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Quotes of the Day for 9 November 2004 - Walls

This day in 1989 was called "Mauerfall" in Berlin, the Fall of the Wall. After four decades, East Germany opened the borders, and the people in the streets took out hammers and started chipping away. Here are some thoughts on walls.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
     - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889 - 1964

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
     - Joseph F. Newton

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
     - Michael Jordan

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
     - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 1919 - 1980

With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
     - Norman Mailer

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
     - Olive Schreiner

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