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Quotation of the day
Monday, 13 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Carlyle, Thomas - Age and Aging)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

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