Quotation of the Day: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for April 30, 2012

"...you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Chapter XVII. (431 BC)

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

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"I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. (Incidentally, I must explain that because I am a scientist does not mean I have not had contact with human beings. Ordinary human beings. I know what they are like. I go to Las Vegas and talk to the show girls and the gamblers and so on. I have banged around a lot in my life, so I know about ordinary people.) Anyway, I have to argue about flying saucers on the beach with people, you know. And I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not. Whether it's probably occurring or not, not whether it could occur."

- Richard P. Feynman, from This Unscientific Age.

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

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When you've been in the business as long as I have,
you begin to consider the plight of the calves
Fun lovin', frolickin', carefree little critters
The first few months ain't all that bad,
they'll never forget the good times they had
But then comes fall and brandin' times,
stuck in the ribs with a red hot iron
Tag in the ear, shots in the hip,
the dehornin' paste and...snip, snip, snip
Welcome to the world little buddy, it's no picnic

- Corb Lund, from his song Talkin' Veterinarian Blues.

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Apr. 24, 2012

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Friday, April 27, 2012

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"When you have a wife and two daughters it's very attractive, but they can strip paint with their tongues from 20ft away. If there is too much arguing going on I just raise the drawbridge, sit in the Caribbean drinking hut and listen to music."

- Keith Brown, who has built a pirate-themed retreat in his garden.

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Apr. 25, 2012

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

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"This new nation are vain & rapacious and without honour - they are hurried on to any action provided they gain money by it."

- John Strachan, on the United States, quoted in The Civil War of 1812 by Alan Taylor.

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Apr. 24, 2012

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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"You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough."

- William Blake, from Proverbs of Hell.

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Apr. 19, 2012

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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"So far about morals, I know only one, that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but very fine."

- Ernest Hemingway

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Monday, April 23, 2012

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"In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did."

- William Gibson, in The Road to Oceania, The New York Times, 25 June 2003. Reprinted in Gibson's 2012 essay collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor.

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Feb. 23, 2012

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

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"When you turn on FM radio and you hear the Lady Gagas of the world, it's nice that there can be a balance to that in our more organic underground. We can't all wear meat dresses or lobster hats."

- Tony Dekker, of the band Great Lake Swimmers.

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Apr. 18, 2012

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

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"What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite, they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace."

- Katherine Boo, from her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on 4 years of research into the lives of Mumbai slum-dwellers.

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Apr. 19, 2012

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Friday, April 20, 2012

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"The distance of China is a physical impediment to the communication, by reducing our commerce to a few commodities; and by heightening the price of these commodities, on account of the long voyage, the monopolies and the taxes. A Chinese works for three-halfpence a day, and is very industrious. Were he as near us as France or Spain, every thing we use would be Chinese, till money and prices came to a level; that is, to such a level as is proportioned to the numbers of people, industry, and commodities of both countries."

- David Hume, from a 1750 letter.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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"For him, there are certain situations so monstrous that the idea that the processes of moral rationality could yield an answer in them is insane: they are situations which so transcend in enormity the human business of moral deliberation that from a moral point of point of view it cannot matter any more what happens."

- Bernard Williams, philosopher.

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Apr. 17, 2012

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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"Science fiction is a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth."

- Northrop Frye

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Apr. 13, 2012

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Monday, April 16, 2012

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"Often, despite our best efforts, inotropic challenges and systolic impairments, combined with multiple retrograde flow enablement syndromes, will lead to the decline in function of many of the body's organ systems. To apply the term 'multi-organ failure' smacks of the judgmental and paternalistic. Better to apply the term 'metabolically challenged.' This state all too often proceeds to the state of the patient's being 'metabolically different', or 'entropically enabled', in other words, dead."

- Thomas Michel, cardiologist, from his 1993 tongue-in-cheek article, The Guide To Politically Correct Cardiology.

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Apr. 13, 2012

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

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"Most people in entertainment are that way--they all act like children. Nobody I've known in the business--including myself--had an emotional age above 15. We are not normal people. Success can be here one day and gone the next, and it's a hell of a long way down."

- Don Ohlmeyer, ABC producer, quoted in Mark Ribowsky's biography of Howard Cosell.

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Apr. 13, 2012

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

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"I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is--nothing. You figure, the snake hasn't bitten anybody yet, so you just let him crawl around on the factory floor. We need to build an environment where the first guy who sees the snake kills it."

- Ross Perot, in a 1988 interview in Fortune Magazine, on General Motors.

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Apr. 11, 2012

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