Monday, March 31, 2014

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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
    -Abraham Lincoln

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Legal advice of the day ....

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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn


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Sunday, March 30, 2014

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.


Seán O'Casey



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Literature is an uttering, or outering, of the human imagination. It lets the shadowy forms of thought and feeling — heaven, hell, monsters, angels and all — out into the light, where we can take a good look at them and perhaps come to a better understanding of who we are and what we want, and what the limits to those wants may be. Understanding the imagination is no longer a pastime, but a necessity; because increasingly, if we can imagine it, we'll be able to do it.
        - Margaret Atwood, "Why We Need Science Fiction", "The Guardian"


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Saturday, March 29, 2014

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"Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. "
— Sarah Dessen



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Friday, March 28, 2014

Quarrel of the day ....

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Meandthespacebarhadanargumentandnowwearenttalking.

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Thought of the day .....

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You can learn a lot about paranoid people just by following them around.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

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"The smell of cooking food is often a calming one."
— Lemony Snicket



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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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"Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart"


— Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga: The Fame music book)


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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Thought of the day ...

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
- Mitch Hedberg

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Phobia of the day ...

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Star Wars joke of the day ....

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Where did Princess Laya go when she got pregnant?


The OBI 1 GYN


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"If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up."
— Dorothy Gambrell (Cat and Girl Volume I)



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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Legal questions of the day ....

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If they arrest a mime on COPS do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

If they have to shoot a mime do they need to use a silencer?

If a parsley farmer is found guilty and has to pay a big fine, do they garnish his wages?

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Insightful statement of the day ....

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"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche



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"The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The moon does not take antidepressants and never gets sent to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran away. The moon has been around a long time and has never tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the moon. When others insult or belittle in an attempt to elevate themselves, the moon sits passively and watches, never lowering itself to anything that weak. The moon is beautiful and bright. It needs no makeup to look beautiful. The moon never shoves clouds out of its way so it can be seen. The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the moon."
— Henry Rollins

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

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"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group.
They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

Michael Moore



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Friday, March 21, 2014

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"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."


E. B. White


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Thought of the day ...

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Think of your life as an inspiring tale of courage and resilience.


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Thursday, March 20, 2014

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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Ovid

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"I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows."
— Roger Zelazny



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If you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

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If you ever drop your keys into a pool of lava, forget about them, cuz man, they're gone

- Jack Handey

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
— Albert Einstein



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I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
Steven Wright

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Monday, March 17, 2014

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"Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. "
— Richelle Mead (Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1))



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Sunday, March 16, 2014

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"You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand."
— L.J. Smith (Secret Vampire (Night World, #1)



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Saturday, March 15, 2014

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“Is it weird in here, or is it just me?”

 Stephen Wright
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Friday, March 14, 2014

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"Nobody likes a clown at midnight"
— Stephen King



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Thursday, March 13, 2014

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"Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)"
— Russell T. Davies



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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

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I first noticed something odd was going on around my thirteenth birthday. Being self absorbed as most teenagers are, I wasn't a keen observer of the world around me unless it directly impacted my comfort or social status. I obsessed about my appearance, keeping my parents from finding out about my failing math grade, and a cute guy with a convertible named Ronnie.

But slowly it dawned on me that there was a full moon and there had been a full moon, every night for as long as I could remember. I started looking out my bedroom window each night to sigh and dream of car rides with Ronnie. Each night there was a big bright full moon moving slowly in a graceful luminous arc across the dazzling night sky. This went on for weeks.  I finally had to admit to myself that this was really really strange.

...... Riven Flow  - "The Tale of the Shifter"

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

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"Well-read people are less likely to be evil."
— Lemony Snicket



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Monday, March 10, 2014

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"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth."
— John Lubbock (The Pleasures of Life)



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Sunday, March 9, 2014

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"Why do you think Beauty picked the Beast? It was the library."
— Chelsea M. Cameron



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Saturday, March 8, 2014

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Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



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Friday, March 7, 2014

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"If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you."
— William Ewart Gladstone

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

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"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish)



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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
— Walter Cronkite



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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
— Vincent van Gogh



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Monday, March 3, 2014

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"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)



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Sunday, March 2, 2014

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"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

— Germaine Greer



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Saturday, March 1, 2014

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"Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?"
— Holly Black



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