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| Quotations of the Day: November 2001 |
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November 30, 2001
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain
November 29, 2001
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
—Louisa May Alcott
November 28, 2001
Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepare / Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; / Prepare your arms for glorious victory; / Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! / Prepare, prepare!
—William Blake
November 27, 2001
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
—James Agee
November 26, 2001
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
—Sojourner Truth
November 25, 2001
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
—Andrew Carnegie
November 24, 2001
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
—Louis Kronenberger
November 23, 2001
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
—Seattle
November 22, 2001
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
—Abigail Adams
November 21, 2001
We must cultivate our own garden…. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
—Voltaire
November 20, 2001
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
—Robert F. Kennedy
November 19, 2001
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
—James A. Garfield
November 18, 2001
I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher … we might get a much better idea of what we saw.
—Michael Collins
November 17, 2001
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
—James Joyce
November 16, 2001
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
—Karl von Clausewitz
November 15, 2001
Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, / iron is iron till it is rust. / There never was a war that was / not inward; I must / fight till I have conquered in myself what / causes war, but I would not believe it.
—Marianne Moore
November 14, 2001
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
November 13, 2001
He is a friend of all just men and a lover of the right; and he knows more than how to talk about the right—he knows how to set it forward in the face of its enemies.
—Woodrow Wilson (On appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court)
November 12, 2001
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
November 11, 2001
I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost—and will never lose—a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
—Francis Ford Coppola
November 10, 2001
It breaks his heart that kings must murder still, / That all his hours of travail here for men / Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace / That he may sleep upon his hill again?
—Vachel Lindsay
November 9, 2001
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 8, 2001
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
—Margaret Mitchell
November 7, 2001
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
—Billy Graham
November 6, 2001
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
—E.B. White
November 5, 2001
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs
November 4, 2001
You can’t say that civilization don’t advance … for in every war they kill you a new way.
—Will Rogers
November 3, 2001
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, / Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
—William Cullen Bryant
November 2, 2001
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone—who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
—Hubert Humphrey
November 1, 2001
“But I like it / Because it is bitter, / And because it is my heart.”
—Stephen Crane
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