Archive for July, 2008

Peter Ueberroth on Sports

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

- Peter Ueberroth

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Dale Dauten on Business

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

- Dale Dauten

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Edvard Munch on Death

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

- Edvard Munch

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William Ernest Hocking on Age

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

- William Ernest Hocking

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Paddy Chayefsky on Politics

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

- Paddy Chayefsky

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George Herbert on War

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

- George Herbert

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e. e. cummings on Nature

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

- e. e. cummings

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Ansel Adams on Art

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

- Ansel Adams

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J. Paul Getty on Jobs & Working

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

- J. Paul Getty

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Society

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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