Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes·Quotations by Edgar Allan Poe
Reality
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@ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edge Keynote
Edge Keynote
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ When you have done your best, await the result in peace.
Solitude·Self-reliance
¶ If you don't think highly of yourself, why would anyone else?
Eden Ahbez
Eden Ahbez
eden ahbez (15 April 1908 – 4 March 1995) was an American poet, musician, and songwriter; born Alexander Aberle, adopted and raised as George McGrew, he insisted on spelling his adult name in lower-case letters, and was called "ahbe" by his family and friends.
Love
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William Congreve (1670-1729)
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William Congreve (1670-1729)
William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet.
Quotes·Quotations by William Congreve
Woman
¶ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. [spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII in The Mourning Bride of 1697]
This is usually paraphrased as "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve
Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale
@ Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
@ Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
Harvey Earl Wilson (May 3, 1907–January 16, 1987), born Harvey Earl Wilson, was an American journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his nationally syndicated newspaper column, It Happened Last Night.
Born in Rockford in Mercer County in western Ohio, Wilson attended Heidelberg College and graduated from Ohio State University in 1931 with a B. S. in journalism.
Wilson's column originated from the New York Post and ran from 1942 until 1983. His chronicling of the Broadway scene during the "Golden Age" of show business formed the basis for a book published in 1971, The Show Business Nobody Knows. He signed his columns with the tag line, "That's Earl, brother." His nickname was "Midnight Earl". In later years, the name of his column was changed to Last Night With Earl Wilson. In his final years with the Post, he alternated with the paper's entertainment writer and restaurant critic, Martin Burden, in turning out the column. (Burden, who died in 1993, took over the Last Night column full-time upon Wilson's retirement.)
Wilson is also the author of two controversial books, Show Business Laid Bare, and an unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra – An Unauthorized Biography. The former book is notable for revealing the extramarital affairs of President John F. Kennedy.
In the early 1950s, Wilson was an occasional panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?, in which celebrities tried to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports.
Wilson appeared in a few films as himself, notably Copacabana (1947) with Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda, A Face in the Crowd (1957) with Andy Griffith, College Confidential (1960), and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) with Paul Lynde. Wilson also hosted the DuMont TV show Stage Entrance from May 1951 to March 1952.
Wilson died in Yonkers, New York. His son, Earl Wilson, Jr., became a songwriter for the musical theatre.
Quotes·Quotation by Earl Wilson
Courage
¶ Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
Earl Wilson (politician) (1906-1990), U.S. Representative from Indiana
Earl Wilson (columnist) (1907-1987), U.S. journalist
Earl Wilson (baseball) (1934-2005), U.S. baseball pitcher
Jack Haley (1898-1979)
Jack Haley (1898-1979)
John Joseph "Jack" Haley (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and Kansas farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.
Quotes·Quotations by Jack Haley
¶ Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Haley
Bob Dylan (1941- )
Bob Dylan (1941- )
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota.
Quotes·Quotations by Bob Dylan
Dreams
¶ I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Up
@ There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. [Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
Dwight Morrow (1873-1931)
Dwight Morrow (1873-1931)
Dwight Whitney Morrow (January 11, 1873 – October 5, 1931) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat.
Life
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, he moved with his parents, James E. and Clara Morrow to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1875. His father James, was principal of Marshall College, which is now Marshall University. After graduating from Amherst College in 1895, he studied law at Columbia Law School and began practicing at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter, his college sweetheart, with whom he would have four children. In 1913, he partnered at J.P. Morgan & Co., the largest, most powerful commercial bank in the United States in this era, financially backing industrial giants such as General Motors and 3M. As a partner at Morgan, he served as a director on many corporate and financial boards.
With the onset of World War I in Europe, the bank lent Britain and France large sums of money, and purchased war materials in the U.S. with it. When the United States joined the War, he became the director of the National War Savings Committee for the State of New Jersey; served abroad as advisor to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, as a member of the Military Board of Allied Supply and as a civilian aide. With his proven logistical and intellectual talents, he was moved to France and made chief civilian aide to Gen. John J. Pershing.
In 1925, Morrow was called upon by his old Amherst College classmate and friend, President Calvin Coolidge, to head the Morrow Board. In September 1925, Coolidge ordered the court-martial of Col. William L. Mitchell of the Army Air Service for "conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline." Anticipating adverse political reaction to the trial scheduled for November, and desirous of shaping aviation policy to his own economic views, Coolidge asked Morrow to take charge of a board of military, political, and civilian aviation experts to inquire into all aspects of American aviation. The board's report, published before Mitchell's conviction, recommended the creation of an Air Corps within the Army equivalent to the Signal Corps or Quartermaster Corps, which resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Army Air Corps in July 1926.
He was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico by Coolidge from 1927 to 1930. He was widely hailed as a brilliant ambassador, mixing popular appeal with sound financial advice. In 1927, he invited famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh for a goodwill tour of Mexico. His daughter, Anne Morrow, was introduced and soon engaged to Lindbergh. To thank the town of Cuernavaca, where Morrow had a weekend house, Morrow hired the Mexican artist Diego Rivera to paint a mural inside the Palace of Cortez.
Morrow was instrumental in bringing about the end to the Cristero War of 1926 to 1929, an uprising and counter-revolution against the Mexican government of the time, set off by religious persecution of Catholics, specifically the strict enforcement of the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the expansion of further anti-clerical laws. He initiated a series of breakfast meetings with President Plutarco Calles at which the two would discuss a range of issues, from the religious uprising, to oil and irrigation. This earned him the nickname "ham and eggs diplomat" in U.S. papers. Morrow wanted the conflict to end both for regional security and to help find a solution to the oil problem in the U.S. He was aided in his efforts by Father John J. Burke of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. The Vatican was also actively suing for peace.
After the assassination of the new President Álvaro Obregón, Congress named Emilio Portes, who was more open to the Church than Calles had been, as interim president in September 1928, allowing Morrow and Burke to reinitiate their peace initiative. Portes told a foreign correspondent on May 1 that "the Catholic clergy, when they wish, may renew the exercise of their rites with only one obligation, that they respect the laws of the land."
Morrow managed to bring the war parties to agreement on June 21, 1929. His office drafted a pact called the arreglos (agreement) that allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics: only priests who were named by hierarchical superiors would be required to register, religious instruction in the churches (but not in the schools) would be permitted, and all citizens, including the clergy, would be allowed to make petitions to reform the laws.
In 1930 he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Evans Edge. At the same time he was elected for the full term commencing March 4, 1931. He served in the Senate from December 3, 1930, until his death in Englewood, New Jersey, on October 5, 1931.
Quotes
The world is divided into people who do things – and people who get the credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Morrow
Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing.
Quotes·Quotations by Dame Rose Macaulay
Reading
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Macaulay
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