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“Early Christians transformed the world by thinking different and living different, not by complaining about everybody else’s morals.”

—Alan Wilson

“‘You are destroying yourself,’ he cried. ‘You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. You want to be like others in town here. You hear them talk and you try to imitate them.’”

—Sherwood Anderson

“On earth we are wayfarers, always on the go. This means that we have to keep on moving forward. Therefore be always unhappy about what you are if you want to reach what you are not.”

—St. Augustine

“In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.”

—2 Chronicles 31:7 (ESV)

“There would so much less laughter in the world if evil people stopped talking.”

—MadPriest

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry…”

—Ecclesiastes 8:15

“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school? Did the factory help you grow? were you the maker or the tool?”

—Ewan MacColl

“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably…when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do; we overanalyse.”

—Rowan Williams

“You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate—poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera….I think people are beginning to realize that you can’t have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world.”

—Desmond Tutu

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

—Edward Abbey
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Senate blocks immigration bill (28 June 2007)

The U.S. Senate has blocked a vote on the immigration bill which Bush has championed for the last several weeks.

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Like eating a nice plate of spaghetti (28 June 2007)

A newly-developed diet pill expands in the stomach, providing the sensation the user has already eaten.

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Louisiana to ban cockfighting (28 June 2007)

Louisiana will become the last U.S. state to ban cockfighting, as a ban takes effect next August.

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News Flash: Global warming exists (28 June 2007)

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill acknowledging the existence of global warming.

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2000 Iraqi refugees arrive in Syria daily (28 June 2007)

“With up to 2,000 Iraqi refugees arriving each day, adding to the 1.5 million – equivalent to around 8 percent of the Syrian population – who have flooded into Syria since the start of the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, economists and refugee experts warn of a looming social and economic crisis.”

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Egypt bans female circumcision (28 June 2007)

A survey in 2000 said the practice was carried out on 97 per cent of the country’s women.

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Family Jewels (27 June 2007)

The CIA released about 700 pages of previously-classified documents, revealing an attempt to hire mobsters to assassinate Fidel Castro, experiments with potentially harmful drugs, and other potentially embarrassing activities.

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Bush really doesn't know what he's saying (27 June 2007)

“You know, I’ve heard all the rhetoric—you’ve heard it, too—about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you’ve got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that.”

Um, what?

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Blair steps down as PM (27 June 2007)

Gordon Brown has replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the UK.

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The Stepmother of Europe (27 June 2007)

The Polish government has criticized a computer-generated magazine cover depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel breastfeeding the Polish Prime Minister and President.

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Urban population will pass 50% in 2008 (27 June 2007)

For the first time in the world’s history, more than half the world’s population will live in cities by 2008.

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Aspartame may pose cancer risks (27 June 2007)

“The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APM’s multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to [aspartame] begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects are increased…”

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Today's rich: Working harder than ever to compensate (27 June 2007)

“We always joke about new money being garish, but I think that’s more of the old money being jealous that they can’t let go like that.”

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Get in line. (26 June 2007)

Providence Mayor David Cicilline will hold a news conference tomorrow to whine about the state budget.

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Reconstruction of Afghan economy continues apace (25 June 2007)

Afghanistan has nearly cornered the market on opium, with Helmand province alone producing almost half the world’s supply, reports the BBC.

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Global warming: "Rather like pouring petrol onto a burning fire" (25 June 2007)

Jock Stirrup, chief of the British defence staff, stated today that global warming is a threat to global security which the military must be prepared to address.

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MDs: STFU (25 June 2007)

“Doctors often wasted time in what already may have been short visits and stifled the flow of information from patients by gabbing about themselves, their own health problems, their families and their political beliefs, the study found.

“The doctors engaged in such “personal disclosures” in 34 percent of visits tracked by the researchers. The personal talk may have been well-intentioned — to deepen a doctor-patient relationship — but yielded little of value to patients and sometimes was counterproductive, the researchers said.”

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SSRIs may cause fragile bones (25 June 2007)

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—the most popular group of antidepressant drugs—may weaken bones in the elderly.

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MySpace is so ghetto (25 June 2007)

“Over the last six months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That’s only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it’s not a shift so much as a fragmentation…. Who goes where gets kinda sticky… probably because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.”

(via The Guardian)