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11/22/2005 06:53:09 AM · #51 |
"Such is Life"
Last words of Ned Kelly before they hung him. |
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11/22/2005 07:07:12 AM · #52 |
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. — Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973)
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11/22/2005 07:19:44 AM · #53 |
| Adapt, migrate or die...my own. |
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11/22/2005 08:54:55 AM · #54 |
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
1994 Nelson Mandella Speech
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11/22/2005 09:34:31 AM · #55 |
If you think education is expensive, calculate the cost of ignorance. ????
Message edited by author 2005-11-22 09:34:55. |
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11/22/2005 09:56:39 AM · #56 |
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx
If you cannot convince them, confuse them. - Harry S Truman
The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson
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11/22/2005 09:57:10 AM · #57 |
"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" - xterm
"If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of pickup trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world's great literary works in Braille." - Unknown
"The internet is weird...I'm glad I have a real world to escape to." - thatcloudthere
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11/22/2005 10:30:33 AM · #58 |
"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place"
"When I die, I wanna go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not like the screaming passengers in his car"
"Of all things said of tongue or pen, the hardest are these it might have been"
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11/22/2005 10:40:40 AM · #59 |
| It is best to remain silent and be thought a fool rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.-Unknown. |
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11/22/2005 11:02:50 AM · #60 |
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him about your plans.
-- Woody Allen
The trouble with the French is, they don't have the word 'entrepreneur' in their vocabulary.
-- GWB |
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11/22/2005 11:05:57 AM · #61 |
I think it would be an excellent idea!
--Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thinks of the western civilization. |
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11/22/2005 12:16:43 PM · #62 |
"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."
---Compton Mackenzie
"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
---Fran Lebowitz
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
---Groucho Marx
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11/22/2005 12:35:09 PM · #63 |
"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
- Anonymous
Maybe it's not insightful/inspirational, but it has always been a favorite. |
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11/22/2005 01:05:24 PM · #64 |
| "My country, right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober!" G.K. Chesterton |
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11/22/2005 01:19:52 PM · #65 |
| Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry. - Igor Stravinsky |
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11/22/2005 01:35:52 PM · #66 |
"Better to keep ones mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain
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11/22/2005 02:40:01 PM · #67 |
"Hey, guys, watch this."
--Billy Bob Bubba's last words
"Love is like a rollar coaster. When it is good, you never want it to stop. When it is bad, you want to throw up."
"To the untrained eye, contemplation is often mistaken for laziness."
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11/22/2005 02:46:30 PM · #68 |
The three 'laws' of Arthur C Clarke;
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
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11/22/2005 02:48:08 PM · #69 |
"A Billion here, a Billion there. Soon adds up to serious money"
R. Reagan |
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11/22/2005 03:03:02 PM · #70 |
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bullshit. Anon
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11/22/2005 03:48:41 PM · #71 |
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if she'd laid an asteroid" - Mark Twain
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" - Erich Fromm
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty" - Oscar Wilde |
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11/22/2005 03:50:10 PM · #72 |
Originally posted by modprod:
It is best to remain silent and be thought a fool rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.-Unknown. |
This quote has been used by many and credit is usually given to Mark Twain but I'm pretty sure it's origin goes much further back as many do.
Even fools are thought to be wise when they keep silent; when they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent. Proverbs 17:28 NIV
or the King James Version...
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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11/30/2005 12:10:25 PM · #73 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
This quote has been used by many and credit is usually given to Mark Twain but I'm pretty sure it's origin goes much further back as many do. |
I was aware that there wasn't certainty that the quote originally belonged to Mark Twain and I wondered if anybody would comment on that fact.
However, I wasn't aware it went back that far.
Thanks.
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11/30/2005 12:58:11 PM · #74 |
"Everyone should believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."
W.C. Fields |
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11/30/2005 01:37:01 PM · #75 |
Some of my favorites:
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today. ~Author Unknown
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.- Bill Watterson
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody - Bill Cosby
Life is not just a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride! - Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Anonymous
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug MacLeod
You laugh because I̢۪m different I laugh because you're all the same
Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Jacob Braude
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. - Tommy Cooper
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
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