| Roll Call for Monday, July 13 |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -- biologist Thomas Huxley
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| Roll Call for Sunday, July 12 |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|07:38 pm] |
"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." -- writer and NPR commentator Frank Deford
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| Roll Call for Saturday, July 11 |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|12:10 pm] |
"Being a writer has made me a lifelong practitioner of no-holds-barred insight, driven by an irresistible impulse to shovel through mountains of received bull to get to the bottom of things." -- writer Florence King
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| Roll Call for Friday, July 10 |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:56 pm] |
"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them." -- statesman Cato the Elder
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| Roll Call for Thursday, July 9 |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|12:54 pm] |
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"An education isn't how much you've committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." -- writer Anatole France Post your word count for Thursday, July 9. |
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| Roll Call for Wednesday, July 8 |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|12:21 pm] |
"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers." -- the character Magnus Pym, in John Le Carre's novel The Perfect Spy
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| Roll Call for Tuesday, July 7 |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|07:15 am] |
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." -- writer and philosopher Albert Camus
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| Roll Call for Monday, July 6 |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|11:57 pm] |
"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." -- writer Colette
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| Roll Call for Sunday, July 5 |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|11:57 pm] |
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." -- coach Barry Switzer
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| Roll Call for Saturday, July 4 |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|10:25 am] |
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -- writer Marcel Proust
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| Roll Call for Friday, July 3 |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|01:09 pm] |
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." -- sculptor Auguste Rodin
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| Roll Call for Thursday, July 2 |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|07:52 pm] |
"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." -- writer Margaret Atwood
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| Roll Call for Wednesday, July 1 |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|12:47 am] |
"The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route." -- writer George Sand (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin)
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| Roll Call for Tuesday, June 30 |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|09:27 am] |
"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." -- writer E. B. White
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| Roll Call for Monday, June 29 |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|10:19 pm] |
"Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings." -- writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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| Roll Call for Sunday, June 28 |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|06:27 pm] |
"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." -- philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Roll Call for Saturday, June 27 |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|11:17 pm] |
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -- writer and activist Helen Keller
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| Roll Call for Friday, June 26 |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|11:49 am] |
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." -- physicist Albert Einstein
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| Roll Call for Thursday, June 25 |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|12:58 pm] |
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"A great writer reveals the truth even when he does not wish to." -- writer Tom Bissell Post your word count for Thursday, June 25. |
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| Roll Call for Wednesday, June 24 |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|09:46 am] |
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." -- poet Paul Valery
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