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July 1

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

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July 2

The going's rough, and so we need the laugh
of bright incisors, molars of goodwill.
Our times are still not safe and sane enough
for faces to show ordinary sorrow.

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

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July 3

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

~ Tom Stoppard ~

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July 4

We are not likely to improve our own condition or help humanity very much until we come to the sympathetic understanding that human nature is about the same everywhere, that it is rather evenly distributed over the surface of the earth, and that we are all united in a common brotherhood. We can only make America first in the true sense which that means by cultivating a spirit of friendship and good will, by the exercise of the virtues of patience and forbearance, by being "plenteous in mercy," and through progress at home and helpfulness abroad standing as an example of real service to humanity.

~ Calvin Coolidge ~

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July 5

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

~ Jean Cocteau ~

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July 6

Our country has voted decisively for change, for national renewal and a return of politics to public service … we can make a start today with the simple acknowledgement that public service is a privilege and that your government should treat every single person in this country with respect. If you voted Labour yesterday, we will carry the responsibility of your trust as we rebuild our country.
But whether you voted Labour or not — in fact, especially if you did not — I say to you directly, my government will serve you. Politics can be a force for good. We will show that.

~ Keir Starmer ~

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July 7

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

~ Gustav Mahler ~

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July 8

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

~ Jean de La Fontaine ~

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July 9

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

~ David Hockney ~

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July 10

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as "seeing some one we know" is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice that these seem to be no more than a transparent envelope, so that each time we see the face or hear the voice it is our own ideas of him which we recognise and to which we listen.

~ Marcel Proust ~

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July 11

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

~ Harper Lee ~

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July 12

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

~ Robert Fisk ~

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July 13

We have no idea where we are going, and sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

~ Kenneth Clark ~

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July 14

I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all. Pull in my feelings, and call back all of my sentiments — and not let any earthly event move me in either direction, either cause me to hate, to fear, to love, to care, to take sides, to argue the matter at all — and, yet … there are certain good times, and pleasures that I never can forget, no matter how much I want to, because the pleasures, and the displeasures, the good times and the bad, are really all there is to me.
And these pleasures that you cannot ever forget are the yeast that always starts working in your mind again, and it gets in your thoughts again, and in your eyes again, and then, all at once, no matter what has happened to you, you are building a brand new world again, based and built on the mistakes, the wreck, the hard luck and trouble of the old one.

~ Woody Guthrie ~

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July 15

The choice we make in this election will shape the future of America and the world for decades to come. I believe that with all my soul. I know that millions of my fellow Americans believe it as well. And some have a different view as to the direction our country should take. Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy. It is part of human nature. Politics must never be a killing field. I believe politics ought to be an arena for peaceful debate, to pursue justice, to make decisions guided by the Declaration of Independence and our constitution. We stand for an America not of extremism and fury, but of decency and grace. All of us now face a time of testing as the election approaches. The higher the stakes, the more fervent the passion becomes. This places an added burden on each of us to ensure no matter how strong our convictions, we must never descend into violence.

~ Joe Biden ~

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July 16

We are to be needed, but I'm not sure for what.

~ Sheri S. Tepper ~

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July 17

Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.

~ Martin Farquhar Tupper ~

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July 18

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favour during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the acid era — but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover; a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

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July 19

Humor is a very, very important part of our life. It's not just laughing at a joke, it's an attitude toward life. And as the world gets crazier, it's more important to laugh at it. It's a survival technique.

~ Bob Newhart ~

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July 20

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

~ Cormac McCarthy ~

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July 21

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

~ Marshall McLuhan ~

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July 22

America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today.
I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We've protected and preserved our Democracy. And we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.
It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.

~ Joe Biden ~

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July 23

I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination. Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election. And that is what I will continue to do in the days and weeks ahead. I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.
We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.

~ Kamala Harris ~

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July 24

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

~ John D. MacDonald ~

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July 25

When as the rye reach to the chin,
And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within,
Strawberries swimming in the cream,
And school-boys playing in the stream:
Then O, then O, then O my true love said,
Till that time come again,
She could not live a maid.

~ George Peele ~

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July 26

I have given my heart and my soul to our nation, like so many others. And I have been blessed a million times in return with the love and support of the American people.
I hope you have some idea how grateful I am to all of you. The great thing about America is here kings and dictators do not rule. The people do.
History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands.
We just have to keep faith — keep the faith and remember who we are. We are the United States of America, and there is simply nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together. So, let’s act together, preserve our democracy.

~ Joe Biden ~

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July 27

In the name of the athletes.
In the name of all judges.
In the name of all the coaches and officials.
We promise to take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules and in the spirit of fair play, inclusion and equality. Together we stand in solidarity and commit ourselves to sport without doping, without cheating, without any form of discrimination. We do this for the honour of our teams, in respect for the Fundamental Principles of Olympism, and to make the world a better place through sport.

~ Olympic Oath ~

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July 28

Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.

~ John Stuart Blackie ~

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July 29

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~

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July 30

How I'm moved.
How you move me
With your beauty's potency.

~ Kate Bush ~

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July 31

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

~ J. K. Rowling ~
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~ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ~

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