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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand
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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” |
Giovanni Casanova - April 2, 1725
“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” |
William M. Tweed - April 3, 1823
"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." |
Dorothea Dix - April 4, 1802
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.” |
Thomas Hobbes - April 5, 1588
“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.” |
Lowell Thomas - April 6, 1892
“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.” |
John McGraw - April 7, 1873
“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.” |
Guatama Buddha = April 8, 563 BC
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” |
Charles P. Steinmetz - April 9, 1865
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." |
Lew Wallace - April 10, 1827
“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.” |
Ellen Goodman - April 11, 1941
“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.” |
Sally Rand - April 12, 1903
“Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.” |
Madalyn Murray O’Hair - April 13, 1919
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” |
Arnold Toynbee - April 14, 1889
“A life which does not go into action is a failure.” |
Leonardo da Vinci - April 15, 1452
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” |
Wilbur Wright - April 16, 1867
“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.” |
Harry Reasoner - April 17, 1923
"We're all controlled neurotics." |
Clarence Darrow - April 18, 1857
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.” |
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David Ricardo - April 19, 1772
“Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.” |
Adolf Hitler - April 20, 1889
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” |
Friedrich Froebel - April 21, 1782
“. . . because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also.” |
Immanuel Kant - April 22, 1724
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” |
James Buchanan - April 23, 1791
“What is right and what is practicable are two different things.” |
Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1905
“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.” |
Edward R. Murrow = April 25, 1908
“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” |
Anita Loos - April 26, 1893
“I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.” |
Edward Gibbon - April 27, 1737
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” |
James Monroe - April 28, 1758
“National honor is the national property of the highest value.” |
Lonnie Donegan - April 29, 1931
"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?" |
Cornelius Vanderbilt - April 30, 1898
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe - May 1, 1764
“A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.” |
Ekaterina Alekseevna - 1729
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.” |
Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919
“Where have all the flowers gone?” |
Horace Mann - May 4, 1796
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” |
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman - May 5, 1865
"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing." |
Maximilien Robespierre - May 6, 1758
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." |
Eva Peron - May 7, 1919
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go." |
Francis Desales Ouimet - May 8, 1893
"Don't ever talk to my caddy again." |
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