Quote of the day/July 2003
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- "History would be an excellent thing if only it were true." ~ Leo Tolstoy
- "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage
- "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free." ~ Henry David Thoreau
- "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq." ~ Paul Wolfowitz
- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." ~ Albert Einstein
- "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." ~ Will Rogers
- "I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'" ~ Winston Churchill
- "One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse." ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- "The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description" ~ (Enobarbus, II.ii) Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
- "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." ~ Education and the Social Order by Bertrand Russell
- "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- "All animals are equal— but some animals are more equal than others." ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell
- "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde
- "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." ~ Bertrand Russell
- "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" ~ Albert Einstein
- "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." ~ Harry S. Truman
- "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." ~ Martin Luther King
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