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Quotations of the Day: July 2008
July 31, 2008
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken. —Primo Levi
July 30, 2008
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. —Henry Ford
July 29, 2008
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. —Alexis de Tocqueville
July 28, 2008
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means. —Clarence Darrow
July 27, 2008
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault. —Peggy Noonan
July 26, 2008
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination. —George Bernard Shaw
July 25, 2008
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. —Eric Hoffer
July 24, 2008
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. —Amelia Earhart
July 23, 2008
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. —Raymond Chandler
July 22, 2008
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles. —Emma Lazarus
July 21, 2008
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. —Ernest Hemingway
July 20, 2008
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, / Left here without the light I loved so much, / In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. —Petrarch
July 19, 2008
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. —Herbert Marcuse
July 18, 2008
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.… I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended. —Nelson Mandela
July 17, 2008
I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. —Sid Vicious
July 16, 2008
Whatever materializes worship hinders man’s spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error. —Mary Baker Eddy
July 15, 2008
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. —Walter Bagehot
July 14, 2008
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it. —Clarence Darrow
July 13, 2008
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. —Joseph Conrad
July 12, 2008
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can. —Henry David Thoreau
July 11, 2008
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. —Epictetus
July 10, 2008
Humanity i love you because / when you’re hard up you pawn your / intelligence to buy a drink —E.E. Cummings
July 9, 2008
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / Might never reach me more. —William Cowper
July 8, 2008
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
July 7, 2008
There is no such thing as a free lunch. —Anonymous
July 6, 2008
Through much of the last century, America’s faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations. —George W. Bush
July 5, 2008
It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, / Just as phony as it can be. —E.Y. Harburg
July 4, 2008
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. —Sinclair Lewis
July 3, 2008
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. —Charlotte Perkins Gilman
July 2, 2008
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. —Ernest Hemingway
July 1, 2008
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. —C.S. Lewis
