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Friday, May 09, 2003

 

The man who loves other nations as much as he does his own, stands on a par with the man who loves other women as much as he does his own wife. The United States can accomplish little for mankind, save in so far as within its borders it develops an intense spirit of Americanism. A flabby cosmopolitanism, especially if it expresses itself through a flabby pacifism, is not only silly, but degrading. It represents national emasculation.

Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, May 08, 2003

 

If you know what you think and what you want, you have a very real advantage. In this era of experts, when we discuss our diet with nutritionists, and turn the family pets over to trainers, and bring in consultants on any major decision, a point of view is not only rare, but valuable.

Warren Bennis

Wednesday, May 07, 2003

 

The key significance of the student movement lies in the fact that from its inception, everywhere, it has combined direct action and nonviolence. This quality has given it the extraordinary power and discipline which every thinking person deserves. It has discredited the adversary, who knows how to deal with force but is bewildered and panicky in the face of the new techniques. Time will reveal that the students are learning lessons not contained in their textbooks. Hundreds have already been expelled, fined, imprisoned, and brutalized, and the numbers continue to grow. But with the punishments, something more is growing. A generation of young people has come out of decades of shadows to face naked state power; it has lost its fears, and experienced the majestic dignity of a direct struggle for its own liberation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 1960

Tuesday, May 06, 2003

 

Maintaining your character demands that you be consistent in your actions, which back up your words. Most people would rather see a sermon than hear one preached any day.

- Zig Ziglar

Monday, May 05, 2003

 

Pointless but intense excitement holds us, a stimulant, powerful but short-lived. Remote control switches permit us to jump back and forth, mix up beginnings, middles, and ends. Nothing happens in any sort of order... Distraction catches us all in the end and makes mincemeat of us.

- Saul Bellow
An Unbearable State of Distraction