Wikiquote:Quote of the day/August 2011
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   There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~ Herman Melville ~ |
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 Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ John Tyndall ~ |
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 Much of what we see in the universe … starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. |
 
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 I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together — unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction — towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. ~ Barack Obama ~ |
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 We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ~ Wendell Berry ~ |
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 Like an Aeolian harp that wakes Such seem'd the whisper at my side: So heavenly-toned, that in that hour To feel, altho' no tongue can prove ~ Alfred Tennyson ~ |
 
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. ~ Jimmy Wales ~ 
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 Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing Two thousand years — much has gone by forever, ~ Sara Teasdale ~ |
 
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 When the rain came down — I was standing in the green When the rain came down — melded with my tears ~ Happy Rhodes ~  
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 What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy. ~ Andrew Sullivan ~ |
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 Standing in the presence of the Unknown, all have the same right to think, and all are equally interested in the great questions of origin and destiny. All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of thought and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the truth.
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 How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us? Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war. We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds. Crime requires police work, not military action. ~ George Soros ~ |
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 It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone. ~ Felix Adler ~ 
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 Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. ~ John Galsworthy ~ |
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 True spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. ~ Sri Aurobindo ~ |
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. 
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 I have never knew what it was to sacrifice my own judgment to gratify any party and I have no doubt of the time being close at hand when I will be rewarded for letting my tongue speak what my heart thinks. I have suffered myself to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ~ Davy Crockett ~ |
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 I ask no more from mortals |
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 The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. |
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 Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. ~ H. P. Lovecraft ~ |
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   Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. |
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 Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. |
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  In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful |
 
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 Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. |
 
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 We live in a world we ourselves create. |
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 Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. ~ Mother Teresa ~ |
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 There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good! ~ The Doctor ~ |
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  Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ |
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 New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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~ Yakoub Islam ~ |
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 At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them. ~ William Saroyan ~ |
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