Quote of the Day, 11/21/08

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“Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.” — M. de Cervantes

Quote of the Day, 11/19/08

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“The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.” — J. Burroughs

Quote of the Day, 11/17/08

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“A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.” — C. Dickens

Quote of the Day, 11/14/08

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” — G.B. Shaw

Quote-Joke Hybrid of the Day, 11/12/08

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J. Montagu (Earl of Sandwich) — “Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.”

J. Wilkes — “That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”

Poem of the Day, 11/11/08

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

–Col. J. McCrae

Quote of the Day, 11/10/08

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“You don’t become a rock star unless you’ve got something missing somewhere; that is obvious to me. If you were of sound mind or a more complete person, you could feel normal without 70,000 people a night screaming their love for you . . . It’s a real singer’s thing, missing mothers. Johnny Lydon, John Lennon, it seems to be the very heart of rock and roll, as missing fathers are to hip hop.” — Bono (P. D. Hewson)

Quote of the Day, 11/7/08

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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — G. Eliot (M. Evans)

Quote of the Day, 11/5/08

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“By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.” — A. Lincoln

Quote of the Day, 11/3/08

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“One of our great challenges is constantly to incorporate new experience, so as not to leave ourselves with a piece of brittle lace, the touching of which would cause it to crumble.” — W. F. Buckley, quoting J. H. Newman

Quote of the Day, 10/31/08

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“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” –E. A. Poe

Quote of the Day, 10/29/08

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“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.” — D. Barry

Quote of the Day, 10/27/08

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“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.” — St. Augustine

Quote of the Day, 10/24/08

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“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” — G.K. Chesterton

Quote of the Day, 10/22/08

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“Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.” — F. Kafka