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quote:Because we believe that a single human life is like a universe. If you want to understand the miracle of creation, look at the face of a child.
--Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, on Thought for the Day (14 Sep 2004)
Book-related linky isn't working for me! *keens* Dammit.
Sorry. That would be me, linking to our development server instead of the live.
You saw nothing. *tips hat, glances round, vanishes*
(I mean to say, it's working now.)
For today's quotation, take your pick!
quote:Er lügt, daß sich die Balken biegen, nur um dich ins Bett zu kriegen
Und dann am nächsten Morgen weiß er nicht einmal mehr, wie du heißt
[roughly "He lies like anything merely to get you into bed
And then the next morning, he hasn't a clue what your name is"]
translated here
Very cool journal.
--John Bell on TFTD
quote:The issue, to use a Biblical term, is to ensure that judges (like God) judge with justice.
Judges who judge with justice! That's almost as good as the video I saw in a store last night that promised "a deadly battle to the death"...
Sorry, another one, but I couldn't resist.
--Temporary teetotalitarianism
quote:People silently marvelled at my great ability to hold my drink. Which is always a good thing to hear.
Can't decide whether I prefer the quotation or the headline.
(People other than me are always welcome to submit a QOTD, by the way!)
--For a Happy Marriage, Treat Hubby Like Fido (MSNBC)
quote:Here's what I think is the problem with marriage: it's too easy to get married. Self-help gurus would sell fewer books, but there would be far fewer divorces, if people would learn that it's not enough to be in love with someone to get married. You also have to be in love with the idea of being married. This means that you and your partner will be a team. And the team is more important than its individual players. If you're not ready to accept that, you're not ready to get married.
"The success of a marriage does not depend on learning how to handle your spouse. It does not depend on subjugating yourself and your partner to some antiquated model of behavior. If you want to find true happiness, my advice is this: get your head out of the book and look at the person you married."
*applauds*
Dumbing down, what be that?
quote:To some, grey squirrels are the Commandos of the animal world - an elite fighting force raiding bird feeders with military precision. But do they deserve this reputation? "Wildlife on One" puts one squirrel through an intense military training programme to find out how tough they really are
BBC Wildlife (which, to give it its due, is normally reasonably gobsmackingly good)
Dark Habits - A Film directed by Almodovar
Synopsis
An Almodovar comedy set in a rundown Madrid convent where the un-convent-ional nuns write soft porn, get high, and design fabulous evening wear! Spanish dialogue with subtitles.
quote:"The storm raged, the wind blew, rain and snow came down. Stones were thrown, a brickbat striking the head of Sergeant Fellowes, breaking his head, and causing the loss of a pint of blood. He was taken to the hospital, had his head bandaged, and came back leaping and praising God."
--The War Cry, journal of the Salvation Army
From the Second Vatican Council: Declaration on Religious Freedom - Dignitatis Humane, proclaimed by Pope Paul VI in 1965.
quote:It is in accordance with their dignity as persons--that is, beings endowed with reason and free will and therefore privileged to bear personal responsibility--that all men should be at once impelled by nature and also bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth. They are also bound to adhere to the truth, once it is known, and to order their whole lives in accord with the demands of truth. However, men cannot discharge these obligations in a manner in keeping with their own nature unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as well as psychological freedom. Therefore the right to religious freedom has its foundation not in the subjective disposition of the person, but in his very nature. In consequence, the right to this immunity continues to exist even in those who do not live up to their obligation of seeking the truth and adhering to it and the exercise of this right is not to be impeded, provided that just public order be observed.
From email sent to dad:
--Mutt
quote:>"The iPod part of Apple now has a yearly turnover of about £2billion. . ."<
I always did like a good Apple turnover.
*hands out brickbats*
quote:"Truth is like smoke in a room. You cannot see it after a while but until you open the windows it will not go away."
--Telegraph: Even in death, China's reformer provokes defiance
quote:One zombie -- pfft. Shotgun, cliff, auto bumper, something. Ten zombies -- reload, keep shoving, try a semi. 100 zombies... you're boned. You just are.
--Ree
quote:There have been complaints that particularly enthusiastic Mormons have been carrying out proxy baptisms for prominent historical and religious figures including the members of other faiths.
--Baptism for the Dead
quote:We try to explain, and the explanation of one fact contradicts another. Behind each veil removed, another. All things equal in wonder. One drop of water as wonderful as all the seas; one grain of sand as all the world; one moth with painted wings as all the things that live; one egg from which warmth, in darkness, woos to life an organized and breathing form -- a form with sinews, bones and nerves, with blood and brain, with instincts, passions, thoughts and wants -- as all the stars that wheel in space.
--"Superstition" - Robert G. Ingersoll
quote:sweetfires:
My Dark Lord is laughing at your Dark Lord. :D
hellmutt:
Cute!
Let's make them fight.
sweetfires:
Dark Lord Pokemon battles!
Goblinmon! I choose you!