QUOTE A DAY - December 3, 2013

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Just the quotes...

Best,
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.
--Anthony St. Maarten

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

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
--Richard P. Feynman


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
To me the technologies themselves are of far less concern than the threat posed by our super-addiction to them.
--Jeff Einstein, Media Pioneer

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
--Khalil Gibran

The more you expand your model by adding parameters, the more you become trapped into an inextricable apparatus of relationships. It is called overfitting.
--Nassim Taleb


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

ANSWER: Cicero

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