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Oscar Wilde


The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Penn Jillette


Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Henry Ward Beecher


Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

C. C. Colton


To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Eric Hoffer


We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Andr Gide


Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Leonard Bernstein


Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Randolph Bourne


Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Leonardo Da Vinci


Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Lord Chesterfield


I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson


In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

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UPDATE 3-Sarkozy defies China with Dalai Lama talks - Forbes

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:15:00 GMT
GDANSK, Poland, Dec 6 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy defied China on Saturday by meeting the Dalai Lama and said Europe shared the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's ...

Lowe recommends watching Saints to escape recession - This is Hampshire

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:30:00 GMT
RUPERT Lowe believes watching Saints is a great distraction from the current economic misery that is gripping the country. Attendances are down by around 25 per cent at St Mary’s ...

Defaming Milton Friedman - Reason.com

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:01:00 GMT
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, New York: Metropolitan Books, 576 pages, $28. In the future, if you tell a student or a journalist that you ...

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