roachboy

this is what history teaches. history teaches.

gertrude stein

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

projectself

don't compare yourself with others - it will only make you bitter or vain.

brinkn1

Isn't it funny how the pirates were always going around searching for hidden treasure, when the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating?

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I'm melting down your 20 inch rims to build 5 foot plates for the shins of my 30 foot android.

Leo

When you get to the end of your life, are you going to look back and regret you didn't spend more time at work?...

ARTelevision

The whole is the sum of the parts, so be a good part.

Nate McConnell

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Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek proverb

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uncle phil

"Kill them all. God will know His own."

Simon de Montfort, on how his crusaders could separate the Cathar heretics from the good Catholics...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ARTelevision

Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry (1924-2000)

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Manuel Hong

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American Author (1904-2001)

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Believe nothing, even if I tell it to you, unless it meets with your own good common sense and experience. - Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

ARTelevision

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best--that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson
(1901-1999)
Filmmaker

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ARTelevision

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Chinese proverb

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Grancey

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

Amnesia620

Smile. It makes people wonder what you are up to.

- Unknown

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Grancey

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Sage

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-Dune

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Grancey

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

Grancey

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Martha Stewart

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Grancey

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

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ARTelevision

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

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kitsune

without bad there is no good

ARTelevision

You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive. That is perhaps one of the greatest secrets of our life.

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
Composer

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Grancey

I love all waste/And solitary places; where we taste/The pleasure of believing what we see/Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.


Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Julian and Maddalo

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BigBen

You get what you measure. (my stats prof. Freaky genius)

Choose your staff with purpose. What kind of ego do you have if your employees are little clones of yourself? You should be fired. (Another teacher I had in HRM)

Any philosophy that can fit on a fortune cookie paper must be true. (I read this one from a fortune cookie. It blew my mind. I've never touched a fortune cookie since.)

Dig them holes deep, boys, you'll be living in them. (my section commander in the army)

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Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

ARTelevision

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

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Grancey

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

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Supple Cow

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish
to scatter joy and not pain around us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

ARTelevision

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Edwin Markham

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amonkie

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes DeMille

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

tecoyah

The stone we write our rules in.....is often the same one we slam our heads against


tecoyah

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Supple Cow

That's a great one, tecoyah. Thanks!

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

amonkie

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

Grancey

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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ARTelevision

amonkie, that latest one you posted is so well stated.
new to me but unforgettable.
thanks!

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ARTelevision

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard
(1813-1878)

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warrrreagl

In honor of April Fool's Day, I thought I'd share some of my favorite Mark Twain quotes.


* A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

* Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

* Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

* Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

* Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

* Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

* Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

* I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

* If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.

* Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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ARTelevision

great set of statements here, warrrreagl. thanks!

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Supple Cow

People change and forget to tell each other.

~Lillian Hellman

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Supple Cow

Time wears away error and polishes truth.

~Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

ARTelevision

"Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities."
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Saul Bellow

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