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April 1

Now's the time we crown the King of Fools
You all remember last year's king?
So make a face that's horrible and frightening
Make a face as gruesome as a gargoyle's wing
For the face that's ugliest will be the King of Fools!

~ The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~

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April 2

Well, there are plans … there are — not plans — there are methods — there are methods which you could do it … A lot of people want me to do it … I'm not joking. I'm not joking.

~ Donald Trump ~

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April 3

Unnecessary hardship is being borne by Americans of all backgrounds; our institutions are being recklessly and unconstitutionally attacked and even shattered. In just 71 days, the President has inflicted harm after harm on Americans' safety; financial stability; the foundations of our democracy; and any sense of common decency.
These are not normal times in our nation.
And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.
The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent and we all must do more to stand against them.

~ Cory Booker ~

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April 4

We see spirit in the mist and fog; we hear spirit in the silence of the stones. Polish those stones; they make a noble life possible. We feel spirit every time we love, every time we forgive, every time scorn is overwhelmed by empathy and bitterness overcome by compassion.

~ Val Kilmer ~

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April 5

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. It is more important that we be prepared for voting than that we vote, more important that we be prepared to hold office than that we hold office, more important that we be prepared for the highest recognition than that we be recognized.

~ Booker T. Washington ~

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April 6

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

~ Nicolas Chamfort ~

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April 7

Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

~ William Wordsworth ~

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April 8

Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

~ Yip Harburg ~

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April 9

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.

~ J. William Fulbright ~

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April 10

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

~ William Hazlitt ~

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April 11

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

~ Edward Everett ~

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April 12

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity — unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

~ Henry Clay ~

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April 13

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

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April 14

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour. No known civilization has, ever reached the goal of civilization yet. There has never been a communion of saints on earth. In the least uncivilized society at its least uncivilized moment, the vast majority of its members have remained very near indeed to the primitive human level. And no society has ever been secure of holding such ground as it has managed to gain in its spiritual advance.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee ~

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April 15

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy .

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

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April 16

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

~ Anatole France ~

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April 17

Knowledge grows, but human beings remain much the same.

~ John Gray ~

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April 18

The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world’s major civilizations. … In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.

~ Samuel P. Huntington ~

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April 19

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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April 20

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

~ Jesus ~

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April 21

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

~ Catherine II of Russia ~

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April 22

The Jubilee invites us to renew the gift of hope within us, to surrender our sufferings and our concerns to hope, to share it with those whom we meet along our journey and to entrust to hope the future of our lives and the destiny of the human family. And so we cannot settle for the fleeting things of this world or give in to sadness; we must run, filled with joy. Let us run towards Jesus, let us rediscover the inestimable grace of being his friends. Let us allow his Word of life and truth to shine in our life.

~ Pope Francis ~

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April 23

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.

~ James Anthony Froude ~

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April 24

Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

~ Vincent de Paul ~

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April 25

All things will be in danger of being taken in a sense different from their own proper sense, and, whilst taken in that different sense, of losing their proper one, if they are called by a name which differs from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe appreciation of properties.

~ Tertullian ~

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April 26

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

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April 27

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none.

~ Herbert Spencer ~

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April 28

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

~ Karl Kraus ~

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April 29

A scientist worthy of the name, above all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

~ Henri Poincaré ~

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April 30

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss ~

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