December 2007
21 posts
“The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.”
– Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts...”
– Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
– Antonio Gramsci, Letter from Prison
WatchAeon by Celestial Aeon Project
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.”
– Pablo Picasso, On the first moon landing (NYT)
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“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Complete Works
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist...”
– Charles Bukowski, Notes From a Dirty Old Man
“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have...”
– Victor Hugo, Love in Prison
Iran stops selling oil in U.S. dollars →
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has completely stopped selling any of its oil for U.S. dollars, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday, citing the oil minister of the world’s fourth-largest crude producer. [ via Yahoo! News UK & Ireland ]
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an...”
– William James, Principles of Psychology
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
– English idiom
