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Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Daily Quote: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

Proverb of the Day

All that glitters is not gold.

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Browse Quotations about Obsession

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.