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

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  1. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    Where the ?&?* did I put my glasses?

    - Captainbob
     
    CaptainBob, Nov 3, 2011
    #141
  2. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak."

    -unknown​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 4, 2011
    #142
  3. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."

    -Olin Miller​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 5, 2011
    #143
  4. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

    -Winston Churchill​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 6, 2011
    #144
  5. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "We tell lies when we are afraid, ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."

    -Tad Williams​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 7, 2011
    #145
  6. Python

    Python Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Land of the Vikings
    "Making girls like you is not going to get you laid. What’s going to get you laid is not giving a damn whether they liked you or not."

    - Ozzy
     
    Python, Nov 7, 2011
    #146
  7. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "I am just living to be lying by your side
    But I'm just about a moonlight mile down the road..."

    - Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
     
    uncle phil, Nov 8, 2011
    #147
  8. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    CaptainBob, Nov 8, 2011
    #148
  9. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

    -St. Francis De Sales​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 9, 2011
    #149
  10. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

    -Cicero

    (i guess he said it first...)​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 10, 2011
    #150
  11. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

    - Winston Churchill
     
    CaptainBob, Nov 10, 2011
    #151
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  12. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."

    -Albert Einstein​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 11, 2011
    #152
  13. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."

    -Graham Greene​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 12, 2011
    #153
  14. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

    -Elbert Hubbard​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 13, 2011
    #154
  15. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

    -Winston Churchill​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 14, 2011
    #155
  16. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."

    -Ernst F. Schumacher​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 15, 2011
    #156
  17. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

    -George Bernard Shaw​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 16, 2011
    #157
  18. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
     
    CaptainBob, Nov 16, 2011
    #158
  19. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

    -Anatole France​
     
    uncle phil, Nov 17, 2011
    #159
  20. uncle phil

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

    Location:
    pasco county
    "My father always told me never to bet on anything but Notre Dame and the Yankees. But for anyone not willing to take my father's advice, I now declare this casino open."

    - Governor Brendan Byrne at the opening of Caesars Palace, Atlantic City, May 26, 1978
     
    uncle phil, Nov 18, 2011
    #160
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