Quote of the Day

[IPD]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

-Calvin Coolidge

that was on my calendar a few months back. it's a good one. i'd have to say i agree; although there's a pretty big gulf between doing it yourself--and putting others in the same situation... (but there's another thread for that argument).

[IPD]

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

-mark twain

[AgentOblivious]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[IPD]

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin
...i always knew i was going to die an angry death.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. Baldwin

People can cry much easier than they can change.
James A. Baldwin

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin
...makes me wonder about those "perpetual bachelors" who have no desire to settle...

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James A. Baldwin

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin
...this one is pretty damning of myself.