"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." --Voltaire
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Author Visit at Furr
Kaye Gibbons, author of Ellen Foster, will be visiting the Furr Library on Monday, 20 October, to discuss her book with Ms. Trottier's 5th period AP class.
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"Tout le trouble du monde vient de ce qu'on ne sait pas rester seul dans sa chamber." - Blaise Pascal
"It has been a common saying of physicians in England, that a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides"
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- 'I refute it thus.'"
"To be sure, it is said that barbers first came to Italy from Sicily in the 453rd year after the founding of Rome, as a public inscription at Ardea testifies, and that Publius Titinius Mena imported them. The statues of men of old prove that once upon a time there were no barbers, because those statues usually have long hair and beards." Varro, On Agriculture, 2.11
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"Tout le trouble du monde vient de ce qu'on ne sait pas rester seul dans sa chamber." - Blaise Pascal
"Alles, was nicht Pflicht ist, ist verboten." - reputed motto of the Prussian Civil Service
"Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему."
--Л. Н. Толстой. Анна Каренина
"Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?"
- Morris Goldpepper, DDS
"It has been a common saying of physicians in England, that a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides"
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- 'I refute it thus.'"
-- James Boswell, "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
"To be sure, it is said that barbers first came to Italy from Sicily in the 453rd year after the founding of Rome, as a public inscription at Ardea testifies, and that Publius Titinius Mena imported them. The statues of men of old prove that once upon a time there were no barbers, because those statues usually have long hair and beards." Varro, On Agriculture, 2.11
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