September 1st
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
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September 1st
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
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September 2nd
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
-- Dean Koontz
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September 3rd
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
-- Leonard Bernstein
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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
Margaret Millar
September 5th
High office teaches decision making, not substance. [It] consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
-- Robert Francis Kennedy
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September 6th - Labor Day 2004
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
-- Eugene V. Debs
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers
See more on Labor Day and How labor won its day
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September 7th
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
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September 8th
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
--Ambrose Bierce
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September 9th
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
September 11th
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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September 12th
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins
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September 13th
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess
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September 14th
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schulz
September 15th
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
-- William Jennings Bryan
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September 16th
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. "
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
4dk - who still remembers with great fondness, the Compaq laptop my better half had to schlep around for me because I couldn't even pick it up. So much for portable in the 80's. Of course my current lap top weighs 4.5 lbs. so I guess we have come a long way since the vision of the future in 1949.
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