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<b>July 31, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/38/23138.html">Milton Friedman</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 30, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/100/191.76.html">John Dryden</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 29, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> a man / thinks he amounts / to a great deal / but to a / flea or a / mosquito a / human being is / merely something / good to eat<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/75/37975.html">Don Marquis</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 28, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/64/42964.html">Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 27, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/82/25482.html">Emma Goldman</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 26, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/20/9020.html">Pearl S. Buck</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 25, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/71/9871.html">George Gordon Noel Byron</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 24, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/16/25816.html">Robert Graves</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 23, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/63/44/1744.html">Robert H. Jackson</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 22, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/34/36134.html">Abraham Lincoln</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 21, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> His thoughts, delivered to me / From the white coverlet and pillow, / I see now, were inheritances— / Delicate riders of the storm.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/62/15262.html">Hart Crane</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 20, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/50/33050.html">Karl Kraus</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 19, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/63/22/822.html">George McGovern</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 18, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> I would rather make my name than inherit it.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/40/57740.html">William Makepeace Thackeray</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 17, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Nihilism is best done by professionals.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/25/44825.html">Iggy Pop</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 16, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> And hence one master-passion in the breast, / Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/100/230.27.html">Alexander Pope</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 15, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/100/773.276.html">Proverbs 25:11</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 14, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the “social worker”-judge.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/79/22879.html">Michel Foucault</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 13, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/42/63442.html">Sidney Webb</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 12, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/66/8/15108.html">Bill Cosby</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 11, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.<br> —<i><a href="/web/20070701164411/http://www.bartleby.com/63/71/4771.html">E. B. White</a></i> <br><br> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"> <b>July 10, 2006</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. 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