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July 1

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

~ Robert Stanley Weir ~

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July 2

After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won't pick themselves up, after all.

Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

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July 3

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.

~ Franz Kafka ~
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~ The Zürau Aphorisms ~

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July 4

O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

~ Francis Scott Key ~

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July 5

If we could have a full exposure of "the tricks of trade" of all sorts, of humbugs and deceivers of past times, religious, political, financial, scientific, quackish and so forth, we might perhaps look for a somewhat wiser generation to follow us. I shall be well satisfied if I can do something towards so good a purpose.

~ P. T. Barnum ~

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July 6

America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.

~ George W. Bush ~

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July 7

I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners — black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old — indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for caste, for religion or whatever.
That isn't an ideology, that isn't even a perverted faith. It is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder.

~ Ken Livingstone ~

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July 8

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

~ Jean de La Fontaine ~

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July 9

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. … Believe me, nice people don't go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.
Those who haven't anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don't— whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.

~ Dorothy Thompson ~

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July 10

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

~ Carl Orff ~

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July 11

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears so much as … suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.

~ E. B. White ~

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July 12

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

~ Buckminster Fuller ~

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July 13

To Leonardo a landscape, like a human being, was part of a vast machine, to be understood part by part and, if possible, in the whole. Rocks were not simply decorative silhouettes. They were part of the earth's bones, with an anatomy of their own, caused by some remote seismic upheaval. Clouds were not random curls of the brush, drawn by some celestial artist, but were the congregation of tiny drops formed from the evaporation of the sea, and soon would pour back their rain into the rivers.

~ Kenneth Clark ~

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July 14

Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, of tyranny
The blood-stained standard is raised,
Do you hear in the countryside,
Those blood-thirsty soldiers ablare?
They're coming right into your arms
To tear the throats of your sons, your wives!
To arms, citizens,
Form up your battalions
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Water our furrows!

~ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ~

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July 15

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

~ Walter Benjamin ~

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July 16

You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

~ Sheri S. Tepper ~

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July 17

I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!

~ Donald Trump ~

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July 18

If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power. Of commitment to seek justice for victims. Of dedication to truth above all else.

~ Maurene Comey ~

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July 19

We got a great show for you tonight. … But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May. And… Yeah — I share your feelings — It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of The Late Show on CBS. I'm not being replaced — this is all just going away. And of course, I'm grateful to you, the audience, who have joined us every night in here, out there, all around the world, Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea. And let me tell you, it is a fantastic job. I wish somebody else was getting it. And it's a job that I'm looking forward to doing with this usual gang of idiots for another 10 months. It's going to be fun. … Y'all ready?

~ Stephen Colbert ~

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July 20

You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.

~ Cormac McCarthy ~

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July 21

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

~ Marshall McLuhan ~

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July 22

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it — which is what mothers do with their children — then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

~ Tom Robbins ~

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July 23

Survival is my legacy … People go … "why don't I throw the towel in?" … People still want to buy my records. People still want to see me, so why should I? It motivates me to get off my backside and do something. I mean, if my career had gone down the toilet and I knew it was the end, I'd be pretty miserable. … Never give up. If you’ve got a passion for something, you’ve got to find a way around it to carry on the passion.

~ Ozzy Osbourne ~

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July 24

I am wary of a lot of things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

~ John D. MacDonald ~

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July 25

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

~ Eric Hoffer ~

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July 26

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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July 27

Reach inside carefully.
Feel my psyche.
Make it last.
Put this moment under glass.

~ Juliana Hatfield ~

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July 28

I'd like to take you now, on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget for a while your drab, wretched lives.

~ Tom Lehrer ~

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July 29

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~

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July 30

They say that the devil is a charming man
And just like you, I bet he can dance.

~ Kate Bush ~

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July 31

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

~ Milton Friedman ~

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