Friday, March 5, 2010

Is it how?

This is not the end — this is not even the beginning of the end — this is the end of the beginning.
— Winston Churchhill of the Battle of El Allamain (turning point for the North African campaign in WWII, and the first real American assisted victory).

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
— Francis Bacon

Paranoid Splendor = elations/delusions of grandeur.

Creature of havoc, wrecker of doom.

The remedy of those who are uneasy without a known cause is change of place.
— Samuel Johnson

Tim Morris has styled me as a "learn-a-tic."

Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
— Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. 1, p. 448, July 21, 1863.

"What's the difference," Bursky said. "Who cares what the point of the story is? If it even has a point. It was an entertaining anecdote. Let's order."
— Woody Allen, "The Shallowest Man," in Side Effects, p.111.

As human society evolves, the names of sins become increasingly long and complicated.
— Virgil Demoianu

Premise: Ways to tell that you have died and gone to heaven:
1. Pizza delivery — "Don't burn yourself, it's pretty hot!"
2. Car repair — "Sure we have the part, we'll put it right on."
3. Sales — "Oh! That's the old price, it's much cheaper now."

Each particle of space is eternal; each indivisible moment of duration is everywhere.
— Isaac Newton, III, 42.

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