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Quote of the Day
Sunday, 24 December 2006

There is no way to peace — peace is the way.


- A. J. Muste

Posted by pq/logic at 4:27 PM EST
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Sunday, 17 December 2006
Tzedakah
Topic: poverty and hunger

It is not a donation, it is not charity, it's called social duty.


- Gael Garcia Bernal, on giving money to the homeless

(quoted in amNY "buzz" (print edition, p.16), Thursday 14 December 2006)

Posted by pq/logic at 12:33 PM EST
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Friday, 15 December 2006


the will to act is a renewable resource.


- Former Vice President and Senator Al Gore, 14 December 2006

Posted by pq/logic at 10:27 AM EST
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Thursday, 14 December 2006
Zeno's demitasse
Topic: mathematics, in theory

There was a little coffee left. I drank half of it. If I always drank just half the remainder, it would never run out.

[...]

I drank the last of the coffee. Half each time was only a theory. Like a tree falling soundlessly in the woods.


- Spenser, in The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

Posted by pq/logic at 10:42 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, 14 December 2006 10:43 PM EST
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006

What we need to do is create an environment where you are not only embarrassed but ashamed at a cocktail party to chuckle and say, "I was never good at math and science." What if I said, "No, I never read that book. I was never good at nouns and verbs"?


- Neil deGrasse Tyson in PBS series NOVA ScienceNOW

hat tip: FrinkTank

Posted by pq/logic at 11:50 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 5:58 PM EST
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006

Indecision is the key to flexibility.
- Janis "Pete" Petersons, in Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs

Posted by pq/logic at 11:25 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:26 AM EST
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Saturday, 11 November 2006

To define force – it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him.


- Simone Weil, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force

Posted by pq/logic at 7:13 PM EST
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Wednesday, 8 November 2006

Time's like wine and love. You can have it or lack it, lose it or abuse it, but you can't waste it.


- Pasquale in Così Fan Tutti by Michael Dibdin

Posted by pq/logic at 10:41 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, 9 November 2006 1:57 PM EST
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Monday, 6 November 2006

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.


- Marian Wright Edelman

Posted by pq/logic at 9:52 PM EST
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Wednesday, 1 November 2006

another old quote in its new home
I know that whatever is published in a book — correct or incorrect — will most certainly become public knowledge. This is why so many wrong ideas are popular among people.
- Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, also known as "the Rambam"), in Letter on Martyrdom (translation by Abraham Halkin). The Rambam lived in the 12th century: surely in these days he would add, whatever is published in newspapers and in magazines and on the Web,...

Posted by pq/logic at 5:40 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 1 November 2006 5:41 PM EST
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