QUOTE A DAY - April 5, 2012

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
It is no longer possible to see the Scientific Revolution as a self-contained European phenomenon; exchange of ideas between Islamic West Asia and Christian Europe was a lively and vital component of the new scientific discoveries.
--Thomas Christensen, From "The World in Motion"

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with.

Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
--John Swinton, 19th Century NY Times journalist "Labor's Untold Story" by Richard O. Boyer & Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.)

It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the US - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution...
--Tommy Franks US Commander of forces in Iraq, Newsweek


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.
--Monroe Forester

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom.

ANSWER: Thomas Jefferson

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