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We’ll be more ignorant and less free, and we might not even know it. 

- The West Hartford Blog

http://whdad.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/courants-owner-bares-its-teeth/

This struck me as funny for some reason.  It was the last line in a post about the destruction of America’s newspapers.  Since we are firing all the reporters, we won’t have anyone to report on what we have lost.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
 - Max Beerbohm
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in “Hierocles”, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
 - Samuel Johnson

Quotes - Famous Quotes

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general’s sleeve, the stock -market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower -beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter -related, had a meaning: my exile.
 - Jean Genet
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
 - Benjamin Disraeli
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats  - -and one always secretes too much jelly.
 - Virginia Woolf

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei

Persistence - Never Give Up

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
 
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