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*---- Quotes For The Day ----* Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. --Harlan Ellison Lord, what fools these mortals be! --William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 3 scene 2 **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. --Voltaire There are more fools in the world than there are people. --Heinrich Heine Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. --Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY? Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ANSWER: Frank Dane

*---- Quotes For The Day ----* Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.--James Thorpe My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.--Mary Todd Lincoln You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.--Carrie Fisher **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.--Samuel Goldwyn Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.--John F. Kennedy One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.--Nancy Astor MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY? If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, th...

*---- Quotes For The Day ----* No man ever listened himself out of a job. --Calvin Coolidge When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. --Ernest Hemingway To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. --Oliver Wendell Holmes My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. --Steven Spielberg A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. --Wilson Mizner MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CO...

*---- Quotes For The Day ----* My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. --Benjamin Disraeli Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. --Cullen Hightower Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. --Oscar Wilde **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Your very silence shows you agree. --Euripides It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. --Charles Baudelaire We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY? When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ANSWER: William Wrigley Jr.

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* Be thankful for everyone who comes into your life...even the difficult ones. You can learn something from every situation. --Zig Ziglar No one seems to me more unhappy than the man whom no misfortune has ever befallen. --Seneca: On Providence A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. --Henry David Thoreau **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* I do admit that at any moment we are prisoners caught in the framework of our theories; our expectations; our past experiences; our language. But we are prisoners in the Pickwickian sense: if we try, we can break out of our framework at any time. Admittedly, we shall find ourselves again in a framework, but it will be a better and a roomier one; and we can at any moment break out of it again. --Karl Popper Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* It is not your opinion that will make or break you, but how you express your opinion.--Nassim Taleb Simplicity is the key to brilliance.-- Bruce Lee It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.--Seneca **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** The belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of equal justice, of fundamental rights and a free society can easily survive the recognition that judges are not omniscient and may make mistakes about facts... But the belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of justice, and of freedom, can hardly survive the acceptance of an epistemology which teaches that there are no objective facts. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* At the end of the game, the king and the pawn all go back in the same box.--Italian Proverb [From Tom Cunniff] Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective informa...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* 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.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. You don't get product knowledge for the benefit of the customer, but for the benefit of yourself. If you know your product from A to Z you will have a feeling about it that is difficult to describe. You will be so positively charged, so fortified, so strengthened in your own mental attitude that you will be both irresistible and unconquerable.--Arthur Dunn In considering war, we must avoid that adoration of the material as exemplified by scientists who deny the existence of aught they cannot cut or weigh...--George S. Patton **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Dry knowledge,...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.--George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.--George Orwell If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.--George Orwell **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.--George Orwell The farther a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.--George Orwell MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!--Percy Bysshe Shelley The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.--Confucius We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.--Helen Keller **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.--MICK FARREN, Darklost The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out ... and do it. --SUSAN J. JEFFERS, Feel the Fear and Do It Any...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end.--Dame Barbara Ward We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.--Blaise Pascal You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.--Nassim Taleb, Author and Essayist **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Maturity is when your worl...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.--Nassim Taleb, Author and Essayist Things always become obvious after the fact.--Nassim Taleb, Author and Essayist When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.--Nassim Taleb, Author and Essayist **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.--Nassim Taleb, Author and Essayist Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.--Chapter 5, Grapes of Wrath [Banks have been the cause of MUCH of the world's ills...] Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.--Pamela Vaull Starr The power of imagination makes us infinite.--John Muir **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** 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. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus More on the New World Order dressed up in flowery language... If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world...

One of my favorite books of all time is Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Today we have quotations from that book. *---- Quotes For The Week ----* Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'... I says, 'What's this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.-- Chapter 4 !!!! My FAVORITE!!!! The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.--Chapter 5 Tommy, don't you go fightin' 'em alone. They'll hunt you down like a coyote. Tommy, I got to thinkin' and dreamin' and wonderin'. They say there's a hun'erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy-they wouldn't hunt nobody down.--Chapter 8 **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Death is on...

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine." Sounds like Rush Limbaugh struck intellectual gold yet again.

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.--Confucius Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.--Rousseau Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself.--Confucius **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth or rank.--Chief Justice John Jay I, the Teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem, applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with. I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.--Soloman, Ecclesiaste...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* It is no longer possible to see the Scientific Revolution as a self-contained European phenomenon; exchange of ideas between Islamic West Asia and Christian Europe was a lively and vital component of the new scientific discoveries.--Thomas Christensen, From "The World in Motion" There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country a...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.--Lord Acton The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.--Deuteronomy (ch. 29, v. 29) Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.--Bill Moyers **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.--Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and reformer Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addictio...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* History is a joke played by the victors on the vanquished in front of an audience that dares not laugh.-- Michael Rivero, Activist To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance, and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Poet and activist. **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** To announce that there must be NO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President Right or Wrong, is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILE, but is Morally TREASONABLE to the American Public. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Speech, thank God, no vested power in this great day and land can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry loud disapproval of exis...

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.-- François de la Rochefoucauld, 17th Century French author We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.--John Adams **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. See at the bottom for the answer *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.-- Monroe Forester, Inspirational author...