Daily Quotes

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Quote for the Day:

.... the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind --
are always attained by giving them to someone else.

General Peyton C. March (1864-1955)

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The last thing a deep sea fish will ever discover is water.
Anon.



A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending
the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it

Bro. Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS
(b.12/06/1851 — d.22/08/1940)

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The Price of Liberty

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran


Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation,
are people who want crops without plowing the ground.

Frederick Douglass


We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure
of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

W. E. B. Dubois


When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been
committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C. P. Snow


Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein


Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy


I don't give 'em hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell.

Harry Truman

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Quote for the Day:

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

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Quotes for the Day:

You will never be happy
if you continue to search for
what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking
for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

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Quote for the Day:

Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know

Lao Tzu

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Quote for the Day:

What happens to you does not matter;
What you become through those experiences is all that is significant.
This is the true meaning of life.

Anon.

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Quote for the Day:

No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

John Donne, (1572 - 1631)



Lord Howe Island

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Within Freemasonry there is a tendency to embellish
and add to the simplicity of masonic teachings,
ascribing significance where none was intended;
mistaking visual mnemonics or artistic licence for symbolic depth.
Those outside Freemasonry fall into similar error
with the added intent of deprecating that which they do not understand.

Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon

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I dreamt last night that Shakespeare's Ghost
Sat for a civil service post.
The English paper for that year
Had several questions on King Lear
Which Shakespeare answered very badly
Because he hadn't read his Bradley.

Punch, 1926
A.C. Bradley was a highly regarded Shakespearean scholar
who may have read more into Shakespeare's work than the bard ever intended.
(Freemasonry oft times appears rife with Bradleys)

Then again:

It is a poor symbol which means only one thing.

(Anon.)