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April 1

Pardon me, if I'm sentimental
When we say goodbye,
Don't be angry with me should I cry.
When you're gone, yet I'll dream
A little dream as years go by…
Now and then there's a fool such as I.

~ Bill Trader ~

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April 2

The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

~ Kenneth Tynan ~

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April 3

Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

~ George Herbert ~

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April 4

What is man? … a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

~ Benjamin Peirce ~

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April 5

From today, 31 flags will fly together — A symbol of our unity and our solidarity.
Joining NATO is good for Finland. It is good for Nordic security. And it is good for NATO as a whole.
Finland brings substantial and highly capable forces, expertise in national resilience, and years of experience working side by side with NATO allies.
I am deeply proud to welcome Finland as a full-fledged member of our alliance. And I look forward to also welcoming Sweden as soon as possible.
At times like these, friends and allies are more important than ever. And Finland now has the strongest friends and allies in the world.

~ Jens Stoltenberg ~

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April 6

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.

~ James Mill ~

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April 7

We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil.

~ Henry Kuttner ~

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April 8

Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

~ Yip Harburg ~

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April 9

"Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply!
Love's redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won,
Lo! the Sun's eclipse is o'er,
Lo! He sets in blood no more.

~ Charles Wesley ~

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April 10

Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

~ William Hazlitt ~

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April 11

There is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open to it. The way of peace is through agreement, not through force.

~ Charles Evans Hughes ~

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April 12

The one Reality takes manifold names and forms as a result of human ignorance. It is one and the same Thing that a Bhakta calls God, a Jnani calls Brahman, a Shakta calls Shakti, an Atheist calls Nature, a Scientist calls Force or Energy, a Christian calls Father in Heaven, a Mussulman calls Allah, some others call Infinity or Truth and a Vedantin calls Atman or Self. Whatever different names there may be, the fact remains that the Thing is one and the same. The difference is only in names. The Absolute Thing, which is beyond name and form, is birthless, growthless, decayless, deathless, sexless, All-pervading, All-knowing, All-blissful, without beginning, without end, changeless, beyond time, space and causation. The One Thing or the Ocean of Consciousness by Itself is ever the same — One only without a second.

~ Swami Narayanananda ~

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April 13

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

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April 14

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

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April 15

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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April 16

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

~ Anatole France ~

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April 17

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."

~ Thornton Wilder ~

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April 18

The great desire of this age is for a Doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that Conduct may really be the consequence of Belief.

~ George Henry Lewes ~

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April 19

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

~ Paolo Veronese ~

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April 20

I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.

~ Peter S. Beagle ~
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~ The Last Unicorn ~

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April 21

Imagination is the outreaching of mind … the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions…"

~ Rollo May ~

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April 22

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

~ Louise Glück ~

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April 23

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

~ William Shakespeare ~
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~ The Tempest ~

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April 24

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

~ Robert Penn Warren ~

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April 25

I don't believe that it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

~ Cesare Pavese ~

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April 26

We still have wars and we still have poverty — as long as these things exist, there's always going to be something to do. But that cannot distract from the fact that we're on the way.

~ Harry Belafonte ~

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April 27

It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse —
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.

~ Cecil Day Lewis ~

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April 28

One of the hardest lessons of young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

~ Terry Pratchett ~
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~ Night Watch ~

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April 29

The fact is: almost everything is funny. You just have to have a way of looking at it.

~ Jerry Seinfeld ~

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April 30

I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss ~

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