April 2010
13 posts
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“The reason the web works as wonderfully as it does is because the medium leads...”
– Stephen Johnson, The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book
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“The thing we find discouraging about the ghost world is not its areas of candid...”
– E.B. White, Ghostwriting
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“I sat there reflecting that under the surface of those placid waters endless...”
– Robert Traver, Back-Yard Trout Fishing
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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Happy the man who escapes
the storm at sea and reaches harbor.
Happy, too, is...”
– Chorus, Euripides’ Bacchae
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“The national-security expert Gregory Treverton has famously made a distinction...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, Open Secrets
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“O mankind, so often wrong and useless,
why do you teach countless skills,
and...”
– Theseus, Euripides’ Hippolytus
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Society Slang
projectgutenberg:
“This is an elegant day,” “that is an elegant view,” “Mary is awfully nice,” “Jennie is dreadfully sweet,” “Gertrude is delicious,” and “Tom is perfectly splendid.” The use of such extravagant phrases tends to weaken the significance of the words when legitimately employed.
- John H. Bechtel, Slips of Speech: a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday...
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“But surely it is not true either that the other things are made out of the forms...”
– Aristotle’s Metaphysics, translated by Joe Sachs
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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write
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“As I see it, it probably really is good for the soul to be a tourist, even if...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“That [wisdom] is not a productive knowledge is clear too from those who first...”
– Aristotle’s Metaphysics, translated by Joe Sachs
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“Did motion at some time come into being, not having been present before, and is...”
– Aristotle’s Physics, translated by Joe Sachs 