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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Today's Words of Wisdom - November 3, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Dylan Moran (1971 - ):

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'”

André Malraux (1901 - 1976):

“I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.”

and

“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”

and

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”

William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878):

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”

Monday, November 2, 2015

Today's Words of Wisdom - November 2, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Chris Walla (1975 - ):

"I wonder if Mick Jagger actually can't always get what he wants."

and

"I will personally fight you if you miss an election."

and

"My favorite sport is Scrabble."

James K. Polk (1795 – 1849):

"War, the scourge of nations, sometimes becomes inevitable, but is always to be avoided when it can be done consistently with the rights and honor of a nation."

and

"The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few" are born to rule and that the mass of mankind must be governed by force. Subject to no arbitrary or hereditary authority, the people are the only sovereigns recognized by our Constitution."

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949 - ):

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Today's Words of Wisdom - November 1, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Tim Cook (1960 - ):

“Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.”

Edward Said (1935 – 2003):

“Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.”

Grantland Rice (1880 – 1954):

“For when the One Great Scorer comes

To mark against your name,

He writes - not that you won or lost -

But HOW you played the Game."

and

“Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.”

Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900):

“In the desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

Who, squatting upon the ground,

Held his heart in his hands,

And ate of it.

I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’

‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered,

‘But I like it

Because it is bitter,

And because it is my heart.”

and

“’Think as I think,’ said a man, ‘or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad.’ And after I thought of it, I said, ‘I will, then, be a toad.’”

and

“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”

A.R. Gurney (1930 - ):

“My father says everyone should write letters as much as they can. It's a dying art. He says letters are a way of presenting yourself in the best possible light to another person.”