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Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano and dumb.
- Lynn Redgrave

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Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.
- Arthur Clough

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In war there is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur

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If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
- Tom Lehrer

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
- Goethe

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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I gloat! Hear me gloat!
- Rudyard Kipling

New favorite artist

Those who know me, will know that I have a deep loathing for 99% of modern music. Rap, synth, hip-hop, techno and the ghastly R&B which contains neither rythm nor blues, but is a catch-all phrase for all kinds of wailing and hollering - I hate it all.

I must admit to being a bit behind the times so to speak. I almost never listen to the radio (I actively turn off music programs) and whenever I watch music on TV it's usually late night classic VH1, where one can be reasonably certain of shelter from modern crap. So imagine my surprise and delight at discovering a fine, young artist who came out with an album as recently as 2007: Amy Mcdonald. Yes, dear reader(s), a mere two years after the release of her first album, I heard one of her songs! Wheeeeee! It was "Mr Rock & Roll" (I wish I knew you before), and the guitar and the singing was spot on - proper, melodic, guitarbased music.

I have since downloaded a few more songs and they're all fuckin' brilliant (I have a vague recollection of having heard "This is the life" before and liking it); this is the kind of music I would be playing if I could play so to speak... She's Scottish (another plus) but sings with something of an Irish accent (wheee!) and eternal love was sealed when I discovered she sang "Caledonia" as a hidden track on her CD. Go ye out and buy, buy, buy if you don't already have. I know I will as soon as I can get to an effin music store (I'm still not allowed to drive due to the stroke).

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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
- Aristotle

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Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
- John Maxwell

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No man is above the law and no man below it.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
- Rita Mae Brown

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger

Band of brothers

I saw Band of Brothers for the second time Sunday and today (I have A LOT of spare time, I'm still on sick leave) and it was even better than the first time. Especially the interviews with the remaining few of the original gang are moving to watch. The second world war was the last undeniably "good" war, the last in which there was a good and a bad side for all to see. Now there's all sorts of nuance and gray areas and conspiracy theories and media made ambiguity. Honestly, if the situation arose, I'm not sure most of western Europe could fight anymore, or at least would want to.

The men of Easy company on the other hand, simply did their job. 65 years later we're still in their debt, still thankful for their sacrifice. CURRAHEE.

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Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
- Bill Davidsen

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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
- Anatole France

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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- George Eliot

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The cat could very well be man's best friend, but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson

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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
- Geoffrey Abert

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh

Numbers

As of Monday I weigh exactly 122 kg. I am using this opportunity to try and lose a few pounds, now that I am at home for a month and can control my eating regime. My blood sugar has been really fine, too.

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Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

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He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- Samuel Johnson

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
- Van Wyck Brooks

I knew it!

This story from CNN says that lettuce, tuna and sprouts are among the top ten foods responsible for outbreaks of illness. I knew those bastards were out to get me!

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People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.
- William Somerset Maugham

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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
- Edward Abbey

Vacation

For those of you who think I'm on the equvialent of an extended holiday, think again. Today I've had to change the term plans of eight classes to fit my absence. Tests, term papers, everything gets messed up because of the stroke. I'd just as soon NOT have had it, thank you very much.

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DON'T PANIC
- Douglas Adams
(Written in large, friendly letters on the front of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".)

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Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.
- Marty Milner

New Project: Quotes

As some of you will know, I've been sending out quotes daily on ICQ and then weekly on email since Oct 1, 1999 till this summer. Now that I have time on my hands I'm going to start posting them here, one by one. Watch this space!


Quote for Thursday October 1, 2009:

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde