jewels

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

- Larry Hardiman

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain

uncle phil

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

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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.

Supple Cow

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

- Abraham Maslow

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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

"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."

-Isaac Newton

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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)

perfecto1

do the different colored M&M's have different flavors?

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Dr. Peter Venkman: Alice, I'm going to ask you a couple of standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family been diagnosed schizophrenic? Mentally incompetant?
Librarian Alice: My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'd call that a big yes.

BogeyDope

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

Pope Gregory VII

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Focus. Control. Conviction. Resolve. A true ace lacks none of these attributes. Nothing can deter you from the task at hand except your own fears. This is your sky.

thirdsun

"This is like deja vu all over again."

Yogi Berra

thirdsun

"Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple--black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos."

"The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it."

"Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right."

"Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of the power."

"Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism...it feeds deliberately on twisted meanings to discredit opposition."

Frank Herbert - (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986)

mixedmedia

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. - Marlene Dietrich

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

thirdsun

"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

thirdsun

"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."

Stephen Nachmanovitch

thirdsun

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

mixedmedia

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Laurie Anderson

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

thirdsun

"One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass."

Etty Hillesum

mixedmedia

“Shit is the tofu of cursing.” - David Sedaris

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

thirdsun

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

mixedmedia

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. - Dorothy Allison

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

GreyWolf

Nowadays people say, "Well, you certainly can't explain the creation of the universe without invoking God," and I want to say, "Don't bet against it."

- Caltech physicist Sean Carroll

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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.

seamaiden

Too bad I'm such a slow learner.

mixedmedia

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

GreyWolf

In a former life, in the construction industry, we had 2 favourite sayings (and a corollary) to deal with mistakes:

1) The only people who don't make mistakes are those who do nothing.

2)If you keep making different mistakes, you're learning.
The corollary to this was: If you keep making the same mistake, you're stupid.

So... it's not the speed at which you learn that's important... it's the fact that you learn!

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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.

thirdsun

"When the student is ready, the master [teacher] appears.”

Buddhist Proverb

Salem

“If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.” - Tori Amos

GreyWolf

The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is... stop diggin' - The Cowboy's Guide to Life

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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.

thirdsun

"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia

GreyWolf

(Shameless plug by a life-long UCLA/Los Angeles Lakes fan follows!!)

I learned more from Lewis Alcindor about man's inhumanity to man than from anybody else. - John Wooden

(Lewis Alcindor is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the greatest basketball player of all time, who will be appearing on Celebrity Jeopardy tonight playing for $1 million for charity)

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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.

thirdsun

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

mixedmedia

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.


Frank Zappa

...couldn't decide which one to use.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

seamaiden

"Excuse me please one more drink. Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think"

Dave Matthews

thirdsun

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."

William James (1842 - 1910)

thirdsun

"Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum."

Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse Dune

thirdsun

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

thirdsun

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

thirdsun

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear."

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

thirdsun

"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."

Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09

roachboy

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Fernando Pessoa

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

mixedmedia

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Sarah Vowell, writer and humorist

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

thirdsun

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

roachboy

Everything starts from a dot.

Wassily Kandinski

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Poppinjay

If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. - Bumper Sticker

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet