QUOTE A DAY - March 20, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.
--Anthon St. Maarten

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
--Plato

We can't find the Truth only listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror.
--Shams Tabrizi


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
--Simone de Beauvoir

This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
--Brooks Atkinson. Theater critic

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
--Garrison Keillor, Author and humorist


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

ANSWER: Samuel Johnson

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