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Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Quote of the Day – 08/21/2011

“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”

- Ernie Kovacs

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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Quote of the Day – 08/20/2011

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/30/2011


“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)


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Friday, July 29, 2011


“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”

- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)


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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Quote of the Day - 07/28/2011

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

- Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/27/2011

“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”

- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/26/2011

“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”

- David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)

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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/23/2011

“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), (speaking of Albert Einstein)

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Quote of the Day - 07/22/2011

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/21/2011

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/20/2011

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/19/2011

“Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.”

- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) (Enemies of Promise (1938))

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/18/2011

“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.”

- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), (Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game")

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/17/2011

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

- G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/16/2011

“'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”

- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/15/2011

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

- Clare Booth Luce

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/14/2011

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”


- H. L. Mencken


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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Quote of the Day – 07/13/2011

“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”

- Samuel Butler
   English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Quote of the Day - 07/12/2011

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

- Robert Sobel

Monday, July 11, 2011

Quote of the Day - 07/11/2011

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

- Robert Frost (The Black Cottage)


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