-Carl Sandburg

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October 20, 2002 - August 13, 2003:

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

-Gertrude Stein

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August 13 - September 11, 2003:

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

-Lily Tomlin

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Quote of the Fortnight Archives:

First QOF (July 1 - 16, 2001)

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

-Eugene McCarthy

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July 16 - August 16, 2001

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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August 16 - 31, 2001

Did you find out what's up with the foo foo foo for the Wireless Base Stations?

-Z. Emerson Weston
(friend/coworker expecting me to know exactly what he's talking about)

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August 31 - September 26, 2001

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

-James M. Barrie

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September 26 - October 12, 2001

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

-Alfred Hitchcock

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October 12 - 19, 2001

I don't know whose brain child it was, but it's quite an ugly child.

-Albuquerque Police Department Spokesman Brian McCutcheon
Read the story here.

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October 19 - December 3, 2001:

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

-William H. Mauldin

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December 3, 2001 - January 20, 2002:

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

-Bertrand Russell

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January 20 - Way More Than a Fortnight, 2002

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

-Leo Rosten

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Sometime - May 23, 2003:

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

-Oscar Wilde

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May 23 - October 20, 2002:

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

-Carl Sandburg

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October 20, 2002 - August 13, 2003:

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

-Gertrude Stein

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August 13 - September 11, 2003:

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

-Lily Tomlin

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Sept 11, 2003 - August 11, 2005:

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

-Albert Einstein

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