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June 1

You live, you learn.
You love, you learn.
You cry, you learn.
You lose, you learn.
You bleed, you learn.
You scream, you learn.

~ Alanis Morissette ~

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June 2

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life. I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learnt, from experience, that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wheresoever we go.

~ Martha Washington ~

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June 3

Changes through law will produce a world where your freedom has been taken away.
And, If you can't fight for your freedom . . . you don't deserve it … This is not a left and right issue. This is the important thing to recognize: This is not about conservatives versus liberals. … This is not about left and right. This is about right and wrong. That's what this battle is.

~ Lawrence Lessig ~

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June 4

Russia remains fully committed to war — and they prove this commitment of theirs with both their strikes and their statements — all of this is the argument for new sanctions against Russia, tough sanctions. I want to thank all Americans, all Europeans who support this approach — the approach of pressuring Russia into peace — and it is extremely important. Putin does not change his behavior when he does not fear the consequences of his actions. Russia must feel what war truly means. Russia must bear the losses from the war. They must really feel that continuing the war will have devastating consequences for them.

~ Volodymyr Zelenskyy ~

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June 5

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

~ Charles Hartshorne ~

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June 6

The battle that has now begun will grow constantly in scale and in intensity for many weeks to come, and I shall not attempt to speculate upon its course. This I may say, however. Complete unity prevails throughout the Allied Armies.

~ Winston Churchill ~

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June 7

We love America.
Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend — or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act and we respect it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

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June 8

We can deny our heritage and our history but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom where ever it still exists in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

~ Edward R. Murrow ~
as quoted in
~ Good Night, and Good Luck ~

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June 9

Qualis artifex pereo!
What an artist dies in me!

~ Nero ~

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June 10

Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song.
A butcher, a banker, a drummer, and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in.

I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with the black one, trying to be a skinny one.
Different strokes, for different folks!
And so on, and so on, and scooby-dooby-doo (oooh, sha sha!)
We've got to live together!

~ Sly Stone ~

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June 11

A good life is a main argument.

~ Ben Jonson ~

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June 12

All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals — to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.

~ Brian Wilson ~

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June 13

In dreams begins responsibility.

~ William Butler Yeats ~

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June 14

I run the country and the world.

~ Donald Trump ~

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June 15

How simple it seems now. We thought the Sermon on the Mount was a nice allegory and nothing more. What we didn't understand until we got to be a little older was that it was the whole answer, the whole truth. That the way — the only way — to succeed and to be happy is to learn those rules so basic that a shepherd's son could teach them to an ignorant flock without notes or formulae.

~ Mario Cuomo ~

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June 16

Our national epic has yet to be written.

~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~

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June 17

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed. But even if I acknowledge the full range of impulses within myself, that doesn't erase the differences between a person acting from compassion and love, and another choosing to act from hate and greed. Moreover, it doesn't erase my responsibility to challenge a system which furthers hate and greed. If I don't resist such a system, I am complicit in what it does.

~ Starhawk ~

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June 18

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

~ Paul McCartney ~

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June 19

Knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments.

~ Blaise Pascal ~
in
~ Pensées ~

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June 20

Summertime, and the living is easy.
Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich, and your ma is good-looking.
So, hush, little baby, don't you cry.

~ Ira Gershwin ~

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June 21

Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul creates the symphony of life.

~ B. K. S. Iyengar ~

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June 22

Art is no isolated, unconnected, or inexplicable phenomenon. It draws its life from the life of the universe, and with the universe it ascends from epoch to epoch towards the Almighty. It owes its power over the souls of men to that collective life — even as the trees and plants draw their life from earth, the common mother; and its power would be destroyed should it attempt to forsake its source.

~ Giuseppe Mazzini ~

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June 23

Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable chasm. There are no "distant" conflicts when human dignity is at stake.
War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures.
May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!

~ Pope Leo XIV ~

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June 24

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

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June 25

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac … The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.

~ George Orwell ~

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June 26

As social animals, we live in a narrow but apparently logical world with a well-defined identity and position. But man is the satellite of a double-star; there is also an inner-world that seems to have a completely different set of laws from the rational universe. And in fact, if we judge this 'rational universe' by its own laws, we see that it is not self-complete and self-explanatory; space must end somewhere, time must have a stop; but the alternative propositions sound equally 'logical': space is infinite; time has neither beginning nor end. The answer to these paradoxes must be that the outer universe is not self-complete; it is only half a universe. The inner world is the other half. But at present we know very little about this inner world. It is only within the present century that its existence has been clearly recognized by psychology.

~ Colin Wilson ~

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June 27

It is happening here.
Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves.

~ Bill Moyers ~

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June 28

I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.

~ John Wesley ~

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June 29

Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which is the contrary of love.

~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry ~

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June 30

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

~ Czesław Miłosz ~

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