Monday, January 31, 2011

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"Were I a woman, I would embrace atheism and never become a Muslim. Imagine a religion that imposes laws always beneficial to men but hazardous to women such as permitting my husband to have three additional wives and as many concubines as he wishes, houris awaiting him in heaven, while I cover my head and face as a miller's horse.... Keep this religion far away from me."

- Ahmed Riza, Turkish politician and one of the "Young Turks" of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) party in the early 20th century.

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Jan. 28, 2011

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

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"Forget the liposuction. Just stop eating the junk. Stop eating the bread... Stop eating dessert and all those kind of things and go to the gym and work out and you will have the sexy waist."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and politician, denouncing cosmetic surgery in a speech delivered in Toronto on January 26, 2011.

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Jan. 27, 2011

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

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"Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love."

- Barack Obama, U.S. President.

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Jan. 26, 2011

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Friday, January 28, 2011

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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

- Mark Twain

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

- Oscar Wilde, in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Jan. 14, 2011

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

- John F. Kennedy

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Jan. 20, 2011

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean'd, the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd -- "While you live,
Drink! -- for, once dead, you never shall return."

- The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam, XXXV, translated by Edward FitzGerald.

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Jan. 11, 2011

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Monday, January 24, 2011

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For want of me the world's course will not fail:
When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
The truth is great, and shall prevail,
When none cares whether it prevail or not.

- Coventry Patmore, from Magna Est Veritas.

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Jan. 7, 2011

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

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"I love the rebellious side of the whole rock-and-roll/rockabilly thing. I love the grit of it, and the rawness and the passion of it. It really gets me. It's very exciting stuff. The 50's style seems to suit my shape. I am a girl, and I have bits in all the right places I hope. And, I mean, the cars are cool and the guys are cool."

- Imelda May, singer.

[http://www.imeldamay.co.uk/]

[The submitter notes: I transcribed this from 50:46 in the television documentary series "Live from Abbey Road", Season 3, Episode 6, aired Saturday, November 14th, 2009. This is from an interview which introduces the song seen in this video: http://www.livefromabbeyroad.com/sessions/viewVideo/26462301]

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Jan. 12, 2011

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

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"The classic children`s fairy stories almost always had murder in them, probably with the idea that you can`t train children too early about the dangers of wicked old women who might bake them in an oven."

- Barbara Amiel, in "Murder and Sex, Canadian-style", Maclean`s, issue dated January 17, 2011.

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Jan. 12, 2011

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Friday, January 21, 2011

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"I think that I must really reconcile myself to being a transatlantic commuter--and turn to my advantage, and not impossibly the advantage of others, the fact that I am a stranger everywhere."

- James Baldwin, writer, from a 1961 letter to his agent.

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Jan. 11, 2011

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

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At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

- Louise Bogan, Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell.

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Jan. 7, 2011

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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"Winners grow and experience joy. Whiners try to stay the same and experience pain."

- Keith Cameron Smith, The Top 10 Distinctions Between Winners and Whiners.

Submitted by: Kelly Groves
Jan. 11, 2011

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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"It's been said that the music business is in trouble. Wrong! The record business in in trouble. The music business is doing just fine. In the late nineties the explosion of the Internet and new digital recording technology broke the stranglehold the record industry held on the music business....

"... Musicians today are smarter and better educated in the intricacies of the business. We have learned from those who went before. The days when songwriters like Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie sold their songs for a bottle of whisky are long gone. Artist own their own music today, and this is fine with me."

- David Clayton-Thomas, singer-songwriter, from his memoir Blood, Sweat and Tears.

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Jan. 10, 2011

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Monday, January 17, 2011

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"I looked at the USB cables dangling there, and I laughed pityingly at them, and I thought, Whoever designed the connector of the USB cable was a man who despised the human race, because you can't tell which way to turn it and you waste minutes of your tiny day, crouched, grunting, trying the half-blocked connector one way and the next."

- Nicholson Baker, from his novel The Anthologist.

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Jan. 7, 2011

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

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"This Victorian classic has never been out of print, spawning dozens of books, films and more recently all those camp US teen dramas where sexual passion is faintly camouflaged as bloodlust. The original is a superb gothic tale of repressed sexuality and the savagery of its release. Strange today, that a society can gaze calmly at surgically enhanced teenagers ripping out each others throats and gorging on blood but one naked breast in the American Superbowl and moral panic erupts."

- Rowan Somerville, on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/15/rowan-somerville-good-sex-fiction]

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Jan. 11, 2011

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

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"Here lies the root of many a catastrophe. The inter-personal relations that develop in academic units are: 1) worthy of fictional portrayal, and somehow at the same time, 2) not fictionally compelling."

- Jacques Berlinerblau, from the article "Why Your Last Hire Was a Freakin' Disaster", published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

[http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/why-your-last-job-search-was-a-freakin-disaster/30972]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Jan. 14, 2011

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Friday, January 14, 2011

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"People used to behave well because they thought God was watching. Now the secular world has come up with its own hidden observers. I wasn't terribly happy that Twitter caught me not laughing or that CCTV caught me breaking the law, but I took a breath, set my jaw, and nodded respectfully to the truth -- thus acknowledging the time-honoured concept of the fair cop."

- Frank Skinner, from his article Better to look truth in the eye than be afraid, in The Times.

[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/frankskinner/article2839515.ece]

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Dec. 19, 2010

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

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"A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded."

- Abraham Lincoln, in a 1854 speech. Quoted in Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, by Carl Sandburg.

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Jan. 11, 2011

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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And what is Art whereto we press
Through paint and prose and rhyme--
When Nature in her nakedness
Defeats us every time?

- Rudyard Kipling, from Things And The Man.

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Jan. 7, 2011

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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"There ain't no new music, there's only eight notes and two of them repeat."

- Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter.

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Jan. 10, 2011

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Monday, January 10, 2011

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"I could never keep it up. You have to hand it to those podcasters. They keep on going week after week, even though nobody's listening to them. And then eventually they puff up and die."

- Nicholson Baker, from his novel The Anthologist.

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Jan. 7, 2011

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

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"I have, in fact, almost no interest in the ideas of college students. They seem to me to be simply immature men. They are always following fresh messiahs. That I served for a short while as one of those messiahs was not only surprising to me, but extremely offensive."

- H.L. Mencken, in the collection Prejudices.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Dec. 13, 2010

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

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"I think that using art to provoke uncertainty is what great writing and inspired images do most brilliantly. Art should provoke more questions than answers and, most of all, should make us think about what we rarely want to think about at all."

- Dorothy Allison, in the essay This Is Our World.

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Jan. 6, 2011

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Friday, January 7, 2011

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"Really! No mental reservations!"

- Jerry Brown, incoming Governor of California, reciting his oath of office on January 3, 2011.

[http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/01/03/really-no-mental-reservations/]

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Jan. 3, 2011

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