And I quote...

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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

--Emily Bronte

(When I was a teenager in love, that sentence made my head spin.)

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"The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners... Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life."--Eric Hoffer, 1950

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"For Ash, who is new,
for when he is grown.

These were some of the things
  your father loved and said
and cared about and believed,
  a long time ago."



Neil Gaiman's dedication, at age fifty-five, to his infant son Ash, in Gaiman's latest book of non-fiction and essays A View From The Cheap Seats.

I found these words, this gathering of his past thoughts while gazing toward the future, almost unbearably poignant.

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"There is no corporate media conspiracy. I know this because I've journeyed into the heart of cable news. It's, honestly, a miracle that any truth-even a dollop-ever gets through because power prefers silence. The closest thing that resembles a conspiracy is the fact that media and politics both want to give you what you want. And what you want is to be told lies. The media has no strategy beyond primal survival. And what you want is to be told lies, served with a healthy squirt of fear on the side. Fear is America's favorite condiment. The media has no strategy beyond primal survival."--talking-head-for-hire John Devore in this month's "Esquire"

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"Okay, I'm as offended as you are. But I can see why a lot of guys would rent this particular image. - Michael Garibaldi