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Work Report - This blog originally focused on work, but it's now focusing on the collection of quotes I've accumulated.Mike Crowl blogs in two places on Orble, and more than two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.
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Work Report - October 2010The Clowns of GodOctober 29th 2010 06:21
I've read a few books by Morris West. Sometimes he's very good, other times I haven't been able to finish the book. However, The Clowns of God impressed me greatly when I read it - which is now many years ago. Here are some quotes from it.
Neil Gaiman and storyOctober 19th 2010 19:43
Here's a quote from Neil Gaiman, an author I both like immensely and dislike occasionally (!) - some of his fantasy stories are wonderful, and some are plain grim and gross ('gross' in the sense of 'yuck.') Anyway, I pinched this quote off Alan Jacobs' 'more than 95 theses' site:
Moby Dick 2October 14th 2010 09:20
Another quote (or set of quotes) from Moby Dick.
Moby Dick, chap XLV - by Herman Melville
Sir Charles MarstonOctober 12th 2010 09:01
Continuing on with my updating of quotes from my old geocities site....
The Bible is True - page 16 (1935 edition), by Sir Charles Marston
StadiumsOctober 12th 2010 07:08
Here in Dunedin, like every other place in the country, we've just had the local council elections. Several of the people who've been longstanding on the council have gone, including the Mayor.
And one of the reasons, I suspect, is that this crew went ahead and began the building of a stadium without the real support of the community. It's put us in debt as a city, and at this point it's hard to see how we'll ever make any money out of the place
More from William JamesOctober 5th 2010 07:06
Here's another quote from William James, in my ongoing quotes series.
The older pedagogic method of learning things by rote, and reciting them parrot-like in the schoolroom, rested on the truth that a thing merely heard or read, and never verbally reproduced, contracts the weakest possible adhesion in the mind. Verbal recitation or reproduction is thus a highly important kind of reactive behaviour on our impressions; and it is to be feared that, in the reaction against the old parrot-recitations as the beginning and end of instruction, the extreme value of verbal recitation as an element of complete training may nowadays be too much forgotten
An obituary?October 4th 2010 08:29
Continuing with the quotes and extracts I gathered in my old geocities site, here's an interesting one that was a news item originally:
Justice Young, reported in the Otago Daily Times, 8th Oct, 2003, in relation to a case where a family tried to overturn a will which had given Percy Wheatley's entire estate to the .Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind
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