"All you need is love, love or failing that, alcohol."

– Wendy Cope, Contemporary poet.

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"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."

– Leo Tolstoy

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From the House of Commons.

har-per-crit-i-cal adj.

1. Characterized by hypocrisy, specifically in a political situation: The conservative party is being harpercritical when it tells off the Liberals for working with the Bloc.
2. Being a harpercrite.

har-per-crite noun

1. A Person given to harpercrisy: He was a real harpercrite when he told off the Bloc for voting for the bill he himself supported.

har-per-cri-sy

1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. Specifically in a political situation.
2. An act or instance of such falseness in the House of Commons or in the media regarding a political matter.

So yeah, there we go. Formally defined.

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"The world is not divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex."

– Alfred Kinsey, "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male"

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Rick Mercer has a blog now: http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/

For those of you unfamiliar with Rick Mercer, he is the comedy genius behind Rick Mercer’s Monday Report and was one of the reporters in This Hour has 22 Minutes.

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"No organization can achieve greatness without a vigorous leader who is driven onward by his own pulsating will to succeed. He has to have a vision of grandeur, a vision that can produce eager followers in vast numbers. In business, the followers are the customers."

– Theodore Levitt, Professor, Harvard Business School, "Marketing Myopia"

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"Would you trade a year of unlimited hedonistic excess and debauchery, if you knew that at the end of it you had to die?"

– Peter Colijn

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"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination, I have cherished the ideal of a democractic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

– Nelson Mandela

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"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."

Translation (roughly): Believe me, "I will live" is not what a wise man says: Tommorow’s life is too late: Live today.

– Martial (Epigrammata)

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Normally, I don’t do these things, but yeah, this one is surprisingly accurate.

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