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Jan 15th, 2010 at 11:50pm
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 16th, 2010 at 9:47am
 

First impressions are normally right, invariably so.
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Reply #2 - Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:01am
 

Wherever you go, there you are.
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Reply #3 - Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:29am
 
Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:01am:
Wherever you go, there you are.

But if I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here.

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Reply #4 - Jan 16th, 2010 at 1:33pm
 
Ignorance and fear are the parents of certainty.
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Reply #5 - Jan 27th, 2010 at 10:30am
 
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
 
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Man who eat with one chopstick never get fat.
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Reply #7 - Jan 27th, 2010 at 6:50pm
 
Nothing to do with the topic, but I read this once, and loved it, so thought I would share.

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A lecture about English

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day.
"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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Reply #8 - Jan 28th, 2010 at 8:54am
 
mozzaok wrote on Jan 27th, 2010 at 6:50pm:
Nothing to do with the topic, but I read this once, and loved it, so thought I would share.

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A lecture about English

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day.
"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."


Works for me. Love it!  Grin
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Reply #9 - Feb 2nd, 2010 at 10:25am
 


"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese proverb


"There are no answers. Only choices."
Gibarian - SOLARIS [movie]
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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
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Reply #10 - Feb 17th, 2010 at 10:11pm
 
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

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Reply #11 - Mar 12th, 2010 at 11:45pm
 
I thought there would be signs.
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Reply #12 - Mar 13th, 2010 at 12:27am
 
"In the road of life.. everybody needs a pitstop every now and then..." ~ Confucious

"footy its more than just a game" ~ Aristotle
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Reply #13 - May 31st, 2010 at 9:10pm
 
The best is the enemy of the good.
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Reply #14 - Jun 1st, 2010 at 1:10am
 
The luckier you get, the harder you think you work.
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Reply #15 - Jun 1st, 2010 at 6:15am
 
Or...

The luckier you get, the more you think you've earned it.
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Reply #16 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 9:17am
 
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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Reply #17 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 9:27am
 
aikmann4 wrote on Mar 13th, 2010 at 12:27am:
"In the road of life.. everybody needs a pitstop every now and then..." ~ Confucious

"footy its more than just a game" ~ Aristotle


I didn't know "footy" existed in Aristotle's lifetime.
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Reply #18 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 9:33am
 
Mnemonic wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 9:27am:
I didn't know "footy" existed in Aristotle's lifetime.

He would have known it as footos
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Reply #19 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:06am
 
'What has always made a hell on earth has been that man that has tried to make it his heaven.'  ~Friedrich Holderlin
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Reply #20 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 7:39pm
 
I've never met a pork chop that I didn't like.

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Reply #21 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:43pm
 

The customers always right
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Reply #22 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:54pm
 
Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 10:43pm:
The customers always right

Tell that to the banks with their friggin fees... Nothing like a class action to wake them up, but. Wink
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Reply #23 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:21pm
 

a class action is the customers saying, "we ain't happy"

a class action is what any industry wants to avoid , so ...............
the customers always right
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Reply #24 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:28pm
 
Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:21pm:
a class action is the customers saying, "we ain't happy"

a class action is what any industry wants to avoid , so ...............
the customers always right

Well.... He's always right when he's packing a weapon loaded with a magazine of lawyers, at least.
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Reply #25 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:49pm
 
Trust me - I'm from the government.
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Down Under,
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Reply #27 - Jul 5th, 2010 at 11:18am
 
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest - Diderot.


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Reply #28 - Jul 5th, 2010 at 11:35am
 
Homer: Books are useless! I only ever read one book, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin…but what good does *that* do me?

Well it may be just a funny quote, so I will provide you with what I wrote on my mirror.

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Reply #29 - Jul 5th, 2010 at 11:45pm
 
Heaven can go to Hell,
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Reply #30 - Jul 6th, 2010 at 12:26am
 
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

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Reply #31 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 9:35am
 
We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far".
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Reply #32 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:23am
 
Prejudice is opinion without judgement - Voltaire

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Reply #33 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:44am
 
The pretence that one can approach the world without prejudice is dishonest and absurd  - Dalrymple
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Reply #34 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 11:58am
 
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. 

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Reply #35 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:19pm
 
Soren wrote on Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:29am:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:01am:
Wherever you go, there you are.

But if I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here.



Here and there, now and then, are simply destinations of place & time.

What really makes life, is the journey between!
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Reply #36 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:23pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:49pm:
Trust me - I'm from the government.


And, going that little bit further -
Trust me, I'm a Politician.
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Reply #37 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:28pm
 
Follow your dream!

Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear in a fire drill.
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Reply #38 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:31pm
 
perceptions_now wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 12:23pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:49pm:
Trust me - I'm from the government.


And, going that little bit further -
Trust me, I'm a Politician.


When anyone says, "Trust me"......

DON'T! Huh
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Reply #39 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 1:02pm
 
To be or not to be - Hamlet
Do-be-do-be-do. - Sinatra
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NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 9:35am:
We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far".


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.


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Reply #41 - Jul 9th, 2010 at 1:49pm
 
Soren wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 1:06pm:
NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 9:35am:
We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far".


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.



Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown.  (Maybe Jim Morrison read Heidegger).
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Reply #42 - Jul 18th, 2010 at 11:31am
 
'If you want to pronounce the salutation “Hail!” expressively, you had better not think of hailstones as you say it.' - Wittgenstein.

(Mysteriously, that almost seems to apply when posting on forums).
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Reply #43 - Jul 18th, 2010 at 11:37am
 
Soren wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 1:02pm:
To be or not to be - Hamlet
Do-be-do-be-do. - Sinatra

Or...

To be is to do — Socrates
To do is to be — Sartre
Do be do be do — Sinatra.
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Reply #44 - Jul 19th, 2010 at 7:01am
 
Faith is the belief that truth exists without the expectation of ever knowing it... Rendering the sense of certainty an art form.

Faith... Conviction, therefore, is the art of being certain.
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Reply #45 - Jul 19th, 2010 at 7:20am
 
While, endearing in its pathos, the function of god's invention is evidence of our infantile need to be cleaved to a sentient, paternal being who is a medium through whom we can receive, or have by birthright bequeathed, the ultimate, unmitigated truth - to be liberated from the ubiquity of doubt.
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Reply #46 - Jul 19th, 2010 at 12:50pm
 
Truths are not relative. What are relative are opinions about truth.

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Reply #47 - Jul 19th, 2010 at 12:52pm
 
Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

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Reply #48 - Jul 20th, 2010 at 6:27pm
 
I used to be indecisive.................but now I'm not so sure
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Reply #49 - Aug 15th, 2010 at 11:46am
 
The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Yet the fox also knows that the hedgehog must unfurl to swim when dropped into water.
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Reply #50 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 9:26am
 
Quote:
There's only two times in life - Now and too late.


From an interview with Anh Do
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Reply #51 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 2:57pm
 
Quote:
I just got a job


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Yay!!



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Reply #53 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:12pm
 
aikmann4 wrote on Aug 31st, 2010 at 2:57pm:
Quote:
I just got a job


~~ Imperium

That's the story! An aphorism you can believe in.

Now, keep repeating it until even you believe it. Grin

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Reply #54 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:18pm
 
It's actually a recount of a real experience that I don't need to believe in. I'm living it!!!!
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Reply #55 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:27pm
 
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Reply #56 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 8:30pm
 
aikmann4 wrote on Aug 31st, 2010 at 6:18pm:
It's actually a recount of a real experience that I don't need to believe in. I'm living it!!!!

Or so you thought...
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