This installment of the bunker’s verbal
mix-tape.
Nothing in particular connects these tidbits,
except that they attracted my attention enough to stop what I was doing and
write “blog” in the margin.
As mentioned in the last installment’s comments,
presence of these quotes indicates neither agreement nor disagreement on the
part of the blogger.
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“
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past
is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in
particular, you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is
often more interesting.
—James M. Barrie
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We primarily look for good
character and integrity; we can train you on the rest.
—Paul Mullen
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Two-thirds of the mass-energy
density of the universe is made up of dark energy, according to our
calculations. We don’t know what dark matter is made of, but we know that it
makes up the other third of the density of the universe.
—Joseph Silk
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For Burnet, the Earth of his
time was the shattered ruin of a “perfect” pre-flood creation; the oceans were
gaping holes and the mountains upturned fragments of the old Edenic crust. He
was particularly offended by mountains: “If you look upon a heap of them
together they are the greatest examples of confusion that we know in Nature; no
tempest or earthquake puts things into more disorder.”
—R. J. Berry
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When
it was rebuilt, Gay Head [Lighthouse] also received a first-order Fresnel lens,
the largest size made and containing eighteen hundred prisms. While many East
Coast lighthouses stayed lit during World War II, Gay Head was dimmed. As the
daughter of the keeper of the nearby Cuttyhunk Lighthouse put it, “They didn’t
want to help the Germans that much.”
—Brenda
Horrigan
*
Example.
An applicant for life insurance and the insurer were both unaware that the
proposed insured died before the policy was issued. The contracting parties
thus made a mistake of fact because they were mistaken as to the existence of
the proposed insured. As a result of a common mistake of fact, the life
insurance contract is void.
—Harriett Jones
*
The 2002 Zimbabwe Census found that 48,223
households were headed by children less than 8 years of age.
—Rodreck Mupedziswa and Mildred Mushunje
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Greene,
Olive, 58–59
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As Paula Harrell has pointed out,
“missionaries may have hoped to develop interest in Christian ideas as they
taught the elements of English, but for most of the Japanese youth who flocked
to the mission schools, English functioned more like the Internet, as a gateway
to new knowledge, in this case of technical and organizational systems that
fuelled the power of modern Western societies. It was a case of dosho
imu [同床異夢] (same bed,
different dreams).”
—Hamish
Ion
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According
to one visitor, “Most of the[se] agents at the Sandwich Islands divide the 24
hours into three parts, Drinking, Gambling and Sleeping.”
—Jennifer Fish Kashay
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This
man is exactly what he seems: uninteresting.
—Pete Wingard
*
Dr. Benjamin developed another
habit that was often discussed. Before surgery Dr. Benjamin soaked his best A
and E violin strings in oil gaultheria for twenty-four hours; he then soaked
the slippery but highly malleable strings in alcohol or an antiseptic solution
until just before he was ready to use the strings to stitch tight a wound or
close a patient after an operation.
On December 30, 1943, the Courier-Post ran this headline: “Wives
of Cooper Unit Doctors Hear Col. German Broadcast on War Task. Recording from
Italy relayed by WCAM; Kin Happy to Learn of Model Army Hospital; Mothers of
Four Attend.”
—Margaret Kirk
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