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"The humble improve."
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01-06-2006, 05:46 PM | #17 |
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"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." --Winston Churchill
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01-10-2006, 12:09 AM | #18 |
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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
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01-10-2006, 12:44 AM | #19 |
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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 |
01-10-2006, 12:22 PM | #20 |
I thought I changed this.
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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."
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01-12-2006, 11:25 AM | #21 |
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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
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01-12-2006, 01:03 PM | #22 |
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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.
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01-12-2006, 01:08 PM | #23 |
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"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
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01-12-2006, 09:45 PM | #25 |
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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."
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01-13-2006, 03:23 PM | #26 |
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-- H L Mencken
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01-13-2006, 05:09 PM | #27 |
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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)
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01-13-2006, 07:56 PM | #28 |
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammed Ali
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01-14-2006, 12:06 PM | #30 |
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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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