[2502] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Jun 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sat Jun 16 01:35:35 1990
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 90 01:35:09 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
Off to the TeX conference! Back very late on the 21st.
``The modern conference resembles the pilgrimage of medieval
Christendom in that it allows the participants to indulge themselves
in all the pleasures and diversions of travel while appearing to be
austerely bent on self-improvement. To be sure, there are certain
penitential exercises to be performed --- the presentation of a paper,
perhaps, and certainly listening to the papers of others. But with
this excuse you journey to new and interesting places, meet new and
interesting people, and form new and interesting relationships with
them; exchange gossip and confidences (for your well-worn stories are
fresh to them, and vice-versa); eat, drink and make merry in their
company every evening; and yet, at the end of it all, return home with
an enhanced reputation for seriousness of mind.''
-- David Lodge, ``Small World,'' quoted in ``The University: An Owner's
Manual,'' by Henry Rosovsky, from the ``Noted With Pleasure''
column of the May 20, 1990 Book Review section of the NYT.
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the
way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an
indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less
important to him than his table or his white robe.
- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-10 at Fri Jun 15 22:17:36 EDT 1990.
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
The best of the 36 plans is to run away.
- Frank Korean Proverb
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mvelezre (Miguel . Velez-Reyes):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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richmond (Jonathan E. D. Richmond):
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe the
more often and the more intensely the mind is drawn to them: the
starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
-- Immanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or even out of it, which
can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will... Power,
riches, honor, even health, and the general well being and contentment
with one's condition, which is called happiness, inspire pride, and
often presumption, if there is not a Good Will to correct the influence
of these on the mind, and with this to rectify the whole principle of
acting, and adapt it to its end.
-- Immanuel Kant
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Man is Born Free...
... And is everywhere in trains
-- (After) Rousseau
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