Quotation of the day for June 30, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 30, 2012 "Marriages come and go but divorce is forever." - Nora Ephron, who died of leukemia on June 26, 2012. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 29, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 29, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 29, 2012 "As long as people are people, democracy, in the full sense of the word, will always be no more than an ideal." - Vaclav Havel, dissident, playwright, Czech president. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 13, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 28, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 28, 2012 "Marrying outside your religion is no big deal anymore. Neither is marrying someone of a completely different generation. And now that something like 4% of all marriages are interracial, not even your grandparents will get lathered up if you marry someone of another color. But as the old prohibitions fall away, a new one is rising to take their place. It's a discrimination that's widespread but largely unspoken, causing pain and stress to the affected couples, who often find it hard to talk about, even to each other. I'm talking, of course, about marrying outside your looks. Marrying a few degrees up or down the hotness scale. Refusing to stay within your cute-gory." - Belinda Luscombe [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1615172,00.html] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jun. 22, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 27, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 27, 2012 "The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting." - Christopher Sibona, a PhD student at the Business School at the University of Colorado, who conducted a survey on why people unfriend others on Facebook. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/fashion/24Studied.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 22, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 26, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 26, 2012 "I admitted that it may have been a professional mistake to use arms in front of cameras, but I told the commander of the division I do not accept it as a failure of values in any way." - Shalom Eisner, Lieutenant-Colonel in the IDF, on having been filmed smashing a Danish peace activist in the face with his rifle. [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154848] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 13, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 25, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 25, 2012 When I was young I used to think that I made mistakes just 'cause I was young Now it's plain to see that I'll Probably be screwing it up for eternity - Shotgun Jimmie (Jim Kilpatrick), from his song The Haze. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 14, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 24, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 24, 2012 "Yesterday's mac and cheese looks the same, but the leftovers of a gourmet meal are unrecognizable and garbagelike." - Paul Theroux, from his short story Our Raccoon Year. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 21, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 23, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 23, 2012 "Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away." - Stephen Colbert, comedian, in his talk-show persona, to actor Neil Patrick Harris. (June 6, 2012) Submitted by: Duffy O'Craven Jun. 12, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 22, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 22, 2012 "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 21, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 21, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 21, 2012 "Two warnings may be given. Never make a trivial note, never in other words aid the memory to remember something that it ought never to forget or never to require to remember.... The other warning, and quite as needful a warning, is this. Never make a note for future use in such a form that no one but yourself can understand it, and that even you yourself will not know what it means, when you come upon it some months later. This seems a trivial warning, one that no one, not the most foolish, could disobey. Yet such notes are made..." - Charles George Crump, from History and Historical Research (1928). Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 13, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 20, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 20, 2012 "Well, of course Canada`s monarchy is illogical. All monarchies are until you consider the alternative, which is to become another blandly logical cookie cutter McCountry where the national ideal is personified in some half bright president who gets lavished with the kind of uncritical fealty that is relatively benigne when directed to a figurehead, but downright dangerous when accorded anyone with real power. Swear undying loyalty to George W. Bush, next thing you know you`re standing in the middle of an Iraqi desert with a garden spade, digging for weapons of mass destruction." - Jack Knox, in the Victoria Times Colonist, June 3, 2012. Submitted by: Z.D.Hora Jun. 3, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 19, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 19, 2012 "Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire, like a digital Northern Rock, for its enormous commission?" - Pete Townshend, delivering BBC 6 Music's inaugural John Peel Lecture in 2011. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15528101] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 12, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 18, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 18, 2012 "Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests." - Sacha Baron Cohen, in his film The Dictator. Submitted by: Barry Ritholtz Jun. 6, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 17, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 17, 2012 "The truth is that I have become something of a dinosaur. Nowadays, researchers don't need to read early printed books laboriously from cover to cover. They have only to type a chosen word into the appropriate database to discover all the references to the topic they are pursuing. I try to console myself with the reflection that they will be less sensitive to the context of what they find and that they will certainly not make the unexpected discoveries which come from serendipity. But the sad truth is that much of what it has taken me a lifetime to build up by painful accumulation can now be achieved by a moderately diligent student in the course of a morning." - Keith Thomas, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a former president of the British Academy. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 13, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 16, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 16, 2012 "This is my essential criticism of modernism, whether perpetrated by Parker, Pound, or Picasso: it helps us neither to enjoy nor endure. It will divert us as long as we are prepared to be mystified or outraged, but maintains its hold only by being more mystifying and more outrageous: it has no lasting power." - Philip Larkin, in the introduction to All What Jazz. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 13, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 15, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 15, 2012 "In the meantime, the American manufacturing sector continues to become less labor-intensive. Despite the quintupling of its output since 1960, manufacturing has shed roughly three million jobs. In fact, multinational companies have found they can distribute the various parts of their operations in the countries that suit them best: manufacturing in countries with copious cheap labor, customer service in countries with low-wage English speakers, back office in countries with an underpaid but educated professional class, and headquarters in a tax haven. This trend will continue, and the question will echo again from the point of view of the American worker: what will I do to make a living ten, twenty, or thirty years from now?" - Daniel Altman, Outrageous Fortunes, Times Books, 2011. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Jun. 7, 2012

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Quotation of the day for June 14, 2012

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Quotation of the Day for June 14, 2012 "According to the law of conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly." - Aaron Freeman, from 'You want a physicist to speak at your funeral.' [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675953] Submitted by: Kelly Groves Jun. 6, 2012

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