Quotation of the day for March 31, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 31, 2014 "In the Soviet Union, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a fine book for a five-year-old, although in the United States the dense one-hundred-sixty-page volume would likely be assigned in fifth grade and, in some states, in college." - Gary Shteyngart, from his memoir Little Failure, on one of his favourite childhood books. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for March 30, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 30, 2014 "I think it's a good way to get attention to the main problem of global warming. Namely that, yes it is a real problem but we're not fixing it. I think we have no sense of the scale involved. "We don't burn fossil fuels to annoy Al Gore. Because fundamentally it underpins pretty much everything we like about civilization. Really changing our emissions of CO2 is not going to be about switching off lights for an hour, it's going to be about something much much more. "I sympathize with the organizers, they've got something that really caught on, and they got everybody excited about this, and everybody says 'I care about global warming.' But I think in some fundamental way it sends the wrong message." - Bjorn Lomborg, on Earth Hour. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 30, 2014

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Quotation of the day for March 28, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2014 "The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults-â€"its men,in particular-â€"were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers. Often at a dinner table, a male Homo soveticus will say something uncouth, hurtful, disgusting, because this is his teenager's right and prerogative, this is what the system has raised him to be, and his wife will say, Da tishe!-â€"Be quiet!-â€"and then look around the table, embarrassed. And the man will laugh bitterly to himself and say, Nu ladno, it's nothing, and wave away the venom he has left on the table." - Gary Shteyngart, from his memoir Little Failure. [The submitter notes: I dedicate this quotation to Vladimir Putin.] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for March 27, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 27, 2014 "No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. "Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals - that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately. "What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't." - Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, responding to a petition to publish articles about holistic healing techniques. [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/387790/jimmy-wales-rants-at-holistic-healers-petitioning-wikipedia] Submitted by: Jeff Copeland Mar. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for March 26, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 26, 2014 "It's not a safety issue per se. It's a technical issue." - Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, Malaysia Airlines chief executive, when asked about the failure of an electrical generator that forced a plane to make an emergency landing in Hong Kong on March 24, 2014. Submitted by: Steve Sidner Mar. 24, 2014

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Quotation of the day for March 3, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for March 3, 2014 "It's a caucus, not a circus." - Denis Coderre, Montreal mayor, on why he chose to ignore Toronto mayor and illegal drug aficionado Rob Ford at a meeting of Canadian mayors. [http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/26/rob-ford-vows-to-fight-tories-on-ending-door-to-door-mail-delivery-as-he-finally-addresses-drugs-questions/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Feb. 28, 2014

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