May 29, 2015

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

G.K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936):

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

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“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.”

Bob Hope (1903 – 2003):

“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.”

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“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”

T.H. White (1906 – 1964):

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”

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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

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“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”

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“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”

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“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”

John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963):

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

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“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

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“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”

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“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”