Archive for January, 2008

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Sunday, January 20th, 2008

If I were asked to lay my finger, in a map of the world, on the spot of the world’s surface which contained at this moment the most singular concentration of art-teaching and art-treasure, I should lay it on the name of the town of Verona.

John Ruskin

Obvious

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Most terrorists are Muslim men
Most Muslim men have beards
Most men with beards are terrorists

London

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

There is no town in the world which is more adapted for training one away from people and training one into solitude than London.

Aleksandr Herzen

Fratelli …

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Marchesato Di Verona

The Way

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Let me feed people on brown bread, grain foods, vegetables and plenty of fruit, and I will make the people sober without a single temperance lecture, and without an Act of Parliament. If people will live properly, they will neither have a desire for strong liquor, nor will they take it.

Thomas Allinson
The Way I Live My Life