Quote For The Day

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"Even as a young officer he was such a hard drinker that his name, Tiberius Claudius Nero, was displaced with the nickname Biberius Caldius Mero -- meaning 'drinker of wine with no water added'".

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillis

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Carl Sagan

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"There are many skills in life where the magic lies in anticipating what has not yet happened but shortly will -- hitting a curveball is one; acting morally may be another."

Adam Gopnik

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"It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me -- but only because my faults are so enormous."

Enzo Ferrari

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"I never saw anything like it."

Jacqueline Kennedy
on the acoustics of the Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center
upon its opening in 1962.

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"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta' keep dancing; you gotta' keep your feet moving."

Morgan Freeman

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"If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?"

Robert Moses

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"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me -- I never retreat."

Fiorello LaGuardia

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"You're on earth; there's no cure for that."

Samuel Beckett

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"Most of us never mature; we simply grow taller."

Alison Steele
the Nightbird