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Quote(s) of the Day: from Another Roadside Attraction May 4, 2008

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“Normally,”

said Marvelous,

“the Institute
concerns itself
with probing
relatively specific
problems
and
situations.”

For example, the State Department
and the Defense Department signed
a joint contract with us for a study of Iceland.

They wanted to know where
Iceland was going in the modern world,
whether she would be likely to constitute
a threat.

Considering her history and her racial character, her current state of economic growth, scientific activity and political ambitions, what should be America’s long-range policy in regards to Iceland?

In our twice-weekly seminars, where
we would pool the results of individual research and think sessions, we dined on fish heads and mead and piped in rímur music, that’s how immersed in Iceland we were.

. We even turned the air conditioner up as high
. as it would go to get the feel of the climate.
.
. The assistant director caught a terrible cold
. and missed ten days.
.
. That study was top secret, naturally,
and I’m violating security by mentioning it,
but what the hell.

You see, generally, what kind of projects we undertook?

“Yes, I see,”
said Amanda.

“It sounds ever so important.”

Was Amanda giggling
or clearing her sinuses?
Marx Marvelous
could not tell which.

“It is necessary
that man extend his vision
beyond the political realities
of the present,”
said Marx,
somewhat defensively.

“When science can assist him in that, it is his duty.”

~ from Another Roadside Attraction

a novel by Tom Robbins

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Quote(s) of the Day: from Bucky Fuller April 30, 2008

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*

Now there is one outstandingly important fact
regarding Spaceship Earth,

and that is that
no instruction book
came with it.

*

The Things
to do are:

the things
that need doing,
that you see need
to be done,

and that no one else
seems to see
need to be done.

You
never
change
things
by
fighting
the
existing
reality.

To
change
something,
build
a
new
model
that
makes
the
existing
model
obsolete.

~ Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895–1983)

Every picture tells a story:

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everywhere else on this site)
to learn more…

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Picture/Quote of the Day: from Kurt Vonnegut April 11, 2008

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So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)

God

Bless

You,

Mr. Vonnegut.

Why go on? March 25, 2008

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Why do i even do this?

i get hundreds of visitors a day @ this site, and people are hotlinking to it
left and right, but no comments, no thanks, no nothin’.

Does anybody out there even like what i’m doing here, or is this site just a source of free music and photos for your LiveJournal or MySpace or Facebook profiles or message board posts to try and help you look cool to your friends?

i’m tired of always sending letters and never getting any back.

~~i think i’m gonna quit this exercise in futility and delete everything pretty soon, so~~ download all you can while you still can, kids…

Quote of the Day: from Jane Hirshfield December 6, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself.

Everything I think about the nature of this life
comes down to seven words:

Everything is connected;
everything changes;
pay attention.

And really, you only need the last two — if you’re paying attention, you’ll find out whatever else
you need to know.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Internet Map image by Chris Harrison

Jane Hirshfield photo by Shawn Cady Spelman

J.H. on the www: official site | Wikipedia

poets.org | csmonitor.com | poetryfoundation.org

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Quote of the Day: from Still Life With Woodpecker November 30, 2007

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Who knows how to make love stay?

1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s Deli
on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a
cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
It will stay.

2. Tell love you want a
memento of it and obtain
a lock of its hair.
Burn the hair in a dime-store
incense burner with yin/yang
symbols on three sides.
Face southwest. Talk fast
over the burning hair in a
convincingly exotic language.
Remove the ashes of the
burnt hair and use them to
paint a mustache on your face.
Find love.
Tell it you are someone new.
It will stay.

3. Wake love up in the middle of the night.
Tell it the world is on fire.
Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it.
Casually return to bed and assure love that
everything is going to be all right.
Fall asleep.
Love will be there in the morning.

~ from Still Life With Woodpecker

a novel by Tom Robbins

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Quote of the Day: from Lloyd Dobler October 27, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything,
or process anything as a career.
I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed,
or buy anything sold or processed,
or process anything sold, bought, or processed,
or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.

You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that…

~ Lloyd Dobler

Say Anything

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Quote(s)/YouTube Video of the Day: Early Flight October 22, 2007

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.

~ Winston Churchill

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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Quote(s) of the Day: from Martin Luther King, Jr. April 5, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.

Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence.

. The hope of a secure and livable
. world lies with disciplined
. nonconformists who are dedicated
. to justice, peace and brotherhood.
.
. Peace is not merely a distant goal
. that we seek, but a means by which
. we arrive at that goal.
.

One has not only a legal, but
a moral responsibility to obey
just laws. Conversely, one has
a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws.

. Power properly understood
. is nothing but the ability
. to achieve purpose.
.
. It is the strength required
. to bring about social, political
. and economic change.

What is needed is a realization
that power without love is
reckless and abusive, and
love without power is
sentimental and anemic.

Power at its best is love
implementing the demands of
justice, and justice at its best
is power correcting everything
that stands against love.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)

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Quote of the Day: from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry January 15, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple:
on ne voit bien
qu’avec le cœur.
L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

***

Here is my secret. It is very simple.
It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
from The Little Prince, 1943

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Quote of the Day: from Timothy Leary November 24, 2006

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

Any reality is an opinion.

You make up your own reality.

Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

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Quote of the Day: from the film “Waking Life” September 25, 2006

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

The quest is to be liberated from the negative,
which is really our own will to nothingness.

And once having said yes to the instant,
the affirmation is contagious.

It bursts into a chain of affirmations
that knows no limit.

To say yes to one instant
is to say yes to all of existence.

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More quotes from the film here and here.

Read an interesting essay about this film.

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Quote of the Day: from Samuel Beckett April 5, 2006

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

I write about myself with the same pencil
and in the same exercise book as about him.

It is no longer I,
but another whose life is just beginning.

~ Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)