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Quote of the Day
Thursday, 11 January 2007


God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed.


- U.S. District Court Judge Frank H. Seay, in an epilogue to his decision granting a new trial to Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson

Hat tip to John Grisham for his book about the case, The Innocent Man

Posted by pq/logic at 4:23 PM EST
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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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