Nature
gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since
then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used
most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
Be
not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
You've
got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore
and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven
D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott
Have a wonderful Sunday and read lots!!
C~
I
am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because
it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
Books
won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the
long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney
Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
What
progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.
Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823
