Quote of the day March 1, 2019
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Started by metmike - March 1, 2019, 1:04 a.m.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
~ Anonymous ~

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
~ Yitzhak Rabin ~


We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. ~ Tzvetan Todorov ( born 1 March 1922)


From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ~ Napoleon I of France

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ Frédéric Chopin

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By carlberky - March 1, 2019, 9:41 a.m.
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 We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough. 

Yitzhak Rabin


Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy; to impose it by force is to undermine it.

Tzvetan Todorov


Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. 

Napoléon I


it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ~ Frédéric Chopin

Not always. In the Museum of Modern Art hangs an enormous canvass. It is completely white, except for a small patch of gray. 

It is called, "White on White". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_on_White

No need to search for another quote from Chopin. His music speaks for him.