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Quote for today:
The opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.Thomas Jefferson
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John Stuart Mill: Another Quote for the Day
Posted on July 27th, 2009 No commentsFrom “On Liberty & Utilitarianism.”
A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy, must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it. If this be so, the sooner such a civilization receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians.
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Quote for the Day: Dionysius Cato in “Distichs”
Posted on June 17th, 2009 No commentsDread not the day that endeth all life’s ills;
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Quote for the Day: Trotsky and the Twitter of 1905
Posted on June 15th, 2009 No commentsOur pathetic clandestine hectographs, our homemade clandestine hand-presses were what we pitted against the rotary presses of lying officialdom and licensed liberalism. Was it not like fighting Krupp’s guns with a Stone-Age ax? They had laughed at us. And now, in the October days, the Stone-Age ax had won. The revolutionary word was out in the open, astonished and intoxicated by its own power.
Trotsky in “1905″.
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Today’s Quote: Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted on June 14th, 2009 No commentsVirtuous indignation is a crutch for the intellectually crippled.
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Today’s Quote: Dr. Johnson
Posted on June 10th, 2009 No comments“Such … is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
Dr. Johnson
(Hat tip to the Samuel Johnson site, where you will many another entertaining quote.)
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Quote for the Day: Voltaire
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 No comments“écrasez l’infâme”
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Quote for the Day: Simon Bolivar
Posted on May 30th, 2009 No comments“We have ploughed the sea.”
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Quote for the Day: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Posted on May 27th, 2009 No comments“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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Quote for Today
Posted on May 21st, 2009 No commentsWe are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. François de La Rochefoucauld
