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Post by Tamrin on Apr 2, 2009 6:03:05 GMT 10
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time and money to do it right Kurt H. Adler (Born this day 1905)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 3, 2009 6:09:42 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it
Because of the progress mankind has achieved and because of the difficulties that are at times part and parcel of progress and prosperity, we find ourselves at a crossroad where we might make the world safe for our future generations or we might all perish together
We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations, but to our fellow men within the human community
Last May, in Addis Ababa there was convened a meeting of Heads of African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together in unity for the achievement of common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we desire
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?H.I.M. Haile Selassie
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 4, 2009 10:09:31 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishnessRev. Martin Luther King, Jnr.(Murdered this day, 1968) An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 5, 2009 7:30:32 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them
In the state of nature profit is the measure of rightThomas Hobbes(Born this day 1588)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 6, 2009 6:39:07 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
You have to be someone
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight
Man is a universe within himself
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny
The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstoneBob Marley(Born this day 1945) Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 7, 2009 6:14:58 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally
Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home
The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."
A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's selfDavid Frost (Born this day 1939) That Was the Week that Was
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 8, 2009 5:56:45 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itselfPrince Gautama Siddharta, "Buddha"
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 9, 2009 6:24:31 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatredDietrich Bonhoeffer(Hanged this day 1945)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2009 9:31:03 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
Nobody gets a blessing if they have cold feet and nobody ever got saved while they had toothache!
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end! William Booth( Salvation Army founder, born this day 1829) Do Something!
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 11, 2009 9:05:52 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Never give an order that can't be obeyed
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear
Old soldiers never die; they just fade awayDouglas MacArthurI shall return!
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