He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Campus Trivia Night
Question: What were the five largest metropolitan areas in the United States by population in the year 2005.
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA (18,747,300)
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA (12,923,547)
- Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI (9,443,356)
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (5,823,233)
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (5,819,475)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
~ Simone Weil
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Wired Magazine – June 1996 Issue
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~ Albert Camus
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I do not believe in painting per se – A painting is made not by the artist but by those who look at it and grant it their favors.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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