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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

2015 SOTU

State of the Union: Obama's Robin Hood turn http://www.cnn.com//2015/01/20/politics/state-of-the-union-address-2015-preview/index.html
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Wallace Stevens

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Tyrant have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
- Hannah Arendt

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The breaking of a wave can not explain the whole ocean.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Far better it is to dare mighty things, the win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
- Marcel Proust

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet
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