Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 2008
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- October 1
| Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford |  |
- October 2
| I am one of you and being one of you Is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary angel of earth, Since, in my sight, you see the earth again, Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings, Like watery words awash; like meanings said By repetitions of half-meanings. ~ Wallace Stevens ~ |
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- October 3
| As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~ Gore Vidal |  |
- October 4
| The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. ~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner |  |
- October 5
| Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ~ Václav Havel |  |
- October 6
| It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~ David Brin |
- October 7
| Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. ~ Steven Erikson |  |
- October 8
| The year of jubilee has come; Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand; Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil, The corn, the wine, and all the harvest-home. |
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- October 9
| Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps. Reader, if you have not grasped — read again, after a while. The predestined is not accidental, The leaves fall in their time. And winter is but the harbinger of spring. All is revealed; all is attainable. ~ Nicholas Roerich ~ |
- October 10
| When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice. ~ Lin Yutang |  |
- October 11
| Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race. Your true home is not an abstract idea. It is something you can touch and live in every moment. With mindfulness and concentration, the energies of the Buddha, you can find your true home in the full relaxation of your mind and body in the present moment. No one can take it away from you. Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh | .jpg) |
- October 12
| The concept which assumes that everything in the Church is irrevocably set for all times appears to me to be a false one. It would be naive to disregard that the Church has a history; the Church is a human institution and like all things human, was destined to change and evolve; likewise, its development takes place often in the form of struggles. ~ Edith Stein |  |
- October 13
| I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. ~ Martti Ahtisaari |  |
- October 14
| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower |  |
- October 15
| A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |  |
- October 16
| The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ William O. Douglas |  |
- October 17
| There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad. ~ Arthur Miller |  |
- October 18
| The essential ingredient of politics is timing. ~ Pierre Trudeau |  |
- October 19
| To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. ~ Thomas Browne | _002.jpg) |
- October 20
| We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true. ~ Tom Petty ~ |
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- October 21
| You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin |  |
- October 22
| I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns. ~ Daniel Boone |  |
- October 23
| We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. ~ Sarah Bernhardt | _par_Jules_Bastien-Lepage_(1848-1884)_-_1879.jpg) |
- October 24
| We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed. ~ Stephen Covey |  |
- October 25
| I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. ~ Samir Geagea |  |
- October 26
| After bread, education is the first need of the people. ~ Georges Danton |  |
- October 27
| Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold |  |
- October 28
| Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens. ~ Jigoro Kano |  |
- October 29
| He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ James Boswell |  |
- October 30
| Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years... ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan |  |
- October 31
| Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney |  |
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