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Comment by doone on May 13, 2012 at 9:08am

Which is exactly what he DID!

http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/asimov/

Comment by Adriana on May 13, 2012 at 8:44am

"What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I'd type faster." ~ Isaac Asimov

Comment by Don on May 12, 2012 at 11:26am

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with.
It may be counterintuitive.
It may contradict deeply held prejudices.
It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.
But our preferences do not determine what's true.

We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth---never there, just closer and closer, and always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. 

~ Carl Sagan

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 9, 2012 at 1:09am

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim—for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths—when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate. -- Margaret Anderson (1886–1973), U.S. editor and memoirist.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 8, 2012 at 10:31pm

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.  -- Denis Diderot (1774)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 8, 2012 at 10:16pm

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.  -- Denis Diderot

Comment by Davy on April 24, 2012 at 4:47pm

Apparently so!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 24, 2012 at 4:27pm

Some things never change:

Look, we trade every day out ther with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built.  -- Hubert Allen, American financier (b 1872 - d. ?)

Comment by Davy on April 24, 2012 at 3:12pm

Childhood shows the man 

As the morning shows the day.

Milton.

Comment by Adriana on April 24, 2012 at 9:20am

That is a GREAT quote, DG, I've always been in favor of taking sides, always in favor of the weak.

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