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September 1

There are two Births, the one when Light
First strikes the new awak’ned sense;
The Other when two Souls unite;
And we must count our life from thence:
When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you,
Then both of us were born anew.

~ William Cartwright ~

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September 2

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

~ Paul Bourget ~

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September 3

In the life of each of us … there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~

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September 4

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

~ François-René de Chateaubriand ~

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September 5

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

~ John Danforth ~

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September 6

Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not.

~ Robert M. Pirsig ~

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September 7

Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe.

~ Giorgio Armani ~

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September 8

Caution's a virtue that o'ercharged is vice,
And dull content is poverty of soul.
Who shuns offence and holds with neither side,
Who dreads the deep and never dares to swim,
Who fears to trip and never tries to run,
May yet in walking stumble.

~ John Nichol ~

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September 9

Nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it so.

~ Cesare Pavese ~

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September 10

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

~ Mary Oliver ~

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September 11

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars. Is not a man different, utterly different, at dawn from what he is at sunset? And a woman too? And does not the changing harmony and discord of their variation make the secret music of life?

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

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September 12

Faith as well as science endowed the visible world with properties that eliminated blind, incalculable chance as the author of all events. The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order...

~ Stanisław Lem ~

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September 13

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

~ Roald Dahl ~

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September 14

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

~ Ivan Pavlov ~

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September 15

Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. … You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

~ Agatha Christie ~

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September 16

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

~ Lauren Bacall ~

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September 17

Life is essentially sad. Happiness is sporadic. It comes in moments and that's it. Extract the blood from every moment.

~ Robert Redford ~

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September 18

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

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September 19

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. … after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another. ... I am thinking of the vileness beyond all words that went on, year after year, in the totalitarian states. It is bad enough to say that so many Jews were exterminated in this way and that, so many people liquidated — lovely, elegant word — but there were things done during that period from which I still have to avert my mind less I should be physically sick. They were not done by the headhunters of New Guinea or by some primitive tribe in the Amazon. They were done, skillfully, coldly, by educated men, doctors, lawyers, by men with a tradition of civilization behind them, to beings of their own kind.

~ William Golding ~

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September 20

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

~ Joyce Brothers ~

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September 21

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on.

~ Stephen King ~

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September 22

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ~

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September 23

Science ... commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

~ Thomas Huxley ~

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September 24

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must, of necessity, expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each.
So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the Court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the Court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
If, then, the Courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the Legislature, the Constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.

~ John Marshall ~

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September 25

Maybe the silver lining from this is we found one thing we can agree on, and maybe we'll even find another one. Maybe we can get a little bit closer together. We do agree on a lot of things. We agree on keeping our children safe from guns, on reproductive rights for women, Social Security, affordable health care, pediatric cancer research. These are all things that most Americans support. Let's stop letting these politicians tell us what they want and tell them what we want.
There was a moment over the weekend, a very beautiful moment. I don't know if you saw this on Sunday. Erika Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband. She forgave him. That is an example we should follow. If you believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do, there it was. That's, that's it. A selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow. It touched me deeply, and I hope it touches many, and if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that and not this.

~ Jimmy Kimmel ~

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September 26

Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it.

~ T. S. Eliot ~
in
~ Four Quartets ~

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September 27

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. We must not conclude merely upon a man's haranguing upon liberty, and using the charming sound, that he is fit to be trusted with the liberties of his country. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

~ Samuel Adams ~

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September 28

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall ~

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September 29

Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

~ Epistle of Jude ~

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September 30

Once you label a people "illegal", that is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews. You do not label a people "illegal." They have committed an illegal act. They are immigrants who crossed illegally. They are immigrants who crossed without papers. They are immigrants who crossed without permission. They are living in this country without permission. But they are not an illegal people.

~ Elie Wiesel ~

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