Robert G. Ingersoll: Quote for February 4, 2012

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

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George Bernard Shaw: Quote for February 3, 2012

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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Bill Vaughn: Quote for February 2, 2012

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

-- Bill Vaughn

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Jane Austen: Quote for February 1, 2012

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly.

-- Jane Austen

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Alexander Graham Bell: Quote for January 31, 2012

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.

-- Alexander Graham Bell

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Tom Bodett: Quote for January 30, 2012

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

-- Tom Bodett

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Benjamin Disraeli: Quote for January 29, 2012

There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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Dick Gregory: Quote for January 28, 2012

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

-- Dick Gregory

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Frank Zappa: Quote for January 27, 2012

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

-- Frank Zappa

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Quote for January 26, 2012

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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E. E. Cummings: Quote for January 25, 2012

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

-- E. E. Cummings

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H. L. Mencken: Quote for January 24, 2012

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

-- H. L. Mencken

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Mahatma Gandhi: Quote for January 23, 2012

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Brian Tracy: Quote for January 22, 2012

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

-- Brian Tracy

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Eugene Ionesco: Quote for January 21, 2012

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

-- Eugene Ionesco

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