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Quote of the day: Different minds

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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 – 1962, First Lady of the United States

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Quote of the day: Racketeering

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Due to recent events last week when the US government has put up all government property and the (work of the) next two generations of American citizens as collateral to bail out a few thousand “bad apples” within the financial world, we thought the quote from MajGen. Smedley Butler below might also be a good fit for that.

Those guys in the financial world who now try to make others believe that they did not know the dangers and that they did not know that they were trading worthless paper for money just like before the great depression, have always put their greed, their profiteering and racking in other peoples money above everything and anybody else.

We are not talking about the simple employees who are…

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Quote of the day: Virtues

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For the German Knights drunkenness and debauchery were acceptable behavior but cowardliness and betrayal were not.

Today everything seems to be the other way around.

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Quote of the day: News and wars

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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French

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Quote of the day: Forgive your enemies

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One should forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine

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Quote of the day: Beyond Good and Evil

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146

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