Towse: views from the hill » quotation http://towse.com/wordpress Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:01:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/12/29/i-am-doing-my-best-to-keep-my-boat-steady-and-my-sails-full/ http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/12/29/i-am-doing-my-best-to-keep-my-boat-steady-and-my-sails-full/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:35:00 +0000 http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/12/29/i-am-doing-my-best-to-keep-my-boat-steady-and-my-sails-full/  
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I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
– Arthur Ashe

A lone sailboat on the Bay yesterday afternoon. …

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]]> http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/12/29/i-am-doing-my-best-to-keep-my-boat-steady-and-my-sails-full/feed/ 0 I’ve never had a problem with drugs, only with policemen. http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/07/10/i%e2%80%99ve-never-had-a-problem-with-drugs-only-with-policemen/ http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/07/10/i%e2%80%99ve-never-had-a-problem-with-drugs-only-with-policemen/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:12:00 +0000 http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/07/10/i%e2%80%99ve-never-had-a-problem-with-drugs-only-with-policemen/ Keith Richards.

Jessica Pallington West has a book out, What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations From a Rock and Roll Survivor, from whence the title gem came.

Amazon info but no free reads inside the book. Alas.

]]> http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/07/10/i%e2%80%99ve-never-had-a-problem-with-drugs-only-with-policemen/feed/ 0 San Francisco values http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/san-francisco-values/ http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/san-francisco-values/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 22:10:00 +0000 http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/05/02/san-francisco-values/ Why is it that Republicans are so offended to see two gay men holding hands, but do not have the same moral outrage about two children who are being turned away from the hospital because their parents can’t get health insurance. What about that moral outrage, what about those values?

Gavin Newsom on “San Francisco values”
San Diego, CA
29-Apr-2007

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]]> http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/01/13/url-mathematical-quotation-server/feed/ 0 Apocryphal Babbage quotation? http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/01/13/apocryphal-babbage-quotation/ http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/01/13/apocryphal-babbage-quotation/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:20:00 +0000 http://towse.com/wordpress/2007/01/13/apocryphal-babbage-quotation/ Even if so, I like this:

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

– Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

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