Hikaori's words

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

- Dorothy Parker:: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

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Saturday, July 30, 2005

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963:: US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963)

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"We must not be complacent. The threat remains and is very real."

- PETER CLARKE, Scotland Yard's chief anti-terror officer, after the arrest of suspects in the failed July 21 bombings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/international/europe/30london.html?th&emc=th

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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

- Albert Einstein:: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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Sunday, July 24, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"It was hell, the explosion sent balls of fire flying around. There were two children playing football, they were torn to shreds."
- ISSAM IBRAHIM, on an explosion in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/international/middleeast/24egypt.html?th&emc=th

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson:: English poet (1809 - 1892)

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"He has the qualities Americans expect in a judge: experience, wisdom, fairness and civility."

- PRESIDENT BUSH, nominating John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/politics/politicsspecial1/20nominee.html?th&emc=th

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Sunday, July 17, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"I was spending time every week trying to keep the machine free of viruses and worms. I was losing the battle. It was cheaper and faster to go to the store and buy a low-end PC."

- LEW TUCKER.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17spy.html?th&emc=th

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Saturday, July 16, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"He was sick of it all, all the injustice and the way the world is going about it. Why, for example, don't they ever take a moment of silence for all the Iraqi kids who die?"

- SANJAY DUTT, 22, of Leeds, England, a friend of one of the suicide bombers who struck London on July 7.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/international/europe/16muslims.html?th&emc=th

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

- Oscar Wilde:: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

- Will Rogers, Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962:: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935)

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

- T. S. Eliot:: British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965)

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Sunday, July 10, 2005

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

- Jonathan Winters

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Saturday, July 09, 2005

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915:: English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

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Friday, July 08, 2005

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"The purpose of terrorism is just that - to terrorize people and we will not be terrorized."

- PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR OF BRITAIN

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/08/international/europe/08blair.html?th&emc=th

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Thursday, July 07, 2005

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

- Henry Kissinger:: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"We've touched a comet and we've touched it hard."

- PETER H. SCHULTZ, of Brown University on NASA's Deep Impact project.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/science/05comet.html?th&emc=th

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Monday, July 04, 2005

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

- James Joyce:: Irish author (1882 - 1941)

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