April 2011
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...
– Greek proverb
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I always hear you guys picking on Arial. Who is this chick? She must be severely...
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Is there anyone else out there
who read “Fight Club” and really didn’t like it? I’m 96 pages into the book right now, and my brain feels like it needs to shower off and forget it ever started reading “Fight Club.” Is that the usual effect?
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Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.
– My dad
The trouble with going to see bands is that there wasn’t much else to do...
– author Nick Hornby in “Juliet, Naked”
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No one imagines that symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that...
– Alan Watts, philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973)
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
– Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...
– George Washington Carver, scientist (1864-1943)
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything...
– John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
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The "Nonplussed" Problem: How long should we cling... →
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Millions Watch Twin Baby Boys Babble: Are They... →
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While language is forming, writers are applauded for extending its limits; when...
– Isaac Disraeli, writer (1766-1848)
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Church of the Latter-Day Geek Stirs Controversy... →
What started as a joke on the Australian television program Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight, is now an actual church. Uniting Church minister Rev Dr Avril Hannah-Jones will be leading the first service of the ‘Church of the Latter-Day Geek‘ at the Romsey Uniting Church, north of Melbourne, at 4:00pm on April 10, 2011. Rev Hannah-Jones is encouraging people to dress-up in sci-fi costumes, and...
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when...
– Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away...
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
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What’s the secret, Max?”
“The secret?”
“Yeah,...
– Rushmore