#QOTD: "You can't solve exponential problems with linear solutions." - Banny Banerjee

"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor."
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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A quotation from Lincoln

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-08-21), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 1, Ottawa, Illinois

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The [American] Founding Fathers never believed that tyranny could arise out of the executive office, because they did not see this office in any different light but as the execution of what the legislation has decreed in various forms. I leave it at that. We know today that the greatest danger of tyranny is, of course, the executive.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

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A quotation from Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

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"Comment ça se dit "Anschluss" en russe ?"
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Positive,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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A quotation from Euripides

Get not riches by unjust means, if thou wishest them to continue in thy family, for riches unjustly acquired quickly vanish.
 
[ἀδίκως δὲ μὴ κτῶ χρήματ᾽ ἣν βούλη πολὺν χρόνον μελάθροις ἐμμένειν” τὰ γὰρ κακῶς οἴκους ἐσελθόντ᾽ οὐκ ἔχει σωτηρίαν]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Erectheus [Ἐρεχθεύς], frag. 362, l. 11ff (TGF) (422 BC) [tr. Ramage (1864)]

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Cold air is biting, a cold heart fatal. ~Peter Amendt #ThoughtOfTheDay #ThoughtForToday #QOTD #FKK #QuoteOfTheDay #NaturismIsFamilyFriendly #Nudismo #BodyFreedom #TeamNaturistInternational

#QOTD: "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie

Deux vieilles dames expliquent comment elles se connaissent :
"On est co-grand-mères ! On a les mêmes petits-enfants."
<3 #QOTD #motdujour

A quotation from John Adams

For metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1775-03-06), “Novanglus,” No. 7, Boston Gazette

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A quotation from Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

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A quotation from Longfellow

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing,
   Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
   Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
   Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

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#QOTD: "Habits are first cobwebs, then cables." - Spanish Proverb

Small wishes are fulfilled immediately ... the larger ones require consideration. ~D. Wieser #ThoughtOfTheDay #ThoughtForToday #QOTD #FKK #QuoteOfTheDay #NaturismIsFamilyFriendly #Nudismo #BodyFreedom #TeamNaturistInternational

#QOTD: "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan

Lovely to see my book on sale at Somerset Rural Life Museum

#Somerset #womeninsomerset #unsungwomen #glastonbury

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#QOTD: "A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory." - Arthur Golden