RichTBikkies
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jun 30, 2021 6:56:36 GMT
In the long run we're all dead
John Maynard Keynes
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jackd
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Post by jackd on Jun 30, 2021 12:17:17 GMT
I prefer the version: "In the long run, there is no long run."
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jun 30, 2021 13:54:45 GMT
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
Sallust
And... shades of LBJ:
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
Sallust
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RichTBikkies
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Trainee Basil Fawlty. Practising Victor Meldrew.
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jun 30, 2021 22:19:00 GMT
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood it was one of them.
Turkish proverb.
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 1, 2021 12:07:03 GMT
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
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Post by LFC on Jul 1, 2021 15:39:37 GMT
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood it was one of them.
Turkish proverb. Soooooo ... the MAGAts keep supporting Trump because his head is made out of wood?
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pnwguy
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Post by pnwguy on Jul 1, 2021 15:54:53 GMT
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood it was one of them.
Turkish proverb. Soooooo ... the MAGAts keep supporting Trump because his head is made out of wood?
"He's a witch!" But his Other head, if we believe Stormy, is made of basidiomycota. |
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Post by LFC on Jul 1, 2021 16:01:01 GMT
But his Other head, if we believe Stormy, is made of basidiomycota.  |
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 2, 2021 11:35:15 GMT
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 3, 2021 11:41:00 GMT
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
George Carlin
Bonus quote:
Holy CRAP !! That's due tomorrow ?!?!
T. Jefferson, July 3, 1776 Philadelphia, PA
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Post by LFC on Jul 3, 2021 13:02:56 GMT
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 4, 2021 11:56:00 GMT
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
George Washington
Happy Fourth of July everyone !!
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RichTBikkies
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Trainee Basil Fawlty. Practising Victor Meldrew.
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 5, 2021 6:49:06 GMT
"Mr Gandhi, what do you think of American justice and liberality?"
"They both sound like good ideas".
Mahatma Gandhi (attributed, but only by Bikkies).
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 5, 2021 13:39:27 GMT
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 5, 2021 13:40:57 GMT
"Mr Gandhi, what do you think of American justice and liberality?"
"They both sound like good ideas".
Mahatma Gandhi (attributed, but only by Bikkies).  |
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Post by Bact PhD on Jul 5, 2021 23:06:57 GMT
"Mr Gandhi, what do you think of American justice and liberality?"
"They both sound like good ideas".
Mahatma Gandhi (attributed, but only by Bikkies).
Somewhat reminiscent of a quote variously attributed to John McKay when he coached the Buccaneers and Casey Stengel when he managed the Mets, in response to a question about the team's execution:
I'm in favor of it. |
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RichTBikkies
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Trainee Basil Fawlty. Practising Victor Meldrew.
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 6, 2021 7:03:33 GMT
"Mr Gandhi, what do you think of American justice and liberality?"
"They both sound like good ideas".
Mahatma Gandhi (attributed, but only by Bikkies). "Rule Britannia! Britannia waives the rules!" You know . . . Boris Johnson . . . What's the bettins we beg you, on our knees, with tears streaming from our eyes, to let us become the 51st state (or would it be 53rd?)? That's the only reason we joined the European Economic Community (as it then was): to get us out of our economic doggie-do's. |
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 6, 2021 12:22:57 GMT
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca the Elder
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2021 1:07:56 GMT
The sunny optimism of the British are a bit much to fit in with American culture.
Also, we don't want Piers Morgan to become our headache.
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 7, 2021 11:53:52 GMT
It's all in your head. You have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
Seneca the Younger
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 8, 2021 12:07:08 GMT
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 9, 2021 11:32:21 GMT
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
Petronius
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 10, 2021 10:59:45 GMT
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Pericles
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 11, 2021 11:26:05 GMT
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Hugo Grotius
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andydp
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Post by andydp on Jul 12, 2021 11:37:35 GMT
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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