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Nitpyck's the name and nitpicking's the game. I believe in simple declarative sentences making simple declarations.
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Certain people definitely shouldn't wear certain swimsuits to the beach --- we all agree on this point. It's the only concept that unites us as a nation. Tim Dorsey.
Edward R. Dewey: "I believe the future is completely knowable - but not, of course, by human beings."
Montaigne: "Don't bother to prepare for your death because, when the time comes, you will know how to do it well enough."
Donald B. Redford: "We should be wise to reject the application of the adjective of "Biblical" to "history" or "archeology". The only meaning I can understand in such a use is allomorphic for an adjectival genitive: Biblical archeology signifies the the recovery and analysis of papyri and manuscripts of the Biblical books; and Bibilical history the history of the work itself from its initial appearance in post-Exilic times. _______
"The Rosicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist." Umberto Ecco Foulcault's Pendulum p200 _________________________________ WM - Irony make the Baby Jesus cry.
______________________ Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora
____________ I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people yes but any religion based on a single ... well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism... Gore Vidal 1988
James Schuyler
And when I thought,/ “Our love might end”/ the sun / went right on shining
The iconography of Horus either influenced or was appropriated in early Christian art. Isis and the baby Horus, Madonna and Child; Horus dominating the beasts, Christ Pantokrater; Horus spearing a serpent, St George and the dragon. ________-----------------
I’m not claiming it’s aesthetically or sociologically valid to remake a French movie that already feels like a reheated Hollywood throwback, by the way. I’m saying it’s a cruel reality, like Dutch elm disease or Adam Sandler, and there’s no way to stop it.