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Boggy · 03-31-2010, 03:29 PM

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand

uncle phil · 04-01-2010, 02:11 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.

"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."

Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926)

Abraham Maslow - April 1, 1908

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

uncle phil · 04-02-2010, 02:21 AM

Giovanni Casanova - April 2, 1725

“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.”

uncle phil · 04-03-2010, 01:37 AM

William M. Tweed - April 3, 1823

"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating."

uncle phil · 04-04-2010, 01:59 AM

Dorothea Dix - April 4, 1802

“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.”

uncle phil · 04-05-2010, 02:05 AM

Thomas Hobbes - April 5, 1588

“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”

uncle phil · 04-06-2010, 02:42 AM

Lowell Thomas - April 6, 1892

“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.”

uncle phil · 04-07-2010, 02:39 AM

John McGraw - April 7, 1873

“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.”

uncle phil · 04-08-2010, 02:06 AM

Guatama Buddha = April 8, 563 BC

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

uncle phil · 04-09-2010, 02:19 AM

Charles P. Steinmetz - April 9, 1865

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

uncle phil · 04-10-2010, 01:40 AM

Lew Wallace - April 10, 1827

“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”

uncle phil · 04-11-2010, 02:04 AM

Ellen Goodman - April 11, 1941

“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”

uncle phil · 04-12-2010, 01:57 AM

Sally Rand - April 12, 1903

“Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.”

uncle phil · 04-13-2010, 02:13 AM

Madalyn Murray O’Hair - April 13, 1919

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”

uncle phil · 04-14-2010, 02:16 AM

Arnold Toynbee - April 14, 1889

“A life which does not go into action is a failure.”

uncle phil · 04-15-2010, 02:15 AM

Leonardo da Vinci - April 15, 1452

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

uncle phil · 04-16-2010, 02:06 AM

Wilbur Wright - April 16, 1867

“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.”

uncle phil · 04-17-2010, 01:40 AM

Harry Reasoner - April 17, 1923

"We're all controlled neurotics."

uncle phil · 04-18-2010, 02:18 AM

Clarence Darrow - April 18, 1857

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

jeanlee411 · 04-18-2010, 08:13 PM

I was registered at your forum. I have printed the test message. Do not delete, please.
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the warm/scary welcome,I'm really looking forward to talk about anything and everything horror related.

uncle phil · 04-19-2010, 02:00 AM

David Ricardo - April 19, 1772

“Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.”

uncle phil · 04-20-2010, 02:22 AM

Adolf Hitler - April 20, 1889

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

uncle phil · 04-21-2010, 02:11 AM

Friedrich Froebel - April 21, 1782

“. . . because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also.”

uncle phil · 04-22-2010, 02:03 AM

Immanuel Kant - April 22, 1724

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

uncle phil · 04-23-2010, 01:59 AM

James Buchanan - April 23, 1791

“What is right and what is practicable are two different things.”

uncle phil · 04-24-2010, 01:33 AM

Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1905

“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”

uncle phil · 04-25-2010, 02:02 AM

Edward R. Murrow = April 25, 1908

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”

uncle phil · 04-26-2010, 01:56 AM

Anita Loos - April 26, 1893

“I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

uncle phil · 04-27-2010, 01:58 AM

Edward Gibbon - April 27, 1737

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”

uncle phil · 04-28-2010, 02:01 AM

James Monroe - April 28, 1758

“National honor is the national property of the highest value.”

uncle phil · 04-29-2010, 02:04 AM

Lonnie Donegan - April 29, 1931

"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?"

uncle phil · 04-30-2010, 02:09 AM

Cornelius Vanderbilt - April 30, 1898

"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."

uncle phil · 05-01-2010, 01:32 AM

Benjamin Henry Latrobe - May 1, 1764

“A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.”

uncle phil · 05-02-2010, 01:58 AM

Ekaterina Alekseevna - 1729

“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

uncle phil · 05-03-2010, 01:54 AM

Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919

“Where have all the flowers gone?”

uncle phil · 05-04-2010, 02:01 AM

Horace Mann - May 4, 1796

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

uncle phil · 05-05-2010, 02:43 AM

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman - May 5, 1865

"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."

uncle phil · 05-06-2010, 02:01 AM

Maximilien Robespierre - May 6, 1758

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

uncle phil · 05-07-2010, 01:59 AM

Eva Peron - May 7, 1919

"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go."

uncle phil · 05-08-2010, 01:30 AM

Francis Desales Ouimet - May 8, 1893

"Don't ever talk to my caddy again."

04-02-2010, 02:21 AM	#363 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Giovanni Casanova - April 2, 1725 “I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” __________________ "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.

04-03-2010, 01:37 AM	#364 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William M. Tweed - April 3, 1823 "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." __________________ "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.

04-04-2010, 01:59 AM	#365 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Dorothea Dix - April 4, 1802 “Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.” __________________ "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.

04-05-2010, 02:05 AM	#366 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Thomas Hobbes - April 5, 1588 “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.” __________________ "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.

04-06-2010, 02:42 AM	#367 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Lowell Thomas - April 6, 1892 “Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.” __________________ "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.

03-31-2010, 03:29 PM	#361 (permalink)
Boggy Upright	The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand

04-07-2010, 02:39 AM	#368 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	John McGraw - April 7, 1873 “Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may 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.

04-08-2010, 02:06 AM	#369 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Guatama Buddha = April 8, 563 BC “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” __________________ "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.

04-09-2010, 02:19 AM	#370 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Charles P. Steinmetz - April 9, 1865 “There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." __________________ "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.

04-10-2010, 01:40 AM	#371 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Lew Wallace - April 10, 1827 “When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.” __________________ "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.

04-11-2010, 02:04 AM	#372 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ellen Goodman - April 11, 1941 “Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.” __________________ "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.

04-12-2010, 01:57 AM	#373 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Sally Rand - April 12, 1903 “Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.” __________________ "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.

04-13-2010, 02:13 AM	#374 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Madalyn Murray O’Hair - April 13, 1919 “An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” __________________ "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.

04-14-2010, 02:16 AM	#375 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Arnold Toynbee - April 14, 1889 “A life which does not go into action is a failure.” __________________ "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.

04-15-2010, 02:15 AM	#376 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Leonardo da Vinci - April 15, 1452 “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” __________________ "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.

04-16-2010, 02:06 AM	#377 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Wilbur Wright - April 16, 1867 “Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.” __________________ "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.

04-17-2010, 01:40 AM	#378 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Harry Reasoner - April 17, 1923 "We're all controlled neurotics." __________________ "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.

04-18-2010, 02:18 AM	#379 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Clarence Darrow - April 18, 1857 “Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.” __________________ "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.

04-18-2010, 08:13 PM	#380 (permalink)
jeanlee411 Upright	I was registered at your forum. I have printed the test message. Do not delete, please. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the warm/scary welcome,I'm really looking forward to talk about anything and everything horror related. __________________ Watch The Losers Online Free Watch The Back-Up Plan Online Free

04-19-2010, 02:00 AM	#381 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	David Ricardo - April 19, 1772 “Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.” __________________ "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.

04-20-2010, 02:22 AM	#382 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Adolf Hitler - April 20, 1889 “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe 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.

04-21-2010, 02:11 AM	#383 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Friedrich Froebel - April 21, 1782 “. . . because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also.” __________________ "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.

04-22-2010, 02:03 AM	#384 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Immanuel Kant - April 22, 1724 “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” __________________ "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.

04-23-2010, 01:59 AM	#385 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	James Buchanan - April 23, 1791 “What is right and what is practicable are two different things.” __________________ "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.

04-24-2010, 01:33 AM	#386 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1905 “A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.” __________________ "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.

04-25-2010, 02:02 AM	#387 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edward R. Murrow = April 25, 1908 “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” __________________ "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.

04-26-2010, 01:56 AM	#388 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Anita Loos - April 26, 1893 “I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.” __________________ "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.

04-27-2010, 01:58 AM	#389 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edward Gibbon - April 27, 1737 “I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” __________________ "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.

04-28-2010, 02:01 AM	#390 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	James Monroe - April 28, 1758 “National honor is the national property of the highest value.” __________________ "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.

04-29-2010, 02:04 AM	#391 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Lonnie Donegan - April 29, 1931 "Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?" __________________ "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.

04-30-2010, 02:09 AM	#392 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Cornelius Vanderbilt - April 30, 1898 "You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." __________________ "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.

05-01-2010, 01:32 AM	#393 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Benjamin Henry Latrobe - May 1, 1764 “A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.” __________________ "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.

05-02-2010, 01:58 AM	#394 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ekaterina Alekseevna - 1729 “You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.” __________________ "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.

05-03-2010, 01:54 AM	#395 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919 “Where have all the flowers gone?” __________________ "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.

05-04-2010, 02:01 AM	#396 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Horace Mann - May 4, 1796 “Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” __________________ "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.