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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)
[Bart's voice] Yo, what’s happenin' man, this is Bart Simpson [laughs], [normal voice] [...] [Bart's voice] Just kidding, don’t hang up, this is Nancy Cartwright.
nancy cartwright— Quoted in Olshansky, Elliot (2009-01-28). Bart Simpson's voice being used to promote Scientology event. New York Daily News. Retrieved on 2009-01-28.
— Cartwright promoting a Scientology event via a robocall.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
jean cocteau— "Anubis" in Act 2 of The Infernal Machine (1932); Collected Works Vol. 5 (1948).
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)
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)
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).
I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what’s happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they’re becoming more and more preparatory because that’s what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.
ezra miller— Interview, The Cinema Source, September 8, 2011 [2]
It seems that a lot of people, who haven’t known of me as a pianist, think I’ve just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what’s happened now.
dudley moore— Interview, Jazz Professional, 1966 [1]
There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about — what’s this with all these reforms — you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation.
ingrid newkirk— “Animal Rights 2002” convention, 2002June 30
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))
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)
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
iain banks— Chapter Ten (p. 316)
We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.
alfred bester— Chapter 6 (p. 98)
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"
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?
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 386)
See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around.
dave matthews— The Best Of What's Around
If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 4 (p. 36)
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
What’s gone, and what’s past help, Should be past grief.
— Paulina, scene ii
"What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes."
hal abelson— Source: mitcet
What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?
hal clement— Mission of Gravity, Chapter 14 (1954)
My name is Mr. Fischer. What’s your name?
joschka fischer— When asked about his name by President Bush (2005-10-22) [1]
“It would have been a longer and slower job, I’m sure, and probably there would have been a high price to pay. But what is the price of freedom?” “What’s the price of life?” Donald countered bitterly.
john brunner— continuity (37) “Storage”
“What are you doing here?” I asked at last. “Probably the same thing you are.” “What’s that?” She looked serious. “Why don’t you tell me?” I went back to my knife. “Sharpening my machete.” “I'm sharpening my mind ,” she said. “There is something to be done that will require an edge on both.”
samuel r. delany— Section 2 (The Einstein Intersection (1967))
“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)
What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
— Duke Vincentio, scene i
