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Monday, 8 February 2010

Daily Quote: "If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards." (Newman, Henry Cardinal - Risk)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

-- White, E(lwyn) B(rooks) | Festivals

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)

-- Whitman, Walt | Festivals

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

-- Lamb, Charles | Festivals

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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

-- Baudrillard, Jean | Festivals

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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

-- Cooke, Alistair | Festivals

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