Monday, December 16, 2002
�The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.�
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 � 1936), English poet, novelist and critic: quoted by Katharine Whitehorn in �Observer�, December 28, 1986.
�If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?�
- Thomas � Kempis (c. 1380 � 1471), German monk: �The Imitation of Christ�.
�War, children, is just a shot away, it�s just a shot away.�
- Mick Jagger (b. 1943) and Keith Richards (b. 1943), British rock musicians, members of The Rolling Stones: �Gimme Shelter� (song), 1969.
�I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.�
- Jean Paul Sartre (1905 � 1980), French philosopher, writer, dramatist and critic: �Les Mots (The Words)�, 1964.
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