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Quote of the Day - July

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July 21st

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit.
You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
-- Horace

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July 22nd

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
-- Plutarch

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July 23rd

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
-- Bergen Evans


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July 24th

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in the sciences, by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men accounted great in philosophy, and then by general consent. And with regard to authority it shows a feeble mind to grant so much to authors, and yet deny Time his rights, who is the author of authors, nay, rather of all authority. For rightly is truth called the daughter of time.
Francis Bacon - Aphorism 84 of the first book of the Novum Organum

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July 25th

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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July 26th

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
-- Woody Allen


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July 27th

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
-- Douglas Adams


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July 29th

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
~ John Steinbeck

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July 30th

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-- Bill Cosby

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July 31st

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

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