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beavis 01-06-2006 02:18 PM

"The humble improve."

-Winton Marsalis,
printed on a starbucks cup

xoxoxoBruce 01-06-2006 05:46 PM

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." --Winston Churchill :D

BigV 01-10-2006 12:09 AM

Parallel lines of thought
 
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. -- John F. Kennedy

seakdivers 01-10-2006 12:44 AM

This is one of my favorite quotes - mainly because I've lived through a few situations in the last few years that proved it to be true:

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
-- George Washington

Skunks 01-10-2006 12:22 PM

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,"Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."

dar512 01-12-2006 11:25 AM

Quote of the Day
 
Sorry for the delay. I've been having muscle spasms in my neck. Way up there on the pain index. So I've been loopy on a couple of medicines.

In any case, here it is:

"If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today,
what need have you for tomorrow?"
R' Nahman of Bratslav

BigV 01-12-2006 01:03 PM

We laugh at honor but are shocked to find traitors in our midst. -- C.S. Lewis

Sad and true, like so many of these bits of wisdom.

Spexxvet 01-12-2006 01:08 PM

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world; People who are intolerant of other people's cultures; and the Dutch."

Nigel Powers - in Goldmember

Spexxvet 01-12-2006 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dar512
Sorry for the delay. I've been having muscle spasms in my neck. Way up there on the pain index. So I've been loopy on a couple of medicines.

In any case, here it is:

"If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today,
what need have you for tomorrow?"
R' Nahman of Bratslav

I like the first one better - the one about the spasms.

xoxoxoBruce 01-12-2006 09:45 PM

December 9, 2005(CNN) While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when sniping members of Al Quaeda in Afghanistan.
The soldier shrugged and replied, "Recoil." :cool:

dar512 01-13-2006 03:23 PM

Quote of the Day
 
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-- H L Mencken

BigV 01-13-2006 05:09 PM

dar512, that is:

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)

xoxoxoBruce 01-13-2006 07:56 PM

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammed Ali ;)

Perry Winkle 01-13-2006 08:02 PM

One to live by --

Quote:

Originally Posted by George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.


grazzers 01-14-2006 12:06 PM

Wow, great quotes, particularly the R' Nahman one (and the Nigel Powers one :))

One of my favourites:
"Live forever or die trying" - Yosserian, Catch 22

Plus the quote in my signature:


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