Archive for September, 2013

Random quote of the day:

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

—Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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Random quote of the day:

“Which would you rather be,—a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier who proclaims who are conquerors?”

—Plutarch, quoting Themistocles when asked if he would rather be Achilles or Homer,
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Random quote of the day:

“If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.”

—Heinrich Heine, letter to Julius Campe, March 18, 1940

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Random quote of the day:

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Random quote of the day:

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform.”

—William Godwin, The Enquirer, Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays.

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Random quote of the day:

“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”

—Lyndon Baines Johnson, March 5, 1960, when declaring a break in the 150 hour filibuster by conservatives of the Civil Rights Act of 1960

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Random quote of the day:

“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”

—Sri Aurobindo

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Random quote of the day:

“Tenacity is when you follow your heart—when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head.”

—Sonia Choquette, quoted in Blessings by Julia Cameron

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Mr. V’s Scrotum*
 
 
 
I don’t know how I came up with this one. Frankly, it scares me.
 
 
 
 
 
*Hair Salon

 

Random quote of the day:

“Truth is a simple place reached by many different roads.”

—Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose

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