Friday, December 31, 2010

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"The effectiveness of torturing people to make them betray their cause cannot be disputed. But with all the good results--the 'fingering' of many fellagha, the betrayal and subsequent capture of many of the rebel leaders--was a steady build-up of hatred against the French--a hatred that comes from living in fear and terror. And this antagonism drew the Arabs, so often before divided among themselves, into a common cause; it made them feel the necessity of combining for survival and it made them finally aware of their own strength. The French became the foreign intruder and the concept of nationalism was born in the Arabs, which was never there before."

- Simon Murray, from his memoir Legionnaire, on France's colonial war in Algeria in the early 1960s. Quoted in Voices of the Foreign Legion, by Adrian Gilbert.

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

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"For we are not a nation that says, 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.'"

- Barack Obama, U.S. President, moments before signing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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Charlie Darwin looked so far into the way things are
He caught a glimpse of God's unfolding plan
God said "I'll make some DNA, they can use it any way they want
From paramecium right up to man
They'll have sex, and mix up sections of their code; they'll have mutations
The whole thing works like clockwork over time
I'll just sit back in the shade while everyone gets laid
That's what I call intelligent design."

- Chris Smither, from the song "Origin of Species", recorded on his album, Leave the Light On.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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"We had an unfortunate case some years ago of a very decent young fellow who came out as a scene designer. Clever chap but he went completely native - wore ready made shoes, and a belt instead of braces, went about without a tie, ate at drug stores. Then if you'll believe it, he left the studio and opened a restaurant with an Italian partner. Got cheated of course, and the next thing he was behind a bar shaking cocktails. Appalling business. We raised a subscription at the cricket club to send him home, but the blighter wouldn't go. Said he liked the place, if you please. That man did irreparable harm, Barlow. He was nothing less than a deserter. Luckily the war came. He went home then alright and got himself killed in Norway. He atoned, but I always think how much better not to have anything to atone for, eh?"

- Evelyn Waugh, from his novel The Loved One, describing a British expatriate in America.

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Monday, December 27, 2010

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"War is wretched and quite uninteresting. Wish I were back dodging street cars on Broadway for excitement. Am that tired of being shot at! Got hit in the cap and bayonet---Do you mind? Have been in the trenches now nearly six weeks. Haven't washed for twenty days. Expect to get a ten days' rest after another two weeks."

- William Thaw, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion, from a November 27, 1914 letter home describing trench warfare in the First World War.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

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"We are proud that not a single opponent of ours has been killed by us."

- Mustafa Dzhemiliev, 66, Ukrainian activist and politician and a survivor of the Soviet Gulag. Quoted in the article "A unique Ukrainian-Tatar partnership against Russia" by Haroon Siddiqui.

[http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/907145--a-unique-ukrainian-tatar-partnership-against-russia]

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Saturday, December 25, 2010

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Well she tells me she's movin' out come spring,
Once they've sold the truck and divvied up their things.
There's no time like the present, for true romance.
And when I take her out to dance I dress sharp.
I play it cool and I guard my heart,
I think I might be fallin' in love,
But I know she's not ready yet.

She's still livin' with her ex,
I doubt that he's over her yet,
Ya, I imagine she's still quite upset,
Love's not easy to forget.
She's still livin' with her ex,
My timing could be less perfect,
I'm sure glad they invented text,
She's still livin' with her ex.

- Ridley Bent, from his song She's Still Livin' With Her Ex.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

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"But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school."

- Saki (H.H. Munro), from the story "The baker's dozen".

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

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"You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity."

- P.J. O'Rourke.

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Dec. 15, 2010

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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"In the first days of the war I had applied for a visa and permission to enlist in the British Army, it had been refused. When I was released from Vernet, I made a new application; it was turned down again. Meanwhile, England had proceeded, imitating the French example, to the wholesale internment of political refugees. Even should I succeed in getting out of France and crossing the Channel, I would be put behind barbed wire again. Anti-fascists were obviously a great nuisance in a war against fascism."

- Arthur Koestler, in his book Scum of the Earth, recalling his difficulties in enlisting in any army during the Second World War.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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"Foreign religion, to go by the competing ecclesiastical buildings on the hilltops, was like an applied and contagious illness, curing nothing, giving no final answers, keeping everyone in a state of nerves, fighting wrong battles, narrowing the mind."

- V.S. Naipaul, from The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief.

[http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307399953&view=printexcerpt]

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Monday, December 20, 2010

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"Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads. I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel."

- Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoking the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico.

[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/post-carbon/2010/11/cancun_talks_start_with_a_call.html]

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

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Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

These, in the day when heaven was falling
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling,
And took their wages, and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.

- A.E. Housman

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

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"Music was a far bigger drug than smack. I could kick smack; I couldn't quit music. One note leads to another, and you never know what's going to come next, and you don't want to. It's like walking on a beautiful tightrope."

- Keith Richards, Rolling Stone and sometime heroin user, in his 2010 autobiography, Life. Richards was born December 18, 1943.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

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"In May of 2007, my wife Vicki and I received the devastating, terrifying news that I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a terminal illness that typically runs its course in three to five years. That was not quite four years ago, and I now know I will not reach that five-year plateau. I put together my personal bucket list, not in selfish terms of travelling or seeing wonders of the world, but more personal. Four goals:

"No. 1: Support my wife and family and relish in their love and support.

"No. 2: Make the relationships I have better, by being responsive to every friend, acquaintance and individual and each issue.

"No. 3: Make a difference in ALS awareness and improve fundraising efforts.

"No. 4: A very personal, positive mantra: Suck it up and get on with life (remember, no whining allowed!) and enjoy every day. What other option do any of us really have?

"I can proudly say I've accomplished, and perhaps even overachieved, in each of these projects."

- Tony Proudfoot, former Montreal Alouette football player, in his final column in the Montreal Gazette, December 16, 2010. Proudfoot has chronicled his struggle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in the newspaper.

[http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/time+come+Tony+Proudfoot/3979831/story.html]

[The Tony Proudfoot Fund, to support research into ALS, can be found at http://www.sla-quebec.ca/en/tony_proudfoot_fund.php.]

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

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"Man makes his end for himself out of himself: no end is imposed by external considerations, he must realize his true nature, must be what nature orders, so must discover what his nature is."

- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent."

- Victor Hugo

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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"Why is it that with us, unless you keep a close eye on the simple man, he turns into a drunkard and a scoundrel?"

"Lack of education," observed Chichikov.

"Well, God knows about that. We were educated; and how do we live? I went to the university and listened to lectures in all fields, yet not only did I not learn the art and order of living, but it seems I learned best the art of spending more money on various new refinements and comforts, and became better acquainted with the objects for which one needs money. Is it because there was no sense in my studies? Not really; it's the same with my other comrades. Maybe two or three of them derived something truly useful for themselves from it, and maybe that was because they were intelligent to begin with, but the rest only tried to learn what's bad for one's health and fritters away one's money.... And so we choose from education that which, after all, is on the mean side; we snatch the surface, but the thing itself we don't take. No, Pavel Ivanovich, it's because of something else that we don't know how to live, but what it is, by God, I don't know."

- Nikolai Gogol, from his novel Dead Souls, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

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Monday, December 13, 2010

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"Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day."

- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer, contrasting against the dictum, "property is theft".

[http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/jaron-lanier-web-20-is-utterly-pathetic-1894257.html]

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

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"No doctor can tell you anything your own bones don't know. And I can let the doctors in on something. I knew I'd really licked it [heroin addiction] one morning when I couldn't stand television anymore. When I was high and wanted to stay that way, I could watch TV by the hour and loved it."

- Billie Holiday, in her biography Lady Sings The Blues.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

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"So shame on Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and all those who spew platitudes about integrity, justice and accountability while allowing war criminals and torturers to walk freely upon the earth....

"And damn the right-wing outrage over the Wikileaks revelations. It is the American people who should be outraged that its government has transformed a nation with a reputation for freedom, justice, tolerance and respect for human rights into a backwater that revels in its criminality, cover-ups, injustices and hypocrisies.

"So savor the Wikileaks documents while you can, because soon they'll be gone. And for the government criminals of the world, and for those who protect them, it will again be business as usual."

- David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru, in a commentary.

[http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/03-12-2010/116041-valerie_plame_wikileaks-0/]

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Friday, December 10, 2010

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"It is a pleasing reflection, arising from the contemplation of our successful struggle...that liberty, which some years since appeared in danger of extinction, is now regaining the ground she had lost, that arbitrary governments are likely to become more mild and reasonable, and to expire by degrees, giving place to more equitable forms; one of the effects this of the art of printing, which diffuses so general a light, augmenting with the growing day, and of so penetrating a nature, that all the window-shutters despotism and priestcraft can oppose to keep it out, prove insufficient."

- Benjamin Franklin, from a letter to Sir Edward Newenham, Oct. 2, 1783.

[http://www.archive.org/stream/writingsofbenjam09franuoft/writingsofbenjam09franuoft_djvu.txt]

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

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"Like Einstein post-Hiroshima, that's how the inventor of the Auto-Tune must feel now, because in the hands of the party-music simpletons the Black Eyed Peas, the pitch-correcting software moves from an annoying fad to an evil instrument. With The Beginning, a senseless album of futuristic beats, robotic vocals and dance songs about dance songs, the Peas, a one-hit-wonder-band four times over, bruise humanity, insult intelligence and commit rape against the beauty of music."

- Brad Wheeler, reviewing the album The Beginning by The Black Eyed Peas.

[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/disc-of-the-week-daft-punk-gets-disneyfied-on-tron/article1824132/]

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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"You know what a bore is, Travis? Someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with companionship."

- John D. MacDonald, from a Travis McGee novel.

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Nov. 7, 2010

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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"For me, the passed pawn possesses a soul, just like a human being; it has unrecognized desires which slumber deep inside it and it has fears, the very existence of which it can but scarcely divine."

- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess Grandmaster.

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