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06.06.2007
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert
(Uncategorized)
05.06.2007
And (as to) those who disbelieve in the communications of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy, and these it is that shall have a painful punishment.
Quran
(Uncategorized)
04.06.2007
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
Mark Twain
(Uncategorized)
03.06.2007
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus
(Stupidity)
02.06.2007
He that speaks much, is much mistaken
Benjamin Franklin
(Uncategorized)
01.06.2007
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
Bible
(Uncategorized)
31.05.2007
Say: Our Lord will gather us together, then will He judge between us with the truth; and He is the greatest Judge, the All-knowing.
Quran
(Uncategorized)
30.05.2007
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Bertolt Brecht
(Uncategorized)
29.05.2007
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
Bible
(Uncategorized)
28.05.2007
And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
Bible
(Uncategorized)
27.05.2007
Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day
Chamfort
(Uncategorized)
26.05.2007
If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.
Benjamin Franklin
(Uncategorized)
25.05.2007
may deserve it, of course they may for doing something heinous, they don't deserve to live in civilized society, they may deserve the death penalty.
Josef Stalin
(Uncategorized)
24.05.2007
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
Charles de Gaulle
(Uncategorized)
16.05.2007
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
(ActionExcellence)
14.05.2007
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Plato
(Moderation)
12.05.2007
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron
(Uncategorized)
11.05.2007
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, / Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, / Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; / No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Bible
(Uncategorized)
10.05.2007
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. --"The Mad Philosopher," 1697
Ambrose Bierce
(Uncategorized)
09.05.2007
[One May 1970 cable marked] For Confidential Eyes Only ... feed over 6,000 enemy soldiers for a full year at the full ration.
Henry Kissinger
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