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Adrienne Rich


Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Anon.


Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"


Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

William Shakespeare


I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

La Fontaine


Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Lord Melbourne


Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer


There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Elmer G. Letterman


Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Henry David Thoreau


Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
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Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:54:04 GMT
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TIP-OFF: U-M hoops notes, quotes and more (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:12:37 GMT
RECORD 5-11 (1-3 Big Ten) HERO MANNY HARRIS The U-M freshman guard scored 22 points, including 12 in the first half on 4-for-5 shooting. GOAT THE WILDCATS Most Northwestern players struggled to make lay-ups. Kevin Coble (34 points) and Michael Thompson (14) were the 'Cats' only double-figure scorers.

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