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Timothy Garton Ash quote: "To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate..."

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech. Mahatma Gandhi
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. Ian MacKaye
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I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community. Boomer Esiason
Parker Stevenson quote: "Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion..."
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Henri Frederic Amiel quote: "If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Henri Frederic Amiel
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?"
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde quote: "Art only begins where Imitation ends."
Art only begins where Imitation ends. Oscar Wilde
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. Bruce Sterling
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Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars. Chuck Palahniuk
William Barclay quote: "Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are."
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. William Barclay
What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized? Michael Cunningham
While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.” If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence. Emile M. Cioran