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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Miguel Cervantes

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The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Ok, this space has been dormant for over a week due to computer problems... so I am posting a batch of quotes to make up for the lost week. So, without further ado, here are the quotes from the period of Nov. 22-28:

Spouse, n.: Someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single.
- Unknown
Support the police - steal!
- Unknown
The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.
- Unknown
The difference between theory and practice is bigger in practice than it is in theory.
- Unknown
The most common form of marriage proposal is: "You're WHAT?"
- Unknown
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Unknown
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
- Unknown

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
- Maxim Gorky

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Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
- Charlie McCarthy

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
- Saul Alinsky

My last day

... of employment. Just sayin'.

Busy, busy day today. Teaching classes, talking to my replacements, being embarrased and harassed by colleagues. Gaaaaah.

Tomorrow I'll report to the unemployment office and if I still haven't gotten anything by then, the money will start rolling in 8 weeks from now.

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Iacta alea est
[The dice is thrown]
- Julius Caesar

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- John Milton (from "Paradise Lost")

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

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How true... sigh...

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
- Tennessee Williams

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"...and this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."
- Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"

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The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
- James Truslow Adams

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Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
- Philander Johnson

One week to go

I have now confirmed that my last day here at school will be next Monday, the 15th of November... wheeeeeeee! I am part elated, part scared shitless. Maybe I'll gravitate towards teaching again, maybe I'll do something completely different. It's too soon to tell.

On a related note, I have a slight problem. Back before the summer, I went ahead and booked a flight to Naples, Italy for the xmas holiday (Dec 23 - Jan 1), plus I paid a 100 Euro deposit on an apartment. I also booked a rental car at a cheap price. I would HATE not having the money to go. The apartment is to be rented from Dec 25 till Jan 1 and has two bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It's south of Naples, not far from Sorrento and Amalfi and all those purdy little towns and also very close to Pompei.

Anyways, in order to secure the financing of the trip I hereby offer a bedroom & bathroom in my apartment for the week of Dec 25 - Jan 1, at the ridiculously low price of $300. In addition you'll get the bonus of my smug face at breakfast every morning, plus a free ride to various interesting places such as Herculaneum, Pompei and Capri to mention a few. What are you waiting for?

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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
- Fran Lebowitz

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

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I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money.
- Arthur Godfrey

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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
- Wernher von Braun

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

1,000

This is blogpost number one thousand. Wow. You're all free to shower me with congratulations and expensive gifts.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- Elwyn Brooks White

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In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay

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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill