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Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (October. 22, 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise (The Chronicle-Telegram; January 21, 2008)
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Money talks: financing the periphery buys Berlin a leading role recasting the eurozone governance framework. The recent ‘six pack’ of legislative reforms hints at what’s to come: institutionalized fiscal discipline and an excessive imbalances procedure that protects against future moral hazard. The whole eurozone will tilt toward the German surplus model as we get more fiscal integration and more German leverage.
ian bremmer— "Germany Will Never Leave the Eurozone," Financial Times (October 18, 2011)
I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There’s no need to veil what’s happening in the song the way I used to.My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
ben gibbard— II
Character is not created with a single act, no matter how brilliant or bold. It is forged in the smallest of struggles, the product of a thousand, thousand strokes. Your tool for carving your character’s template lies, in the words of the poet Robert Lowell, within your “peculiar power to choose.” Ultimately, it is the choice of the fundamental over the frivolous, preferring what is true over what’s accepted, the choosing of what is right over what is easy.
Gary Brochu— Commencement Speech. What's In A Name? President, Berlin, Conn., Board of Education, Berlin High School, Berlin, Conn. (June 17, 2012)
It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
david eagleman— As quoted in "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman" by Blake Wilson in The New York Times (10 July 2009)
The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what’s coming it takes away the fun.
kerry ellis— As quoted in "Brian May/Kerry Ellis: Exclusive Interview" (21 February 2011)
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what’s real and what’s not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
charles de lint— "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", p. 254
I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.
Martin Luther— 3552.
I don’t know what’s meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.
james richardson— #165 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
If we don’t view our fellow activists as human beings rather than symbols of what’s right or wrong with the movement, then whom are we fighting for?
sarah seltzer— Remembering Pioneering Feminist Shulamith Firestone "Jewish Daily Forward," April 11, 2013
Someday I will understandIn God`s whole planAnd what`s He`s done to meOh but maybeSomeday I will breatheAnd I`ll finally seeSee it all in my baby
britney spears— "Someday (I will understand)" (2005)
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don’t know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What’s said obscurely is what’s thought obscurely.
esaias tegnér— "Epilog vid Magisterpromotionen i Lund 1820".
We’re aware of the scale of the planet, so we don’t accept that our own circumscribed horizons constitute reality. Much more real is what’s relayed to us by the TV.
john brunner— continuity (17) "Timescales"
Of what’s to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
constantine p. cavafy— But the Wise Perceive Things about to Happen
She simply has no concept of what’s real and what’s fantasy did I say? She’s in the theater.
samuel r. delany— Chapter 7 “Tiresias Descending, or Trouble on Triton” (p. 322)
The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .
richard feynman— "Afterthoughts," p. 217-218
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what’s there.
Susan Sontag— “The Pornographic Imagination,” p. 45
When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
ben stiller— As quoted in "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty in Reader's Digest (September 2007)
All of us, ride on the same bus, shop at the same malls and stores. All of us, debate and discuss, decide and divide what is mine and what’s yours.
dawud wharnsby— "All of Us"
And so that he can tell what’s happening, a puppeteer always watches his performance in a television monitor. In a way, the puppeteer becomes an audience to his own performance.
Jim Henson— The Jim Henson Hour, "Secrets of the Muppets" (1989)
My name is Mr. Fischer. What’s your name?
joschka fischer— When asked about his name by President Bush (2005-10-22) [1]
What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?
rosalind franklin— As quoted by Aaron Klug, interview , 17 June 2005 [1]
What’s being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there’s a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
— Interview with the Boston Globe (July 27, 2005)
Q: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?JM: Never get into a situation you can’t get out of. I really have stuck to it, because it’s good advice for all walks of live.
johnny marr— from "Famous last words", Q (February 2003)
What’s the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone’s, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?
james richardson— #431 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
“Time to get up,” he informed her. “Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?” “What’s he saying?” Marsha murmured crossly. “Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping.”
philip kindred dick— Chapter 8 (p. 103)
“What’s that all about?” Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.
ursula k. le guin— “Darkrose and Diamond” (p. 125)
“whats o’clock?” It wants a quarter to twelve, And to-morrow's doomsday.
tim powers— Chapter 19 (p. 207, quoting T. L. Beddoes)
