QUOTE A DAY - November 7, 2013
Greetings fellow quote lovers:From the first quote from Herman Hess to the last one by Kathryn Lasky, today's issue is a keeper.
For those of you who have been with us a long time (and our new readers too), I have some wonderful news about my youngest son. He has just been accepted into the doctorate program for physical therapy at Bradley University.
I am a proud papa...
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*My story isn't sweet and harmonious like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
--Hermann Hesse
If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.
--Former Senator Frank Church
Every tool is essential and vital. These have been valuable to stopping some of those plots. You ask, how can you put the value on an American life. And I can tell you, it's priceless.
--From an NSA Talking Points Memo
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*There is a campaign afoot in this country to equate journalism - the real thing, that is, not the bootlicking regularly engaged in by practitioners of the David Gregory school - with espionage. In an authoritarian state, to be sure, everything to do with the internal machinations of the government is a State Secret. And if one lives in a country rapidly falling into some form of authoritarianism, the degeneration of the language ensures it's but a short jump from espionage to "terrorism": after all, they're both crimes regularly engaged in by "traitors." Right?
--Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com founder
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
--Kathryn Lasky, The Journey
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci
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