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uncle phil · 01-08-2010, 03:24 AM

James Longstreet - january 8, 1821

"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse."

uncle phil · 01-09-2010, 04:58 AM

Richard Milhous Nixon- January 9, 1913

I am not a crook..."

uncle phil · 01-10-2010, 04:04 AM

Ray Bolger - January 10, 1904

"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.”

uncle phil · 01-11-2010, 03:08 AM

Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807

“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

uncle phil · 01-12-2010, 03:10 AM

Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

uncle phil · 01-13-2010, 03:01 AM

Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834

"Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received..."

uncle phil · 01-14-2010, 03:12 AM

Benedict Arnold - January 14, 1741

“We have a wretched motley crew in the fleet; the marines, the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them ever wet with salt water.”

warrrreagl · 01-14-2010, 06:23 AM

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind."

Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875 - 1965)

uncle phil · 01-15-2010, 04:56 AM

Edward Teller - January 15, 1908

“Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.”

uncle phil · 01-16-2010, 03:01 AM

Ethel Merman - January 16, 1909

“I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.”

uncle phil · 01-17-2010, 03:00 AM

Al Capone - January 17, 1899

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.”

uncle phil · 01-18-2010, 04:01 AM

Daniel Webster - January 18, 1782

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."

uncle phil · 01-19-2010, 02:52 AM

Edgar Allen Poe - January 19, 1809

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

uncle phil · 01-20-2010, 03:07 AM

TFP - January 20, 2002

"I'd hit it!"

uncle phil · 01-21-2010, 03:08 AM

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - January 21, 1824

“Duty is ours; consequences are God's.”

uncle phil · 01-22-2010, 03:11 AM

David (D.W.) Griffith - January 22, 1875

"It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience."

uncle phil · 01-23-2010, 03:08 AM

Edouard Manet - January 23, 1832

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."

uncle phil · 01-24-2010, 03:13 AM

Edith Wharton - January 24, 1862

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”

passthru · 01-29-2010, 09:40 AM

I completely forgot the who to quote rule

uncle phil · 02-01-2010, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by passthru

"Proximity fuse. Think of it. When they first presented that to me, it came up on appeal because some of my people had turned it down, as impossible.
And I talked to four fellas, and finally said to 'em 'I think it's impossible, on the face of it. But I will not stop four of you guys that think it can be done. Go ahead and waste your time, beat your brains out, try and do it.'"

-Vannevar Bush

^ march 11?

Clark Gable - February 1, 1901

“Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.”

uncle phil · 02-02-2010, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl

My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

Ayn Rand - February 2, 1905

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

uncle phil · 02-03-2010, 03:07 AM

Sidney Lanier - February 3, 1842

“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”

uncle phil · 02-04-2010, 03:51 AM

Mark Hopkins - February 4, 1802

"Language is the picture and counterpart of thought."

uncle phil · 02-05-2010, 03:12 AM

William S. Burroughs - February 5, 1914

“I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”

uncle phil · 02-06-2010, 02:57 AM

Zsa Zsa Gabor - February 6, 1917

“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”

passthru · 02-06-2010, 04:53 AM

Aaron Burr - February 6th, 1756

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

uncle phil · 02-07-2010, 03:01 AM

Sir Thomas More - February 7, 1478

“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”

uncle phil · 02-08-2010, 03:31 AM

William Tecumsen Sherman - February 8, 1820

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”

uncle phil · 02-09-2010, 03:16 AM

Bill Veeck - February 9, 1914

“I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.”

uncle phil · 02-10-2010, 03:01 AM

Jimmy Durante - February 10, 1893

“Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!”

uncle phil · 02-11-2010, 04:09 AM

Eva Gabor - February 11, 1921

“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!”

uncle phil · 02-12-2010, 03:00 AM

Charles Darwin February 12, 1809

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

uncle phil · 02-13-2010, 02:38 AM

Tennessee Ernie Ford - February 13, 1919

"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."

uncle phil · 02-14-2010, 03:11 AM

Benjamin Kubelsky - February 14, 1894

“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”

uncle phil · 02-15-2010, 05:40 AM

Galileo Galilei - February 15, 1564

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

uncle phil · 02-16-2010, 03:02 AM

Van Wyck Brooks - February 16, 1886

“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?”

uncle phil · 02-17-2010, 02:59 AM

Thomas Malthus - February 17, 1766

“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.”

uncle phil · 02-18-2010, 03:03 AM

Andres Segovia - February 18, 1894

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”

uncle phil · 02-19-2010, 02:56 AM

Nicolas Copernicus - February 19, 1473

"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."

Sirensong12 · 02-19-2010, 09:26 AM

This is not a post.

01-08-2010, 03:24 AM	#281 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	James Longstreet - january 8, 1821 "Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. Last edited by uncle phil; 01-09-2010 at 04:56 AM..

01-09-2010, 04:58 AM	#282 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Richard Milhous Nixon- January 9, 1913 I am not a crook..." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-10-2010, 04:04 AM	#283 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ray Bolger - January 10, 1904 "How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-11-2010, 03:08 AM	#284 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807 “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-12-2010, 03:10 AM	#285 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729 “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-13-2010, 03:01 AM	#286 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834 "Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received..." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-14-2010, 03:12 AM	#287 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Benedict Arnold - January 14, 1741 “We have a wretched motley crew in the fleet; the marines, the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them ever wet with salt water.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-14-2010, 06:23 AM	#288 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind." Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875 - 1965) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

01-15-2010, 04:56 AM	#289 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edward Teller - January 15, 1908 “Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-16-2010, 03:01 AM	#290 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ethel Merman - January 16, 1909 “I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-17-2010, 03:00 AM	#291 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Al Capone - January 17, 1899 “I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-18-2010, 04:01 AM	#292 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Daniel Webster - January 18, 1782 "A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-19-2010, 02:52 AM	#293 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edgar Allen Poe - January 19, 1809 "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-20-2010, 03:07 AM	#294 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	TFP - January 20, 2002 "I'd hit it!" __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-21-2010, 03:08 AM	#295 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - January 21, 1824 “Duty is ours; consequences are God's.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-29-2010, 09:40 AM	#299 (permalink)
passthru Addict Location: Portland, OR	I completely forgot the who to quote rule Last edited by passthru; 02-06-2010 at 04:44 AM.. Reason: oops

01-22-2010, 03:11 AM	#296 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	David (D.W.) Griffith - January 22, 1875 "It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-23-2010, 03:08 AM	#297 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edouard Manet - January 23, 1832 "It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

01-24-2010, 03:13 AM	#298 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edith Wharton - January 24, 1862 “If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-03-2010, 03:07 AM	#302 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Sidney Lanier - February 3, 1842 “Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-04-2010, 03:51 AM	#303 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Mark Hopkins - February 4, 1802 "Language is the picture and counterpart of thought." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-05-2010, 03:12 AM	#304 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William S. Burroughs - February 5, 1914 “I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-06-2010, 02:57 AM	#305 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Zsa Zsa Gabor - February 6, 1917 “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. Last edited by uncle phil; 02-06-2010 at 12:03 PM..

02-06-2010, 04:53 AM	#306 (permalink)
passthru Addict Location: Portland, OR	Aaron Burr - February 6th, 1756 “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

02-07-2010, 03:01 AM	#307 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Sir Thomas More - February 7, 1478 “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-08-2010, 03:31 AM	#308 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William Tecumsen Sherman - February 8, 1820 “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-09-2010, 03:16 AM	#309 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Bill Veeck - February 9, 1914 “I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-10-2010, 03:01 AM	#310 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Jimmy Durante - February 10, 1893 “Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-11-2010, 04:09 AM	#311 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Eva Gabor - February 11, 1921 “I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-12-2010, 03:00 AM	#312 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-13-2010, 02:38 AM	#313 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Tennessee Ernie Ford - February 13, 1919 "When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material." __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-14-2010, 03:11 AM	#314 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Benjamin Kubelsky - February 14, 1894 “Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-15-2010, 05:40 AM	#315 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Galileo Galilei - February 15, 1564 “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-16-2010, 03:02 AM	#316 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Van Wyck Brooks - February 16, 1886 “If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-17-2010, 02:59 AM	#317 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Thomas Malthus - February 17, 1766 “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

02-18-2010, 03:03 AM	#318 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Andres Segovia - February 18, 1894 “The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” __________________ "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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.