Friday, September 9, 2011
Great Freemasons: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too."
-Quoted in "In Victorian days and other papers" By Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, (New York: Longmans, 1939, p122)
Apollo University Lodge No. 357, Oxford (UGLE)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Great Freemasons: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - 1938)
"I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every ...man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Great Freemasons: William "Count" Basie (1904 - 1984)
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
William "Count" Basie (1904 - 1984)
Wisdom Lodge No. 102 (Prince Hall), Chicago. Also a Shriner
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