I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
~ Confucius
Monthly Archives: October 2009
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When people lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
~ Lao Zi
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Financial World Magazine
Found this among a bundle of essays I had written as part of my undergraduate degree back in the late 80s.
Financial World Magazine
October 17, 1989
World War II – The Economic Aftermath
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Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
~ William Faulkner
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The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic
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If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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