Hikaori's words

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state."

- CONDOLEEZZA RICE, at a memorial service for Rosa Parks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31parks.html?th&emc=th

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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

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Friday, October 28, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"I can die in peace."

- PAT ROSENBERG, on the World Series victory by the Chicago White Sox.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/sports/baseball/28chicago.html?th&emc=th

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

- Epictetus:: Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)

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Monday, October 24, 2005

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt:: English essayist (1778 - 1830)

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"They're treating us like we're already dead."

- WILLIE L. CALHOUN, a resident of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans who was denied access to his mother's home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/national/nationalspecial/24block.html?th&emc=th

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

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Monday, October 17, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"God has given me this swan song, to see if I am - to see if I am up to it."

- DR. FRANK MINYARD, the elected coroner of Orleans Parish since 1974.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/national/nationalspecial/17coroner.html?th&emc=th

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

- Matthew Trump:: in Mother Earth News

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Saturday, October 15, 2005

While there's life, there's hope.

- Cicero, Ad Atticum:: Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

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Friday, October 14, 2005

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982:: Indian politician (1917 - 1984)

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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"The people that are coming today after five days, there is no hope of saving their limbs. They will remain paraplegic for their lives."

- DR. ATTA UL HAQUE, of Rawalpindi General Hospital, on delays in medical care for earthquake victims in Pakistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/international/asia/14quake.html?th&emc=th

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Monday, October 10, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"This village has not received any sort of help. We have nothing at present with us. Only our people are trying to dig out the children who are buried and are probably dead. Probably dead."

- MOHAMMED YOUNAS, on the destruction of a high school in Garhi Habibullah,
Pakistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/international/asia/10quake.html?th&emc=th

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Friday, October 07, 2005

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher:: US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887)

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Thursday, October 06, 2005

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"This is huge, huge, huge. It's a huge breakthrough to be able to put a searchlight on a virus that killed 50 million people. I can't think of anything bigger that's happened in virology for many years."

- JOHN OXFORD, a professor of virology, on the finding that the 1918 influenza virus was a bird flu.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/health/06flu.html?th&emc=th

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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille:: French dramatist (1606 - 1684)

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Monday, October 03, 2005

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James:: US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910)

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