February 2012
20 posts
“He was the least selfish reporter I ever met, and he was the one who had the...”
– Thanassis Cambanis on his friend, Anthony Shadid
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“It’s a bit like somebody toasting you, then mispronouncing your name at the end....”
– On writers who mistakenly place Charlotte, North Carolina in South Carolina (via WCNC)
“The world may scorn me if it will; I care but little for its scoffing.”
– Ella Swain, the daughter of UNC president David Swain, on her impending marriage in 1865 to a Union general she met during the federal occupation of Chapel Hill.
“Yes, I acknowledge myself conquered - but my opinions, my heart and soul are...”
– A Confederate supporter and Chapel Hill resident, writing to his son on the tenth day of the Union soldiers’ occupation of Chapel Hill in 1865.
“To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses...”
– Will Blythe, on the greatest rivalry ever.
“The thing about Duke was, every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell...”
– P.J. Hairston (via the News & Record)
“With the close of the football season of 1913 all eyes are now turned to...”
– The Tar Heel in 1913 (via the North Carolina Collection)
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“That there is this sense that there’s lots of little things to hate about Duke,...”
– Andy Bagwell, co-author of a new book, Duke Sucks, on why people hate Duke. (via newsobserver.com)
“That’s one of the great things about the social web. The good stuff rises...”
– Alexis Ohanian (The Atlantic)
“It’s not that the Internet is going anywhere. You are not going to get rid of it...”
– Zadie Smith