Quotes By The Day

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George Westinghouse
(10/6/1846-3/12/1914)
American Inventor

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Bio:
Inventor George Westinghouse Biography

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Charleszetta Waddles
(10/7/1912-7/12/2001)
Established Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission, Inc., 1956, National Director and Pastor, 1956-2001.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.
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God knows no distance.
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I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.
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You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.
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You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

Bio:
Charleszetta "Mother" Waddles Biography

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I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

Oh, I don't know about this. Who wants a headcold? Or cellulitis, for that matter.

But she had a rich sense of humor!

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Eddie Rickenbacker (Edward Vernon Rickenbacker)
(10/8/1890-7/27/1973)
World War I American Flying Ace

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.
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In addition to leading my flight on routine patrols, I emulated Lufbery's example and flew my own lone-wolf missions onver the lines. He always said that it was impossible to shoot down German planes sitting in the billet with you feet before the fire. I heeded this advice so well that I had more hours in the air than any other American flier.
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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.




1st Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker was one of the most effective American pilots in World War I. The former race car driver shot down 26 enemy planes during the war. He posed for this photograph beside his plane in 1918 near Rembercart, France.

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Jackson Browne
(10/9/1948 - Age 60)
American Singer/Songwriter

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Bio:
Jackson Browne - Biography

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Lin Yutang
(10/10/1895-3/25/1976)
Chinese Writer

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.