QOTD: "Men should not petition for rights, but take them." - Thomas Paine

QOTD: "Moderates are always moderately opposed to violence." - Anatole France

QOTD: "There but for the grace of god, goes god." - Winston Churchill

QOTD: "Rotate your tires." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy." - Ellen Key

QOTD:"You cannot belong to Christ unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires."-Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict)

MOTD: Liturgical Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, sung by Jack Deltuvia (1934-2007): http://bit.ly/Uj4cw

"So far as we know beasts are incapable of either sin or virtue: therefore they can neither deserve pain nor be improved by it."-C.S.Lewis

QOTD:"It is the equally ancient and yet empowering woman,Galadriel...who provides the light by which Shelob may be overcome."-Alison Milbank

QOTD: "They sang but had nor human notes nor words..." - William Butler Yeats

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QOTD: "Know what to kiss.....and when!" - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Obedience to the Law is Freedom." - Sign over entrance to Fort Dix, NJ stockade

QOTD:"When a comedian says something funny,it's called a joke;when a Congressman says something funny,it's called a law."-Will Rogers

QOTD: "What do you think 'govern' means?...'Govern' means 'force', and 'force' means 'violence'." - Allen Thornton

QOTD: "The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow." - Gracie Allen

QOTD: "Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert Ingersoll

QOTD: "Conservatism (n.) The desire to conserve wealth and power at any cost (to others.)" - Robert Tefton

QOTD:"Exercise caution in your daily affairs,especially with those persons closest to you.That lemon on your left,for instance."-Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Sin is the moral cause of earthquakes, whatever their natural cause may be." - John Wesley

QOTD: "Hate is strong, and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men..." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

QOTD: "If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn to do it?" - Joan Baez

QOTD: "Keep a score of sarcasms and know how to use them. This is the point of greatest tact in human intercourse." - Balthasar Gracian

"Reclaiming. Groups. Eat. Their leaders. For lunch." - Sarsen

QOTD: "Many are the hearts that are weary tonight / Wishing for the war to cease..." - Walter F. Kittredge (1864)

QOTD: "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." - Vegetius

QOTD: "You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel..." - Dr. Suess http://bit.ly/5sy8Ow

QOTD: "A silent wish sails the seven seas / The winds of change whisper in the trees..." - Fred Jay

QOTD: "God rest ye merry gentlemen / Who've found it in your hearts / To flip Rudy a fin..." - Danny Dolinger http://bit.ly/5d66tw

QOTD:"When night comes on with song and tale we pass the wintry hours;/By keeping up a cheerful heart we hope for better days."-Brit. Trad.

QOTD: "Opulence must take second place to defense." - Adam Smith

QOTD:"A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist,but an optimist has more fun-and neither can stop the march of events."-Rbt. Heinlein

QOTD: "Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three lefts do." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Avoid becoming disliked. There is no right occasion to seek dislike-it comes without seeking soon enough."-Balthasar Gracian

QOTD: "There is no fortitude similar to patience, just as there is no affliction worse than hatred." - H.H. The Dalai Lama

QOTD: "You have no privacy, get over it." - Scott McNealy

"Gather round the harvest table / Let us feast and bless the land." - Starhawk and Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Our hands will work for peace and justice / Our hands will work to heal the land / (2b cont)" - Starhawk and Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "They've got to be protected / All their rights respected / 'Til somebody we like can be elected!" - Tom Lehrer

QOTD: "Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "But still the wars go on as the years go by / With no love of God or human rights..." - Guns 'N' Roses

MOTD: Requiem aeternam dona Bridget Flannery Ferry, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requisecat in pacem.

QOTD: "When friends by shame are undefiled, how can I keep from singing?" - Doris Plenn

QOTD: "You - telling me the things you're gonna do for me - I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see!" - Michael McDonald

QOTD: "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand, Lord, don't they help themselves?" - John Fogerty

QOTD: "Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?" - Yusuf Imam

QOTD: "Gracefully surrender the things of youth: the birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "If we don't tell people how we feel, then what are we doing here?" - Sebastian Gutierrez

QOTD: "Although I believe in the free market, I have serious reservations about capitalism."- Peter F. Drucker

QOTD:"A word means something;despite the maunderings of the lexicographers,it does not mean whatever you| want it to mean."
-Ambrose Bierce

QOTD: "For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord!" - Rudyard Kipling

QOTD: "Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

QOTD: "Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "A war against terrorism is a war against nameless people who may or may not exist at any given moment." - Nicholas Von Hoffman

QOTD: "I'm gonna spend my time like it's going out of style." - Clint Black

Why are people so afraid of government in medical care when private insurance companies are already meddling with doctors?-David Scheiner MD

QOTD: "We don't have to rush after it. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us." - Thomas Merton

QOTD: "Hitler had always detested public servants and their 'well-established rights'." - Max Domarus

QOTD: "My policy is to have no policy." - Abraham Lincoln

QOTD: "With all its hopes, dreams, promises and urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate. GIVE UP!" - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Death will be stunned and will Nature, when arises the creature responding to the One judging." - Friar Thomas of Celano

QOTD: "And in the night sky on the lunar light they fly, and the dead come back home on Samhain." - Candia Ridley

QOTD: "Far beyond where the horizon lies, and land sinks into mellow blueness." - Patty Gordon and Jay Hamburger

QOTD: "And dreaming weave another form, a shining web of life reborn." - Starhawk

QOTD: "Swiftly fly the years, one season following another, laden with happiness... and tears." - Sheldon Harnick

QOTD: "Where you are going you cannot take your body...You can leave your legs behind you, you will learn to fly..." - Todd Rundgren

QOTD: "Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone, and ta'en thy wages." - William Shakespeare / memorial: http://bit.ly/wEXzj

QOTD: "Al to late, al to late, wanne the bere is ate a gate..." - Katharine Blake

QOTD:"Hoson zes, phainou/Meden holos su lupou;/Pros oligon esti to zen/To telos ho chronos apaitei"-Ancient Greek epitaph for Seikilos

QOTD: "Everything changes, everything dies; In a teary reflection, I see the glint of the scythe?" - Christopher Bingham

QOTD: "Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria." - Latin Traditional

QOTD: "But it's all right now /Keep on singin' loud; / It's all right now / Heaven should be proud." - Charlie Daniels Band

QOTD: "Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn, Don't know why you should feel that there's something to learn."-Al Stewart

QOTD: "You have no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "And his ghost may be heard as you pass beside the billabong;you'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.'" - A.B. Paterson

QOTD: "Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call; A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all." - Keith Reid

QOTD: "They will remain, when we return; the wind will blow, and the fire will burn." - Starhawk and Anne Hill

QOTD: "Ah gits weary, An' sick of tryin', Ah'm tired of livin', An' skeered of dyin'..." - Jerome Kern

QOTD:"I hear hurricanes a-blowin,I know the end is coming soon;I fear rivers overflowin',I hear the voice of rage and ruin."-John Fogerty

QOTD: "Bedsetter people look back and lament; another day's useless energy spent." - Justin Hayward

QOTD: "Remember the Pueblo." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "They've got to ride forever in the range up in the sky on horses snorting fire as they ride hard hear them cry..." - Stan Jones

QOTD: "I have not seen as others saw; I could not bring my passions from a common spring." - Edgar Allan Poe

QOTD: "She is like a cat in the dark... and then she is the darknesss." - Stevie Nicks

QOTD: "So much love to make up everywhere you turn, time we have wasted on the way..." - Graham Nash

QOTD: "Every street lamp that I pass beats like a fatalistic drum,and through the spaces of the dark,midnight shakes the memory."-T.S.Eliot

QOTD: "The wind is full of a thousand voices; they pass by the bridge and me." - Loreena McKennitt

QOTD: "And let not the sands of time get in your lunch." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "When it seemed this whole world was falling apart...She'd be givin' us all a piece of her heart..." - Charlie Daniels Band

QOTD: "Bad boys, watcha want, watcha want, watcha gonna do, when Sheriff John Brown come for you, tell me!" - Scott Gilman

QOTD:"Let independence be your boast,ever mindful what it cost: Ever grateful for the prize,let its altar reach the skies!"-Joseph Hopkinson

QOTD: "Buy the ticket, take the ride." - Hunter S. Thompson

"...loving-kindness, or maitri, towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything." - Pema Ch?dr?n

QOTD: "If the president can't be post-partisan, as he had hoped, he might as well try to be successful." - Gloria Borger

QOTD: "Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "One day, perhaps, we will no longer know what madness was." - Michel Foucault

QOTD: "If one just knows how to surprise, one always wins the game." - S?ren Kierkegaard

QOTD: "I just hate being a teenager. When people say it's the greatest years of your life, I think they should be shot." - Amy Robinson

QOTD: "Unfortunately, we lack neon lights in the middle of our foreheads, and... probably do need pain perception." - Robert Sapolsky

QOTD: "A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, does not allow moose to have sex on city streets." - Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

QOTD: "When thoughts are quieted down, fire itself is cool and refreshing." - Kaisen Joki

QOTD: "Be comforted that despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "We don't have a problem with pornography, unless, of course, it doesn't turn us on." - Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller

QOTD: "Peoples do not make war. The decision to start a war is most often made by one man." - Tom Clancy

QOTD: "If there's no credible threat of liquidation, then capitalism doesn't work." - Elizabeth Warren, Esq.

QOTD: "You gotta understand that there's all kinds of heroes, but they never get a chance to be in a hero's position." - John Finn, C.M.H.

QOTD: "Well if I'm dysfunctional, who dysfuncted me?" - Kathy Lette

QOTD: "How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word." - Timothy Koegel

QOTD: "What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, / As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?" - Francis S. Key

QOTD: "Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you conceive him to be-Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "I'm a strange guy - I don't want to put a family on the street unless it's legitimate." - Hon. Arthur M. Schack

"Let us cast a great and mighty web around the worlds opening to the potential to love,peace,beauty,justice and freedom around the world."

"Let us cast a great and mighty web around the worlds opening to the potential to love,peace,beauty,justice and freedom around the world."

QOTD: "Property, that is, "capital," has undoubtedly long been able to appropriate too much to itself."-Pius XI

QOTD:"...the Church's social doctrine adopts a critical attitude towards both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism."-John Paul II

QOTD: "Man exists only insofar as he is opposed." - Georg Hegel

QOTD: "Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle and mutilate." - Tony Hendra

QOTD:"Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country,worship of country,devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare."-Mark Twain

QOTD: "One last caress /It's time to dress / For fall." - Marilyn & Alan Bergman

QOTD: "I never knew what freedom was until I got beyond the limits of the American eagle." - Frederick Douglass

QOTD: "The key is freedom - freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication..." - Ronald W. Reagan

QOTD: "In New York a man may make very free with his God, but he must take special care what he says of his Governor." - Andrew Hamilton

It's time for "catastrophic effects" between the US and UK! (http://ping.fm/6Sz0c)

QOTD: "America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities." - Agnes Repplier

QOTD: "Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "They called him the lion of the Senate, and that is what he was." - Theodore Cardinal McCarrick

QOTD: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right!" - Rudyard Kipling

QOTD: "Nail to the mast her holy flag,Set every threadbare sail,And give her to the god of storms,the lightning and the gale!"-O.W.Holmes

QOTD: "O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!" - Thomas Paine

"We all tend to do things in self interest,even-maybe especially-when we can couch it in terms of nobility and self-sacrifice."-M.Lackey

QOTD: "Take heart amid the deepening gloom / That your dog is finally getting enough cheese." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "All art worthy of the name is religious." - Henri Matisse

QOTD: "To know that which is immeasurable, which is not of time, the mind must be free of time..." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

QOTD: "No one in America should go broke because they get sick." - Barack Obama

QOTD: "Life ain't nothing but a funny funny riddle!" - John Denver

QOTD: "My soul will surrender / And give in to grace." - Jonathan Elias

QOTD: "For a man without self-mastery, the self is like an enemy at war." - Bhagavad Gita

QOTD: "A country girl's prayer and a city girl's dream / Hail the King." - Charlie Daniels Band

MOTD: Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod), sung by Jack Deltuvia (1934-2007): - http://bit.ly/VP6IB

MOTD: If you're a Philadelphia Eagles fan, this is the utter depravity that you now support: http://bit.ly/nXaqi

Animal abuser Vick signs with Eagles - http://bit.ly/hjYAA - Boycott their corporate partners! http://bit.ly/jn28D

QOTD: "I want to become like the Kindness Channel, all kindness, all day." - Chade-Meng Tan

QOTD: "We ourselves are the pivotal human generation." - H.H. The Dalai Lama

QOTD: "America is not always right. That's a fairy tale for children...But one thing America should always be is true." - Bruce Springsteen

"You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science." - Henri Bergson

QOTD: "To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower..." - William Blake

QOTD: "Sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today." - George Foreman

QOTD: "Dark night of the soul / Forgive us, that we did not understand." - Jonathan Elias

QOTD: "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." - Swedish proverb

QOTD: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." - Groucho Marx

QOTD: ?Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.? - Elbert Hubbard

QOTD: "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?" - John Calvin

QOTD: "For fifteen dollars, you can get an Internet address and say anything you want." - Robert Gibbs

QOTD: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

QOTD: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

QOTD: "A Presbyterian will do anything an Episcopalian would. He just won't enjoy it." - Rt. Rev. Wm. Brown

QOTD: "A Presbyterian will do anything an Episcopalian would. He just won't enjoy it." - Rt. Rev. Wm. Brown

QOTD: "I am ancestor, / And keeper of the future. / Hear my song." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "We're nothing / We're everything / I am nothing / Yet I am everybody." - Alanis Morrisette

QOTD: "If you want to change the world, set the bar high." - Robert J. Nowak

QOTD: "No miracles, no prophecies are necessary to prove celestial communication." - John Adams

QOTD: "Is Christianity so weak that its foundations might be shaken by children reading 'Harry Potter?'" - Ben Bova

QOTD:"O that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement, that men would cease to be as wolves to one another..."-Benjamin Franklin

QOTD: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being will be classed with the fable..."-Thomas Jefferson

QOTD: "If girls like short and nerdy, then I'm a sex symbol." - Daniel Radcliffe

QOTD: "Everyone can make a difference, and everyone should try." - Jeffrey S. Cooper ( http://bit.ly/nchero )

QOTD: "That?s what I meant to say, and that?s what I *thought* I said." - Neil Armstrong

QOTD: "There was no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers." - Alf J. Mapp, Jr.

QOTD: "When someone prays to me to cure his gout, what am I supposed to *do*?" - Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus

QOTD: "Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth." - Lynyrd Skynyrd

QOTD: "I once believed in all that is holy / Before the silos / Before the Trinity." - Jonathan Elias

Interesting free site with newspapers from 1880-1922, maintained by the US Library of Congress: http://ping.fm/ZtuLt

QOTD: "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

QOTD: "Haven't they heard we won the war? What do they keep on fighting for?" - Billy Joel

QOTD"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."-DeTocqueville

QOTD: "No country sanctions the private taking of human life. Nation-states reserve such power for themselves alone." - Tom Clancy

QOTD: "I came to believe, in fact, that it was a crime to think in Australia." - Bette Midler

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,/ For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain!" - George Carlin

QOTD: "Vocabitis remissionem in terra cunctis habitatoribus eius." - Lev. 25:10 ( http://bit.ly/dv1xu )

"In Iceland you're either normal,and you do a normal job and everything in a normal way,or you're a weirdo,the town freak."B.Gudmundsdottir

QOTD:"When I became a combat medic,I took an oath,and I didn't feel like it had an expiration date."-Jeffrey S. Cooper http://bit.ly/nchero

QOTD:"She was,of course,a Catholic,which does not necessarily mean that she believed in a God that is one and is three..."-Jorge Luis Borges

QOTD:"...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves..."-Congress, at Philadelphia, 7/4/1776

QOTD:"I am the song of all of these,my shoulders bear the weight of all these lives...I am the watching sky,the eye of God."-T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe, / Love is a banquet on which we feed." - Patti Smith

QOTD:"No one has ever seen a giant tortoise with the earth on its back,but then,no one has ever seen a superstring either."-Stephen Hawking

QOTD: "Oh joy. I'll pass." - F. Nolle

QOTD: "Truth forever on the scaffold, / Wrong forever on the throne." - James Russell Lowell

"It isn't hailing hail today/It's hailing chocolate bars,/A spaceship from the Milky Way /Just brought them down from Mars."
-V. Anderson

QOTD: "Things are not what they seem; / Nor are they otherwise." - Lankavatara Sutra

QOTD:"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." - G.B. Shaw

"The typical American believes freedom and democracy are synonyms. In fact they are antonyms." http://ping.fm/RLEGv

QOTD: "You are always free to do exactly what the government feels is appropriate for you to do." - John Steinberg

"In love may he return again." - Starhawk ( http://ping.fm/rp2Zu )

QOTD: "The beauty of the world hath made me sad, / This beauty that will pass;" - Padraic Pearse

QOTD: "...the whispering music takes them / To the dance of the elfin crew." - Seumas O'Sullivan

QOTD: "I invoke all seekers to find the knowledge they desire and seek..." - Dwina Murphy-Gibb