Friday Musings 10/27/2006

By lex, on October 27th, 2006

This will have to be short he said, and she nodded her head knowingly.

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Half way through every academic quarter for the last 14 months I have said to myself, “I can’t wait for this quarter to be over,” and then of course, it is. Just in time for the next quarter to begin, starting out easily enough before it gets to be bowel-stewingly difficult again right about mid-term.

Which is where I am right now, with the added benefit of having spent two weeks TAD forward, and being so far behind that I can’t even see myself in the rear view mirror.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex