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Quotation of the Day for February 11, 2011



"I think most men, if not all, is missin' an element, anyways."

"What's that mean?"

"Men got a kind of automatic shutoff valve in their head? Like, you're talkin' to one and just gettin' to the part where you're gonna say what you really been wantin' to say, and then you say it and you look at him and he ain't even heard it. Not like it's too complicated or something', just he ain't about to really listen. One might lie sometime and tell ya he knows just what you mean, but I ain't buyin'. 'Cause later you say somethin' else he woulda got if he'd understood you in the first place, only he don't, and you know you been talkin' for no good reason. It's frustratin'."

- Barry Gifford, from his novel Wild at Heart: The story of Sailor and Lula.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 10, 2011

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Quotation of the day for February 11, 2011

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"Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe."

- Jonah Lehrer's disturbing concluding remarks on the problem of repeatability in scientific experiments, in his New Yorker article, The Truth Wears Off.

[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all]

Submitted by: Prem Pahlajrai
Feb. 5, 2011

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Hey now, Geordie, sing us all a song
Whoa there, Geordie, where's your mother tongue?
It don't sound like Tyneside to me
Geordie, are you from Jamaic ' ee?

Here comes Geordie in his private plane
Got to save the planet once again
Good old Geordie, righteous as can be
Cut down the forest just to save a tree

- Richard Thompson, from his song Here Comes Geordie, which appears on his 2010 album Dream Attic.

[http://www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=622]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 8, 2011

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Quotation of the day for February 11, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for February 11, 2011



"I think most men, if not all, is missin' an element, anyways."

"What's that mean?"

"Men got a kind of automatic shutoff valve in their head? Like, you're talkin' to one and just gettin' to the part where you're gonna say what you really been wantin' to say, and then you say it and you look at him and he ain't even heard it. Not like it's too complicated or something', just he ain't about to really listen. One might lie sometime and tell ya he knows just what you mean, but I ain't buyin'. 'Cause later you say somethin' else he woulda got if he'd understood you in the first place, only he don't, and you know you been talkin' for no good reason. It's frustratin'."

- Barry Gifford, from his novel Wild at Heart: The story of Sailor and Lula.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 10, 2011

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Quotation of the day for February 11, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for February 11, 2011



"Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe."

- Jonah Lehrer's disturbing concluding remarks on the problem of repeatability in scientific experiments, in his New Yorker article, The Truth Wears Off.

[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all]

Submitted by: Prem Pahlajrai
Feb. 5, 2011

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Quotation of the day for February 11, 2011

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Hey now, Geordie, sing us all a song
Whoa there, Geordie, where's your mother tongue?
It don't sound like Tyneside to me
Geordie, are you from Jamaic ' ee?

Here comes Geordie in his private plane
Got to save the planet once again
Good old Geordie, righteous as can be
Cut down the forest just to save a tree

- Richard Thompson, from his song Here Comes Geordie, which appears on his 2010 album Dream Attic.

[http://www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=622]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 8, 2011

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Quotation of the day for February 11, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for February 11, 2011



"I think most men, if not all, is missin' an element, anyways."

"What's that mean?"

"Men got a kind of automatic shutoff valve in their head? Like, you're talkin' to one and just gettin' to the part where you're gonna say what you really been wantin' to say, and then you say it and you look at him and he ain't even heard it. Not like it's too complicated or something', just he ain't about to really listen. One might lie sometime and tell ya he knows just what you mean, but I ain't buyin'. 'Cause later you say somethin' else he woulda got if he'd understood you in the first place, only he don't, and you know you been talkin' for no good reason. It's frustratin'."

- Barry Gifford, from his novel Wild at Heart: The story of Sailor and Lula.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 10, 2011

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