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| Quotations of the Day: October 2001 |
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October 31, 2001
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.
—Orson Welles
October 30, 2001
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
—John Adams
October 29, 2001
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
—Sir Alfred Ayer
October 28, 2001
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
—Jonas Salk
October 27, 2001
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
—Jacques Barzun
October 26, 2001
The Red Cross … is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity.
—Clara Barton
October 25, 2001
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
—Thomas Macaulay
October 24, 2001
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.
—Trygve Lie
October 23, 2001
On such a night, when Air has loosed / Its guardian grasp on blood and brain, / Old terrors then of god or ghost / Creep from their caves to life again.
—Robert Bridges
October 22, 2001
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag.
—Doris Lessing
October 21, 2001
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 20, 2001
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
—John Dewey
October 19, 2001
So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.
—Lamar Trotti
October 18, 2001
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
—Thomas Alva Edison
October 17, 2001
Passion is power, / And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare / Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.
—William Vaughn Moody
October 16, 2001
Endurance is the crowning quality, / And patience all the passion of great hearts.
—James Russell Lowell
October 15, 2001
The goldenrod is yellow, / The corn is turning brown, / The trees in apple orchards / With fruit are bending down.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
October 14, 2001
The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 13, 2001
Brother, come! / And let us go unto our God. / And when we stand before Him / I shall say— / “Lord, I do not hate, / I am hated.”
—Joseph Cotter, Jr.
October 12, 2001
It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!
—Robert E. Lee
October 11, 2001
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
October 10, 2001
Curses are like young chickens, / And still come home to roost.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
October 9, 2001
We make war that we may live in peace.
—Aristotle
October 8, 2001
I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.
—Clara Barton
October 7, 2001
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
—Desmond Tutu
October 6, 2001
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
—Golda Meir
October 5, 2001
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
—Chester A. Arthur
October 4, 2001
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
—Rutherford B. Hayes
October 3, 2001
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
—Karl Marx
October 2, 2001
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
October 1, 2001
The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East.
—Jimmy Carter
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