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When on high, the heaven had not
been named, And the lord stood upon Tiamat's hinder
parts, Mistletoe
is, however, seldom found on a hard-oak,
and when it is discovered it is gathered with great ceremony, and
particularly on the 6th day of the moon (which for those tribes
[Druids] constitutes the beginning of the months and the years) and
after every thirty years of a generation, because it is then rising in
strength and not one half its full size. In short, never did two minds resemble each other less than ours; we had nothing in common in our tastes, nor in our ways of thinking. Our opinions were so different that we would never have agreed on anything, had I not often given in to him so as not to affront him too noticeably.
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Tiamat is slain by
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming
to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I
view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be
engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln (1809
- '65), who was
elected 16th President of the United States on November
6, 1860; from Communication to the People of Sangamo County,
March 9,
1832
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an
assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of
falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not
justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln; from Letter to Allen N Ford,
August 11,
1846
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such
purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if
you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having
given him so much as you propose. If to-day he should choose to say
he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from
invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, — "I see no
probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be
silent: I see it, if you don't."
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress
was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings
had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars,
pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was
the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive
of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the
Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this
oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and
places our President where kings have always stood.
Abraham Lincoln; from a letter, while US Congressman, to his
friend and law-partner William H Herndon, opposing the
Mexican-American War,
February 15,
1848
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall
find the way.
Abraham Lincoln; from Speech in the House of Representatives,
June 20,
1848
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln; from Letter to Joseph Gillespie,
July 13,
1849
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than
hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak!
There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us ... Free
labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
Abraham Lincoln; from a fragmentary manuscript of a speech on
free labor,
September 17, 1859?
If I don't practise for one day, I know it;
if I don't practise for two days, the critics know it; if I don't
practise for three days, the audience knows it.
Ignacy Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer and prime minister, born
on November 6, 1860
I never wanted to be a poet.
I just wanted to be a human being.
Anyone who wants to be a poet is out of his mind.
Either you are one or you are not.
Most poets are not poets.
To be a real artist is a unique and valuable asset to this planet.
Jack Micheline, American beat poet, born on November 6, 1929
Good work doesn't sell well they claim. I am a rare human spirit, the work is open, free and alive. I'm sorry if I frighten them. Maybe they want stories with condoms on them, clean and safe. My work is ALIVE! This animal is alive. Sad for this unbrave world. Sad state indeed. It makes one scream ...
Jack Micheline
Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".
Mao Zedong, Chinese communist dictator, November 6, 1938
Really great supporting actors want to play
the lead, and lead actors secretly wish they could be character
actors. Brad
Pitt doesn't want to be pretty! You know what I mean? Everybody
in the world wants to look like Brad Pitt, and Brad Pitt wants to
look like a regular guy.
Ethan Green Hawke, born on November 6, 1970, American actor, writer
and film director
I tried it – I tried doing this
Angelina
Jolie movie (Taking
Lives, 2004), a popcorn movie, the first movie I did that's
about nothing. And I didn't like it, because I do ultimately feel
there's enough crap like this. It's so much more fun and harder and
more challenging to try to make something that's entertaining but
isn't wasting your time.
Ethan Green Hawke
I think most people are good at more things
than the world gives them the opportunity to do.
Ethan Green Hawke
November 6
is
the 310th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (311th
in leap years), with 55
days remaining.
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Feast day of St Illtyd (Iltutus; Illtud; Illtut), abbot, cousin of King Arthur
Illtyd was a Welsh abbot and scholar of the fifth and sixth centuries. A life of him was written about 1140, but has no historical value. The life of St Samson, written perhaps five centuries earlier, has some important references. It calls Illtyd "the most learned of the Britons in both Testaments and in all kinds of knowledge", and speaks of his great monastic school. This was called Llanilltyd Fayr, and many prominent saints, including St Samson, were students. Illtyd prophesied his own death, but we do not know when or where this took place. His monastery survived until the time of the Norman Conquest.
Illtyd was a disciple of St Germanus of Auxerre, who ordained him a priest. His father was a Briton who lived in Letavia with his wife. This might have been a district of central Brecknock rather than Brittany. When he grew up, Illtyd went to visit "his cousin King Arthur" and married a lady named Trynihid. Leaving Arthur, he became a knight for a chieftain in Glamorgan, whence he is sometimes called Illtyd the Knight. A hunting accident occurred, in which several of his companions were killed, and the shock of it persuaded Illtyd to embark on the monastic life.
He went with his wife to live in a reed hut by the river Nadafan, but was warned by an angel to leave his wife. This he did, very early one morning, and went to St Dubricius to receive the tonsure of a monk. He lived by a stream called the Hodnant, and lived as a hermit until the disciples began to flock around. They prospered because of their hard work and the fertile land, and Llanilltyd Fayr became the first great monastic school in Wales.
He was driven from there by a hostile local chieftain, and took refuge in a cave by the river Ewenny, where he was fed from Heaven; the monastery lands were threatened by the collapse of the sea-wall, which the saint restored by a miracle. He took corn to Brittany by sea to relieve a famine, and his name is found on churches and so on in Brittany as much as in Wales. St Samson of Dol says he died at Llantwit; the 'Life' of 1140 says that he died at Dol.
Walsh, Michael, ed., Butler's Lives of the Saints: New Concise Edition, Burns and Oates, UK, 1991
