Quote of the Day

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

- Walter Lippmann

Same old same old

Clocked in at 108.6 kg again this morning, which means I haven't done any progress since May 30th. On the bright side, I've rarely been much over 110 so it seems I've stabilized.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain.

- Theodor Adorno

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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

- Howard Stern

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- John Dryden

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It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

- Cynthia E. Varnado

I's got a new job!

Got a new job teaching at a high school almost two hours north of where I currently live. Interviewed for it Thursday and the area seemed very nice, as did my future co-workers. Things be looking up, dawg.

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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
- Machiavelli

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While there's life, there's hope.
- Terents

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

- Pericles

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The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Deity.

- Charles Darwin

Quote of the Day

Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

- Richard Harkness

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Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

- Lewis Grizzard

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He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
- Mark Twain

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Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

- Jean Sibelius

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
- Ann Landers

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"If everybody minded their own business", the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does".
- Lewis Carroll (from "Alice in Wonderland")

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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

- Kinky Friedman

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My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk until I faint.

- Emma Brombeck

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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
- James Russel Lowell

Mah weight

Ish down to 108.6 kg this morning. Waiting for the weather to get nice enough that I can take a walk in the forest again. Imma reach 105 kg before the summer holidays or die trying.

Quote of the Day

A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
- W.H. Auden

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it at all, existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
- H. G. Wells

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To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he temporarily died to save it from himself. But none of that really matters because most people will be tortured for eternity anyways.
- Matt Miller

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If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
- Jack Handy

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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell

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A kiss on your hand may make you feel very, very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.
- Anita Loos

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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
- Bruce Feirstein

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A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
- Don Quinn

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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
- Robert M. Pirsig