Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[Poppa1956]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Pay The Laddy ! (usually $300)

“Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so.”
— Little Women, chapter 7, page 70 (or thereabouts)

"...she did her best to seem gay, and being rather excited, she succeeded so well that no one dreamed what an effort she was making.”
— ibid. chapter 9, page 211-ish

[kennyc]

Post The Luls

[WT Sharpe]

.....Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
..........— Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915), American educator, author, orator, political leader. "An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City" (February 12, 1909), The Booker T. Washington Papers Open Book Edition, Volume 10: 1909-1011, page 35, Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock, editors; Geraldine McTigue and Nan E. Woodruff, assistant editors. University of Illnois Press (1981).

[GeoffC]

So true Tom ...

[WT Sharpe]

...The most common objection is that people living in oral cultures had better memories than most of us and could be counted on to tell stories exactly as they heard them, time after time, without changing them in the least.
......1. Unfortunately for this view, anthropological studies of the past twenty years have shown convincingly that this isn't the case at all. In fact, the concern for verbal accuracy that is behind this theory is a concern found exclusively in written cultures where accounts can be checked to see if they are consistent.
......2. In oral cultures, the natural assumption is that stories are to be changed, depending on the audience and the situation.
..........— Bart D. Ehrman (1955 - ), American New Testament scholar, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the syllabus notes for his New Testament course from The Teaching Company.

[WT Sharpe]

.....If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
..........— Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892 - 1954), U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Minersville School District v. Grobitis, 319 U.S. 624, 642, 1940. Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.

[WT Sharpe]

.....So strong are electromagnetic forces that a child's magnet easily lifts a paper clip off a tabletop in spite of Earth's formidable gravitational tug. Want a more interesting example? If you managed to extricate all the electrons from a cubic millimeter of atoms in the nose of the space shuttle, and if you affixed them all to the base of the launchpad, then the attractive force would inhibit the launch. All engines would fire and the shuttle wouldn't budge. And if the Apollo astronauts had brought back to Earth all electrons from a thimbleful of lunar dust (while leaving behind on the Moon the atoms from which they came), then their force of attraction would exceed the gravitational attraction between Earth and the Moon in its orbit.
..........— Neil deGrasse Tyson (October 5, 1958 - ), American astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, Host of NOVA scienceNOW. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (2007).

[kennyc]

Ooooh! ooooH! I love this guy! And scienceNow is one thing I'll miss without DirecTV!

I'm working on alternatives though.

[BenG]

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.

- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

[WT Sharpe]

.....[H]e [Carl Sagan] never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.
..........— Ann Druyan (1949 - ), American author, producer, widow of Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996). From the Preface of The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) by Carl Sagan. The book consists of Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology and is edited by Druyan. In religious matters, Druyan is an agnostic, as was her late husband.

[Stitchawl]

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it The Present." Michael Babatunde Olatunji

Good philosophy and great music! What a guy!

Stitchawl

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it The Present." Michael Babatunde Olatunji

Good philosophy and great music! What a guy!

Stitchawl

Never heard of the guy, but I like that

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Never heard of the guy, but I like that

He was the hero of my senior high classmates! Class of '64

Here is his song of thanks.




Stitchawl

[kennyc]

Very Nice. Thanks!

[WT Sharpe]

Oh, yes. That is nice! Thanks, Stitchawl!