"It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.”

Source : "Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds". Interview with Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2013.
“India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”
“As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.”
“Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.”

Source : Stewart Edward White, Elizabeth Calvert Grant White (1947). “With folded wings”
“It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.”
“We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.”

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