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Hobbet
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 Posted: 01/30/06 - 03:04 Post subject: Favorite Quote?
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What is your Favorite Quote? Please share.
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Frax
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Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 03:43 Post subject: Re: Favorite Quote?
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| Hobbet wrote: | | What is your Favorite Quote? Please share. |
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Devook
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Location: Ypsilanti or Troy, MI
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 03:44 Post subject:
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u r so clevre frax lol
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Xieroth
RealPoor Sensei
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Posts: 1902
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 03:45 Post subject:
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"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids,
we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
-Kristian Wilson, CEO, Nintendo Gaming Corporation, Inc, 1989
In my high school French class we were supposed to read Hugo's Les Miserables. I don't think any of us knew French well enough to make our way through this enormous book. Like the rest of the class, I just
skimmed the Cliff's Notes. When we were given a test on the book, I noticed that the questions sounded odd. They were full of long words that our teacher wouldn't have used. Where had these questions come
from? From the Cliff's Notes, it turned out. The teacher was using them too. We were all just pretending.
--http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
"The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence."
- a Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo's Geography
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
- Winston Churchill
"Many big people were chasing me. I didn't know what to do. So I thought I would surprise them and throw it."
- Garo Yepremian, Miami placekicker, after a disastrous attempt to throw a pass in the Super Bowl.
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."
- Alan Perlis
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
- Richard Feynman
"The best writing is rewriting."
- E. B. White
"If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best."
- Donald Hall, Poetry and Ambition
"I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered."
- Evelyn Waugh, Diary (26 Dec 47)
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."
- Donald Knuth
"In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than in any other country of Europe. The strength of the armies of Philip and John of Valois was composed of a fiery and undisciplined aristocracy which imagined itself to be the most efficient military force in the world, but which was in reality little removed from an armed mob."
- C. W. C. Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages
"The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money."
- Henry Ford
"None ever wished it longer than it is."
- Johnson on Paradise Lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- Yeats, The Second Coming
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Einstein
"Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people."
- G. M. Trevelyan, "Bias in History"
"He became an object of ridicule in 1993 when a paper published an intercepted phone call in which he told his lover Camilla Parker Bowles he wanted to be reincarnated as her tampon."
- Reuters story, on Prince Charles
"The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases."
- Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
- Thomas Fuller
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- J. K. Galbraith, Letter to Kennedy, 1962
the speed of light = 1.0279246 x 10^(18) PostScript points per fortnights
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that when everyone is blocking your style of products (pop-ups)…nobody wants them. If you are selling a product door to door and someone says "NO" and slams a door in your face, you don't break into their house and continue your sales pitch...do you?
- Steve @ Hard|OCP
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Einstein
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
- Einstein
"Learn to love what you do, or stop."
- Unknown
"Wether you think you can or think you can't, you probably are right."
- Henry Ford (of Ford motors)
"The truth will not always be palatable, but without it there can be no progress."
- Unkown
"Speak less, act more."
- Unknown
"Take your work seriously but never yourself."
- Unknown
"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take credit. In the first group there is less competition."
- Unknown
"There are three ways to do something, the wrong way, the way that works, and the right way. Most people do the second because it works and it's quick, but if mankind did everything the way that 'works', we would never advance as a race. It's those rare few that do things the right way that moves mankind forward."
-- Travis Owens
"You can only build tomarrow's technology with today's tools. Yesterday's tools only builds what we already have."
- Travis Owens
"The [linux] desktop has become a lot like teenage ****: a lot of people are talking about it but not many people are doing it,"
- Matthew Szulik, Red Hat chief executive
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Frax
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 8489
Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 04:05 Post subject:
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| Devook wrote: | | u r so clevre frax lol |
And you are so bitter! Whatsamatta, lose your eyeliner?
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kbarr
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 11239
Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 04:11 Post subject:
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| Frax wrote: | | Devook wrote: | | u r so clevre frax lol |
And you are so bitter! Whatsamatta, lose your eyeliner? |
Ouch.
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atarom
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 04:30 Post subject:
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the best of that bunch
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Einstein |
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Maharat RakAshir
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005
Posts: 98
Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 05:14 Post subject:
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1. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." --Sharon Stone
2. "There are a number of mechanical devices which increase **** arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL." --Lynn Lavner
3. " **** is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences money can buy." --Steve Martin
Most scary quote of all time:
1. "Squeal like a pig" - Deliverance.
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Yellow Journalist
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 20 Oct 2002
Posts: 1973
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 05:22 Post subject:
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"Would rather be a real nobody then a fake somebody"
-Unknown
"I notice you have braces, I have braces too"
-b******d
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never ever get boring."
-Unknown
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atarom
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 05:29 Post subject:
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| Yellow Journalist wrote: | "would rather be a real nobody then a fake somebody"
-unknown |
hm. they used that in "the talented mr ripley"
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kbarr
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 06:03 Post subject:
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My fav
Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. -
--GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired-- Recon Marine
So true.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
Other classics.
Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
--Julius Caesar--
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
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That Lumberg Guy
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Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 08:25 Post subject:
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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Tamrissa
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 29 Nov 2002
Posts: 7100
Location: at my computer
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:31 Post subject:
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"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
- Thomas Paine
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
- John Churton Collins
"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."
- Oprah Winfrey
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
- Jane Austen
Of all the things I've ever lost I miss my mind the most.
- Steven Tyler
*the last i have on a keychain.*
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Aviger
RealPoor Sensei
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:36 Post subject:
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"if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you tried"
"a clean desk is a sure sign of a sick mind"
"Do what you can do today, for there might not be a today tomorrow"
"Shit happens, just flush"
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motherface
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:46 Post subject:
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"You's a ho, you's a ho, you's a ho, I said that you's a ho."
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Ishmael
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Posts: 4446
Location: The US of A
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 13:17 Post subject:
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| Quote: | Once The game Is over, The pawn and king Go Back In The same box
-Italian proverb |
| Quote: | History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill |
My favorite 2 quotes.
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Renaan Hellfire
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Posts: 3764
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 13:37 Post subject:
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"Professor, I want you to make a woman out of me!.
Oh I think we should just stay friends"
Futurama
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Gethy
RealPoor Master of Posts
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Posts: 5595
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 17:33 Post subject:
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"I'd rather be thin than famous."
-Kerouac
"One is alone, a total stranger and only an object of curiosity. And so long as you say “one” instead of “I,” there’s nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is you yourself, you feel as though transfixed and are horrified."
-Kafka
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Bumen
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 17:47 Post subject:
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My Fav:
If you do what you did, you'll get what you got.
Unknown?
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Vengeful
Total Newbie
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 21
Location: New York
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 17:49 Post subject:
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"In this world all I have is my balls and my word, and I dont break them for anyone" - Al Pacino (Scarface)
and quote in my sig.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 18:35 Post subject:
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"If you can't fight, defend. If you can't defend, flee. If you can't flee, surrender. If you can't surrender, then you must die."
-Some chinese general. Ts'ao Ts'ao perhaps.
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Luturb
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Location: Livermore, California
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 19:45 Post subject:
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
--John Stuart Mill
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
--Friedrich Nietzsche
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever thinks much is not suitable as a party member: he soon
thinks himself right out of the party.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to all of life's problems!
- Homer J. Simpson
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Aeain
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 19:58 Post subject:
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"Retreat? Hell We just got here!" Marine Captain at the battle of Bella Wood.
Abyssus abyssum invocat: Hell Calls Hell
Mors ultima linea rerum est:Death is everything's final limit.
aut vincere aut mori:Either to conquer or to die
potius mori quam foedari:Rather to die than to be dishonoured
Morituri te salutant: Those who are about to die salute you
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Sutto
Sir Postalot
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Posts: 1100
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 20:26 Post subject:
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"Badgers?! Badgers?!?! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN BADGERS!!!!!!"
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motherface
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 20:38 Post subject:
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| Sutto wrote: | | "Badgers?! Badgers?!?! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN BADGERS!!!!!!" |
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Badgers?
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motherface
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 20:40 Post subject:
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| Luturb wrote: | Whoever thinks much is not suitable as a party member: he soon
thinks himself right out of the party.
--Friedrich Nietzsche |
That's a good one.
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Xenden
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 21:24 Post subject:
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"There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the s****y parts: the blood, the sweat, and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please think i'm special."
- Jason Statham's character in Revolver
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kbarr
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 11239
Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 22:19 Post subject:
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
~George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~George Bernard Shaw
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Karura
Total Newbie
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 42
Location: Philadelphia area, sorta
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 22:47 Post subject:
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When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude that man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man, I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.
- Ezra Pound
(it's actually a very short poem, but I love it)
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That Lumberg Guy
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 23:00 Post subject:
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I wish I knew how to sew, I'd embroider all these on pillows!
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