QUOTE A DAY - December 24, 2015

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JA

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
--Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.
--Bruno Bettelheim

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
--Albert Einstein


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
A definition is the starting point of a dispute, not the settlement.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to learn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some authorities take the view that we are all virtually at the mercy of the mass media and baleful methods of group stimulation, whilst others have suggested that brainwashing and similar techniques available to the modern mind-manipulator are not only well-nigh irresistible but lead to real and permanent changes in political or religious outlook.
--J.A.C. Brown (Techniques of Persuasion)

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
--Alexander Haig


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

A definition is the starting point of a dispute, not the settlement.

ANSWER: Neil Postman

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