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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by uncle phil, Aug 15, 2011.

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  1. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work."

    -Mary Henle​
     
    uncle phil, Jan 26, 2012
    #321
  2. Zen

    Zen Very Tilted

    Location:
    London
    Zen, Jan 26, 2012
    #322
  3. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones.

    And in return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making.

    - President Obama
     
    CaptainBob, Jan 26, 2012
    #323
  4. DDLombardi

    DDLombardi New Member

    Location:
    Europe
    "For every minute you are angry you lose 6o seconds of happiness." Deepak Chopra
     
    DDLombardi, Jan 27, 2012
    #324
  5. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

    -Simone Weil​
     
    uncle phil, Jan 29, 2012
    #325
  6. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "There is absolutely no criterion for truth. For reason, senses, ideas, or whatever else may exist are all deceptive."

    -Carneades​
     
    uncle phil, Jan 30, 2012
    #326
  7. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it?
    -Dick Feynman
     
    Tophat665, Jan 30, 2012
    #327
  8. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."

    -Joshua Reynolds​
     
    uncle phil, Jan 31, 2012
    #328
  9. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    "It's funny how people think that they have a right to life. Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You don't have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Let's take it back to the jungle. Where the fuck are your rights there? No layers in the jungle. Civilization has allowed the weak to survive. You can sit back and be an overweight, apathetic piece of shit, smoke your dope and still survive because you have a right to life."

    - Henry Rollins​
     
    Plan9, Jan 31, 2012
    #329
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  10. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    From the "I don't want to live here any more" file:

    I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
    - Avril Lavigne
     
    Tophat665, Jan 31, 2012
    #330
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  11. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Mother of God.
     
    Plan9, Jan 31, 2012
    #331
  12. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology."

    -Ian Hacking​
     
    uncle phil, Feb 1, 2012
    #332
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  13. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The person who elevates simplicity to a supreme value is like the architect who uses a straight-edge against a fluted column: his calculations won't build a sound building, and he will leave out much of the beauty and value of what is there before him."

    -Martha Nussbaum​
     
    uncle phil, Feb 2, 2012
    #333
  14. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream... of spring.
    - Phil Conners (Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day
     
    Tophat665, Feb 2, 2012
    #334
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."

    -Robert Heinlein​
     
    uncle phil, Feb 3, 2012
    #335
  16. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    "Be yourself," is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
    J. B. Priestley
     
    Tophat665, Feb 3, 2012
    #336
  17. SCBronco

    SCBronco Getting Tilted

    "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
    -Yogi Berra
     
    SCBronco, Feb 3, 2012
    #337
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  18. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
    Ronald Reagan

    ​
     
    Tophat665, Feb 3, 2012
    #338
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  19. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    “I’m better [at sex] because I was never pretty…Pretty girls just lie there. Us girls who grew up a little more homely have to try a lot harder.”
    — Courtney Love
     
    CaptainBob, Feb 3, 2012
    #339
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  20. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Existence precedes essence."

    -Jean-Paul Sartre​
     
    uncle phil, Feb 4, 2012
    #340
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