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July 2012

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Sun, 07/01/2012 - 11:01 — Site Meister
  • Sunday, 1st:
    I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
    I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
    ⇒ Woody Allen
  • Thursday, 5th:
    Post proelium, praemium.
        [After the battle, the reward.]
  • Sunday, 8th:
    When the fog came in on little cat feet last night, it left these little muddy paw prints on the hood of my car.
  • Saturday, 14th:
    Q:    How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    A:    None:  The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
  • Wednesday, 18th:
    Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
  • Monday, 23rd:
    Rebellion Postponement:
        The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful
    activities and artistic experiences in order to obtain serious career
    experience.  Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth at about
    age thirty, followed by silly haircuts and expensive joke-inducing
    wardrobes.
            ⇒ Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture"
  • Wednesday, 25th:
    “If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when the're reading to themselves.”
     ⇒ Don Marquis
  • Tuesday, 31st:
    “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
    the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
    program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation.    ”
    ⇒ Norman Thomas (circa 1936)

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