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Bah, humbug!
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..... [Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
..........— G.M. Trevelyan (1876-1962), British historian. English Social History (1942), chapter 18. |
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August 11: Ingersoll Day
.....The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.
..........— Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899), American social activist and orator. From his Centennial Oration delivered on the Fourth of July, 1876. |
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#1713 |
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
— Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species) |
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.....Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.
..........— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (1922–2007), American novelist. Quotation from an essay by the fictional character Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American-turned-Nazi propagandist, in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969). |
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Professor of Law
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To a Stranger by Walt Whitman (1860) in Leaves of Grass
PASSING Stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,) I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you, All is recall’d as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return, I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. |
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You have been mine before,—
How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. From Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rosetti |
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#1717 |
Bah! Humbug!
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"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs."
-Albert Einstein, 1950 |
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I love this quote. I literally laughed out loud when I read it:
"I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel." It's from the wonderfully titled A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire, which I thoroughly recommend, but note that the Kindle edition suffers from some OCR errors. |
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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
George Eliot, Middlemarch |
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Howard Campbell, Jr. was the featured character in Vonnegut's Mother Night. |
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“A man must live by his lights and do what he can do and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.”
-Walker Percy in The Moviegoer (1960) |
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#1724 |
Are you gonna eat that?
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft |
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"In all of the free peoples' imagination the Northwest Passage is a shortcut to reputation, riches and romance -- a hidden road to Golconda and the Secretive East. Everywhere around us there are people who continually are on an exploring expedition after their personal Northwest Passage, and all to often they sacrifice their health, power and life itself to find it. And who can say that they are not happier in their vain but hopeful search than wiser, duller people who sit at home without the courage to do anything at all, and with sour laughter make a mockery of the searchers of this mythical passage -- this universal cure against a monotonous world's sorrows."
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