Quote of the Day - December

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December 1st

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

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"Never did I believe there could be such utter happiness in this world, such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings. I love you, those three words have my life in them".

Alix (last Epress of Russia) to her husband Nikolai II shortly after their wedding in November of 1894.

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December 2nd

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert Francis Kennedy

4dk - who forgot to post that yesterday in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The above RFK quote celebrates that action.

 

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December 3rd

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
-- George Carlin

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December 4th

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Boy, 4dog, that one makes you think............42

 

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December 5th

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

 

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December 6th

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

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December 7th - Happy Hanukkah

The evening of December 7, 2004 marks the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 164 B.C. Also referred to as the Feast of Lights, Hanukkah recalls the Talmudic story of the Temple's one-day supply of oil miraculously burning for eight days. (More here)


To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.
-- Albert Einstein

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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Air Raid on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. The attack sank three other ships and damaged many additional vessels. More than 180 aircraft were destroyed.

A hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Commander in Chief Pacific, to all major navy commands and fleet units provided the first official word of the attack at the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. It said simply: AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL.

4dk - who thinks what an interesting day this is; remembrance of a day of horror 63 years ago and remembrance of a miracle nearly 2,200 years ago.

 

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December 8th

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
-- Dwight Eisenhower

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appeared before the United States Congress to ask for a declaration of war against the Japanese Empire. Below is the famous speech heard by millions of shocked Americans over their radios that day. As the President had asked, Congress voted in a formal declaration of war against Japan.

Read the complex text of the speech here.

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December 9th

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" author unknown

 

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December 10th

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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December 11th

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

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December 12th

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll

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December 13th

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
-- Dean Koontz

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December 14th

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
-- Brendan Behan

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December 15th

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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December 16th

Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

 

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December 17th

The old-timers around here still shake their heads and chuckle about that city slicker who came through, trying to peddle 'hair restorer.' He took everyone's money in a poker game, so when he tried to sell the bottles of hair restorer, nobody had any money left to buy it!
-- Jack Handey

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December 18th

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
-- Katharine Hepburn

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