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03/02/2017

"Y el circo mediático, hoy por hoy, es el deporte rey...de los que espolean los más bajos instintos."

And the media circus, day by day, is the king of sports...of the kind that stirs up our most primitive instincts.

- Jesús Lens Espinosa de los Monteros (blog, April 2012)

02/21/2017

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr, "The Irony of American History", 1952

01/28/2017

Montaigne's Essays rebuke societies enraptured by superficialities or torn apart by political idols. Montaigne’s was such a society, and so perhaps is ours.

- Jeffrey Collins, writing for The Wall Street Journal

01/18/2017

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

- Calvin Coolidge, US President, 1923 – 1929

01/18/2017

I found that the eye was the most superficial of all the senses; the ear, the most proud; the smell, the most voluptuous; the taste, the most superstitious and the most inconstant; the touch, the deepest.

Je trouvais que, de tous les sens, l'oeil était le plus superficiel ; l'oreille, le plus orgueilleux ; l'odorat, le plus voluptueux ; le goût, le plus superstitieux et le plus inconstant ; le toucher, le plus profond.

-Denis Diderot, Letter on deaf-mutes / Lettre sur les sourds-muets, 1751

11/14/2016

"There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah..."

- Leonard Cohen, 21 September 1934 - 7 November 2016, R.I.P.

09/30/2016

"This is the Verbal Abuse Room, you heap of parrot droppings!"

- Code Academy online course, automated response to user input

07/27/2016

Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques
Dormez vous ? Dormez vous ?
Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines,
Ding ding d**g
Ding ding d**g

Le père Jacques de l'archidiocèse de Rouen fut martyrisé le 26 juillet 2016 à Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.

06/22/2016

"Mal nommer les choses, c'est ajouter au malheur du monde...
Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world."
- Albert Camus (1944)

04/25/2016

All bureaucratic organizations work for the public good. Bureaucracy serves to expose the evils of commerce, and the need for the governed to be controlled. Sanctity resides on the side of government. The mass media support this.
- Russian blogger

04/01/2016

"More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read."
- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895)

03/23/2016

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know pizza.
- Adaptation of a Jimi Hendrix quote by the "We, The Pizza" restaurant in Washington D.C.

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