Quote of the Day - May

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May 19th

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
-- Ogden Nash

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May 20th

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
-- Epictetus

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May 21st

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
-- Bernard Edmonds

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May 22nd

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
-- Plato

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May 23rd

What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
-- Searamouche

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May 24th

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-- Thomas Edward Bodett

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May 25th

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
-- Josh Billings

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May 26th

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
-- Jon Bentley

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May 27th

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
-- Eric Anderson

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May 28th

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-- Horace

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May 29th

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

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May 30th Memorial Day / Decoration Day

These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadow of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars-they are at peace. In the midst of the battles, in the roar of conflicts, they found the serenity of death.
~Author Unknown

When flow'ry Summer is at hand,
And Spring has gemm'd the earth with bloom,
We hither bring, with loving hand,
Bright flow'rs to deck our soldier's tomb.

Gentle birds above are sweetly singing
O'er the graves of heroes brave and true;
While the sweetest flow'rs we are bringing,
Wreath'd in garlands of red, white and blue.

With snowy hawthorn, clusters white,
Fair violets of heav'nly blue,
And early roses, fresh and bright,
We wreathe the red, and white, and blue.
Mary B.C. Slade - “Soldier's Memorial Day”


Read more about the origins and customs of Memorial / Decoration Day here, here or here.

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May 31st

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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