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Weekend Words: Farewell
"I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell."
Weekend Editors
Hyperallergic's Weekend editors are Natalie Haddad, Thomas Micchelli, Albert Mobilio, and John Yau.
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Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
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Weekend Words: Resign
"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."
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Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
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Weekend Words: Constitution
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
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Weekend Words: General
"War is too important to be left to the generals."
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Weekend Words: Eight
"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business."
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Weekend Words: Idiot
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
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Weekend Words: Press
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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Weekend Words: Passage
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
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Weekend Words: Tape
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?"
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Weekend Words: Velvet
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."