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Just one more piece of proof that the apocalypse is upon us!

Refdesk.com - Thought-of-the-Day Archive: "'What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'.' - Marilyn Vos Savant"

Refdesk.com - Thought-of-the-Day Archive: "'Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.' - Lord Acton"

Two quotes from Soren Kierkegaard from Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.

"...the press of busyness is like a charam. And it is sad to observe how its power swells, how it reaches our seeking always to lay hold of everyounger victimsso that childhood or youth are scarcely allowed the quiet and the retirement in which the Eternal my unfold a divine growth."

"...the press of busyness into which one steadily enters further and further, and the noise in which the truth continually slips more and more into oblivion, and the mass of connections, stimuli, and hindrances, these make it ever more impossible for one to win any deeper knowledge of himself."

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

From Dave Olson's tag line.

Quotes from Jim Crumley:

"There is a simple answer to every complex question, and it is wrong." H. L. Mencken

"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self evident." Arnold Shopenaeur

QotD2: "If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks." John Maxwell in Developing the Leader within You

QotD: "One who says, 'it cannot be done' should not interrupt one who is doing it." Chinese proverb (quoted in Devloping the Leader within You by John Maxwell.