4 English - A Thought for Today - January 2024 Flashcards
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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J.D. Salinger, writer (1 Jan 1919-2010)
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
- Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
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Still round the corner there may wait, /
a new road or a secret gate.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (3 Jan 1892-1973)
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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
- Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
- Umberto Eco, philosopher and novelist (5 Jan 1932-2016)
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
- Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
- Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (10 Jan 1834-1902)
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Some are guilty, but all are responsible.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (11 Jan 1907-1972)
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People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
- Haruki Murakami, writer (b. 12 Jan 1949)
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood.
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!
- Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
- English Proverb
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)
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Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone’s B.S. too seriously, especially your own.
- Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (18 Jan 1932-2007)
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
- Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (19 Jan 1943-1970)
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
- Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842)
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I begin to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them: children, duties, visits, bores, relations, the things that protect married people from each other.
-Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1862-1937)
