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Quotes are Best When Shared with a Friend

By Nathaniel :: August 24th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (3)

There’s no doubt that the 20-something American male communicates better amongst his peers using movie quotes than actual, original statements. They make us laugh, they allow us to identify with one another, they let us express things emotionally that we have no idea how to get across otherwise. Every circle of friends has […]

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Quote Thursday: Charlie Dickens

By Nathaniel :: August 9th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

Last time’s quote was from an anonymous personal source . . . This time, let us look at what the great writer Charles Dickens wrote after visiting St. Louis in 1842:
”No man ever admits the unhealthiness of the place he dwells in (unless he is going away from it), and I shall therefore, I have […]

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Quote Friday: Snowy

By Nathaniel :: July 27th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

Last week’s quote came from Andy Gray’s voiceovers on any FIFA soccer video game since like 1995. This week, we get even more obscure and confusing:
“I am real dissapointed that you and I didn’t get big into blow like I had wanted. At least you could have done it with me long enough for me […]

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Quote Friday: Futbol

By Nathaniel :: July 20th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

Last time’s quote comes to you from Chris Wilton, the retired tennis pro turned London socialite in Woody Allen’s Match Point. This week, let David Beckham’s arrival in SoCal take us on a turn:
“The defenders only have themselves to blame there.”

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Quote Friday: Old Lady Luck

By Nathaniel :: June 29th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

Last week’s quote came from Claire Wolfe, the author of Insanity, the Job Culture, and Freedom. On this Friday, may you find luck . . .
“The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. […]

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Quote Saturday: Take This J-O-B and Shove It

By Nathaniel :: June 23rd, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

“Think about it. Job holders by definition aren’t capitalists. Job holders, no matter how well paid they might be, function merely as the servants of capitalists, just as medieval serfs functioned as the servants of lords. They are beholdin’. They function in a climate of diminished responsibility, diminished risk, and diminished reward. A climate of […]

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Quote Friday: Inspiration in Unexpected Places

By Nathaniel :: June 15th, 2007 :: Quote Friday :: Comments (0)

Every Friday I’m going to drop quotes in here that I think are inspirational and/or intelligent and/or “well said”. To make it a little more fun, they will be from people you never would have expected to say such things. I won’t reveal who said the quote until the following Friday, and round and round […]

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