A Thought for Today

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"It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most."

Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet

(27th July 1870-1953)

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"The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley, novelist

(26th July 1894-1963)

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"Never enough time, unless you're serving it."

Unattributed

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"So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today."

Amelia Earhart

(24th July 1897-1937)

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"There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."

Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer

(23rd July 1888-1959)

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"Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world."

Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist

(22nd July 1893-1990)

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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead."

Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate

(21st July 1899-1961)

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"To be able to say how much you love is to love but little."

Petrarch, scholar and poet

(20th July 1304-1374)

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"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'”

Eve Merriam, poet and writer

(19th July 1916-1992)

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"The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy."

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"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor."

Cory Doctorow, author and journalist

(b. 17th July 1971)

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"Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality."

Sheri S. Tepper, novelist

(16th July 1929-2016)

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"What this country needs is more leaders who know what this country needs."

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"Live your life as an experiment."

Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author

(b. 14th July 1936)

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"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate

(b. 13th July 1934)

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author

(12th July 1817-1862)

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"Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil."

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