QUOTE A DAY - November 12, 2013

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Just the quotes...

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful.
--Roger Lowenstein

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of
British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
--George Orwell

War is conflict. Fighting is an elemental exposition of the age-old effort to survive. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye, not the point of the questing bayonet, that breaks the line. It is the fierce determination of the driver to close with the enemy, not the mechanical perfection of the tank, that conquers the trench. It is the cataclysmic ecstasy of conflict in the flier, not the perfection of his machine gun, which drops the enemy in flaming ruin. Yet, volumes are devoted to armaments; and only pages to inspiration...
--George S. Patton


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Fear sells. Fear makes money. The countless companies and consultants in the business of protecting the fearful from whatever they may fear know it only too well. The more fear, the better the sales.
--DANIEL GARDNER, The Science of Fear

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
--Spinoza

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
--Helen Keller, in a letter written in 1911


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

ANSWER: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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