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Post by Tamrin on Apr 12, 2009 8:38:46 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this countryFranklin D. Roosevelt(Died this day 1945) Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 13, 2009 9:23:22 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor
If God is just, I tremble for my country
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friendThomas Jefferson(Born this day 1743) Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2009 5:47:10 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:One is not born a woman, but becomes one
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the maleSimone de Beauvoir(Died this day 1986)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2009 6:26:35 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!Leonardo da Vinci (Born this day 1452) You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2009 6:49:10 GMT 10
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think, I cannot keep from thinking
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men
I hate victims who respect their executioners
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to youJean-Paul Sartre(Died this day 1980) Grave of Jean-Paul Satre and Simone de BeauvoirIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2009 19:21:16 GMT 10
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal breadAnatole France
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2009 6:41:05 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy
Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently
When I look back, the fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It is of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts Spike Milligan(Born 16 April 1918) I told you I was Ill (on his tombstone)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2009 6:44:28 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices
Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than CommandmentsBenjamin Franklin(Died this day 1790) But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2009 20:06:16 GMT 10
Man is not the best of things in the universe
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crimeAristotleOne swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2009 9:16:24 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressedClarence Darrow(Born this day 1857) I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it
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