Quote of the Day

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
        -- W. Somerset Maugham

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"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
       [benjamin Disraeli]

[Bdub01 201]

With cable you wait forever for them to show up. I hope it's not a girl... Or a guy.

Incredibly Awkward Rob Lowe

(I know this isn't a major life altering quote but every time it see this commercial it cracks me up.)

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    The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball...
You've got to start way down, at the bottom, when you're six or seven years
old. You can't wait until you're fifteen or sixteen.  You've got to let it
grow up with you, and if you're successful and you try hard enough, you're
bound to come out on top, just like these boys have come to the top now.
        -- Babe Ruth, in his 1948 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium

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    Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act.
            -- Truman Capote

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

    Life is a moderately good play

with a badly written third act.

            -- Truman Capote

 

Unless your third act includes going out in a blaze of glory, then the it's a moderately good play with a kick-ass ending.  We don't all get to have that, though, do we?

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Compulsion embitters the enthusiast but never wins him over.

 

(Friedrich Schiller, german writer, 1759 - 1805)

 

[Own translation - I'm not shure if "enthusiast" fits here. The right word would be more a mixture of "enthusiast" and "dreamer", a person who is not only convinced by an idear but really hooked on it]

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An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize
winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen.  He was amazed to find that
over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the
open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not
let it spill out).  The American said with a nervous laugh,
    "Surely you don't believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck,
do you, Professor Bohr?  After all, as a scientist --"
Bohr chuckled.
    "I believe no such thing, my good friend.  Not at all.  I am
scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense.  However, I am told
that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not."
 

From the Linux Fortune Data Base.  One should remember that Bohr, Einstein, Fermi, and their contemporaries had a sense of humour.

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    Nearly all men can stand adversity, but
if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
            -- Abraham Lincoln

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    When they discover the center of the universe,
a lot of people will be disappointed to discover
that they are not it.
            -- Bernard Bailey

[Bdub01 201]

^ I believe the Catholic Church was ticked when they found out earth wasn't the center of the universe

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

"Eppur si muove"

Galileo Galilei

[Bdub01 201]

The government of the United States...

Gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

George Washington

(Kind of ironic for a person who condoned slavery.)

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The government of the United States...

Gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

George Washington

(Kind of ironic for a person who condoned slavery.)

Poor George would be appalled at what has evolved today.

 

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Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representation

of contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation of

anything -- except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting upright

in a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

        -- Richard Schickel

 

[Compdude787 916]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
        -- actress Mary Pickford, 1925

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    Government is too big and too
important to be left to the politicians.
            -- Chester Bowles

[Bdub01 201]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Ralph Wiggum

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If I have trouble installing Linux, something is wrong. Very wrong.
        -- Linus Torvalds

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Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
        -- John F. Kennedy

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    As far as the laws of
mathematics refer to reality,
they are not certain; and as
far as they are certain, they
do not refer to reality.
            -- Albert Einstein

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    Each success only buys an
admission ticket to a more
difficult problem.
            -- Henry Kissinger

[Terring 6,476]

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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
        -- Mahatma Gandhi
 

[westy177 203]

"when in doubt flat out" -Colin McRae

Just to lighten up the mood

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Admiration, n.:
    Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
        -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

[Fantozzi 4,067]

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

 

 

(Elias Canetti)

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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
        -- Don Marquis
 

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    The two most common elements in
the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
                    -- Harlan Ellison

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    The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
                -- Clarence Darrow