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September 13th, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Quotations
 This slogan for Utah is part of an entertaining entry in Diesel Sweeties’ collection of comics. I read this comic every morning. I wake up somewhere between four a.m. and five a.m., stagger into the living room and load up my email and the comics that I read every morning. I also check the Motivational Quotes of the Day to check for typos.
Ironically, on the same day this comic showed up on my computer screen, this quote was posted on the Motivational Quotes of the Day. Our quotations are chosen randomly every morning, so it was a quirky bit of kismet that made me strangely happy.
Sure, that was easy for Thomas Fuller. He didn’t have fifty new slogans to learn…
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August 8th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Quotations
Continuing the my favorite quotations series, here are a few of my favorites from our most popular subject, and the most general of all subjects: Life. We have lots of quotations on this topic and it’s hard to choose, but these are some that are meaningful to me—or at least funny.
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August 1st, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Quotations
 I got the third season of Northern Exposure on DVD a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been enjoying it just as much as I did when it was shown on A&E nonstop. So much of my philosophy of life comes from this television show.
There are so many times when I want to say, “Remember the episode of Northern Exposure when…” I keep thinking that if the people who ask me for advice just watched this show as obsessively as I did during my college years, that they wouldn’t need to ask for advice. Each quote vividly reminds me of the lessons that I learned from Northern Exposure.
This is the first Northern Exposure quotation that we ever entered into the collection:
Here are some of my favorites:
Marilyn is so quiet. I would love to be more like her. I have so many words that they not only spill out my mouth, they spill out my fingers onto paper. I don’t know if I will ever be able to fly…
I fight this demon all the time. I didn’t even have a name for it until I saw this episode. I can’t wait until this season comes out on DVD.
This has always been my goal when having guests. It felt so good to hear it said so simply and succinctly.
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June 28th, 1998 by Laura Moncur in Quotations
Quote compilation by Laura S. Moncur, Staff Writer.
- “Silence is more musical than any song.”
- Christina Rossetti
“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
William Penn
“Silence is a text easy to misread.”
A. A. Attanasio, “The Eagle and the Sword”
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Oppression can only survive through silence.”
Carmen de Monteflores
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”
Thomas Carlyle
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
John, Lord Morley
“He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.”
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Robert Fripp
“Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
Saadi
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, ‘there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.’ A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.”
Tom Blair
“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”
Cato
“The unspoken word never does harm.”
Kossuth
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
Pythagoras
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
Edith Sitwell
“Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.”
Peter Minard
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For more information about Silence, try these links:
Meditation: Path to Silence
Silence by Shaun DesJardins
Leave In Silence by Sergio Bayarri Gausi and José María López Lagunas
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May 24th, 1998 by Laura Moncur in Holidays, Quotations
This is one of the two holidays in the United States that worships the dead (Halloween being the other). I think about my culture with disdain regarding these holidays because most of the population wouldn’t agree with the notion that Americans worship the dead. I live in a society that considers ancestor worship a barbaric and pagan rite, yet is obsessed with genealogy. I live in a society that preaches against making offerings to the dead, yet lays flowers on the graves of their loved ones. I live in a society that condemns the worship of the dead, yet holds elaborate and costly funerals and burials. I am ashamed of the duality of my culture. I believe that Memorial Day is an honorable and beautiful holiday and ancestor worship is an honorable and beautiful duty.
Memorial Day is a fairly recent occurrence (it started after the Civil War to commemorate the fallen heros), but ancestor worship is a practice that has been around since the dawn of man. Many consider it the first religion. So when you place the mums and lilies on the graves of your departed, feel a connection not only to them, but to the ages of humans who have experienced your loss as deeply as you do, from eons past.
Introduction and quote compilation by Laura S. Moncur, Staff Writer.
- “Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.”
- The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
“Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can’t tell you where their children were last night.”
Unknown
“While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?…While you do not know life, how can you know about death?”
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.”
Chinese proverb
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”
Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
“We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.”
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
“Heap not on this mound / Roses that she loved so well; / Why bewilder her with roses, / That she cannot see or smell?”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Epitaph,” Second April, 1921
“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
“Memorial Service – Farewell party for someone who has already left.”
Robert Byrne
“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.)
Featured Books
The following books and tapes are available through Amazon.com:
For more information about Memorial Day, try these links:
- Bob Niemeier’s Ancestor Worship Page – This site has tons of links to various genealogy sources. Includes searchable databases, cemetery and gravesites, and professional genealogists.
History of Memorial Day – Describes the history of Memorial Day from its inception in Waterloo, New York, to present time.
Yahoo’s Memorial Day Links – Lots of links regarding this holiday.
Ancestor Worship and Christian Faith – Provided by John Edmiston. Prepare to be talked out of your ancestor worship with Biblical scriptures. Unfortunately, it doesn’t address the Western practice of Memorial Day.
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