Quote For The Day

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"I just know that, every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel."

Tom Hanks
as Capt. John Miller
in Saving Private Ryan

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"I cannot contemplate human affairs without laughing or crying. I choose to laugh."

John Adams

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"A hero is someone we can admire without apology."

Kitty Kelley

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"I am by nature an accumulator. I don't live in the past - the present is too full of surprises for that - but I often retreat there. If I collect anything, it is the hidden factual links, chased down through passing remarks in books. They can't be displayed on walls, but they help me put together my own notions."

Michael Feingold

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"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."

Maximilien Robespierre

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"Truly have the sages said that to cherish a base character is to give one's honor to the wind, and to involve one's own self in embarrassment."

from The Scorpion and The Turtle
a Persian fable

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"Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist -- leave that to the classical musicians."

Dave Brubeck

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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Carl Sandburg

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"He who saves one life saves the world in time."

The Talmud

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"To be a great artist is not necessarily to be an honorable man."

Georges Bizet