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Oct. 25th, 2013 04:14 pm"If you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs." -- President Obama, just now
words floating from the dust
Jun. 12th, 2011 07:18 pmEarly this morning, I caught a fifteen-minute clip on CSPAN of Sen. McCarthy in 1952, after he had asserted Communists had infiltrated our government but before he had subpoena power (the Republicans had yet to win that year's congressional election). I jotted down a couple of the names of people the interviewers said had endorsed McCarthy (one was Gerald Smith). McCarthy was very genial yet declined to disavow any of those endorsements.
So I began researching, as I am wont to do. By the by I came across the declassified executive subcommittee hearing transcripts. These just became available five years ago, fifty years after the fact.
Anyway, I've just stepped my toe in the water--am at page 58 of 950--but I came across a fantastic quote from one Russell W. Duke:
& I had to preserve that because it rings so true.
So I began researching, as I am wont to do. By the by I came across the declassified executive subcommittee hearing transcripts. These just became available five years ago, fifty years after the fact.
Anyway, I've just stepped my toe in the water--am at page 58 of 950--but I came across a fantastic quote from one Russell W. Duke:
[E]go is an anesthesia provided by nature to deaden the pain of a damned fool[.]
& I had to preserve that because it rings so true.
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May. 14th, 2009 11:38 pm"Catholics with options are called Protestants." -- Stephen Colbert
the essence or naught
Aug. 11th, 2008 11:39 pm"I would rather smash my canvas than invent or imagine a detail."
-- Paul Cézanne
-- Paul Cézanne
delve to the point
Aug. 6th, 2008 02:32 am"No image satisfies me unless it is at the same time knowledge." -- Artaud
"My ambition is to corner the reader and make him or her imagine and think differently." -- Charles Simic
"My ambition is to corner the reader and make him or her imagine and think differently." -- Charles Simic
Good words from Vulgata:
Poetry is a means of exploring the intimate relationships between form and content. A poem that is in the form of raw inspiration dropped out onto a page with line breaks is a very good beginning, but it [is] like an uncut diamond: it is not yet a poem. The process of crafting this raw material into a work is difficult. The inspiration must be carefully cropped and pruned, without killing it. Bad poetry errs in three ways: it is uninspired, it is inspired but not crafted, or it is inspired, and then wrought to death. The great thing to avoid is writing a "poem" that is really just normal prose that has been centered in the middle column of a page; but which has no meter, metaphor, enriched adjectives, etc.
a poem is a machine
Jul. 15th, 2008 01:01 pm"A successful poem is, as Williams said, a machine made out of words; if it is properly constructed it cannot fail to perform its function, which is to control its reader, by its selective and stylized processional means, that the reader 'cannot choose to hear.'" -- Helen Vendler, Contemporary American Poetry (9th ed.), p. 9.
"[Obama's] pastor made offensive comments, not him. Not everyone agrees with everything their pastor or [church] says or does. That is like saying all Catholics are child molesters, since several of the priests have been accused of this crime."
-- 'Erin', "Clinton's Endgame"
-- 'Erin', "Clinton's Endgame"
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choriambpicked up from DailyKos
Feb. 21st, 2008 08:42 amA thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
-- Thomas Paine
-- Thomas Paine
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Dec. 26th, 2007 10:38 pmHow is it that I've never heard of Ashley Montagu? I must read some of his works.
John Henrik Clarke quotes him, saying, "In his book, Race, Science and Humanity, (p. 111) Dr. Ashley Montagu refers to the belief in race as a 'widespread contemporary myth in the Western World.' He further states that, 'It is the modern form of the older belief in witchcraft.'"
John Henrik Clarke quotes him, saying, "In his book, Race, Science and Humanity, (p. 111) Dr. Ashley Montagu refers to the belief in race as a 'widespread contemporary myth in the Western World.' He further states that, 'It is the modern form of the older belief in witchcraft.'"
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Nov. 7th, 2007 12:31 pm"You may get everything you want, but not want everything you get."
--Stevie Wonder, "Land of La-La"
--Stevie Wonder, "Land of La-La"
As seen in a coworker's email sig:
Jul. 5th, 2007 04:56 pm"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
-Ralph W. Sockman
-Ralph W. Sockman
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Jun. 15th, 2007 09:15 amAs seen in a co-worker's email signature:
Attitude and Perception are everything. Be kinder, more caring and patient than necessary. Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Attitude and Perception are everything. Be kinder, more caring and patient than necessary. Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Listen up, Bush & DeLay.
May. 29th, 2007 12:37 pmSeen at DailyKos:
"If you talk to God, you're praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
-- Thomas Szasz
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May. 23rd, 2007 01:23 pm"The danger then consists merely in this: the president can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it. What will be the motives which the president can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be im-peachable by this house, before the senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust."
--James Madison
No one should be fired for doing their job. That's the long and the short of it.
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Mar. 1st, 2007 11:59 am"A Zen master was asked, 'I have heard that there is one thing which cannot be named. It has not been born; it will not die when the body dies. When the universe burns up it will not be affected. What is that one thing?' The master answered, 'A sesame bun.'"
-- Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
-- Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman
