Oh, and it was the kind of slow day, where I transcribed some choice sayings and axioms from the New Oxford Dictionary of Quotations that one of the supervisors keeps laying around. Sure, Oxford and all, most of these selections, and most of the work itself, was witty dead white people. But this is the NEW Oxford, with 25% percent more multiculturalism!

Here's a few that made their way into my notebook.

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
- Walter Bagenot

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
- Jacob Bronowski

"When imagination sleeps, words are emptied of meaning."
- Albert Camus

"I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it."
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais