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Molly Ivins:

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as ‘enemies,’ it’s time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

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October 6, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Will Rogers:

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

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October 5, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Germaine Greer:

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

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October 4, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Boris Karloff, in the voice of Colonel March Of Scotland Yard, and John Arnatt, the voice of Professor Wesley:

Colonel March: Oh, I know that he was a great man, prodigiously accomplished in the Medieval arts and sciences . . . .

Professor Wesley: The black arts, the black sciences.

Colonel March: Well, all art, all science is black, as you very well know, until it’s understood.

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October 3, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Gene Roddenberry:

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

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October 2, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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James A. Garfield:

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not be a fool, which, if I may judge by the exhibitions around me, is a matter of no small difficulty.

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October 1, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bob Cesca:

You would think with the internet people would be more informed, but they’re actually less informed and even more they’re badly dis-informed.

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September 30, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Euripides:

The lucky person passes for a genius.

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September 29, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Joseph Campbell:

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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September 28, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jean de la Bruyere:

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

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September 27, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Phaedrus:

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master’s name.

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September 26, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Hannah Arendt:

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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September 25, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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T. S. Eliot:

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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September 24, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Henry David Thoreau:

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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September 23, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Roald Dahl:

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

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September 22, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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September 21, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Goodman Ace:

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing’s well done.

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September 20, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ken Burns:

I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

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September 19, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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P. D. James:

She had always believed–somewhat to her surprise–that God existed but was unconvinced that he was moved by the worship of man or by the tribulations and extraordinary vagaries and antics of the creation He had set in being.

James, P. D., The Murder Room (New York: Knopf, 2003) p. 49

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September 18, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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September 17, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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