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March 1

I'm not playing cards. I'm very serious, Mr. President. I'm very serious. I'm the President in war.

~ Volodymyr Zelenskyy ~

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March 2

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a "dismal science." But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

~ Murray Rothbard ~

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March 3

Never be insolent unless it is a deliberate decision, and only toward a man more powerful than yourself.

~ Émile Chartier ~

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March 4

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything

~ Julia Cameron ~

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March 5

Someone who is paying attention can do the same thing that Trump is doing with hate, and do it with love, and become president … That’s kind of beautiful. There’s nothing more optimistic than that.

~ Penn Jillette ~

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March 6

I've stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back.
And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.
I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. And likewise, I renamed, for a great president, William McKinley, Mount McKinley, again. Beautiful Alaska, we love Alaska.
We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed the private sector, and our military. And our country will be woke no longer.

~ Donald Trump ~

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March 7

What is history without politics? a guide who conducts without teaching any one the way; as politics without history, is a man without a guide to conduct him.

~ Alessandro Manzoni ~

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March 8

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

~ Neil Postman ~

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March 9

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

~ Luis Barragán ~

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March 10

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

~ Friedrich Schlegel ~

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March 11

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

~ Douglas Adams ~

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March 12

People take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent or stupid — but most people don't take the trouble.

~ Edward Albee ~

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March 13

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones…

~ Joseph Priestley ~

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March 14

I believe in one thing — that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

~ Albert Einstein ~

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March 15

To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~

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March 16

The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

~ James Madison ~

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March 17

Look for ways to let your light shine, but don’t be afraid occasionally to be in the dark. Strive to make your behavior above reproach, but be careful not to cast judgment on others whose behavior may reflect a different form of reality. The more you give, the richer you will become. Let your life be enhanced by the company you keep.

~ Dana Reeve ~

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March 18

I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

~ John Updike ~

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March 19

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

~ Philip Roth ~

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March 20

In all creation
Nothing endures, all is in endless flux,
Each wandering shape a pilgrim passing by.
And time itself glides on in ceaseless flow,
A rolling stream — and streams can never stay,
Nor lightfoot hours. As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies and follows,
Always, for ever new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.

~ Ovid ~
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~ Metamorphoses ~

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March 21

The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.

~ Jean Paul ~

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March 22

Irony is a great help in helping to penetrate fraudulent language. In the Second War especially, the language became virtually identical with the language of advertising. It was seen through by the troops, who knew what the truth was. It helped to sustain civilian support for the war, which was its purpose, after all. … And euphemism has remained, of course. It's a large part of the tone of public discourse. … It's now practiced on so wide and so official a scale that it's grown out of all proportion to what it was in the war.

~ Paul Fussell ~

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March 23

My life is much more than boxing — I've been knocked out more outside the ring than in the ring.

~ George Foreman ~

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March 24

There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.

~ Walter Hilton ~

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March 25

In the end, I hope that my life will have mattered and made a difference for the nation I love and the family and friends I adore. I hope you will see the America I know in the years ahead, that you will hear my words in the whisper of the wind of freedom and feel my presence in the flame of the enduring principles of liberty.

~ Mia Love ~

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March 26

I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

~ Robert Frost ~

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March 27

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Every bureaucracy … in accord with the peculiar emphasis on its own position, tends to generalize its own experience and to overlook the fact that the realm of administration and of smoothly functioning order represents only a part of the total political reality. Bureaucratic thought does not deny the possibility of the science of politics, but regards it as identical with the science of administration. Thus irrational factors are overlooked, and when these nevertheless force themselves to the fore, they are treated as "routine matters of state."

~ Karl Mannheim ~

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March 28

Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.

~ J. L. Austin ~

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March 29

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

~ Eugene McCarthy ~

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March 30

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

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March 31

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

~ René Descartes ~
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~ Discourse on the Method ~

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