October 2009
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A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has...
– StanisÅ‚aw Lem
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Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes...
– Emily Dickinson, “Faith” is a fine invention
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
– Edward R. Murrow
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Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
Of things we spoke of in our...
– Ezra Pound, The Fault of It
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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
– John Wesley
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But outer Space,
At least this far,
For all the fuss
Of the populace
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– Robert Frost, But outer Space
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To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888)
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The birds sang in the wet trees
And I listened to them it was a hundred years...
– Patrick Kavanagh, Wet Evening in April
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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
– Leon Trotsky, Trotzky’s Diary in Exile (1958)
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Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking...
– William Blake, Ah Sunflower
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
– Peter Ustinov
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