[2510] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Jun 20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Jun 20 01:21:50 1990
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 01:21:25 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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asrivkin (Andrew of the Hill People):
we must be ever moving like the shark
lest we become melifluous like the erstwhile fruitbat.
or something.
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bblit (Scott I Berkenblit):
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
I have stripped off my dress; must I put it on again? I have washed my feet;
must I soil them again?
When my beloved slipped his hand through the latch-hole, my bowels stirred
within me [my bowels were moved for him (KJV)].
When I arose to open for my beloved, my hands dripped with myrrh; the liquid
myrrh from my fingers ran over the knobs of the bolt. With my own hands I
opened to my love, but my love had turned away and gone by; my heart sank when
he turned his back. I sought him but I did not find him, I called him but he
did not answer.
The watchmen, going the rounds of the city, met me; they struck me and
wounded me; the watchmen on the walls took away my cloak.
[Song of Solomon 5:3-7 (NEB)]
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fiza (Nasser Aziz Ahmad):
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw
any reason to limit myself.
-- Emo Philips
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lavin (Anne R LaVin):
In a cover story, Newsweek magazine reports that the greenhouse effect is
getting worse and nobody can stop it and the polar ice caps are going to
melt and we're all going to die. Next week's cover: Cher.
- stolen from the Dave Barry discuss meeting
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
He who wishes to become rich must become a swine.
- Congenial Polish Proverb
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may (G. May Yip):
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mmachlis (Matthew A Machlis):
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pwkan (Paul W.H. Kan):
Le plus grand defait de la penetration n'est pas de n'aller
point jusqu'au but, c'est de le passer.
--Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes
We [ie the human man "Equality 7-2521"] have come to see how
great is the unexplored, and many lifetimes will not bring us
to the end of our quest. But we wish no end to our quest. We
wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if
with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and
clearer than rock crystal.
--Equality 7-2521, in Ayn Rand's Anthem
If it were only for vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of
action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent. . .to the
end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate
and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker
how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor
of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quary from whence we get
tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to
learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the
field and the work-yard made.
--R.W. Emerson, "The American Scholar"
Man manufactures a tool and by that action enriches the
totality of physical objects present in the world. Once produced,
the tool has a being of its own that cannot be readily changed by
those who employ it. Indeed the tool (say, an agricultural implement)
may even enforce the logic of its being upon its users, sometimes in
a way that may not be particularly agreeable to them.... Man invents
a language and then finds that both his speaking and his thinking are
dominated by its grammar. Man produces values and discovers that he
feels guilty when he contravenes them. Man concocts institutions,
which come to confront him as powerfully controlling and even menacing
constellations of the external world. . . .
Above all, society maintains itself by its coercive power.
The final test of its objective reality is its capacity to impose
itself upon the reluctance of individuals.... In other words, the
fundamental coerciveness of society lies not in its machineries of
social control, but in its power to constitute and to impose itself
as reality.... It is not enough that the individual look upon the key
meanings of the social order as useful, desirable, or right. It is
much better (better, that is, in terms of social stability) if he
looks upon them as inevitable, as part and parcel of the universal
"nature of things". If that can be achieved, the individual who
strays seriously from the socially defined programs can be considered
not only a fool or a knave, but a madman. Subjectively, then, serious
deviance provokes not only moral guilt but the terror of madness.
--Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy
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