Quotern

Quotern

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

-- K Lee Lerner

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Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

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What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

-- Albert Camus

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Without music life would be a mistake.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em....

-- William Shakespeare

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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

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I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

-- Sarah Zettel

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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

-- Joseph Lancaster

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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

-- Randy Neugebauer

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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

-- Frank Pittman

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