Quotes of the day
from previous years:
- 2004
- History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~
Ronald Reagan
(recent death)
- 2005
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~
Saul Bellow
(born 10 June 1915)
- 2006
- All that you see has appeared because of Love.
All shines from Love,
All pulses with Love,
All flows from Love ?
No, once again, all
is
Love!
~
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi
(born 10 June 1213)
- 2007
- Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~
Saul Bellow
- 2008
- We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ~
E. O. Wilson
- 2009
- Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
~
William Ellery Channing
~ (born June 10)
- 2010
- Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it? ~
Saul Bellow
- 2011
- Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. ~
Maurice Sendak
- 2012
- You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens. ~
Thelonious Monk
- 2013
- 2014
From their earliest years
children
live
on familiar terms with disrupting
emotions
,
fear
and
anxiety
are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through
fantasy
that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming
Wild
Things.
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~
Maurice Sendak
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- 2015
Writers
are
greatly
respected
. The
intelligent
public is wonderfully
patient
with them, continues to
read
them, and endures
disappointment
after disappointment, waiting to hear from
art
what it does not hear from
theology
,
philosophy
,
social
theory
, and what it cannot hear from pure
science
. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense,
painful
longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we
human
beings are, who we are, and what this
life
is for.
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~
Saul Bellow
~
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- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
In the greatest
confusion
there is still an open channel to the
soul
. It may be
difficult
to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our
education
. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of
ourselves
.
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~
Saul Bellow
~
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- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened, who did it, and people need to be held accountable for it. And I'm committed to make sure that happens.
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~
Kevin McCarthy
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- 2023
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~
Saul Bellow
Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., are themselves the children of distraction. As such, they are peculiarly qualified to approach the distracted multitudes. They will have experienced the seductions as well as the destructiveness of the forces we have been considering here. This is
the
destructive element in which we do not need to be summoned to immerse ourselves, for we were born to it. ~
Saul Bellow
And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things. ~
Maurice Sendak
(born June 10, 1928)
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InvisibleSun
06:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 I liked the wild things books when I was young.
Zarbon
14:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3
Kalki
23:41, 5 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
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DanielTom
(
talk
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- 2
Rubbish computer
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talk page
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Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything. ~
Maurice Sendak
The men and women of the United States intelligence community and our armed forces dedicate their lives to protecting our nation and its people. Our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced. Violations of those laws put our country at risk.
Adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the Department of Justice. And our nation’s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. Applying those laws. Collecting facts. That’s what determines the outcome of an investigation. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The prosecutors in my office are among the most talented and experienced in the Department of Justice. They have investigated this case hewing to the highest ethical standards. And they will continue to do so as this case proceeds.
It’s very important for me to note that the defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. To that end, my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter.
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~
Jack Smith
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