QUOTE A DAY - June 9, 2011

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Just the quotes today friend.

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
--Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice from 1916--1939

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
--Howard Zinn

Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.
-- Bruce D. Porter, Professor of political science at BYU: "War and the Rise of the State", 1994

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
See at the bottom for the answer
*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
--Enrico Fermi

Anyone voicing a forecast or expressing an opinion without something at risk has some element of phoniness. Unless he risks going down with the ship, this would be like watching an adventure movie.
--Nassim Taleb

MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

MYSTERY ANSWER: Mohandas K. Gandhi

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