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Batch the Ninth

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A gallimaufry of wisdom, ranging from Talmudic and Scriptural gems to the last word on a famous film producer.  Enjoy ! ( if you can, if not, endure... )

'There are three whose lives are miserable: the kind-hearted, the ill-tempered, and the melancholy.'

Kallah 10.

 'Give strong drink to him who is perishing,

and wine to those who have an embittered soul.

Let them drink and forget their poverty

and remember their misery no more.'

 Proverbs 31. 6-7.

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'You ever notice, Joe', he asked... 'that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?  ... There's so much weariness and fatigue in it all.  For every action there is an equal... stupefaction.  No, that might be bearable - it's greater than the action.'

 'The Anubis Gates' by Tim Powers. 1983.  [ Highly recommended - JAW ]

 

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'The emotions are like the genitals: fine and life-giving in their proper context, but not meant to be on permanent display.'

 Sonia Morozov.  Soviet commentator.  1958 - ?

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'Poor children!' he thought drowsily.  'They were fed and clothed and minded enough, but it was their misfortune to be born in an age which saw no need to clothe them in one single rag of noble thought...'

'...They saw no stars above their neon streets, dug no soil, sang no hymns...'

'... wrath at the slaughter of the imagination that is taking place in our classrooms.'

'More Lives than One'  Libby Purves.  1998.

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'There is more to life than increasing its speed.'

  Mahatma Ghandi.  ( 1869 - 1948 )

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'Enjoy the present, nor with anxious care

of what may spring from blind Misfortune's womb,

appal the latest hour life has given.

Serene and master of yourself prepare

for all events and leave the rest to Heaven.'

 

Verse ( after Euripides? ) from the notebook of Sir William Hamilton (1730 - 1803)

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'You always knew where you were with Sam Goldwyn - nowhere !

 F. Scott Fitzgerald.  ( 1896 - 1940 )

 

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