Quotation of the day for November 30, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 30, 2009 It took some time, but on October 29th the Guggenheim will host what Pruitt is optimistically calling the First Annual Art Awards. The evening will include dinner, catered from restaurants in Bushwick and Williamsburg (neighborhoods where many artists live); comic interludes; celebrity presenters from both art and Hollywood (Cecily Brown, Mary Heilmann, James Franco, and Nate Lowman); and, of course, the bestowing of awards, in categories including New Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Curator of the Year, and four categories of Show of the Year. The award statuettes, which Pruitt designed, are empty champagne bottles with light bulbs where the corks should be, sitting in ice buckets filled with plastic ice. "It's an award, but it's also a lamp," Pruitt explained. - Rob Pruitt, conceptual artist, as reported in The Talk of the Town, At the Museums, The New Yorker, Nov. 2, 2009. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Nov. 24, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 29, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 29, 2009 "Doesn't smoking tobacco pose a far greater threat than al-Qaeda?" - Joel E. Cohen, pointing out that tobacco use kills around five million people annually worldwide. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 18, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 28, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 28, 2009 "I never wear jogging pants. Those things are dangerous. Because they have an elastic band. It stretches and then you don't know when you put on weight. Also, I hate it when you let yourself go! I'm always looking the way you see me now." - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, in an interview in Freundin. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 25, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 27, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 27, 2009 "Rich people cling together because the less well off embarrass them and there are not so many available who are rich for one rich man who drops out to be easily replaced." - Henry Green, in his novel Party Going. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 6, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 26, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 26, 2009 "That's one of the lessons of Antony Beevor's glorious, horrifying D-Day (Viking; 592 pages): the purpose of valor is usually to make up for somebody else's stupidity." - Lev Grossman, "How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster", Time, Nov. 2, 2009. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1931741-1,00.html] Submitted by: Jeffrey L. Copeland Nov. 17, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 25, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 25, 2009 "When I became a father, I made a promise to myself not to pretend to knowledge I did not possess, not to claim authority I plainly lacked, not to hide my doubts and uncertainties, my setbacks and regrets, from my children. And so I have tried to share them over the years as I have been fired from screenwriting jobs or proved wrong or led to look a fool. I have made a point (until the recent advent of GPS) to stop and ask for directions. But sometimes I waver in my resolve. My sense of myself as a father, my sense of fathers, is so deeply caught up with some kind of primal longing (which I think we all share) for inerrancy, for the word of God, for a rock and a redeemer, a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, for the needle that always always finds true north in a storm." - Michael Chabon, from the chapter "Faking It" in Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son. [and my copy does have "always always" printed in the last sentence. -ed.] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 24, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 24, 2009 "I know the whole Twitter/Facebook social-networking revolution is supposed to transform the way we communicate with each other. But for the most part it looks to me like just another way to avoid human interaction while tossing out meaningless tidbits of minutiae. "I admit to coming at this from a certain bias. Maybe it's age, or the complete lack of desire to be held prisoner by another electronic device -- or app or site or whatever -- but I have absolutely no interest in knowing where people are and what they're doing at all times. You're in the supermarket and can't believe the price of asparagus -- fine. Leave me out of it. I have no interest in being given 140-character opinions or observations or updates -- even from people I know and like." - Tim Keown, ESPN writer. [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=keown/090707] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 12, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 23, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 23, 2009 "Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?" - Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008), in The One-Straw Revolution. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 5, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 22, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 22, 2009 "Sometime in the early 1970s, two Buddhist masters met in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of them, Kalu Rinpoche, was a renowned Tibetan meditation master who had spent many years in solitary retreat in the remote mountain caves of Tibet. The other was Seung Sahn, a Korean Zen master who had recently come to the United States and was supporting himself by working in a Providence, Rhode Island, laundromat, slowly planting the seeds of Zen in the minds of those coming to wash their clothes. At this now famous meeting of enlightened minds, Seung Sahn held up an orange and, in classic Zen dharma combat fashion, demanded, "What is this?" "Kalu Rinpoche just looked at him, wonderingly. "Again Master Seung Sahn asked, "What is this?" "Finally, Rinpoche turned to his translator and asked, "Don't they have oranges in Korea?"" - Joseph Goldstein, from the Introduction to One Dharma. Submitted by: Chris Doherty Oct. 23, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 21, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 21, 2009 "Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." - George Bernard Shaw Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Nov. 17, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 20, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 20, 2009 "The Devil is part of our experience. Our generation has seen enough of it for the message to be taken extremely seriously. Evil, I contend, is not contingent, it is not the absence, or deformation, or the subversion of virtue (or whatever else we may think of as its opposite), but a stubborn and unredeemable fact." - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher and historian. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 18, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 19, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 19, 2009 "It [Blues] is America. It's that combination, those tensions, the east-west tensions, the kind of tension of being a slave in the land of freedom, and the land of freedom itself, the Western mind, the concept of soloing across time, the call-and-response of democracy, direct call and response, the kind of optimism that is American in nature, is in the blues. "There are elements in it that are African and there are elements of the American take on Europeanism. It's integrated, it's like a person whose DNA is integrated. You start to try to figure it out -- but you can't. That's how the blues is, that's why it fits with everything, country-western, bluegrass -- everybody's playing the same music." - Wynton Marsalis, from an interview on CNN. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/24/wynton.marsalis.blues.race/index.html] Submitted by: Brian K. Read Nov. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 18, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 18, 2009 "The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." - Edward Abbey Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Nov. 3, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 17, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 17, 2009 "At 2200, de Castries' headquarters reported to Hanoi a successful raid on the Communist trenches and fortifications south of E2 by Maj. Coutant's 1/13 Foreign Legion. One Viet-Minh blockhouse was completely destroyed with plastic charges and two others were severely damaged. In addition at least ten enemy soldiers were killed and other were wounded, while there were no friendly losses to report. The communique, however, failed to stress that the idea of the raid originated in the fact that two complete crates of "Vinogel" wine concentrate had fallen into no man's land east of the Eliane ridgeline held by the Legionnaires. The Legionnaires who thus far that day had had to celebrate Camerone with exactly one bottle of wine per platoon, were not about to let that precious booty fall into enemy hands. A commando of volunteers was organized (as one non-Legionnaire observed: everybody would have volunteered for that raid) and as soon as night fell pushed off into no man's land. The main objective was rapidly secured, the knocking out of the enemy bunkers being a mere tactical necessity incident to the success of the operation." - Bernard Fall, in Hell in a Very Small Place, a history of the siege of Dien Bien Phu over 1953-54. Camerone is the annual celebration of a heroic stand made by French Foreign Legionnaires on April 30, 1863. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 13, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 16, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 16, 2009 "Fast, easy and simple are very appealing. They appeal to our lethargy, lassitude and laziness. Hard, slow and complicated on the other hand seem to be associated with most of those things we most cherish in our civilization--great literature, great art, great music, a functioning democracy." - Benjamin R. Barber, from an interview with Nathan Gardels in New Perspectives Quarterly. (September 22, 1995) Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 15, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 15, 2009 "Nowadays, having a Twitter page qualifies a person to give commentary on CNN. I am not interested in the take of @stinky on the Fort Hood shootings or any other current events. I am watching CNN because I expect them to gather the news, not act as a clearinghouse for any bonehead with a computer, a cable modem and a half-baked opinion." - Steve Dahl, in the Chicago Tribune. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-1111-steve-dahlnov11,0,1302887.column] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 12, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 14, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 14, 2009 "There was a net withdrawal from U.S. Social Security the first time this year, the first year the baby boomers could collect. And so it's going to get worse. And I don't even think the promises to the elderly are going to be met. We know that the United States has an accrued liability of US $55 trillion. There is no way to maintain that." - Eric Sprott, asset manager, at an April 2009 forum. Cited in Canadian Business magazine, May 18, 2009. [http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/stocks/article.jsp?content=20090518_10004_10004] Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko May 21, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 13, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 13, 2009 "I find, looking back on my life with increasing discomfort, that too often I have been impressed by people who were seeking to impress, rather than people who were impressive. I have been dismissive of people who were awkward rather than stupid. The more I think about it, surrounded by a swirling mass of people who are all, no doubt, visionaries or villains of incredible complexity, the more uncomfortable I become." - Jon Carroll, in his column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, August 31, 2005. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/31/DDGEIDMA141.DTL#ixzz0VuIVf1Pr] Submitted by: Kelly Groves Nov. 5, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 12, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 12, 2009 "People respond to the economics of food choices. Lab scientists aren't able to handle this concept--for them, talking about the price of food is taboo--but it's extremely important. Americans spend about three dollars and seventy-five cents a day on food that they eat at home. They can eat pizza at about a thousand calories a dollar, or Oreo cookies at about twelve hundred calories a dollar. M&M's, at about three thousand calories per dollar, are a huge bargain. Spinach is about thirty calories a dollar, not a bargain. And don't even think about lettuce or cucumbers or tomatoes or, heaven forbid, strawberries--by comparison, those foods are a rip-off! Nutrition educators tell us how to eat, but they don't give us the money to change our behavior. Given that people don't really want to spend more on food, I don't see that they have any choice here . . . the choice is really made for them. Rats in a lab have a choice. But humans are constrained by costs." - Adam Drewnowski, Director of the Nutritional Sciences Program and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Drewnowski was quoted in The Hungry Gene by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 11, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 11, 2009 "We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents." - Mark Twain Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 5, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 10, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 10, 2009 All alone, or in two's, The ones who really love you Walk up and down outside the wall. Some hand in hand And some gathered together in bands. The bleeding hearts and artists Make their stand. And when they've given you their all Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall. - Roger Waters, Outside the Wall, from Pink Floyd's The Wall. [qotd is thinking about the Berlin Wall. -eds.] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 9, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 9, 2009 "That same afternoon I was sitting on a stool in an intoxicated condition in Grogan's licensed premises. Adjacent stools bore the forms of Brinsley and Kelly, my two true friends. The three of us were occupied in putting glasses of stout into the interior of our bodies and expressing by fine disputation the resulting sense of physical and mental well-being." - Flann O'Brien, from his novel At Swim-Two-Birds. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 4, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 8, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 8, 2009 "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That's been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we're going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead." - Clay Shirky [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Jul. 2, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 7, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 7, 2009 "Well, the human impulse to remember is the fact that biologically we forget. Because we biologically forget most of what we experience, we try to hold on to, cling on to the experiences, the memories, the opinions, the values, the facts that we treasure and therefore want to remember. But the important element of that is that for all of human history, remembering has been hard and costly, and thus required active work and energy to be put into it, while forgetting was easy. Today with the digital tools, it's the other way around. Digital remembering is the default these days, and forgetting has become much, much harder." - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age'. [http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/25/f-spark-interview-viktor-mayer-schonberger.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 6, 2009

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Quotation of the day for November 6, 2009

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Quotation of the Day for November 6, 2009 "The monarchy is a system that is depasse and archaic...I call it a genetic lottery. People who say they have blue blood should see their doctor as soon as they can." - Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Quebecois Leader, on the visit of members of the royal family to Canada. Submitted by: Hora, Michael (MTR) Nov. 5, 2009

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