Today Quotes
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Thomas Jefferson still lives.John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier-July 4th, 1826
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.Chinese proverb
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?John Kerry, Statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.Helen Keller
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, itHugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown