QotITM
sig for A.Word.A.Day from Feb 2, 2011 ("spartan"):
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
A.W.A.D sig for Feb 4, 2011 ("verdigris"):
"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born."
-William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
A.W.A.D sig for "fescinnine":
"The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property."
-Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
A.W.A.D sig for "laconic":
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
A.W.A.D sig for Feb 4, 2011 ("verdigris"):
"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born."
-William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
A.W.A.D sig for "fescinnine":
"The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property."
-Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
A.W.A.D sig for "laconic":
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)