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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2009 17:36:20 GMT 10
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation Henry KissingerThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2009 19:49:20 GMT 10
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heatWoodrow WilsonIf you want to make enemies, try to change something
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 8:54:57 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:POVERTY[/b] The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.John BergerThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread Mahatma GandhiHunger makes a thief of any manPearl S. BuckLove and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starvingO. HenryFor every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundredJohn GardnerPoverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commitEli KhamarovPoverty is the mother of crimeMarcus AureliusAffluence creates povertyMarshall McLuhan
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 10:33:16 GMT 10
I don't give 'em Hell, I just tell the truth on them and they think its Hell!
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not IHarry TrumanAlways be sincere, even if you don't mean it
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2009 11:03:18 GMT 10
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian
I cannot support for a moment any system of education which in the name of denominationalism or under any other name, draws funds from the coffers of the State manifestly for the propagation of creeds and dogmas widely divergent
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other
What we want is a system which, while tolerating all religious beliefs, places them on a footing of perfect equalityEdmund Barton(Australia's first Prime Minister) Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 20, 2009 6:26:07 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world Harriet Tubman (Began Underground Railroad this day 1853) I can't die but once
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 21, 2009 7:06:11 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (Died this day 1910) The report of my death was an exaggeration
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 22, 2009 6:17:05 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?Immanuel Kant(Born this day 1724) By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man
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Post by vickyk on Apr 22, 2009 19:15:00 GMT 10
A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the "personal unconscious". But this personal layer rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper layer I call the "collective unconscious".
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) Swiss psychologist
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Post by vickyk on Apr 22, 2009 19:22:22 GMT 10
We live in an age of science and abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all of our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage bequeathed to us, we must be like minded as the Founders who created. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had and for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshipped.
"Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence"
5 July 1926 - Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) American president
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