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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
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• bilocation: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

bilocation: the state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time.

Quotes of the Day
Quotes of the Day

Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page


• Nicholas Chamfort

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."


• Frank Leahy

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."


• Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."


• Tom Stoppard

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."


• J. Bartlett Brebner

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."


• Eric Sevareid

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."


• Robert Bakker

"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS."


• Darrin Weinberg

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose."


• Henry David Thoreau

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."


• Bernard Bailey

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."


• Victor Borge

"I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't."


• Umberto Eco

"I felt like poisoning a monk."


NY Times Opinion
NYT > Opinion
• Editorial: Mistrust and the Mosque

A poll has found that even New York City sadly harbors a robust disapproval of the proposal to build a mosque near ground zero.

• Editorial: Housing on the Brink

The glimmer of hope in this week’s housing data — a rise in pending home sales — is not likely to be sustainable.

• Editorial: Shifting the Health Cost Burden

Employers have passed the increased costs of health insurance to their hapless workers.

• Editorial | The Rural Life: Really Looking

Trying not to be blinded by the familiar but coming up against the limits of what a human can see.

• Letters: When Immigrants Took New Names

Readers respond to an article about how immigrants feel less of need to Anglicize their surnames.

• Letter: G.E. and the Hudson River

A reader responds to an article about the dredging of the Hudson River.

• Letter: Border Patrol Sweeps

A reader responds to an article about the hundreds of train and bus passengers that are taken into detention each year.

• Letter: Lawyers and the Oil Spill

A reader responds to an editorial about Kenneth Feinberg’s plans for distributing BP’s $20 billion compensation fund.

• Letter: An American’s Faith

A reader responds to an article about President Obama’s dismissal of the rumors that he is Muslim.

• Letter: Transparency and the I.R.S.

A reader responds to an article about the Internal Revenue Service’s plans to make companies provide a description of their uncertain tax positions and their rationale.

• Letter: Seeing Forest and Trees in San Francisco

A reader responds to an article about the problems with planted New Zealand Christmas trees in San Francisco.

• Op-Ed Columnist: The Real Story

Here’s hoping that President Obama goes big next week with new proposals for boosting the economy.

• Op-Ed Columnist: The Alternate History

Democrats could have been in voters’ good graces right about now, if only things had gone a bit differently.

• Op-Ed Columnist: Obama's Post-Iraq World

America downsizes its ambition in an age without surrender ceremonies.

• Op-Ed Contributor: How to End the Great Recession

To fix the U.S. economy, we must finally deal with wage inequality.

• Wall Street's Still-Warped Incentives

An exchange with Senator Carl Levin about Goldman Sachs and the new financial reform law.

• Rooms Worth Keeping

What draws museum visitors to carefully preserved period rooms?

• My Summer Home

Who needs a country house, with 530 million acres of public land that belong to all of us, year-round.

• O Urban Pioneers!

Urban revival doesn't start with public policy, but with small movements of risk-takers.

• The Blame Game

It's true that many Iraq reconstruction projects failed, but the obstacles of rebuilding while fighting continued were many.

• What the Tea Party Really Wants

Are they angry because they think traditional values are being ignored or are they just upset the recorded message told them to press 2 for Spanish?

• Mind the Grid

Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?

• Leader of Climate Panel Review Discusses Findings

The head of the review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change weighs in on the panel's leadership and flaws in its treatment of uncertainty.

• China Sustains Blunt 'You First' Message on CO2

The official who led China's delegation in recent climate negotiations says the right to a better life in poor countries trumps the responsibility to cut emissions.

• Bill Gates on R&D, a Carbon Tax and China's Climate Role

Bill Gates adds detail to his call for a research push to expand energy choices without overheating the planet.

• Elsewhere: Save the Words

In a bid to save little-used words from extinction, the Oxford University Press has launched a Web site - Save the Words - where members of the public are invited to adopt a lexeme.

• Catalysta

An unlikely portmanteau created to improve the image of cats and cat-owners - and to dispel the "crazy cat lady" cliche.

• Daily Lexeme: Dogdom

The domain or world of dogs; dogs collectively.

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