Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)
November 30, 2008
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“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.” – Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Laron Landry, Redskins Safety
November 27, 2008
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“You think about him alot, about the things we did and what we could have done.”
First Lady Laura Bush
November 26, 2008
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“I’v'e been talking to some publishers, but nothing has happened yet – just a few visits.” – First Lady Laura Bush
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
November 24, 2008
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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
May Sarton (1912 – 1995)
The geese honked overhead
I ran to catch the skein
To watch them as they fled
In a long wavering line.
— May Sarton (1912–95)
Puplilius Syrus, Roman writer (1st century B.C.)
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
– Puplilius Syrus, Roman writer (1st century B.C.)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
No shade, no shine, no butterflies,
no bees
No fruit, no flowers, no leaves,
two quotes
The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. -Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)
When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)
Andrew Cohen, professor of linguistics (b. 1944)
“If you know only one language, you’re a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.” – Andrew Cohen, professor of linguistics (b. 1944)
