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Posted By: awais
Posted On: May 2, 2007
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* Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
* Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Happy birthday to Novalis ! ... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Apr 26, 2007
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
* "A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." [Attributed]
Happy birthday to the great genius who showed us the possibility of pulling the door open!
* "A...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Apr 22, 2007
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“Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me,” is the statement carved on the gravestone of Immanuel Kant in Königsberg. Happy birthday to the one...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Apr 16, 2007
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Happy Birthday to Anatole France !
* The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
* A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
* Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Mar 26, 2007
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken, st. 4 (1916)
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Mar 14, 2007
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"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."
Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein! ... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Jan 9, 2007
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It is a day to pay tribute to the French existentialist writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir! Happy Birthday!
'Everyone has his own standards.'
'Yours are astray. It's always the same with you. Out of optimism or systematic obstinacy you hide the truth from yourself and when it is forced...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Jan 8, 2007
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"All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex." Happy Birthday to the man who introduced the general public to the modern physics, whose...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Jan 6, 2007
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Happy Birthday to the master of style and beauty... the inspiring prophet... Khalil Gibran! Some of his lovely words:
* A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Jan 3, 2007
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Happy Birthday J. R. R. Tolkien, who brought a new dimension to the art of fantasy, through The Lord of the Rings.
Two of his eternal verses:
* "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for...... [view]
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Posted By: awais
Posted On: Dec 17, 2006
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"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven." said the great Musician Ludwig van Beethoven himself. Let us all cheer for him on his birthday for showing the world what music means.
* Art! Who...... [view]
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