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  • "Life is always either a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope."
    — Edith Wharton

    bansaisequoia
    September 25, 2010, 7:27 pm
    I would rather crash in a featherbed than crash after falling off of a tightrope.

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    • "What a demanding pleasure that demands the use of one's mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. "
      — Ayn Rand

      peterdry
      February 28, 2009, 7:45 am
      Spell it correctly
      bansaisequoia
      August 28, 2012, 6:28 pm
      I-T. So do I win the spelling bee?
      Eureka
      March 22, 2019, 1:58 pm
      Perhaps peterdry meant "judgement".

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      • "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
        — Dr. Arbthnot

        bansaisequoia
        May 21, 2009, 9:53 pm
        The author of this quote would seem to be John Arbuthnot. (link)

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        • "Bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible. Still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
          — Abraham Lincoln

          PianoManGidley
          April 10, 2009, 7:52 pm
          Thorough would disagree with the second sentence.
          bansaisequoia
          May 15, 2010, 6:51 pm
          Thoreau?
          Allen
          November 22, 2012, 5:31 pm
          Thoroughly Thoreau.

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          • "It is pleasant at times to play the madman."
            — Seneca

            bansaisequoia
            October 8, 2010, 11:36 pm
            What do you mean, "play" the madman?
            maradnu
            December 19, 2010, 1:46 am
            I have found it so.
            bansaisequoia
            February 25, 2012, 7:18 pm
            Play?
            dovid1946
            December 24, 2014, 1:08 pm
            pretend to be the madman? like Hamlet?

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            • "If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. "
              — Joseph Addison

              bansaisequoia
              June 16, 2009, 10:19 pm
              What about hyenas?

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              • "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
                — Austin O'Malley

                reader4
                September 3, 2011, 5:28 am
                This is from "The Cure of Alcoholism," 1913. O'Malley, U.S. physician and humorist (1858 - 1932), is saying here that if you have a roving or lustful eye you will not be happy.
                bansaisequoia
                February 13, 2012, 6:37 pm
                But my eye never makes a sound. D'oh! now you've changed the entire context! Happiness escapes again.

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                • "Our determination to imitate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters."
                  — Desiderius Erasmus

                  bansaisequoia
                  September 9, 2009, 10:15 pm
                  Okay. So maybe I'll change some water into wine and go hang with Mary Magdalene. Just doing my part.

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                  • "A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep? "
                    — Unattributed

                    opallady
                    April 9, 2009, 2:50 am
                    Great straight-line, but I'll try to behave and leave it alone.
                    maradnu
                    June 21, 2009, 1:20 am
                    Age of consent, dear. Age of consent.
                    pootie49
                    January 11, 2010, 2:44 pm
                    Dang it, this is a family site...too bad.
                    bansaisequoia
                    November 24, 2010, 5:25 am
                    Unattributed is a person for all ages.

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                    • "It's only during an eclipse that the Man in the Moon has a place in the sun. "
                      — Unattributed

                      bansaisequoia
                      October 31, 2012, 7:23 pm
                      Doesn't this quote seem particularly dumb, since there is one side of the moon which is always bathed in sunlight, EXCEPT during an eclipse??? I give it ten stars for possible errors, but spelling and grammar are just fine. Maybe unattributed is really Fox News Fact Checker.
                      montyb
                      January 14, 2013, 10:15 pm
                      Actually, the moon does rotate on its own axis giving both sides the same day/night phenomenon as Earth. Its diurnal cycle is approximately one month which is the same as its orbital cycle around the Earth. When combined the result is only one side of the moon faces Earth, yet both sides get direct sunlight for two weeks each month.
                      WRQ9
                      November 11, 2013, 9:17 am
                      That is one of the most intriguing astrological facts I have ever known. Such precision must indicate a common motive source. Actual synchronization, over millenia!
                      montyb
                      September 15, 2014, 2:47 pm
                      It is the result of tidal forces (differential gravitational pulls on different parts of the moon) which stretch the moon slightly and cause a differential placement between the moon's center of mass and its center of gravity. The result is a torque that has locked the moon into its orbital period matching its rotational period. Eventually, the earth will become tidally locked on the moon (should the sun last that long.

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                      • "It is better to succeed with success than failure. "
                        — George W. Bush

                        bansaisequoia
                        May 21, 2012, 7:08 pm
                        Mission accomplished!

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                        • "The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."
                          — J. Michael Straczynski

                          bonsaisequoia
                          July 31, 2009, 6:41 pm
                          This quote comes to you from a guy who writes comic books!

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                          • "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "
                            — Andy Warhol

                            bansaisequoia
                            August 9, 2009, 12:00 am
                            This seems antithetical to the notion that a nation needs a Ministry of Culture or a National Endowment for the Arts to promote its aesthetic values. I'd have to Google it, but I hope he never received a grant from either sort of institution. (Of course, were he alive today, Warhol might view me as plebeian who didn't understand his deep, underlying meaning.)
                            bansaisequoia
                            May 24, 2013, 3:45 pm
                            This quote is by Windy Airhole.

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                            • "Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly."
                              — H.L. Mencken

                              maradnu
                              May 18, 2009, 1:27 am
                              Mencken had no problems - there was no one inferior to him.
                              bansaisequoia
                              August 21, 2009, 7:04 pm
                              Not even Jack Handey?

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                              • "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. "
                                — Juvenal

                                momof6
                                March 1, 2009, 5:33 am
                                tuition can be steep
                                bansaisequoia
                                October 11, 2009, 1:08 am
                                College Tuition 2007-2008 1. George Washington 2. Bucknell 3. University of Richmond 4. Colgate 5. Sarah Lawrence College 6. Tulane 7. Wesleyan University 8. Hamilton College 9. Bowdoin College 10. Carnegie Mellon 11. Penn 12. Johns Hopkins 13. Bennington College 14. Tufts University 15. Brown 16. Vassar College 17. NYU 18. USC 19. Notre Dame 20. Dartmouth 1.$39,210 2.$37,934 3.$37,610 4.$37,405 5.$37,230 6.$36,610 7.$36,536 8.$36,500 9.$36,370 10.$35,984 11.$35,916 12.$35,900 13.$35,850 14.$35,842 15.$35,584 16.$35,570 17.$35,283 18.$35,212 19.$35,190 20.$35,178

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