Wednesday, December 11, 2002
�This iceberg cuts its facets from within,
Like jewelry from a grave
It saves itself perpetually and adorns
Only itself.�
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911 � 1979), American poet: �The Imaginary Iceberg�, 1946.
�Technology� the knack of so arranging the world that we don�t have to experience it.�
- Max Frisch (1911 � 1991), Swiss dramatist, writer and architect: �Homo Faber�, 1957.
�There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.�
- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874 � 1965), English Conservative Prime Minister: �The Malakand Field Force�, 1898.
�Pitt is to Addington
As London is to Paddington.�
George Canning (1770 � 1827), English Prime Minister, orator and poet: �The Oracle�, c. 1803.
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