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Quotation of the Day for October 31, 2010"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon (1940-1980) Submitted by: Dorene Smith Oct. 11, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 30, 2010"One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for eternity? Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is very deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison by supreme power, by some magic force." - Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, July 1880 Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Sep. 9, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 29, 2010"Italy has become entangled in a web of petty rules and regulations in the past two years, after the government of Silvio Berlusconi gave councils extra powers to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. Across the nation, towns have banned activities such as building sandcastles and feeding stray cats." - Nick Squires, Italian women face fines for wearing miniskirts, The Daily Telegraph, October 22, 2010 [http://www.montrealgazette.com/Italian+women+face+fines+wearing+miniskirts/3710641/story.html] Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Oct. 23, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 28, 2010"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford, 1895-1990 Submitted by: Dorene Smith Oct. 19, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 27, 2010"[T]here are no answers, there are only questions. "Fallible creatures that we are and being ourselves in question, we inevitably demand answers to ease the lack within us. All things must be capable of explanation, every effort must have a cause, each problem a solution. It is thus that we arrive at conclusion, for conclusion brings about the ending that we mistake for an answer. "That's finished," we say, mendaciously. "We can go on to something else." "But nothing in life--nor, perhaps in death--is ever really finished. A book, for instance, is no book at all, unless, when we come to the last page, it goes on and on within us." - Pamela Travers, author of Mary Poppins, in Frank Barron's Creators on Creating. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Sep. 11, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 26, 2010"I have never liked Americans, except odd ones." - Lord Halifax, to Stanley Baldwin. Quoted in The "special relationship", edited by Antoine Capet and Aissatou Sy-Wonyu. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 25, 2010"Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule breaker. Pizza is just so good!" - Justin Bieber, in his autobiography, "First Step 2 Forever: My Story". [http://www.billboard.com/news/justin-bieber-s-memoir-10-awesome-quotes-1004120595.story?tag=hpfeed#/news/justin-bieber-s-memoir-10-awesome-quotes-1004120595.story?tag=hpfeed] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Oct. 20, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 24, 2010"In a sense, it was learned thousands of years ago, but natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers." - Garrett Hardin, from The Tragedy of the Commons (1968). [http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_the_commons.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 22, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 23, 2010"NELL's human handlers had to tell NELL that Klingon is not an ethnic group, despite the fact that many earthlings think it is. "At the moment NELL thinks that the First Amendment is a musical instrument, the Second Amendment is a 'hobby,' and is completely unwilling to admit to any knowledge of the fifth amendment at all. A bit like the recording industry and most lawmakers in the US." - Nick Farrell, discussing the capabilities of Carnegie Mellon University's Never Ending Language Learner (NELL), a computer that reads and learns from the internet. [http://www.techeye.net/science/computer-reads-the-internet] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 22, 2010"Google is kind of a funny company because a lot of them have this 'peace, love and happiness' version of evil. By being overly 'peace, love and happiness,' and believing the whole world is 'peace, love and happiness,' they end up doing evil." - James Gosling, creator of Java, from a recent interview. [http://basementcoders.com/?p=721] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 14, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 21, 2010"If you are famous, you can get away with anything! William Burroughs spent the last ten years painting and makes a lot more money out of his painting than he does out of his previous writing. If you establish yourself in one field, it's possible that people then take you seriously in another. Maybe too seriously. I know lots of great photographers who are a lot better than me, who don't have a big, pretty coffee table book like I have. I'm lucky." - Allen Ginsberg, beat writer, on his photography. [http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/entertainment/archive/2010/07/13/flashes-of-thought-allen-ginsberg-s-photographs.aspx] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 20, 2010"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) Submitted by: Dorene Smith Oct. 7, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 19, 2010Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? - John Keats, from his poem Lamia. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 18, 2010"The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive." - Alan Watts Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Oct. 6, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 17, 2010"I can do a score of things that can't be done," the Golux said. "I can find a thing I cannot see and see a thing I cannot find. The first is time, the second is a spot before my eyes. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart. What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you." - James Thurber, The 13 Clocks. [The submitter also quotes "...The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber, is probably the best book in the world." - Neil Gaiman, from the new introduction.] Submitted by: Thomas J. Newlin Oct. 5, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 16, 2010"War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. It's insanely exciting." - Sebastian Junger, in his book War. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 15, 2010"I do not do homework with my life." - Guillermo del Toro, director, during a Q&A at Portland's Baghdad Theater & Pub. [http://io9.com/5656279/if-you-get-bored-with-nothing-to-do-you-are-not-a-writer-guillermo-del-toros-words-to-live-by] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Oct. 5, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 14, 2010"I teach at Yale, where lecturing is taken seriously -- and in history, which boasts some of the best teachers. My ratings as a lecturer are consistently high. But even here, I would not have the attention of these very gifted students if I did not ban laptops and smartphones from my classroom. Part of the problem is that students are not paying attention at a given moment; part of the problem is that they often lack the ability to pay attention at all. "Of course, some of them think they are paying attention: The well-intentioned are checking the professor's facts by googling. This is not a good use of that powerful tool, because what they learn in the class comes only from the class, and has a richness and precision they won't get online. Once the search happens, the students miss the next minute of lecture, or even more, as they then follow the next appealing link. It doesn't take long to get from googling Habermas to reading about Lady Gaga." - Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, in an opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor. [http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1007/Why-laptops-in-class-are-distracting-America-s-future-workforce] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 13, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 13, 2010"Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way." - Lori Gottlieb, in at 2008 Atlantic article "Marry Him! The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough". Gottlieb has written a book of the same name based on the article. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-him/6651/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 12, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 12, 2010"In other words, Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice. We are a long way from the lunch counters of Greensboro." - Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker article "Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted". [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 4, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 11, 2010"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Oct. 7, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 10, 2010"It is a primitive form of thought that things either exist or do not exist." - Sir Arthur Eddington Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Oct. 5, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 9, 2010"Blues, in most people's minds, was killed by the guitar solo. The amount of electric guitars in the world is incredible. You could take them out of all the teenagers' hands, chop them up with a chainsaw and reassemble them in the form of a housing development for poor people." - Benjamin Darvill, aka one-man band Son of Dave. Darvill is a former member of Crash Test Dummies. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/10-reasons-why-you-need-to-know-about-son-of-dave/article1743783/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 6, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 8, 2010"I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to worship my new apparat's screen, the colorful pulsing mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors." - Gary Shteyngart, in his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, a satire on the near future of the United States. [In the novel, an apparat is a smartphone on steroids. -ed.] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 28, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for October 7, 2010"What I have learned thus far in writing this book is that writing this book is a gigantic pain in the ass. It's long and it's lonely and I already know most of what I'm telling you. In some moments, this shit is flat-out depressing. Whose jackass idea was it for me to write a book anyway? I'm a comedian. Comedians are almost universally tortured, and not even redeemed like normal writers are by being "deep."" - Sarah Silverman, in the Midword to her memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 6, 2010 |
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