I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Boss Tweed.
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I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Boss Tweed.
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery
"Ignore the ignorant, or argue with a fool. Perhaps I can find some middle ground, and become an ignorant fool."
-- ? Swear I heard it somewhere..
" Ignorance is bliss...for the person that has it."
"...you need to realize that most people can only accept and use information that fits their perception of reality....
Character in an LE Modesitt jr book.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Mark Twain made the definitive remark about that question.. "All those plays were not written by William Shakespeare, they were actually written by another fellow of the same name."Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeT
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
--Mark Twain
As long a we are on a Twain binge..
"Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement." --Mark Twain
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good twaining but never the twain shall meet....Quote:
Originally Posted by Tack
~Richard
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Well I was gonna take that twain to some obscure destinations and the google monster showed me some other quotes... I'm a Sherlock fan!
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Chief Sitting Bull.
Long story short I used a couple of quotes from this thread a work today.
Great results!!!!
Sometimes they are great, sometimes they are weird, sometimes I agree or don't understand.....
Keep them up it is good to see different opinions/thoughts/ideas.:tu
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
— Carl Sagan
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
"A problem with relying upon the credibility of a source, is that ones judgements of the world around them become parameters, creating a shelter in which truth is hardly seen in the failing light."
""An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.""
They can be a way to get or continue a conversation as you remember enough of each to fit in with the opinions expressed. Good on yer! I found that I am more able to relax around folks since they appeared.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
~Richard
It funnier if they dont fit in with the conversation at allQuote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
You could be as cool as you want , but you'll never be as cool as Jimmy Page carrying a Guitar...
Seen at YouTube
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
""A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.""
You could say that you learn the essence of libertarianism - which is also the essence of civilization - in kindergarten: don’t hit other people, don’t take their stuff, keep your promises.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon
It is often a challenge not to judge the quality of a product by the character of its producer. Whether it's the musician, social liberator, or politician, many of whom at times have less than savory indiscretions in their personal lives...
So I look to their works that concern me, and forgive humans for being human.
""All human cultures are cultures of names. All too often we think we know something once we give it a name.""
A protagonist in a book by LE Modessitt,Jr.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!"
~ Billy Connolly
:roflmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by DZEC
:rofl2:
" The writing of history is often, not what occurred but the views of a person with something to gain."
Again.
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
Ha! Thought that was going somewhere profound didn't you?
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Life is like topography Hobbes, there are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure
-Calvin
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
--Aldous Huxley
" Half the time the problem is not ' doing something," The problem is figuring out 'HOW.'"
Usual source
~Richard
Its like my Grandpappy always said...Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
"Where there is a will, there's some crazy guy in a dark basement somewhere, trying and failing a thousand times to free random ideas from his clutches."
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
This is a good quote. I wonder how many, of the people who have read it, applied the concept to the worst "bad-guys" in agreed upon history... instead of the more comfortable correlations.Quote:
Originally Posted by DZEC
I would rather get in trouble for doing something than for not doing anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Tim