January 31, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Zane Grey (1872 – 1939):

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seem good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

Eddie Cantor (1892 – 1964):

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

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“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

John O’Hara (1905 – 1970):

“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”

Alan Lomax (1915 – 2002):

“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folds who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.”

Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968):

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972):

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

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"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

Norman Mailer (1923 – 2007):

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

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“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”

Justin Timberlake (1981 - ):

“If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.”

January 30, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945):

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

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“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

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“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”

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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

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“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”

Barbara Tuchman (1912 – 1989):

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

Carwood Lipton (1920 -2001):

''I have trouble remembering what happened three weeks ago, but I can recall World War II almost day by day.”

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''None of us could even think of the fact that we would be killed. If we were afraid of anything, it was that we wouldn't measure up. We wanted to be heroes, not to the American public or in books, but to each other.''

Lloyd Alexander (1924 – 2007):

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

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“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

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“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”

Richard Brautigan (1935 – 1984):

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

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“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.”

Gregory Benford (1941 - ):

“Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.”

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“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

Album Anniversary - January 29, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of "New Day Rising," the third studio album by Hüsker Dü.

Video: "Celebrated Summer"

January 29, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809):

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

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“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

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“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”

William McKinley (1843 – 1901):

“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904):

“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”

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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

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“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”

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“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

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“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946):

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

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“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

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“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”

Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989):

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”

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“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”

Roddy Frame (1964 - ):

“P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E.

It's no mystery

What you don't know always gets you

It will hurt you and desert you

So you'd better seeThat it's a damage ever done by degrees

And some will take eternity to believe

Why should it take the tears of a woman

To see how men are”

“They're calling all the shots

They'll call and say they phoned

They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone”