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Almost Lunch
Tiger stalks, attempts to attack woman at zoo pic.twitter.com/G7n700MM9s
- Nature is Scary (@NatureisScary) September 10, 2016
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1980 Presidential Primaries
Here are a few colorful notes on the divisiveness of the 1980 presidential primaries. The first one concerns the Democrats:
In full bravado mode, Carter told a group of Democrats when asked about a Kennedy challenge, “I’ll whip his ass.” Stunned to hear the president use such language, one of those present asked him to beg their pardon, but what ( Read more... ) -
Hobbes
From Hobbes’s account of the civil wars, this excerpt expresses his disdain for the Parliament that would take down its king.
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9/11
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
-- Samuel Beckett
Roger Cohen invokes this quote for his column on the anniversary of 9/11, noting how many observers feel that we have grown apart and polarized as a people as much as ever.
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Schopenhauer
“Take away from life the few moments of religion, art and pure love, and what is left but a series of trivial thoughts?”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
[Source: Rudiger Safranski, “Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy”] -
Henry Miller
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Ann Coulter
"A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have written or said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can."
-- Ann Coulter (2006)
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Sylvia
“The wind has blown a warm yellow moon over the sea; a bulbous moon, which sprouts in the soiled indigo sky, and spills bright winking petals of light on the quivering black water.”
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William Kristol
"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.-- Winston Churchill ( Read more... ) -
Schopenhauer
“If anyone who wanders all day arrives towards evening, it is enough.”
-- Petrarch
“Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up.”-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Read more... )
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