February 6, 2015

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

Aaron Burr (1756 – 1836):

“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”

Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948):

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

and

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

Mary Leakey (1913 – 1996):

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”

François Truffaut (1932 – 1984):

“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.”

and

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”

Bob Marley (1945 – 1981):

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

and

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

James Loewen (1942 - ):

“The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.”

and

“Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.”

Michael Pollan (1955 - ):

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

and

“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”