Monthly Archives: January 2012
Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 13 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. Victoria Street in Edinburgh catches my eye every time I walk across the terrace.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
~ Umberto Eco
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Philosophical entities exist only insofar as they have been philosophically posited. Outside their philosophical framework, the empirical data that a philosophy organizes lose every possible unity and cohesion.
~ Umberto Eco
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
~ Man Ray
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 12 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. The Riverside Museum in Glasgow is a source of pride for me as a modern Scot – designed by Zaha Hadid, it is a reminder that Scotland is open to the world.
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People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn’t take their fancy.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
~ Man Ray
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Memories of Scotland – Summer 2011
This is picture 11 of 30 from my Summer 2011 trip home to Scotland. You can never have too many phone boxes.
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