Showing posts with label The Canon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Canon. Show all posts
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Greatest Hits of 2014

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“I think it’s just elegant to have an imagination. I just have no imagination at all. I have lots of other things, but I have no imagination...
Monday, September 29, 2014

TED’s All Time Greatest Hits

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The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Oop. Time, She’s Up

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“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

All Hail and Farewell, the Trophy Kids

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Adolphe-William Bouguereau, The Birth of Venus, 1879 Mildred: “That Ted Forrester’s nice-looking, isn’t he? Veda likes him.” Monte: ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

A Cure Worse Than the Disease

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Messenger: “I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.” Beatrice: “No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray you, who i...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Where Did He Learn to Negotiate Like That?

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Korbin Dallas: “We need to find the leader. Mangalores won’t fight without the leader.” Mangalore Leader: “One more shot, we start kil...
Monday, July 7, 2014

You Go First

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Don’t shit where you eat. — Anonymous Way back in the Dark Ages of Investment Banking, O Dearly Beloved—say in the 1970s or 1980s, befor...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Touring Test

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BBC Interviewer: “HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single...