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In regards to the current administration, future administrations, and the comic by Tom Tomorrow of yesterday's post:

"[...] the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin (emphasis added, p. 55, The Fire Down Below, 1962)

Posted by hollyarn on April 30, 2008 at 11:23 AM in Non-Quotidian Quote, Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Just a little something to think about...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones that you did."--Mark Twain

Posted by hollyarn on April 26, 2008 at 01:52 PM in Non-Quotidian Quote | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Pleasure...

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."--Voltaire

Posted by hollyarn on April 22, 2008 at 05:58 PM in Non-Quotidian Quote, Philosophy/Philosophers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Non-Quotidian Quote

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880):

"[...] human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

(As qtd. in Gary Lindberg's essay--"Coming to Words: Writing as Process and the Reading of Literature.")

Posted by hollyarn on March 27, 2007 at 11:44 AM in Non-Quotidian Quote | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I think I'll buy one tomorrow...

  • I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after. (Supposedly said by Oscar Wilde, but perhaps really by Mark Twain.)
  • It's back!  Threadless T-Shirts' Procrastinator T-shirt:

Procrastinators_2

Posted by hollyarn on February 19, 2007 at 10:12 PM in Non-Quotidian Quote, Retail Therapy | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

From the Non-Quotidian Quote File

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."

-William O. Douglas (Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975)

No knitting to speak of today--way too busy with an extremely crazy week at school. 

Nonetheless, it is impossible to ignore the outrageous words of 
Pres. Bush
:  "[...]It is unacceptable to think [...]".  

These are of course words taken from his speech (from last Friday, Sept. 15) which was--in essence--a response to Colin Powell's finally getting some guts together and standing up for the basic beliefs of this country and its promises to uphold the rules of the Geneva Convention  (too bad he didn't have any balls/ovaries prior to helping us start a war in Iraq!).  Contextually speaking, the "unacceptable to think" was spoken in connection with Bush's stated belief that there is no way anyone could compare the actions of terrorists to the actions of some people in the U.S. government.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  We cannot deny Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, or the CIA's Secret Renditions of "supposed" enemies/people to secret prisons in Europe and the Middle East.

Of course, Keith Olbermann's commentary says it all (and so much better than I ever could):

Olbermannunacceptable_to_think_1 

And again--Vote, people! VOTE! And remember to register to vote if you aren't or haven't done so already.

Posted by hollyarn on September 20, 2006 at 10:49 AM in Non-Quotidian Quote, Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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