther: Quote for August 31, 2008

(When asked to recant his teachings.) Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason and not by Popes and councils who have so often contradicted themselves, my conscience is captive to the word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.

-- Martin Luther

from: Luther (2003)

Joseph Fiennes acted as Martin Luther

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