Saturday, 30 June 2012
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Monday, 25 June 2012
Mutual Self-Deception
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce,
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Sunday, 24 June 2012
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Friday, 22 June 2012
Imperfect Tenderness
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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Ambrose Bierce,
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Post-Procrastination
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Monday, 18 June 2012
Emeritus
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
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Niels Bohr
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Uncalled To Account
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art;
it is the part the schools cannot recognise.
— James Joyce
— James Joyce
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James Joyce
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Man In Before You
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
— James Joyce
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James Joyce
Friday, 15 June 2012
The Burden of Proof
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes.
It is innocent, unless found guilty.
A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe.
It is guilty, until found effective.
— Edward Teller
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Edward Teller
Thursday, 14 June 2012
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