Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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"Dilexi iustitiam et odivi iniquitatem propterea morior in exilio."

["I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore, I die in exile."]

- the epitaph on Pope Gregory VII's sarcophagus in Salerno.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Apr. 3, 2014

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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"There are a variety of minimalist running shoes available for purchase and wear. Effective immediately, only those shoes that accommodate all five toes in one compartment are authorized for wear. Those shoes that feature five separate, individual compartments for the toes, detract from a professional military image and are prohibited for wear with the IPFU or when conducting physical training in military formation."

- from a 2011 U.S. Army directive banning athletic toe shoes, like Vibram FiveFingers.

[http://www.25idl.army.mil/PT/ALARACT_239_2011_REQUEST%20FOR%20EXCEPTION%20TO%20POLICY%20TO%20PUBLISH%20ALARACT%20MODIFYING%20WEAR%20OF%20IMPROVED%20PHSICAL%20FITNESS%20UNIFORM%20%28IPFU%29.pdf]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 29, 2014

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

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"It felt important spiritually to go to weddings: to give balance to the wakes and memorial services. People shouldn't have been set in motion on this planet only to grieve losses. And without weddings there were only funerals. I had seen a soccer mom become a rhododendron with a plaque, next to the soccer field parking lot, as if it had been watching all those matches that had killed her. I had seen a brilliant young student become a creative writing contest, as if it were all that writing that had been the thing to do him in. And I had seen a public defender become a justice fund, as if one paid for fairness with one's very life. I had seen a dozen people become hunks of rock with their names engraved so shockingly perfectly upon the surface it looked as if they had indeed turned to stone, been given a new life the way the moon is given it, through some lighting tricks and a face-like font. I had turned a hundred Rolodex cards around to their blank sides. So let a babysitter become a bride again. Let her marry over and over. So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time."

- Lorrie Moore, in the short story Thank You for Having Me.

[http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Thank-You-for-Having-Me]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 23, 2014

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

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"One does not have to be an especially perceptive critic to realize that AO II is definitely not a system which produces an environment gratifying for people in general. But it is admirable for planners looking for ways of cramming in a maximum number of bodies, for "employees" (as against individuals), for "personnel," corporate zombies, the walking dead, the silent majority. A large market."

- George Nelson, in a 1970 letter, on his company's "Action Office II" cubicle design.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 25, 2014

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Friday, April 25, 2014

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"What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism."

- Paul de Man

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Apr. 24, 2014

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

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"Global Entry is $100 for five years. You need to fill out an application and eventually schedule an interview, for which you need to travel to a regional office, which is usually at your local airport. You may have concerns regarding the government knowing more about you via this process, but if this is your concern, I suggest getting off the Internet."

- Michael Lopp

[http://randsinrepose.com/archives/practical-advice-for-the-obsessive-compulsive-traveler/]

Submitted by: Chris Doherty
Apr. 15, 2014

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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"The Chicago Cubs, like life itself, are a losing cause. That's why we have cemeteries. And Wrigley Field."

- Mike Royko

[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/sports/baseball/as-cubs-wander-into-the-bronx-theyve-never-been-worse.html]

Submitted by: Hekel, Steve
Apr. 17, 2014

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Monday, April 21, 2014

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"I am happy to say it brings back an element sadly missing in recent movies, gratuitous nudity."

- Roger Ebert, from his 2009 review of the film Black Dynamite.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 20, 2014

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Friday, April 18, 2014

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"Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance."

- Edward Snowden, on The Guardian and the Washington Post being awarded the Pulitzer prize for public service for their coverage of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, based on Snowden's leaks.

[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/edward-snowden-pulitzer-statement-prize-guardian-washington-post]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Apr. 15, 2014

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

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So have all your passionate violins
Play a tune for a Tennessee kid
Who's feeling like leaving another town
But with no place to go if he did
Cause they'll catch you wherever you're hid

- Jesse Winchester, from his song The Brand New Tennessee Waltz, first recorded on his LP "Jesse Winchester". Winchester died April 11, 2014 at age 69.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Apr. 16, 2014

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

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"Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing."

- Quinn Norton, writer, quoted by Robinson Meyer.

[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/finally-an-art-form-that-gets-the-internet-opera/281012/]

Submitted by Terry Labach Apr. 15, 2014

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

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"In my innocence, I didn't think that America, as a nation, was capable of planning murder as an instrument of policy. I didn't think that was in our character."

- Orson Welles, on the CIA.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 4, 2014

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Monday, April 14, 2014

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"Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something that's larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers -- by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him, and make the running the man did live forever."

- Jim Hellwig, better known as the Ultimate Warrior, on his induction in the WWE Hall of Fame. Hellwig died at age 54 just a few days later.

[http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/04/09/final-ultimate-lesson-ultimate-warrior]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Apr. 10, 2014

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

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"With our one hand we try to catch the moon itself, but with another one we are obliged to dig out potatoes the same way it was done a hundred years ago."

- Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, in a letter to her children on her defection in 1967. Quoted in "My Friend, Stalin's Daughter," by Nicholas Thompson.

[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/31/140331fa_fact_thompson]

Submitted by: John Karabaic
Mar. 29, 2014

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

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"There is a strong sense that the UK is evolving towards the US model, where you can never give enough to the top one percent."

- Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the Yes campaign for Scottish independence.

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Apr. 1, 2014

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Friday, April 11, 2014

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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

- Ernest Dowson, from his poem Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae.

Submitted by: Rob Wood
Apr. 4, 2014

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

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"I believe that we're much healthier if we think of our selfishness as sin. Which is what it is: a sin. Even if there is nothing out there except a random movement of untold gases and objects, sin still exists. You don't need a devil with horns. It's a social definition of sin. Everything we do that is self-indulgent, and that is selfish, and that turns us away from our dignity as human beings is a sin against what we were born with, the, the capacities we have, what we could make of this planet."

- Orson Welles

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Apr. 4, 2014

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