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| January 2003 Quotes (on Britain joining the Euro) Naturally, Scots'll make great Europeans. When we hear the English say, we don't want to be ruled from a distant capital where they speak differently from us and impose an alien currency on us, we think: hold on, we've had that for three centuries. We've been there, we've had the conditioning, we've done the apprenticeship. London, Brussels, what's to choose? Better to be wee and ignored in a potential superpower than wee and ignored in a post-imperial backwater where the only things that arrive on time are the corporate bonuses. - Dead Air. Iain Banks.
Men of Genius are admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared. but only men of character are trusted. - Arthur Friedman.
Its sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. - Henry Rollins.
My German girlfriend said "you know, we don't get good bagels in Germany" and I thought "Well, whose fault is that!" - Emo Phillips
(Whilst making his class look at very photo's of ex-students) They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. - John Keats (Robin Williams) - Dead Poets Society.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, an identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? - John Keating (Robin Williams) - Dead Poets Society.
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