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July 2002 Archive

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07/01/02"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." - David C. McCullough
07/02/02"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke
07/03/02"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Dolores Ibarruri
07/04/02"We hold these truths to be self-evident,—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
07/05/02"A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks." - Henri Amiel
07/06/02"In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." - James Agee
07/07/02"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own." - Johann von Goethe
07/08/02"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." - John Steinbeck
07/09/02"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell
07/10/02"I am done with the monster of 'We,' the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehod and shame. And now I see the free face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.' " - Ayn Rand
07/11/02"Society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment." - William J. Brennan
07/12/02"We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that." - Bernard Malamud
07/13/02"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." - Ann Landers
07/14/02"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." - Aristotle
07/15/02"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
07/16/02"Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
07/17/02"There is no expedient to which man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." - Sir Joshua Reynolds
07/18/02"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
07/19/02"I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin
07/20/02"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them." - Ben Franklin
07/21/02"Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art." - George Sand
07/22/02"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." - Bertrand Russell
07/23/02"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." - Ernest Hemingway
07/24/02"If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action." - Jean-Paul Sartre
07/25/02"The future of a civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterizes the thought of men today." - Albert Schweitzer
07/26/02"Show me a man who is not a slave. One is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear ... No servitude is more disgraceful than that which is self-imposed." - Seneca
07/27/02"Knowledge alone effects emancipation. As fire is indispensable to cooking, so knowledge is essential to deliverance." - Shankara
07/28/02"Western thinking has become conservative; the world situation should stay as it is at any cost; there should be no changes. This debilitating dream of a status quo is the sympton of a society that has come to the end of its development." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
07/29/02"Avaritia facit bardus - Greed makes you stupid." - Latin Proverb
07/30/02"All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."- Leo Tolstoy
07/31/02"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence." - Will and Ariel Durant
07/01/02"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung


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