QOTD: "A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly." - Frances Anne Kemble

QOTD: "Hrothgar's hall, haunted / Dauntless Danes die, Grendel-gored / Why not hrelocate?" - David M. Bader / author of Beowulf

MOTD: Danny Boy, sung by Jack Deltuvia (1934-2007): - http://bit.ly/4GH9OL

QOTD: "Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?" - William Blake

QOTD: "Hail to the waterfall / Feeds the spring that keeps us all." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Freedom is mine - I know how I feel. It's a new dawn; it's a new day; It's a new life for me - Feeling good!" - Bricusse & Newley

QOTD:"It's your art.It's not about your body or sex or laughter.It's your art and it's beautiful and I want to see it."-Bert Tagge 1953-2010

QOTD: "All that has passed comes round again, /
For here, what is remembered, lives." - Starhawk

QOTD: "It is the deaths of others I should fear, for they can cause me inconvenience and grief." - Piers Anthony

QOTD: "People, when they talk about change, are thinking that it's going to change for other people." - William Gormley

QOTD: "Bert could outweird the weird just because he was Bert." - Stori Lundi

QOTD: "Blessed be you Gods and Mortals / Blessed be you Inner Fire." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD:"All war is evil and unlawful in itself, so much so that he who seeks war for its own sake has his end in wickedness."-Aristotle

QOTD: "I would keep everything the same, except the gun would be replaced with a donut...that fires bullets." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Eat pullets down, ye priests, and drink your wine / And leave the foolish German laymen - fasting." - Walther von der Vogelweide

QOTD: "In a slumber visional, / Wonders apparitional / Sudden shone on me..." - Aniar MacConglinne

QOTD: "Trust your heart. It is a kind of house oracle that often fortells the things most important." - Balthasar Gracian

QOTD: "Chorus: Poor bastard. / Oedipus: This is awful! / Blind Seer: Told you so." - David M. Bader

QOTD: "My soul is living and my soul is free; I am aligned in my divinity." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "I'm not the spiteful sort at all / but have the spirit of a little child" - Sappho

QOTD: "Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "I would have no compassion for a witch; I would burn them all." - Martin Luther

QOTD:"We each have to try to make life better in the corner of reality that's revealed to each of us;we can't do more."-Christopher Stasheff

QOTD"In some cases i have seen actual effects be hundreds of miles away from where they were fcsted-details are still not clear."-Nierenberg

QOTD: "The last 'CEO Presidency' - George W. Bush - ended up in a ditch." - Andrew Romano

QOTD: "As long as we believe in sequential time, we're becoming, not being. Beyond time, we're all one." - Richard Bach

MOTD: http://ping.fm/SQbQM

"What we demand is the unity of politics and art." - Mao Tse Tung

QOTD: "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to vice." - Friedrich Nietzsche

QOTD: "I saw Love / Come down from heaven / And fling off his purple cloak" - Sappho

QOTD: "They say you can't actually feel your body produce Vitamin D, but I think I can. Ahhhh." - Scott Adams

"You guys are cooler than a polar bear's toenails." - Suncere Shakur

MOTD: Happy Lupercalia! ( http://ping.fm/e9plm )

QOTD: "Well, something's lost, and something's gained / In living every day." - Joni Mitchell

QOTD:"such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts..."-Abraham Lincoln

QOTD: "Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." - Willa Cather

QOTD: "Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'" - Robert Byrne

"Watching a politician use statistics is a little like watching a child run with scissors. Nothing good can happen." - Tom Moran

QOTD: "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

QOTD: "Let those of good will bring succor to one another, and dispense with the naming of Names." - Mercedes Lackey

QOTD: "A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

QOTD: "A library is thought in cold storage." - Herbert Samuel

QOTD:"The 10 commandments contain 279 words,the Declaration of Independence 300. EU regs for caramel candies contain 25,911."-Bodo Hauser

QOTD: "And the three men I admired most / The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost / They caught the last train for the coast..." - Don McLean

QOTD: "Have the courage to hope." - Jewel

QOTD: "Reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Policy always sounds good on paper, what you have to look at is what they are doing in practice." - Max A.

QOTD:"...cell phones...are tiny,low-power microwave ovens,without walls,that we hold against the sides of our heads. "Christopher Ketcham

"Men are not potatoes." - Robert A. Heinlein

MOTD: Human breast milk urgently needed for preemies in Haiti, see http://ping.fm/uREmZ for donation information.

QOTD: "There's nothing liberal about letting coal and oil write climate change legislation." - Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

QOTD: "Hire people with hooks." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Freedom is not the same thing as wisdom." - P. Alexandra Riggs

"War is far too important to be left to the generals." - Georges Clemenceau

QOTD: "Justice and propriety begin with the constitution of commonwealth." - Thomas Hobbes

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

"Governors will never be awed by the voice of the people, so long as it is a mere voice, without overt acts."-Joseph Priestley

"We are called to speak for the weak,for the voiceless,for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy..."-Martin Luther King Jr.

QOTD: "If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God." - Martin Luther

QOTD: "Revolution, In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment." - Ambrose Bierce

QOTD: "The naming of Cats is a difficult matter: it isn't just one of your holiday games." - Thomas Stearns Eliot

QOTD: "I'm just another writer still trapped within my truths..." - Dan Hill

MOTD:Godspeed and blessings upon the crew of the USS Carl Vinson and the rest of Southcom as they are deployed to aid the people of Haiti.

QOTD: "Just a dream, and the wind to carry me, and soon I will be free." - Christopher Cross

QOTD: "Do you get what you're hoping for? When you look behind you there's no open door." - Mike Masser

QOTD: "Wherever possible, put people on hold." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "You can't mine coal without machine guns." - Richard B. Mellon

QOTD: "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army!" - King Frederick the Great

QOTD: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde

QOTD:"Every gun that is made,every warship launched,every rocket fired...a theft from those who hunger and are not fed."-D.D.Eisenhower

QOTD: "There is no 'pure' Anarchism. There is only the application of Anarchist principles to the realities of social living."-Sam Dolgoff

QOTD: "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime." - Max Stirner

QOTD:"Monday morning always comes,and the magic of the weekend never lasts.Not even for fairy princesses and immortal warriors."-L. Hamilton

QOTD: "Burn the libraries, for all their value is in the Koran." - Caliph Omar (C.E. 641)

QOTD: "The people have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." - Emma Goldman

QOTD:"Stand toe-to-toe with God and say 'No,you did something wrong.You fucked up here,and it's my job to make it better.'"-Lilith Saintcrow

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