Hikaori's words

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"When everything started crumbling, I was dodging cinderblocks."

- TIMOTHY WAGNER, of Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina struck.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/30gulfport.html?th&emc=th

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Friday, August 26, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"We will call on people to say no to this constitution. This constitution was written by the powerful people, not by the people."

- KAMAL HAMDOUN, a Sunni leader in Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/international/middleeast/26iraq.html?th&emc=th

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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics:: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

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Saturday, August 20, 2005

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke:: English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)

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Friday, August 19, 2005

I shut my eyes in order to see.

- Paul Gauguin:: French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

- Robert H. Goddard:: US physicist & pioneer rocket engineer (1882 - 1945)

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Sunday, August 14, 2005

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

- Marilyn C. Barrick

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love:: US science fiction author (1907 - 1988)

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Monday, August 08, 2005

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

- Anton Chekhov, 1897:: Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904)

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Saturday, August 06, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"Let no one be in any doubt. The rules of the game are changing."

- PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, on plans for new measures in Britain's antiterrorism policy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/06/international/europe/06london.html?th&emc=th

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Thursday, August 04, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"That came out very easily. It looks like this big patient is cured."

- STEPHEN K. ROBINSON, after a spacewalk to fix a problem on the shuttle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/science/space/04shuttle.html?th&emc=th

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Monday, August 01, 2005

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic

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