Quotation of the day for January 31, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 31, 2013 "At the Memphis semi-finals and finals, the judges are Blues professionals, not a bar crowd, and are likely to be unimpressed with song selections that are uninspired. (Call this--with all due respect to Sir Mack Rice and Wilson Pickett--the "no Mustang Sally rule.")" - from the Official Rules for the International Blues Challenge. The most recent edition runs January 29-February 2, 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee. [https://www.blues.org/ibc/#ref=ibc_rules] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 30, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 30, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 30, 2013 "People just assume I'm a waiter. My late wife didn't like to take the subway at night when she was all dressed up in high heels and fancy clothes. She didn't mind that people took me for a waiter; she just didn't want to be somebody with a waiter." - Calvin Trillin, on taking the subway while wearing a tuxedo. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 28, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 29, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 29, 2013 "Canada lives in the imagination of the United States as a benign, continent-size footnote, the brunt of conservative jokes about invasion and annexation, and the object of liberal daydreams about socialized medicine and sensible bank regulation. If there is an overarching consensus among Americans about their cousins to the north, it is that they are like Americans but nicer, probably smarter, and more loving of hockey. "Less well known is that Canada is a towering, earth-shaking, CO2-belching petroleum giant. Let us keep our stereotype that Canadians are mild-mannered, but in terms of oil there is nothing moderate about them. They have it." - Andrew Blackwell, in his pollution-tourism book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 28, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 28, 2013 "That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that, to quote the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, 'being alive is a crock of shit.'" - Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake. Submitted by: Steve Hekel Jan. 24, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 27, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 27, 2013 "I didn't know that brown cheese burns so well." - Kjell Bjoern Vinje, of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, regarding what he admitted was the first time he could remember cheese catching fire on Norwegian roads. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21141244] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Jan. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 26, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 26, 2013 "Even what is most unnatural is part of nature." - Georg Christoph Tobler (1757-1812), from "Die Natur". Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 25, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 25, 2013 "This is where the developed world dodges its own rules." - Jonathan Watts, on pollution in the Chinese industrial city Guangdong. From his book, When A Billion Chinese Jump. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 24, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 24, 2013 "To the beginner the choices are few, to the expert the choices are many." - Wojek Smallsoa, a master of the game Rock Paper Scissors. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 23, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 23, 2013 "All things happen in a cycle. The little bookstore had succeeded and grown into a bigger bookstore. Seeing the potential for profit, the superstore chains rose up and crushed the independents, then Amazon rose up and crushed the superstore chains. Now that we could order any book at any hour without having to leave the screen in front of us, we realized what we had lost: the community center, the human interaction, the recommendation of a smart reader rather than a computer algorithm telling us what other shoppers had purchased. I promised whoever was listening that from those very ashes, the small independent bookstore would rise again." - Ann Patchett, novelist, in "The Bookstore Strikes Back". The article was published in the December 2012 issue of The Atlantic. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-bookstore-strikes-back/309164/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 22, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 22, 2013 "I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING..." - Henry David Thoreau, from Walking. [http://www.transcendentalists.com/walking.htm] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 20, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 20, 2013 "...most Indians I have seen are not a whit more natural in their lives than we civilized whites." - John Muir (1838-1914), naturalist and conservationist. Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for January 19, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for January 19, 2013 "...a catless house is a soulless house." - Patrick Moore, astronomer and author, who died Dec. 9, 2012. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 11, 2013

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