Thursday, September 18, 2014

September 18, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...



Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784):
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”

and
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

and
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

and
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”




Anna Deveare Smith (1950 - ):
“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”





Steven Pinker (1954 - ):

“Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)”



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