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Brendan I. Koerner has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,…
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According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but…
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Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report…
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No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble…
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Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss…
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Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their…
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The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that…
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Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being…
— Henry Corbin
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A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.
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Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink…
— Marlena De Blasi
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