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Post by andydp on Jun 7, 2021 12:15:15 GMT
Failure is success in progress
Albert Einstein
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2021 13:20:22 GMT
Then I have made spectacular progress.
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Post by LFC on Jun 8, 2021 2:01:54 GMT
This is just so perfect. I've never seen a more succinct way to put it.
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Post by andydp on Jun 8, 2021 11:05:58 GMT
Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.
Darius I
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Post by andydp on Jun 9, 2021 11:12:55 GMT
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
Juvenal
(Even then they knew how to skewer a politician)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2021 14:15:51 GMT
In the present state of the world it's rather difficult to lampoon when reality does it better than everybody, everyday.
- Juvenile
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jun 14, 2021 7:33:06 GMT
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Post by andydp on Jun 14, 2021 10:30:46 GMT
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
Pythagoras
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2021 14:37:48 GMT
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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Post by andydp on Jun 14, 2021 16:47:51 GMT
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
Pythagoras Like differential geometry and non-zero curvatures. More like: "S*&^ Happens" |
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Post by andydp on Jun 15, 2021 11:56:52 GMT
"Two Fer" Tuesday
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
George Berkeley
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Post by andydp on Jun 16, 2021 16:23:52 GMT
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
Aristotle
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 22:12:19 GMT
There goes the male enhancement industry! As well as cosmetics including plastic surgery.
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Post by andydp on Jun 17, 2021 11:25:36 GMT
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Post by andydp on Jun 18, 2021 12:52:12 GMT
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
Omar Khayyam
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Post by andydp on Jun 20, 2021 13:42:55 GMT
Once again, proving, the more things change the more they are the same. Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.
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Post by pnwguy on Jun 20, 2021 18:33:35 GMT
And for father's day: Major Fail for The Former Guy. On the other hand, he's well instructed them in crime and grift. |
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Post by andydp on Jun 21, 2021 12:00:50 GMT
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Post by andydp on Jun 22, 2021 12:56:35 GMT
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jun 22, 2021 16:43:42 GMT
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More "The Man with the Broken Nose" in These Charming People (1923) by Michael Arlen." |
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Post by jackd on Jun 22, 2021 18:41:01 GMT
The problem isn't limited to England.
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Post by andydp on Jun 23, 2021 12:55:19 GMT
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
Barry Goldwater
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Post by goldenvalley on Jun 23, 2021 16:12:34 GMT
Barry just didn't recognize the cohesion of that particular voting block. He might have able to turn the solid South into Republicans almost 20 years before it did.
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Post by andydp on Jun 28, 2021 12:42:46 GMT
The world is governed by opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
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Post by andydp on Jun 29, 2021 12:39:00 GMT
Does this situation sound familiar ? Consider the latest "vision" by the Qanon denizens of the Planet Twilo, is what looked like a reflection of Pres Trump in a White House window. www.newsweek.com/qanon-joe-biden-donald-trump-reflection-window-photo-1604606For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.Lucretius Something for the "normal" among us. Time, motion and wine cause sleep.Ovid |
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