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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)
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)
“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)
But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?
John Henry O'Hara— 1940 Pal Joey, ch.1.
I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?
chris carrabba— As Lovers Go
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.
Thing is: the internet’s made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It’s what’s there. That’s the basic equipment.
merlin mann— KungFu Grippe
To form a truly free constitution, that’s to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what’s at stake…
jean-paul marat— Letter to Camille Desmoulins (1792-06-24) in Œuvres de Desmoulins p. 76ff
Life ain’t all beer and skittles, and more’s the pity; but what’s the odds, so long as you’re happy?
george du maurier— Trilby (1894).
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".
Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what’s in life... Art wants to give back everything what’s in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.
bram van velde— Letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (english translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Christian Science Monitor (21 July 1971)
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)
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
Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest.
piet hein— Those Who Know
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first.
robert jordan— Lini (The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993))
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)
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— Martin Luther, Table Talk (1569), 3552.
Our theories stand. We both see clearly; we know what’s right. Even if it’s not always possible to act on it, don’t you think it matters to be able to call things by their true names?
— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 386) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
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))
What’s thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn’t known was there.
james richardson— #454 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
"What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?"
al sharpton— As quoted in National Review (20 March 2000)
"What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes."
— Source: mitcet
What’s being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there’s a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
— George Gilder Interview with the Boston Globe (July 27, 2005)
"I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?"
— “Ai Weiwei "Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again..." in: Guardian, November 25, 2011.
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What’s more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you’ll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.
garry kasparov— Garry Kasparov in: Kasparov’s book sees chess as...Way to success, The Trinidad Guardian, 26 March 2008
