Justice Clarence Thomas
April 18, 2009
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“That’s one thing about this job, you get a little tired.” – Justice Clarence Thomas, responding to questions about life on the Supreme Court from the winners of a high school essay contest.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
April 18, 2009
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.” – Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
April 18, 2009
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. – Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
R. Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — R. Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary
Carol Sparks, town manager of Carthage, N.C
April 18, 2009
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“This doesn’t happen in Carthage; this is brand new to us. Everybody right now is in a state of shock. I am too.” – Carol Sparks, town manager of Carthage, N.C., where a gunman opened fire at a nursing home and killed seven elderly patients and a nurse and injured several others.
Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
April 16, 2009
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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
Woodrow Wilson
April 16, 2009
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” — Woodrow Wilson
Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
April 16, 2009
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Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. – Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
Bob Vistinar, G.M. worker
April 16, 2009
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“What we’ve worked for, for 25 years, can be gone in 25 days, basically. That’s how fast this is moving.” – Bob Vistinar, G.M. worker, on the company’s efforts to reconcile its restructuring with union contracts.
