Frederic Bastiat: Quote for February 4, 2011

There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.

-- Frederic Bastiat

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Ivan Pavlov: Quote for February 3, 2011

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

-- Ivan Pavlov

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Jack Lalane: Quote for February 2, 2011

Can God go to the gym to work out for you? God helps those that help themselves. You have to do it! God or some omnipotent power or whatever you want to believe in gives you the energy, the will to do it, but you have to do it yourself.

-- Jack Lalane

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Frank Sinatra: Quote for February 1, 2011

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!

-- Frank Sinatra

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Enrico Fermi: Quote for January 31, 2011

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

-- Enrico Fermi

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Elbert Hubbard: Quote for January 30, 2011

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

-- Elbert Hubbard

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Marianne Williamson: Quote for January 29, 2011

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in Joy. Not knowing Joy, we do not know ourselves.

-- Marianne Williamson

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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Quote for January 28, 2011

If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

from: The Brothers Karamazov (Book 1880)

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Vince Lombardi: Quote for January 27, 2011

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

-- Vince Lombardi

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Mikhail Bakunin: Quote for January 26, 2011

Anger gets hold of me whenever I think of the base and criminal means which they employ to keep the nations in perpetual slavery, undoubtedly that they may be the better able to fleece them. Of what consequence are the crimes of all the Tropmanns in the world compared with this crime of treason against humanity committed daily, in broad day, over the whole surface of the civilized world, by those who dare to call themselves the guardians and the fathers of the people?

-- Mikhail Bakunin

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John Adams: Quote for January 25, 2011

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

-- John Adams

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Margaret Mead: Quote for January 24, 2011

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

-- Margaret Mead

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Ossie Davis: Quote for January 23, 2011

It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance. And democracy is no easy path, but those of us who believe in it must be prepared to sacrifice in its cause more willingly than those who are prepared to die in the wars of aggression. We, too, must be dedicated to the cause of freedom.

-- Ossie Davis

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Charles Darwin: Quote for January 22, 2011

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

-- Charles Darwin

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William Penn: Quote for January 21, 2011

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

-- William Penn

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