Favourite Quotes

[quddusaliquddus]

What are your favourite quotes?

[ShawnD]

Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.

"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"

Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.

Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad

Ah I love that movie :biggrin:

[quddusaliquddus]

Lol. This can only mean one thing - we can't forget The Godfather. :D

[ShawnD]

I didn't like that movie at all. Seemed like it went way too slow... sort of like Lord Of The Rings.

[quddusaliquddus]

Hmmm....I guess we all have our tastes... :D

[tribdog]

I taste salty

[Trogdor]

"sometimes I talk about tires and sometimes I talk about shopping carts"

[Trogdor]

Newton died an 84 year old virgin

[rathma]

And you know this why?

[jimmy p]

A good quote is from Maynard James Keenan.

"Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false fingernails, sixteen pounds of assorted make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a "real" man."

However one of my fav's has to be:

"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."

or this one from Robin Williams....

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."

[The_Professional]

I like people, especially with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[tribdog]

"Isn't that a bit excessive?" ~Vlaad the Impaler
"That's one small step for man..." ~Christopher Reeves

[Trogdor]

"Guess what! I got a fever! and the only prescription is more cowbell!" ~ Christopher Walkin (best actor ever) Blue Oyster Cult snl skit

[Chrono]

"Women, they make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world ... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant."
- Sartre

"The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind."
-Yagyu Jubei

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
-Lao Tzu


Good stuff, isn't it?

[Janitor]

"What this country needs is a good ten-cent cigar."
- Heinrich Himmler

[anvil]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Tom Waits

[jimmy p]

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading."
-- Steve Jobs (Founder: Apple Computers)

"Hockey is a sport for white men.
Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
-- Tiger Woods

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-b*tch."
-- Jack Nicholson

[Njorl]

"I would never belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member." Groucho

Richard Kimble:I didn't kill my wife!
Marshall Girard:I don't care.
from the movie "The Fugitive"

"You'll shoot your eye out." Multiple people in "A Christmas Story"

"But ... these go to eleven. That's one louder." - "Spinal Tap"

"Who remembers the Armenians?" - Hitler

"Just as sore eyes cannot stand light, and prefer darkness, so it is with the body politic in times of trouble and humiliation. " -Plutarch, Life of Phocion

Njorl

[jimmy p]

"Dogbert: If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Dilbert: But I'm allergic to citrus.
Dogbert: If life give you lemons, swell up and die."

:biggrin:

[Kerrie]

A good quote is from Maynard James Keenan.

"Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false fingernails, sixteen pounds of assorted make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a "real" man."

However one of my fav's has to be:

"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."

or this one from Robin Williams....

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."


love maynard's lyrics :smile: and Robin Williams is one of the most brilliant comedians ever.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~
Lily Tomlin

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy

[quddusaliquddus]

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin"

LOL ... never thought of it like that!

[Robert Zaleski]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"The future ain't what it use to be"

Both attributed to Yogi Berra

[motai]

Marge: "Bart! You cant tell God to kill Sideshow Bob!"
Homer: "Yeah, do you own dirty work!"

hehe

[Ebolamonk3y]

"[Alone] I like, at times, to hear The Ancient's word,
And have a care to be most civil:
It's really kind of such a noble Lord
So humanly to gossip with the Devil!" - Mephistopheles -- Faust

[tribdog]

"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." ~Morpheus
"The body cannot live without the mind." ~Morpheus
"Guess who watched "The Matrix" last night?"~Tribdog

[RBS_5]

Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman.

If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made.

Being sure mistakes will occur is a good frame of mind for catching them.

Check the answer you have worked out once more -- before you tell it to anybody.

When in doubt, mumble.
When in trouble, delegate.
When in charge, ponder.

~Murphy's Laws :approve:

[swansont]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
Maj. Gen. John Sedgewick, killed by a sniper in 1864 at the battle of Spotsylvania

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James D. Nicoll

English was a language invented by Norman invaders to pick up
Anglo-Saxon barmaids. It retains much of this character.


Only crackpots think the plural of anecdote is evidence

[Ivan Seeking]

How do you get a giant squid through a revolving door? - Lazo-Wasem, Zoologist
http://leisure.newstimes.com/story.php?id=65188

Now there's a problem that I never considered.

[The Bob]

'The only way to improve at something is to start from the beginning and work up again.'
- The Bob (unless anyone knows someone who said it first)

The Bob (2004 ©)

[The_Professional]

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

-Victor Frankl

[Gokul43201]

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
-Victor Frankl

Riddle : What came first, the Frankl or the JFK ?

They were contemp's, weren't they ?

[Janitor]

Said by a weary wife in Chicago:

Da Bulls. Da Bears. Da-vorce.

[Janitor]

Said by Coach Frank Kush after his placekicker missed a field goal that would have won the game:

He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a handful of popcorn.

[Moonbear]

"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married."
George Burns

I just came across this one recently and really thought it was great (George Burns was such a great comedian).

There are some more serious ones I'm fond of, but I'd have to look them up to get them right.

[Gokul43201]

This is all your fault, Moonbear.

Here's a few Woody Allen gems :

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him 'be fruitful, and multiply.' But not in those words.

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

[humanino]

BoulderHead, that is really outrageously gross :eek: :eek: :yuck: :yuck:

:rofl:

[Gokul43201]

Like I said before...

Now it's too late to stem the flow of crassitude.

[string_theory]

"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married."
George Burns




I just came across this one recently and really thought it was great (George Burns was such a great comedian).

There are some more serious ones I'm fond of, but I'd have to look them up to get them right.

simply wonderful, thank you for bringing it here...

[Smurf]

"Ideas are far more powerfull than guns, we don't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have Ideas"
-Josef Stalin

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
-Karl Marx

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things as men."
-Plato

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."
-Alexander, King of Macedon.

[string_theory]

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."

this sucks...

[Smurf]

you suck...

[Gokul43201]

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. - unknown

[string_theory]

you suck...
f... u

I did not say anything to u...

I said to what Marx said.

[Smurf]

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. - unknown

I don't get that, weren't vacuum cleaners around before Microsoft??

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

I don't get that, weren't vacuum cleaners around before Microsoft??
he is saying that the vacuum wont suck up dirt and stuff, therefore it wont suck, nd it doesnt matter if microsoft was around before or after vacuums

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

here is one i like
"tread softly, for you are treading on my dreams"yeats

"some poeple dont see the light until it comes shining through bullet holes"

[BoulderHead]

BoulderHead, that is really outrageously gross :eek: :eek: :yuck: :yuck:

:rofl:
Yeah, after the drugs wore off I decided to delete the post...but, here's a couple more from the same animal;


I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks.
-Emo Phillips

I ran three miles today, finally I said "lady take your purse."
-Emo Phillips

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
-Emo Phillips

[jimmy p]

"I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people's pants, it was Weggie Kray."

I like that one!

[Dagenais]

Here are a few I like from 2 favourite shows, I had quite a bit of trouble choosing:

Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit. Never give up.


Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Homer: I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.


"I can't carry a pen. I'm afraid I'll puncture my scrotum."
- George, in "The Parking Garage"


"So you feel 'women and children first' in this day and age is somewhat of an antiquated notion."
"To some degree."
"So, basically, it's every man, woman, child and invalid for themselves."
"In a manner of speaking."
"Well, that's honest."
"She should be commending me for treating everyone like equals."
"Well, perhaps when she's released from the burn center she'll see things more clearly."
- Jerry and George, in "The Fire"


"You don't know my name, do you?"
"Yes I do."
"What is it?"
"It, uh, rhymes with a female body part."
"What is it?"
"Mulva..."
- Dolores and Jerry, in "The Junior Mints"


"We only wake you up for the important meetings."
- Yankee exec, to George, in "The Comeback" :biggrin:

[Smurf]

You forgot:
Homer: If at first you don't succeed, cheat untill caught, then lie.

[ShawnD]

Trying is the first step towards failing.

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do it now when I can wait until tomorrow? If I wait until later I'll be under pressure. I work better under pressure. - Charley Brown

[poolwin2001]

If I have seen less than others, it's because some giant's shoulders were always in the way-anonymous :rofl:
Orbis Non Sufficit -James bond :rofl:
"I don't mind coming to work - I just don't want to stay when I get there." :rofl: Louis H. Albert, Deputy, Summit County, Ohio
P.S.DO you have the feeling that you have seen these somewhere?? :wink: :biggrin:

[Echo 6 Sierra]

I drank what...?

Socrates

[Gokul43201]

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people,
and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

[poolwin2001]

"In almost all textbooks, even the best, this
principle is presented so that it is impossible to
understand." (K. Jacobi Lectures on Dynamics,
1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with
tradition.

[Ivan Seeking]

Jimmy Carter was on the Charlie Rose Show talking about the book co-authored by he and his wife, Rosalyn Carter, and about their lives together
- called Sharing Good Times.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743270339/qid=1102639711/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-9641466-5048618?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Quoting Jimmy Carter [approximate]: " We could agree on 97% of what happened but we couldn't agree on the other 3%...and it was an important 3%. It got so bad that it nearly ended the effort. We just couldn't agree on what had happened.

...I was amazed at Rose's defective memory!" [smiles broadly].

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fourier jr]

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen, Side Effects

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Anonymous

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the guy next to me.
Woody Allen

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

I've just developed a proof that demonstrates that, where n>2, the equation a^n+b^n = c^n cannot be solved with integers. Unfortunately, my train is coming.
Graffiti in a subway station

I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468 ,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,0 31,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Albert Einsten

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
David Hilbert

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."
J. E. Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
Wolfgang Pauli commenting Einstein's lecture

Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse (1872)

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest" part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Richard Davisson

"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
Woody Allen

I don't want to be immortal through my work. I want to be immortal through not dying.
Woody Allen

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

Physics is much too hard for physicists.
David Hilbert (that's the best one on the list)

A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Erdös, Paul

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give s a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."
Halmos, Paul R

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
von Neumann, Johann

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
Rosenblueth, A

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos (another good one)

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.
Stan Ulam

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Graham, Ronald

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
da Vinci, Leonardo

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

I am a passenger on the spaceship, Earth.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune
Chomsky

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations
Chomsky

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since
Salvador Dali

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making
Salvador Dali

The world will admire me. Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a great genius, I'm certain of it
Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction
Salvador Dali

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
Winston Churchill (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught
Churchill again

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
Einstein

[0TheSwerve0]

Journey with me into the mind of a maniac
born to be a killa since I came out the nut sac - Natural Born Killas
- care of loseyourname

[0TheSwerve0]

Any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what mymother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.

"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"


-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the Universe.

[ek]

"Poker is not about this hand, next hand or the last hand, it is about the future thousands of hands and you must be confident good plays and good players will win out in the end."

That's a quote I made up to calm myself after a horrible player bad beats me in a certain hand.

[matthyaouw]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

-Albert Einstein.

[Smurf]

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

(Depends on the translation, but the meaning is more or less the same)

[Ivan Seeking]

"Well, I've got this thing with Pioneer," Anderson said.

"I almost fell off my chair," Nieto said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=10&u=/latimests/20041221/ts_latimes/gravitymayloseitspull

[Ivan Seeking]

In fact, I like this one from Anderson even better. :biggrin:
But somehow, the choice one makes affects one’s outlook and direction of attack. If one has to consider new physics one should be open to both points of view. In the unlikely event that there is new physics, one does not want to miss it because one had the wrong mind set.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0104/0104064.pdf

[dextercioby]

ODERINT,DUM METUANT!

Caius Cicero,"Phillipicae",17.

Daniel.


PS.An unofficial translation in English would be:"Let them hate me,but at least fear me!".In Romanian it sounds:"Sa ma urasca,dar sa se teama de mine!!".

[stoned]

"If you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America, you're given a front-row seat"
George Carlin.

[Mk]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

[zanazzi78]

Any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what mymother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.

"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"


-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the Universe.

my favourite Hitchhiker`s quote;

"buttons aren`t toys!"

[zanazzi78]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

You are right. In fact this is the 3rd "Favourite quotes! thread i`ve read since joining PF.

I`ve probably posted these before but I`ll subject you all to my sense of humour again;

On the back of a box of matches;
"The hardest thing in life is convice a woman than even a bargin costs money"

Some Oscar Wilde quotes i like:

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Now for my favourite science quotes:

"Much like a great work of art ,a beatiful equation has among its attributes much more than mere attractiveness - it will have universality, simplicity, inevitablity and an elemental power." - words written by Graham Farmelo in the book It must be Beatufull, Great Equations of Modern Science.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Einstien

"The measure of a being of a man of my type, lies not in what he thinks and how he thinks but in what he does and suffers." - Einstein

[Tom Mattson]

"Seeing the universe through the eyes of a child is easy. Actually catching a child and removing his eyes, now that's the hard part."
--Can't recall the source, but Another God used it as a sig line.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. Whey they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
--Frank Sinatra

"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the bone."
--Billy Connolly

"The jerk store called, they're running out of YOU."
--George Costanza

"I'd rather let 1000 guilty men go free than chase after them."
--Chief Wiggum

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
--Carl Sagan

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman

"He who laughs last, thinks slowest."
--Seen on a T-shirt

"If you can't laugh at yourself, then can you at least keep quiet while I laugh at you?"
--Tom Mattson

[Lisa!]

"If unbron people knew what's going on in this world, they would never come to this world!" -A scientist

"Someone should die. In order the rest value the life more" -Nicole Kidman in Hours

"Who could you laugh at if there were no stupid person in this world?" -Me

[Kazza_765]

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman
I can't believe I haven't heard that one before. I'm going to use that :rofl:.

[Ivan Seeking]

Reported tonight on Washington Week, on PBS.

A source close to the Bush administration stated: "George Bush is the kind of person who, if he were sitting next to you at a dinner, you'd be looking over his shoulder for someone more interesting.

and continued... "We are now in the post Bush republican era".

That's the best quote that I've heard in six years.

[1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21]

" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.
and my avatar will be the guy from monty python and the holy grail who makes the horse clop noise.

[Smurf]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realises that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"
" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.
Think that says something about a person?

[Evo]

One of my favorite quotes is by Einstein "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Another favorite is by Matt Groening of the Simpsons - "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

[matthyaouw]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realises that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"


I like that. Who said it?

[Astronuc]

Professor's response to his students who were complaining that the problems and work was too hard!

"It's supposed to be hard.

If it was easy, then nobody would pay you to solve the problem!"

:rolleyes: :rofl:

[scott_alexsk]

"You know, I got a real warm feeling from that lady talkin' about how she adopted all of those children or was that just the booze?"
-unknown

[Lisa!]

I'm abit romantic today, so::blushing:

"I love you not because of who you are,
But because of who I am when I'm with you...
No man or woman is worth your tears,
And the one who is won't make you cry.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean that they don't love you with all they have...
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand,
and touches your heart.


The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting
Right beside them knowing that you can't have them.
Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world.

Don't waste your time on a man or woman
Who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
Maybe God wanted us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one.
So that when we finally meet the right person,
We will know how to be grateful...
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened...
There's always going to be people that hurt you. "

I guess that's Paolo Coelo's(did I spell his name correctly?:shy:)

[Astronuc]

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/ :cool:

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.

"In order to love someone, one has to know the someone." - ancient wisdom


Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world. Very good perspective to keep in mind :approve: :smile:

[jimmysnyder]

Dormio, ergo dubito (I dream, therefor I doubt)

Last night I was falling. Or so it seemed. I considered that when I reached the ground I would die. But then I awoke and was safe in my bed. Or so it seemed.

[Vincent Vega]

From Boondocks:

"The absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence." __ Gin Rummy

"There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns, but there are unknown unknowns. Things that we don't know that we don't know." __ Gin Rummy

[Garth]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

[Astronuc]

Some quotes from Eugene Wigner

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

[While] solipsism may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, monism in the sense of materialism is not.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. from creative quotes

[heartless]

I have many favorite quotes on many subjects, but here are some of the one s about life that I like:

"No child should be permitted to grow up without an excercise for imagination" - Mark Twain

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and... I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"... but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man." - E.B White

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry Thoreau

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - unknown

Thanks,

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I've heard it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game is the losers refrain, this is BS, if you take that simple message to heart in life and the game it implies you won't go far wrong.

Lifes a beach, but just when you get used to the water, the tide goes out.

There are more questions than answers, but the more I find out the less I know.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Some people would rather die than think: some people do.

as you can tell I'm a bit of Bertrand Russel fan, although not all of them are his quotes.

[jimmie]

Perhaps, the only flaw in the universe was my perception of the universe.

Beauty is all that is, and that is all it is.

That is the only way: Rightintent.

Create your own quote.

jimmie

[kahless2005]

That Patton Quote is one of my favourtes. I also really enjoyed that Robin Williams one on page 1.

"I READ YOUR BOOK!" -Patton to Rommel after defeating Rommel

Back off man, I'm a scientist- Peter Venkman

Listen, do you smell something? - Ray Stanz

What did you do Ray? - Peter Venkman

[0TheSwerve0]

Buffy: It's about power. (Lessons)

[0TheSwerve0]

k, couldn't stop there. Just two more Buffy quotes and I'll leave it alone.

(Buffy and Giles stand in front of Buffy's friend's grave.)
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
(After a moments pause)
Buffy: Liar.


Angelus: It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

[Astronuc]

Some people are like slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you can't help but :smile: (or :biggrin:) when you seen one tumble down the stairs.

Somebody on the net.

[enigma]

There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.

Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.

Both quotes by Dave Akin (http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html)

[0TheSwerve0]

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

My favourite has got to be

Lady at a tea party after getting into an argument with Winston Churchill.

Lady: Sir, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea!

Winston Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife I'd drink it!

[devious_]

Education is what remains when what is learnt is forgotten.

[TheStatutoryApe]

"So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin` to the core"
Floggin Molly - Another Bag of Bricks

[scott_alexsk]

"Sucess is measured by how far you bounce after you hit bottom."
-Winston Churchill(?)

[Jonny_trigonometry]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash it with a rock" - My friend Charlie

[JamesU]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash pengwuino" - Yomamma

[ranger]

"Whenever something goes wrong in the US, a Bush is behind it." -- some dude that hates GWB.

[fourier jr]

a couple that i read recently:

"No matter what it is, there is nothing that cannot be done. If one manifests the determination, he can move heaven and earth as he pleases. But because man is pluckless, he cannot set his mind to it. Moving heaven and earth without putting forth effort is simply a matter of concentration."
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (aka the Way of the Samurai)

"Go on, sir, go on. The difficulties you meet with will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed; and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
D’Alembert, note to a student found by Arago

[Hootenanny]

"Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."

-Mark Twain

[kant]

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given"- albert einstein

[Lisa!]

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." _Christine Cagney, Cagney & Lacey.(mod's sig in another forum)

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/ :cool:

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.


Thanks!:smile:

[scott_alexsk]

"The only laws people diligently obey are those of thermodynamics."

[Hurlbert]

Cowards Die many deaths, before they die. - Fredrick Nieche

[sebas531]

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth"-Archimedes

[Astronuc]

Businessmen will strive to make money at the expense of the environment as long as they think like CEOs and not grandparents.

Government will only do as much as the people demand.

Pete Seeger - Earth Day, 2006

[Astronuc]

I am interested in everyone and everything, and how it all fits together...which used to be normal, now they call me a Renaissance Man.

Evan Pritchard.
http://evansearthwalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/wednesday-march-29th-2006-after.html

The first part applies to me, but then I was never normal. :biggrin:

[Reshma]

"Failures are stepping stones to success, but I always step on a falling stone." -Anonymous

[siddharth]

"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary, and those who don't"

[Astronuc]

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." :rofl:

In memory of John Kenneth Galbraith, who died at age 97, April 29, 2006.

[DeadWolfe]

"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!" - Homer Simpson

[Dawguard]

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none."--Lucius Seneca.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."--Barry Goldwater

"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities which have never in truth be known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done moves towards self-destruction rather than self-preservation. The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."--Niccolo Machiavelli

[fourier jr]

There are four way to know much: live for many years; travel through many lands; read many good books (which is easiest); and converse with wise friends (which is most enjoyable).
Baltasar Gracian

The great reader of a great book said that he had found only one defect: it was neither so brief that he could memorize it, nor so long that he would never finish it.
Baltasar Gracian

If that life of mine, which only concerns myself, is not directed by me towards something, it will be disjointed, lacking in tension and in form. In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

You should do it even if you think you can’t, since it will teach you a lot....
Stephen Willard, General Topology p.121

[George Jones]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both."

R. Hughes in the preface of his book The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.


"He was not of an age, but for all time!"

"The only thing you done was yesterday"

It's kind of sad that this last quote was made, but the bad grammar and the wordplay make it amazingly effective as a scathing comment.

Regards,
George

[Astronuc]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both." Now that's the way to study QM. :rofl: Cheers, George!

I love this quote from a BBC caption: "Clouds present huge problems for scientists who model the climate." :rofl: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4944058.stm

[fourier jr]

No human being ever yet made a success trying to be somebody else, even if that person was a success. Success cannot be copied – cannot be imitated. It is an original force – an individual creation. Every man will be a failure just in proportion as he gets away from himself and tries to be somebody else and express somebody else instead of himself. Power comes from within or from nowhere.
Orison Swett Marden

It is either easy or impossible.
Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

When I first applied my mind to mathematics I read straight away most of what is usually given by the mathematical writers, and I paid special attention to arithmetic and geometry because they were said to the simplest and so to speak the way to all the rest. But in neither case did I then meet with authors who fully satisfied me. I did indeed learn in their works many propositions about numbers which I found on calculation to be true. As to figures, they in a sense exhibited to my eyes a great number of truths and drew conclusions from certain consequences. But they did not seem to make it sufficiently plain to the mind itself why these things are so, and how they discovered them. Consequently I was not surprised that many people, even of talent and scholarship, should, after glancing at these sciences, have either given up as being empty and childish or, taking them to be very difficult and intricate, been deterred at the very outset from learning them… But when I afterwards bethought myself how it would be that the earliest pioneers of philosophy in bygone ages refused to admit to the study of wisdom anyone who was not versed in mathematics… I was confirmed in my suspicion that they had knowledge of a species of mathematics very different from that which passes current in our time.
Rene Descartes

It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard what the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon. Master Ittei said, “Confucius was a sage because he had the will to become a scholar when he was 15 years old. He was not a sage because he studied later on.” This is the same as the Buddhist maxim, “first intention, then enlightenment.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

[Ivan Seeking]

When in Rome, do as the Romanians.

Condi? She is a great Sec of State...you know, she reads the newspapers.

-- Bush impersonator

[fourier jr]

Let us recall that at the start we distinguished the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter the one who makes no demands on himself, but contents himself with what he is, and is delighted with himself. Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man, who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline – the noble life.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men – and of women – are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to an external compulsion. And for that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out, isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

The fact that you believe implicitly that you can do what may seem impossible or very difficult to others, shows that there is something within you that has gotten a glimpse of power sufficient to do the thing. Many men who have achieved great things cannot account for their faith. They cannot tell why they had the implicit confidence that they could do what they undertook, but the result was evidence that something within them had gotten a glimpse of latent resourcefulness, reserve power, and possibilities which would warrant that faith; and they have gone ahead – often when they could not see a ray of light – with implicit confidence that they would come out all right, because this faith told them so. It told them so because it had been in communication with something within them that was divine, that which had passed the bounds of the limited and had entered the domain of the limitless.
Orison Swett Marden (loves his long sentences :tongue2: )

[Tojen]

Under capitalism, men exploit men. Under communism, it's the other way around. --John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lisa!]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

[Astronuc]

"Never let adversity stand in the way of having a really wonderful time" - Zaphod's First Corollary to his First Principle. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

~"The likelihood of converting mass to energy [in a useful way and through a sustained nuclear reaction] is about the same as the likelihood of shooting a bird in the dark, in a country where there are very few birds"
- A Einstein.

[Astronuc]

"Back in caveman times, Early Man would venture out and brave dinosaurs, plagues, swarms of locuts, and man-eating flying squirrels in order to bring meat back for his woman and children. When Early Man arrived home from this grueling trek, during which he risked life and limb, he was greeted by the sight of his Early Woman (the last time the word 'early' has ever been applied to a woman), standing at the mouth of the cave, hands on hips, shaking her head and muttering, 'You forgot to pick up the firewood, didn't you?'". :rofl: Jim Belushi from his new book "Real Men Don't Apologize". :rolleyes:

I laughed when I read the comment about the man-eating flying squirrels.

[Reshma]

Wisdom ceases to be Wisdom, when it becomes too proud to weep; too grave to laugh and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
~Khalil Gibran

[Ivan Seeking]

"Who put the tribbles in the Qaudrotriticale?"
-James Kirk

[Semaphia]

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge" - Einstein, Probably appeared before :)
"Have you ever seen fattys legs? Its F**ing F***ed!" - Muse's Matt Bellamy

[heartless]

"Have you ever seen fattys legs? Its F**ing F***ed!" - Muse's Matt Bellamy

What is this about?

[ek]

"Everything is true just as it is. Why dislike it? Why hate it?"

It's some Zen proverb. And it's changed my life.

[Jeff Reid]

Al Bundy:

"Women and dog poop, the older they get, the eaiser they are to pick up."

"Why go out for milk when you've got a cow at home?"


Lisa Simpson, traveling through the giant redwood forest, trying to impress on the rest of the family just how big those trees are:

"It says here in the brochere that just one of these trees can make enough sawdust to clean up an entire day's worth of vomit at Disneyland."


From 2001:

"There's never been a problem with the HAL 9000 series before."

"That sounds like famous last words."

[Evo]

Netscape employees, for their part, warmed to such Barksdaleisms (Netscape CEO James Barksdale) as his three snakes rule, formulated at an early management retreat.

The first rule (borrowed from Ross Perot): If you see a snake, kill a snake. Don’t set up a snake committee. Don’t set up a snake user group. Don’t write snake memos. Kill it.

The second: Don’t play with dead snakes. (Don’t revisit decisions.)

The paradoxical third: All opportunities start out looking like snakes.

:bugeye:

[Markjdb]

This one I remember after Vladimir Putin was on Larry King live:

Larry King: Let's get to the part that may not have been enjoyable. What can -- what happened? You tell me. What happened with the submarine?
Vladimir Putin: It sunk.

He has a bunch of other good ones, but they're funnier in russian
It's better if you can imagine his face as he says it...

Copied from wikipedia

[Ivan Seeking]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry

[fourier jr]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry
well let's hope so... :smile:

[Reshma]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry
....if our human race survives that long :rofl: .

[Ivan Seeking]

That which can be conceived, and then believed, can be achieved.
-Amway salesman

[Lisa!]

"Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes! "

An example of thinking positively? I don't think so...:rolleyes:

[Astronuc]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry Yeah, but he didn't take into account GW Bush, who seems bound and determined to prevent that from ever happening. :rolleyes:

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, but he didn't take into account GW Bush, who seems bound and determined to prevent that from ever happening. :rolleyes:

Well, at least we can count on our local Amway salesman. :rofl: :eek: :uhh:

[Astronuc]

On a lighter side - with regard to the plutonium rock band, Disaster Area -

"Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet." :rofl:

"Many worlds have banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties." :rofl: :rofl:

Douglas Adams - HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Ivan Seeking]

Sad News

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in....And then the trouble started.

[Astronuc]

Sad News

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in....And then the trouble started. Note to Tsu - "Don't leave Ivan home alone and unsupervised." :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Hey, it was just a quote. :biggrin:

Heard another good one this morning: The white house is the crown jewel of the federal prison system - Harry Truman.

[Hootenanny]

I want to die at a hundred years old after screaming down an alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I don't do anything slow, not even breathe. I do everything at a fast cadence: eat fast, sleep fast.


What a way to live.

~H

[Astronuc]

During the commencement address yesterday, William Schulz implored the graduates to take the lessons they've learned from Vassar and question authority. He also urged them to take on the responsibility of building a more benevolent nation and welcoming world.

Schulz told the students "history is not finished, the future is not fated" and there remains more work to do in the world.

"We are engaged today in an enormous struggle for the soul of this country.

It is a struggle between those who would close down culture and those who would keep it open; between those who welcome the pre-eminence of one nation and those who give their fealty to the common interests of the globe." William F. Schulz, Vassar commencement, 2006.

William F. Schulz, the U.S. executive director of Amnesty International and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, is one of the pre-eminent human rights activists in the US. :cool:

[fourier jr]

The bird could eat its way out of the cage. That was very real to me. As an apprentice, I too felt like a bird in a cage made out of bread. I just fed on my limits.
Lionel Poilane (http://buffaloreport.com/021104poilane.html), bread baker extraordinaire

http://buffaloreport.com/lionel%20poilane.jpg

[fourier jr]

That which can be conceived, and then believed, can be achieved.
-Amway salesman

that was actually Napoleon Hill, in his book "think and grow rich". he's the originator of a few other well-known quotes like that, such as "quitters never win and winners never quit"

[Cyrus]

"Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!" - Striker

[Ivan Seeking]

that was actually Napoleon Hill, in his book "think and grow rich". he's the originator of a few other well-known quotes like that, such as "quitters never win and winners never quit"

Wow, I read that book but first heard it from an Amway guy. :rofl:

Revolting book btw...

[sebas531]

"It's ok, I'm an engineer."-neighbor

[Jeff Reid]

the future is not fated"The future is not set", Terminator 1 and 2 (movies).

[jimmie]

A true artist does not dwell upon art.

[Tsu]

"Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

- some World Cup commentator? See the I loathe football thread

:rofl: :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

"Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

- some World Cup commentator? See the I loathe football thread

:rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That's a keeper!!!

[Astronuc]

"Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Power correcting everything that stands against Love." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), speaking for the last time as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967.

from A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., James Melvin Washington, James Washington (Editor) , Harper Collins, 1990.

[Evo]

The best quote is taken from a letter Pauli wrote to colleague George Gamow. Werner Heisenberg was another colleague of Pauli’s who spent a lot of time searching for the unified field theory. This, by the way, is a theory which unites quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity, which can’t be done with our current knowledge. Anyway, Heisenberg announced to the press that he and Pauli had found the unified field theory, and only the technical details were missing. This infuriated Pauli, who wrote a letter to Gamow which ended with the following. “This is to show that I can paint like Titian.” (A big drawing of a rectangle) “Only the technical details are missing.”

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3968/pauli2xs.png

[Garth]

"Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Power correcting everything that stands against Love." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), speaking for the last time as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967.

from A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., James Melvin Washington, James Washington (Editor) , Harper Collins, 1990.
Thank you for that Astronuc - I will use it. :smile:

Garth

[fourier jr]

The best quote is taken from a letter Pauli wrote to colleague George Gamow. Werner Heisenberg was another colleague of Pauli’s who spent a lot of time searching for the unified field theory. This, by the way, is a theory which unites quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity, which can’t be done with our current knowledge. Anyway, Heisenberg announced to the press that he and Pauli had found the unified field theory, and only the technical details were missing. This infuriated Pauli, who wrote a letter to Gamow which ended with the following. “This is to show that I can paint like Titian.” (A big drawing of a rectangle) “Only the technical details are missing.”

kind of reminds me of this one:
"You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid."
Wolfgang Pauli commenting Einstein's lecture

[Astronuc]

"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade." - James W. Loewen - from his book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong"

I just found this in the house, and I have been reading Howard Zinn's "The People's History of the United States".

[Astronuc]

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. :biggrin:

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Skyhunter]

The upper crust is just a bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

Written in black on a yellow VW bus I saw in the 80's.

[Astronuc]

Quote of the Day - posted on PHYS208 Fundamentals of Physics II
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/quotes/quote22.html
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
Melvin Schwartz in Principles of Electrodynamics

Nice little discussion of the attributes of mass and electric charge.
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/clas0211.html

[Dimitri Terryn]

"The Patrician is the role of leader of the largest city on the Discworld, Ankh Morpork, and Lord Havelock Vetinari is the Patrician. In a democratic society of One man, One vote, he is that Man and he has the Vote. "

[EL]

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring"

-Feynman

[Gokul43201]

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

-- George Wallace

[Astronuc]

A disclaimer -

The following information may have errors; It is not permissible to be used by anyone who has ever met a lawyer. :rofl:

from an on-line source for units conversion.
http://xtronics.com/reference/convert.htm

[Ivan Seeking]

An old Inuit living near the north pole is interviewed in order to provide a qualitative description of the affects of arctic warming. After discussing the loss of ice, stranded polar bears, dead whales, and the end of a way of life, we get the following:

Inuit: ...but I like global warming.

Interviewer: Why?

Inuit: It's warmer!!!

[darius]

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. ) I am large, I contain multitudes."-Whitman

This is no book-who touches this, touches a man. Whitman

"Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a cosmos."

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible-T. E. Lawrence

Another thing we do is fools ourselves
Becomes the dupes of logic which derives
Giant conclusions out of pygmy clues-Lucretius

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a string of capital truths, and ourselves for an oracle, is inborn in us- Paul Valerey

[mathwonk]

today the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the soul of every individual subject in mathematics. herman weyl.

(what did you expect? physical humor?)

[mathwonk]

professorial humor:

student calling at midnight: "what was my exam grade?"

professor, groggily: "Your grade is F,......whats your name?"

[mathwonk]

"there are no bad whiskies, but some whiskies are better than others",
the honorable peshine smith, ambassador to japan, also attributed (much later) to william faulkner.

[mathwonk]

"If you wipe your rear end with your left hand, then you should eat with your right hand." hindu yogi.

[Astronuc]

I read this recently, but I don't know the author -

"God put me on this earth to accomplish many things.

I am so far behind, I will never die." :biggrin:


There are times when it seems like that - every day brings one more thing to do, which invariably gets appended to the "to do List", where it must wait in the queue pending all the other things to do - eventually.

[Ivan Seeking]

I may have posted these somewhere already, but oh well...

'Yeah, it is reminiscent of what distinguishes the good theorists from the bad ones. The good ones always make an even number of sign errors, and the bad ones always make an odd number.'"-Anthony Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell

The class of all questions contains an infinite number of members (since it is possible to go on indefinitely adding clauses to create questions of indefinite length and complexity). But there are only a finite number of answered questions, so the ratio is 0:1. .
---- Charles Francis

----Corollary: we know nothing.---- Charles Francis

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. - unknown

The reasonable person adapts to the world around him or her, while the unreasonable person tries to change the world to suit them. Conclusion: Change only occurs because of unreasonable people.

[darius]

Here is one that was in Eisenhower's office in the days he was some kind of Dean at Columbia University. In pig latin roughly "Don't let the bastards wear you down."

[Cyrus]

I saw this on a friends profile.

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." -Richard Rhal; Sword of Truth (TotW)- :cool:

[fourier jr]

To invent is to choose. This very remarkable conclusion appears the more striking if we compare it with what Paul Valery writes in the Nouvelle Revue Francaise: "It takes two to invent anything. The one makes up combinations; the other chooses, recognizes what he wishes and what is important to him in the mass of things which the former has imparted to him. What we call genius is much less the work of the first one than the readiness of the second one to grasp the value of what has been laid before him and to choose it."
Jacques Hadamard

All of life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realise my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilise my activities, my capacities. If my body was not a weight to me, I should not be able to walk. If the atmosphere did not press down on me, I should feel my body as something vague, flabby, insubstantial.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Because to live means to have something definite to do – a mission to fulfil – and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

When one speaks of “select minorities” it is usual for the evil-minded to twist the sense of this expression, pretending to be unaware that the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest, but the man who demands more of himself than the rest, even though he may not fulfill in his person those higher exigencies. For there is no doubt that the most radical that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands of themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be for every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

[FrogPad]

Like all of Erdos's friends, Graham was concerned about his drug-taking. In 1979, Graham bet Erdos $500 that he couldn't stop taking amphetamines for a month. Erdos accepted the challenge, and went cold turkey for thirty days. After Graham paid up--and wrote the $500 off as a business expense--Erdos said, "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month." He promptly resumed taking pills, and mathematics was the better for it.

"One thing kids like, is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
-Jack Handey

Believe you can, believe you can't; either way, you're right.
-Henry Fords

[Gokul43201]

I read this recently, but I don't know the author -

"God put me on this earth to accomplish many things.

I am so far behind, I will never die." :biggrin: That's vintage Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes). The author would be Watterson.


Darius, what book is Whitman refering to in that second quote?


Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.

[fourier jr]

Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.

there are plenty more in "the man who loved only numbers"

"One thing kids like, is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
-Jack Handey

lmao that's some good stuff. jack handey is hilarious

[fourier jr]

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible-T. E. Lawrence

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe
:wink:

[Dimitri Terryn]

Terry Pratchett, it the preface of "The Science of Discworld"

"Magicians and Scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in a world of their own and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothingi n common with a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in ...er...":biggrin:

[NoTime]

Terry Pratchett, it the preface of "The Science of Discworld"

"Magicians and Scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in a world of their own and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothingi n common with a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in ...er...":biggrin:
:rofl: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A.C. Clark.

I suspect that for many (most?) people, we are currently far beyond the distinguishable point.

[darius]

That's vintage Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes). The author would be Watterson.


Darius, what book is Whitman refering to in that second quote?


Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.
Hi Gokul,
Whitman was referring to his own book when it first came out "Leaves of Grass". Great to be able to say that about one's own book is it not?-Regards, Darius

[FrogPad]

there are plenty more in "the man who loved only numbers"


I've been meaning to pick up this book. Have you read it? Any good?

[fourier jr]

I've been meaning to pick up this book. Have you read it? Any good?

i have flipped through another erdos book called my brian is open, which seems to have roughly the same contents as the man who loves only numbers. they seem to be virtually the same book as far as the topics go. i guess i like the man who loved only numbers because i have that one. if i got my brain is open i'd probably like that one more.

[Mattara]

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?" ---Chris Rock

[Ivan Seeking]

A CNN viewer gives her [I think] opinion on how to achieve world peace:

~ "... Gather the world's leaders and lock them in a room with my mother-in-law. Within an hour they'll be willing to sign anything in order to get out."

[Mattara]

"If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilites we may find ourselvers at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categories or easily referenced"

- Fox Mulder (Fight the Future 1998)

[0TheSwerve0]

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men (actually a song lyric)
- Jeff Buckley

[Pythagorean]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

Fang Lizhi had some awesome quotes having been an oppressed scientist from China (they imprisoned him for his interests in the big bang theory!) but I've lost the book and can't do the service of them.

[Astronuc]

Daily Thought from RealSimple.com - some wisdom which can be applied to relationships.

July 21, 2006

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

— Henry Ford

[jimmie]

The whole world steps aside for he who knows where to go.

Anonymous

[pace]

- We're not alike other animals in that we can't choose, but in that we have difficulty of seeing beyond our own race.

me

[Astronuc]

“Aucun problem ne peut resister a la pensée -

No problem can withstand sustained thinking”

- Voltaire.

Seems appropriate for PF. :approve: :smile:

[Astronuc]

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colin.' Need I say more?”

Chris Rock - back a few years ago (probably around 2003), since Colin Powell left the government in Jan, 2005.

[Astronuc]

Back in August 1963, Pete Seeger did a concert at Carnegie Hall. He sang mostly folk songs which were part of the Civil Rights movement. He sang one song which has always stuck with me. It's a satirical commentary about what children were being taught in school at the time, as the Civil rights movement was advancing and the anti-war movements and women's rights movement had yet to get going. I bolded the part which used to make me chuckle.
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie
I learned that soldiers seldom die
I learned that everybody's free
And that's what the teacher said to me.

That's what I learned in school today,
That's what I learned in school

... I learned our government must be strong
It's always right & never wrong
Our leaders are the finest men,
and we elect them again and again... :rofl:

... I learned that war is not so bad,
I learned about the great ones we have had,
We fought in Germany and in France,
And someday I might get my chance ... :rolleyes:

... I learned that boys grow into men,
Fly up to the moon and back again,
That little girls to mommies grow
To stay home and cook and sow ... :yuck:

... I learned that Columbus looked for land,
For Isabella and Ferdinand,
To India he was looking for a way
Til he bumped right into the USA ... :rolleyes:

... I learned & learned & learned some more
Til my eyes got read and my brain got sore,
I wander the halls in a state of shock
But it all gets better at 3 o'clock ... :tongue2:

- Tom Paxton (last v. John Braxton)
(c) 1962 Cherry Lane Music Publ. Co.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, July 2, 1964) was landmark legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Originally conceived to protect the rights of black men, the bill was amended prior to passage to protect the civil rights of everyone, and explicitly included women for the first time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (also known as CRA '68), which was meant as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibited discrimination in housing, there were no federal enforcement provisions. The 1968 expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status. It also provided protection for civil rights workers. Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act (of 1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

For earlier and later acts see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act

[alias25]

'To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the plam of your hand
and eternity in an hour'
william blake

and...

'If life you regret the things you didn't do, so through off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails....Explore....Dream...Discover.'
Mark Twain

[Astronuc]

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. One experiences oneself, one's thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of one's consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein I changed some pronouns from third person masculine to third person neutral.

More quotes from A. Einstein - http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

[Lisa!]

"Common sense is not so common!"


What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie
I learned that soldiers seldom die
I learned that everybody's free
And that's what the teacher said to me.

That's what I learned in school today,
That's what I learned in school

... I learned our government must be strong
It's always right & never wrong
Our leaders are the finest men,
and we elect them again and again...

... I learned that war is not so bad,
I learned about the great ones we have had,
We fought in Germany and in France,
And someday I might get my chance ...

... I learned that boys grow into men,
Fly up to the moon and back again,
That little girls to mommies grow
To stay home and cook and sow ...

... I learned that Columbus looked for land,
For Isabella and Ferdinand,
To India he was looking for a way
Til he bumped right into the USA ...

... I learned & learned & learned some more
Til my eyes got read and my brain got sore,
I wander the halls in a state of shock
But it all gets better at 3 o'clock ... Great! :smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

Boy, when you die at the palace, you REALLY DIE at the palace!

Mel Brooks - History of the World: Part I

[lunarmansion]

A few by Ludwig Wittgenstein

A curious analogy could be based on the fact that even the largest telescope has to have an eye-piece no larger than the human eye.

To treat somebody well when he does not like you, you need to be not only very good natured, but very tactful too.

Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up What's that?"-It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said: "this is man", "this is house", etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch him up one day.

[Evo]

A friend sent me this one, I don't know the source.

Another month ends ...
All targets met,
All systems working,
All customers satisfied,
All staff eager and enthusiastic,
All Pigs fed and ready to fly.

[Astronuc]

"Failure - a step on the path to success" - source unknown :rolleyes:

[lunarmansion]

(contd).

Each morning you have to break the dead rubble afresh so as to reach the living warm seed.

[franznietzsche]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974

[Gokul43201]

'To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the plam of your hand
and eternity in an hour'
william blakeThis used to be my signature here until it seemed like too many crackpots were trying to build theories upon it! :frown:

[Reshma]

A disagreement is the shortest distance between two minds.
~Khalil Gibran

[Astronuc]

Mencken's Creed

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant. http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken.html

September 12 is the birthday of the journalist and editor H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland (1880). He graduated as the valedictorian from his high school at the age of 15, but even though he was burning to write, he did exactly what his father expected. He took a job at the cigar factory. He started out rolling the cigars alongside the other blue-collar men, and he actually enjoyed that manual labor. But when he was promoted to the front office, he was hopelessly bored. He finally mustered up his courage and told his father that he wanted to pursue a career in journalism. His father told him to bring up the subject again in a year.

Mencken had been working at his father's factory for three years when, on New Years Eve in 1898, his father had a convulsion and collapsed. His mother told Mencken to get a doctor, 11 blocks down the street, and Mencken later said, "I remember well how, as I was trotting to [the doctor's] house on that first night, I kept saying to myself that if my father died I'd be free at last."

His father died two weeks later. The day after his father's funeral, Mencken shaved his face, combed his hair, put on his best suit, and went down to the Baltimore Morning Herald, asking for a job. Mencken came back every single day for the next four weeks. He finally wore the editor down, and he got to write two articles, each fewer than 50 words long.

He went on to become one of the most influential and prolific journalists in America, writing about all the shams and con artists in the world. He attacked chiropractors and the Ku Klux Klan, politicians and other journalists. Most of all, he attacked Puritan morality. He called Puritanism, "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

At the height of his career, he edited and wrote for the American Mercury magazine and the Baltimore Sun newspaper, wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column for the Chicago Tribune, and published two or three books every year. His masterpiece was one of the few books he wrote about something he loved, a book called The American Language (1919), a history and collection of American vernacular speech. It included a translation of the Declaration of Independence into American English that began, "When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they out to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody." Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio, September 12, 2006
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/09/11/index.html#tuesday

Declaration of Independence in Amerian (by H. L. Mencken)
http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/declaration.html

[Astronuc]

"Evol si a nowsbomile gnicar rassoc het nardut dan hent dunsedly ti spilf oerv, gnipnin oyu nerundeath. Ta gnith, het cie sweasel emoc. Efil ni Ehll" :biggrin: :uhh:

[Astronuc]

A really useful interrogative phrase -

Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?

Who was that sheep I saw you with last night? :rofl:

[Castilla]

"If you are happy but you want to be as happy as other persons, you will lose the happiness you already had."

Something like that: Seneca, roman literate, dead in Nero's times.

[lunarmansion]

Old age fulfills the dreams of youth. One sees this in Swift: in his youth he built an insane asylum; in his old age he himself entered it-Kierkegaard

[lunarmansion]

Sometimes walking around NYC can turn up nice things. I like to go and study at the beautiful research library when the college library is closed. It is one of the most pleasant and cleanest places in the City. I just discovered that there is a street in front of the library with lines of some famous poets etched in the pavement. Here is a nice one I found the other day by Dylan Thomas on the way there. Only the second part is on the pavement though.

In my craft or sullen art

Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Not for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.

[Astronuc]

"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill :rofl:

[Corkie2003]

Why stand up if you can sit down? Why sit down if . . . aaah f**k it, I can't be arsed.

[fourier jr]

Two conceptions of invention: Claparede, in his introductory lecture before the above-mentioned meeting at the Centre de Synthese, observes that there are two kinds of invention: one consists, a goal being given, in finding the means to reach it, so that the mind goes from the goal to the means, from the question to the solution; the other consists, on the contrary, in discovering a fact, then imagining what it could be useful for, so that, this time, mind goes from the means to the goal; the answer appears to us before the question.
Now, paradoxical as it seems, that second kind of invention is the more general one and becomes more & more so as science advances. Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
Jacques Hadamard

Almost everyone knows that mathematics serves the very practical purpose of dictating engineering design. Fewer people seem to be aware that mathematics carries the main burden of scientific reasoning and is the core of the major theories of physical science. It is even less widely known that mathematics has determined the direction and content of much philosophic thought, has destroyed and rebuilt religious doctrines, has supplied substance to economic and political theories, has fashioned major painting, musical, architectural, and literary styles, has fathered our logic, and has furnished the best answers we have to fundamental questions we have about the nature of man and his universe. As the embodiment of the most powerful advocate of the rational spirit, mathematics has invaded domains ruled by authority, custom, and habit, and supplanted them as the arbiter of thought and action. Finally, as an incomparably fine human achievement mathematics offers satisfactions and aesthetic values at least equal to those offered by any other branch of our culture.
Morris Kline

[fourier jr]

lol i just read these. they're from 18th-century physicist & aphorist georg lichtenberg, who might be best known (in physics anyway) for discovering the principle behind photocopying:

"The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books."

"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is."

"Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle."

"When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?"

[devious_]

Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance.

[fourier jr]

Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance.
how about these:
Intrepidity is unusual strength of soul which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions that might be stirred up in it by the sight of great danger. This is the fortitude by which heroes keep their inner peace and preserve clear use of their reason in the most terrible and overwhelming crises.
La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impossible in themselves; it is not so much the means we lack as the perseverance we need to make them succeed.
La Rochefoucauld

No man can ever answer for his courage if he has never been in peril.
La Rochefoucauld

We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great.
Georg Lichtenberg (who was apparently a terrible procrastinator)

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg Lichtenberg

Nothing cheers me up so often as when I have succeeded in understanding something difficult, and yet I try so little to learn to understand difficult things. I should try more often.
Georg Lichtenberg

Knowledge & courage. These are the elements of greatness. Because they are immortal they bestow immortality. Each is as much as he knows, and the wise can do anything. A person without knowledge is in a world without light. Wisdom and strength are the eyes and the hands. Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult tasks as if they were easy. In the one case so that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other so that it may not be dismayed. For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think it done. On the other hand, patient industry overcomes impossibilities. Great undertakings are not to be brooded over, lest their difficulty when seen causes despair.
Baltasar Gracian

Many have proved themselves able when they had to deal with a difficulty, just as fear of drowning makes a person into a swimmer. In this way, many have discovered their own courage, knowledge, or tact, which but for the opportunity would have been forever buried beneath their lack of initiative. Dangerous situations are the occasions to create a name for oneself, and if a noble mind sees honour at stake, he will do the work of thousands. Queen Isabella the Catholic knew well this rule of life (as well as all the others) and to a shrewd favour of this kind the Great Captain (Cordoba) won his fame, and many others earned an undying name. By this great art she made great men.
Baltasar Gracian

Because a thing is difficult for you to do, do not think that it is impossible for any man; but whatever is possible for any man to do and right for his nature, think that you can acheive it too.
Marcus Aurelius

The persistent man never stops to consider whether he is succeeding or not. The only question with him is how to push ahead, to get a little farther along, a little nearer his goal. Whether it lead over mountains, rivers, or molrasses, he must reach it. Every other consideration is sacrificed to this one dominant purpose. The success of a dull or average youth and the failure of a brilliant one is a constant surprise in American history. But if the different cases are closely analyzed we shall find that the explanation lies in the staying power of the seemingly dull boy, the ability to stand firm as a rock under all circumstances, to allow nothing to divert him from his purpose.
Orison Marden

The power to hold on is charteristic of all men who have accomplished anything great; they may lack in some other particular, have many weaknesses or eccentricities, but the quality of persistence is never absent from a successful man. No matter what opposition he meets or what discouragement overtakes him, drudgery cannot disgust him, obstacles cannot discourage him, labour cannot weary him; misfortune, sorrow and reverses cannot harm him. It is not so much brilliancy of intellect, or fertility of resource, as persistency of effort, constancy of purpose, that makes a great man. Those who succeed in life are the men and women who keep everlastingly at it, who do not believe themselves geniuses, but who know that if they ever accomplish anything they must do it by determined and persistent industry.
Orison Marden

[lunarmansion]

Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance like a wheatfield on a summer's night-Nietzsche

Worte sind Taten.(Words are deeds)
The human being is the best picture of the human soul.
Wittgenstein

[Astronuc]

Something an engineer must always keep in mind.

No matter how elegant the design, or how sophisticated the model or method, your end result is always and approximation.

- James McInvale, Nuclear Engineer, Supervisor of Reactor Engineering/Core Design

[lunarmansion]

Plato on wisdom(seventh letter)

"One statement at any rate I can make in regard to all who have written or who may write with a claim to knowledge of the subjects to which I devote myself-no matter how they pretend to have acquired it, whether from my instruction or from others or by their own discovery. Such writers can in my opinion have no real acquaintance with the subject. I certainly have composed no work in regard to it, nor shall I ever do so in the future, for there is no way of putting it in words like other studies. Acquaintance with it must come rather after a long period of attendance on instruction in the subject itself and of close companionship, when, suddenly, like a blaze kindled by a leaping spark, it is generated in the soul and at once becomes self sustaining."

I will never forget him, not as long as I'm still among the living and my springing knees will lift and drive me on. Though the dead forget their dead in the House of Death, I will remember, even there, my dear companion....(Iliad(Achilles upon the death of Patroclus)

Man is altogether desire (kama), as is his desire so is his insight (kratu); as is his insight so is his deed (karma), as is his deed so is his destiny.
(The Brahmanas)

Two things fill the heart with ever renewed and increasing awe and reverence, the more often and steadily we meditate upon them: the starry firmament above and the moral law within.( Immanuel Kant)

Two interesting points of views:

Of making books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of flesh-Ecclesiastes

Even though he speaks falsely, yet speaks he truth who thus knows why truth is satya (truth) (Aitareya Aranyaka)

[fourier jr]

When these thoughts had led me from the particular study of arithmetic and geometry to a general study of mathematics, I inquired first of all precisely what everyone means by this word, and why not only those two sciences of which we have already spoken, but also music, optics, mechanics, and several others are called parts of mathematics. For it is not enough in this case to consider the etymology of the word; since, as the term mathesis signifies simply science, the other sciences would have no less right than geometry itself to be called mathematics. Moreover, we see no one who, if he has so much as set foot in a school, fails to distinguish easily among those subject matters that are presented to him what belongs to mathematics and what belongs to other disciplines. And if one reflects on this matter more attentively, one finally observes that all and only those subjects in which order and measurement are investigated are referred to mathematics, no matter whether such measure is sought in numbers, in figures, in stars, in sounds, or in some other subject. One concludes, therefore, that there must be some general science explaining all that can be investigated concerning order and measure, without application to a particular material; and that this science is called not by a strange name, but by a name already ancient and received by usage, universal mathematics, because it includes all that material by virtue of which other sciences are called parts of mathematics. How much it excels in usefulness and facility the sciences that depend on it is clear from that fact that it extends to all the objects which they treat and to many others; and that all the difficulties it involves are found also which arise from their particular objects, and which it for its part does not possess. But now, since everyone knows its name, and knows what it deals with, even without applying it, how does it happen that most people try to learn the other sciences that depend on it, while no one takes the trouble to study it in itself? I should certainly be amazed at this if I did not know that it is considered by everyone to be very simple, and if I had not observed long ago that the human mind, leaving aside what it thinks easy of attainment, hurries on to new and loftier things.
Rene Descartes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

[twisting_edge]

We think we understand the regular reflection of light and x-rays - and we should understand the reflection of electrons as well if electrons were only waves instead of particles...It is rather as if one were to see a rabbit climbing a tree, and were to say, "Well, that is rather a strange thing for a rabbit to be doing, but after all there is really nothing to get excited about. Cats climb trees - so that if the rabbit were only a cat, we would understand its behavior perfectly."

- Clinton J. Davisson, Franklin Institute Journal (1928)

People all the time forget just how weird that is.

[Astronuc]

Clinton J. Davisson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 with George Paget Thomson for the discovery of electron diffraction.

It is enjoyable to read the thoughts of the pioneers in physics.

[whitay]

"I just enjoy ****ing with people's heads. For the first half of our gigs, there's normally some guy convinced I'm a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. As the gig continues, it begins to dawn on him that I'm a bloke, and suddenly he has to ask himself some serious questions. Ha ha!" by Brian Molko

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. by Oscar Wilde

I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay. by Bono

[lunarmansion]

Para pensar cual tu, solo es precise
no tener nada mas que inteligencia.
To think like you, all I need merely is to possess intelligence- Unamuno

[lunarmansion]

How unreasonable people are! They never use the freedoms they have but demand those they do not have; they have freedom of thought- they demand freedom of speech.

My observation of life makes no sense at all. I suppose that an evil spirit has put a pair of glasses on my nose, one lens of which magnifies on an immense scale and the other reduces on the same scale.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. They are like that dwarf who guarded a kidnapped princess in his castle. One day he took a noon nap. When he woke up an hour later, she was gone. Hastily he pulls on his seven-league boots; with one step he is far past her.

In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them once again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

I prefer to talk with children, for one may still dare to hope that they may become rational beings;but those who have become that-good Lord!

( Soren Kierkegaard (Either/Or))

[EL]

My signature

[fourier jr]

lol @ kierkegaard :tongue: those are some good ones

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal - so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
Bertrand Russell

We always picture Plato and Aristotle wearing long academic gowns, but they were ordinary decent people like anyone else, who enjoyed a laugh with their friends. And when they amused themselves by composing their Laws and Politics they did it for fun. It was the least philosophical and least serious part of their lives: the most philosophical part was living simply and without fuss. If they wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they treated it as really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Blaise Pascal

Mathematics is the key to our understanding of the physical world; it has given man the conviction that he can continue to fathom the secrets of nature; and it has given him power over nature. We now understand, for example, the motions of the planets and of electrons in atoms, the structure of matter, and the behaviour of electricity, light, radio waves, and sound. And we can use this knowledge on man's behalf. Some uses of this knowledge is familiar to all of us: the telephone, the phonograph, radio, and television are achievements of mathematics. Mathematics, especially through statistics and probability, is becoming increasingly valuable in the social sciences and biological and medical research. The search for truth in philosophy or the social sciences cannot be discussed without involving the role that mathematics has played in that quest. Painting and music have been influenced by mathematics. Much of our literature is permeated with themes treating the implications of mathematical achievements in science and technology. Indeed, it is impossible to understand some writers and poets unless one is familiar with mathematical influences to which they are reacting. Religious doctrines and beliefs have been dramatically altered in the light of what mathematics has revealed about our universe. In fact, the entire intellectual atmosphere, the Zeitgeist, has been determined by mathematical achievements.
Morris Kline

But Herr P can certainly drink, someone said to me recently: first two bottles of wine, then 12 glasses of punch. What is his objective? If I understand him aright, it seems to me I could do all Herr P is doing, and do it much quicker, if I shot a pistol at my head.
Georg Lichtenberg

[Astronuc]

I saw on a T-shirt.

"Three Wise Men?

Yeah, right!

Be serious" :rofl:

[lunarmansion]

The whole world steps aside for he who knows where to go.

Anonymous
This is similar:

Whatever the greatest man does,
Thus do the rest,
Whatever standard he sets,
The world follows that.
-Gita

A few more from that beautiful song:

Better one's own duty though deficient,
Than the duty of another well performed.
**********
The self alone can be a friend of oneself,
And the self alone can be an enemy of oneself.

******
The man who abandons all desires
Acts free from longing.
Indifferent to possessions, free from egotism,
He attains peace.

******

Content with whatever comes to him,
Transcending the qualities (i.e., pleasure pain etc.),
free from envy,
Constant in mind whether in success or failure
Even though he acts, he is not bound.

*******
This one I liked but have never seen a life example:

The wise see the same,
In a Brahmin endowed with wisdom and cultivation,
In a cow, in an elephant,
And even in a dog or in an outcaste.

****

[lunarmansion]

There is a building in New York City dedicated to Dag Hammerskjold. I did some research into the man, and have found he was quite remarkable in his way. The United Nations has not seen a Secretary General like that for a long time. Some of his thoughts are recorded in his book Markings.
A few quotes by him:


Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The aura of victory that surrounds a man of good-will, the sweetness of soul which emanates from him-a flavor of cranberries and cloudberries, a touch of frost and fiery skies.

The alienation of great pride from everything which constitutes human order.
A fable: once upon a time, there was a crown so heavy that it could only be worn by one who remained completely oblivious to his glitter.

On the field where Ormuzd has challenged Ahriman to battle, he who chases away the dogs is wasting his time.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my burden to bear.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible, not to run away.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

The scientist only records what he has been able to establish as indisputable fact. In the same way, only what is unique in a person's experience is worth writing down as a guide and warning to others. In the same way, too, an explorer leaves it to others to pass their time taking notes on the quaint customs of the natives, or making devastating remarks about the foibles of their travelling companions.
True-and which do you do?

[lunarmansion]

There are a lot of Math quotes on the internet. Here is a few I found.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what the thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Tolstoy

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly that I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.-Goethe

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit-Whitehead

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics-Oppenheimer

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy-John Adams

May your life be like Mathematics
joys added
Sorrows subtracted
Friends multiplied
Love undivided-Unknown

How happy are the lot of the mathematicians. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.-W. H. Auden

[lunarmansion]

I came across some passages from Thoreau I copied as a teenager. I still like them:

"...A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly lived to moments to divine leisure, in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? We live too fast and too coarsely, just as we eat too fast, and do not know the true savor of our food. We consult our will and understanding and the expectations of men, not our genius. I can impose upon myself tasks which will crush me for life and prevent all expansion, and this I am but too inclined to do. Our moment of life costs many hours, not of business, but of preparation and invitation....That aim in life is the highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. How much, what infinite leisure it requires, as of a life-time, to appreciate a single phenomenon. You must camp down beside it as for life, having reached your land of promise, and give yourself wholly to it...."
Thoreau

[Astronuc]

******
The man who abandons all desires,
Acts free from longing.
Indifferent to possessions, free from egotism,
He attains peace.
****** Something to which I aspire.

[Astronuc]

A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind -

Albert von Szent-Györgyi (Nobel laureate)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gyorgyi-bio.html

[fourier jr]

A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind -

Albert von Szent-Györgyi (Nobel laureate)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gyorgyi-bio.html

Let us take Sir Isaac Newton. All discoveries are due to chance, whether towards the end or the beginning of the process, for otherwise reasonable people could sit down and make discoveries as one sits down and writes a letter. The imagination spots a similarity and reason tests it and finds it true: that is discovery. That is how Sir Isaac Newton was. I have not the slightest reason to doubt that there existed before him and after him, in England and without, and that there exist now minds superior to his in ability, just as I have no reason to doubt that the peasant who gazes in admiration at the preacher would preach better if he had studied and acquired the knack. Opportunity and occasion are the discoverer and ambition the improver, confidence in one's own strength is strength, in marriage and the world of learning.
Georg Lichtenberg

[verty]

"There is no light without shadow, and it is essential to know the night." - Albert Camus

"For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested." - Epictetus

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." - Ayn Rand

"Be pleasant." - Me

[lunarmansion]

Immanuel Kant, the great philosopher, also made some contributions to science and mathematics, among which is the nebular hypothesis regarding the formation of our solar system. This hypothesis, as everyone knows, has attained the status of a scientific theory. Kant tired to epitomize the results of the science of his day, an undertaking hardly possible today with the vast specialization in the sciences. Rereading some bits of him, I found an interesting comment on the sciences and philosophy:

"Science has a real and true value only as an instrument of practical wisdom. As such an instrument, it is indeed indispensable..."
The task of philosophy, according to him, is to furnish a second eye to the scientifically instructed youth,
"...Which shall cause him also see the object from the standpoint of other men. On this depends the humanity of science..."
Perhaps interesting in light of the fact that progress in the sciences, which is neutral, does not often go in hand with the way it is implemented.

[lunarmansion]

Let us take Sir Isaac Newton. All discoveries are due to chance, whether towards the end or the beginning of the process, for otherwise reasonable people could sit down and make discoveries as one sits down and writes a letter. The imagination spots a similarity and reason tests it and finds it true: that is discovery. That is how Sir Isaac Newton was. I have not the slightest reason to doubt that there existed before him and after him, in England and without, and that there exist now minds superior to his in ability, just as I have no reason to doubt that the peasant who gazes in admiration at the preacher would preach better if he had studied and acquired the knack. Opportunity and occasion are the discoverer and ambition the improver, confidence in one's own strength is strength, in marriage and the world of learning.
Georg Lichtenberg

The best thoughts on genius are those of geniuses themselves. Here is a few I found:

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Genius is what makes us forget skill.

Where genius wears thin skill may show through.
***
One might say "Genius is talent exercised with courage."

Not funk but funk conquered is what is worthy of admiration and makes life worth having been lived. Courage not cleverness; not even inspiration- this is the grain of mustard that grows into a great tree. To the extent there is courage there is a link with life and death. But you don't win courage by recognizing the want of it in someone else.
***
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Ivan Seeking]

Eternity is a very long time; especially near the end - Bernard Haisch

[Lisa!]

"A successfull man is one who builds solid foundations with the rocks that others throw at him"

[ranger]

"Whoever says money can't buy you happiness, has never been poor" ~ me

"Fear crushes greed" ~ me

"you guys are so young and naive. you think qualifications are on paper." ~ mathwonk

[shramana]

Because of its heavy body and tiny wings a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly.But a bumblebee doesn't know this so it flies anyway.

[Astronuc]

Aristotle, Metaphysics II (trans. W. D. Ross) -

"The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little of nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed."

I wish I had been exposed to classic Greek way back in my early years.

[Ivan Seeking]

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that he deliberately ran over a wild turkey in September on his way to anger management class...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1739843/posts

[Ivan Seeking]

In Washington [D.C.], people lie while on the record, and tell the truth while off the record. In the Middle East, people tell the truth while on the record, and lie while off the record. - Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times

[Astronuc]

Husband (to wife) - Please don't yell so loudly.

Wife (to husband) - If it wasn't loud, I wouldn't be yelling.

[ranger]

Comedian Bill Burr on marriage:

Is this the line to loose half my sh*t? Awesome!

[Ivan Seeking]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After 10 years of research on a project that was supposed to take only five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/11/procrastination.nation.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[Ivan Seeking]

In an effort to save the American farmer, Bio-Willie - aka country singing legend Willie Nelson - is one of the leaders in promoting and producing biodiesel made from domestically grown seed stocks. He also drives a Mercedes that runs on locally produced biodiesel. Proudly displayed in the window is a sticker that reads: No war required.

[Reshma]

When you hate someone, you hate something in him that is already a part of you. What isn't a part of you should not affect you.

Herman Hesse

[siddharth]

"I am your king!"
"Well, I didn't vote for you"

"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

Yes, I watched it once again today :biggrin:

[fourier jr]

Dedekind expressed the opinion about the concept of a set. He imagined a set as a closed sack containing definite objects which are not seen, and of which nothing is known except that they are existing and are definite. Some time later Cantor made known his idea of a set. He raised his colossal figure, with lifted arm he made an imposing gesture, and with a glance in an indefinite direction he said, "I imagine a set to be like an abyss."
Emmy Noether

[lunarmansion]

Dedekind expressed the opinion about the concept of a set. He imagined a set as a closed sack containing definite objects which are not seen, and of which nothing is known except that they are existing and are definite. Some time later Cantor made known his idea of a set. He raised his colossal figure, with lifted arm he made an imposing gesture, and with a glance in an indefinite direction he said, "I imagine a set to be like an abyss."
Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether- interesting life of a female mathematician:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do real estate agents get head shots?
- comedian on Letterman whose name I didn't get.

Of course that opens the whole can of worms; for example:
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

[fourier jr]

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
Francois Rabelais' will :tongue2:

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
David Hilbert

Those who say they never have time do the least.
Georg Lichtenberg

Logic, it appears to me, teaches us to test the conclusiveness of an argument already discovered, but I do not believe that it teaches us to discover correct arguments and demonstrations.
Galileo

The great also make mistakes, and some of them make so many you are almost tempted to think they weren't great at all.
Georg Lichtenberg

[mace2]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Clarke

"Yippie ka yay m*****-******!" -McClane

[Astronuc]

"If you fall, you're fired before you hit the ground" :rofl:

words of encouragement from a construction formean as we prepared to walk high iron. I guess you have to walk the iron to appreciate the humor. :biggrin:

[GregA]

You're just jealous because all the voices are talking to me

I remember Seeing this on a t-shirt and thought it was brilliant

[ranger]

"You believe I'm the devil, maybe its because I've lived in hell and I am trying to get out"

~Blood Diamond Movie (if I recall correctly)

[radou]

" I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems. "

~Pulp Fiction

[J77]

Education, education, education.

Tony Blair 1996.

Cracks me up every time :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fourier jr]

You're just jealous because all the voices are talking to me

I remember Seeing this on a t-shirt and thought it was brilliant


a guy i work with has a shirt that says '"i'm not a doctor but i'll take a look anyway" :rofl:
it would be a good one to wear to a bar :tongue:

[ranger]

"If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird."

~author unknown

The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The willingness to learn is a choice.

~Dune: House Harknonnen, p. 437

[BobG]

Warrenton, West Virginia newspaper:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
If you are one of the hundreds of parachuting enthusiasts who bought our "Easy Sky Diving" book, please make the following correction: on page 8, line7, the words "state zip code" should have read "pull rip cord".

[ranger]

"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."
~Elayne Boosler

[Ivan Seeking]

"President Bush claims that he has prayed every day since taking office.

HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!" - Jay Leno

[3trQN]

"The educated person must be taught that it is not a disgrace to fail,
and that he must analyse for every failure to find its cause.
He must learn to fail intelligently,
for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." C.F.Kettering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kettering)

Oh and Spike Milligan's Epitaph:

"I told you I was ill"

[Schrodinger's Dog]

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Bernard_Shaw/

Every single one of them are a gem.

But here's my favourites.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. (he was agnostic)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children



George Bernard Shaw.

And more of an anecdote from Bertrand Russel I rather liked.

Bertrand Russell was a well known British philosopher of the 20th century. He was arrested during World War I for anti-war activities, and filled out a form at the jail. The officer, noting that Russell had defined his religious affiliation as "Agnostic" commented: "Ah yes; we all worship Him in our own way, don't we." This comment allegedly "kept him smiling through his first few days of incarceration."

[Evo]

Help me find this quote!

It's something similar to

"one would be surprised at how little is actually said about them in their absence"

"one would be disappointed to find out how little is said about them behind their backs"

What is this quote? I thought I had either posted it in this thread or someone else did. I can't find it now.

[Astronuc]

Help me find this quote!

It's something similar to

"one would be surprised at how little is actually said about them in their absence"

"one would be disappointed to find out how little is said about them behind their backs"

What is this quote? I thought I had either posted it in this thread or someone else did. I can't find it now. That would seem to belong in a thread on 'ego'. :rofl:

I heard an interview with Norman Mailer the other day where he said something to the effect that he loves to give grief to those who are 'overly happy with themselves.' :rofl:

[ranger]

Schrodinger's Dog, thats a strong collection of quotes dude!

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Schrodinger's Dog, thats a strong collection of quotes dude!

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

http://www.physicsforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9074&stc=1&d=1170624845

I forgot one, I'm a big admirer of his work: a philosopher,author and fighter for human rights by profession, obscenely rich off his literary works, Nobel prize winner and general all round philanthropist, raised under order of his parents to be an agnostic and uncompromisingly vegetarian:smile:. In a world full of hypocrites, I think GBS was one of the truly great minds of the 20th century.

Author of works such as Pygmalian(on the stage as:My Fair Lady)St Joan, Man And Superman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

Shaw's career started with frustration and near poverty. Neither music criticism (written under the name of a family friend) nor a telephone company job lasted very long, and only two of the five novels Shaw wrote between 1879 and 1883 found publishers: Cashel Byron’s Profession (1882), a novel about prizefighting as an occupation that anticipates the theme of prostitution as an antisocial profession in the play Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), and An Unsocial Socialist (1883). By the mid-1880s Shaw discovered the writings of Karl Marx and turned to socialist polemics and critical journalism. He also became a firm (and lifelong) believer in vegetarianism, a spellbinding orator, and tentatively, a playwright. He was the force behind the newly founded (1884) Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group that aimed at the transformation of English government and society. In 1887, Shaw spoke and marched in the Bloody Sunday demonstrations that ended up as a riot in Trafalgar Square. Through the Fabian Society’s founders, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Shaw met the Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend, whom he married in 1898, soon after his earnings as a writer made him financially self-sufficient.

Shaw’s early journalism ranged from book reviews and art criticism to music columns (many of them championing the controversial work of the German composer Richard Wagner) from 1888 to 1890 under the signature “Corno di Bassetto” (basset horn), later under his own initials. Shifting to the Saturday Review as drama critic, a post he held from 1895 to 1898, Shaw became the champion of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, about whom he had already written his influential The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891).

Playwriting

Shaw was a novelist, critic, pamphleteer, essayist, inveterate letter writer, politician and public speaker, but he is by far best known today as a playwright. He did not finish his first play, however, until in his mid-30s. Shaw was born at 33 Synge Street in Dublin, Ireland to rather poor Church of Ireland parents, George Carr Shaw (1814-1885) and Lucinda Elizabeth (Gurly) (1830-1913). Shaw had two sisters, Lucinda Frances (1853-1920), a singer of musical comedy and light opera, and Elinor Agnes (1854-1876); both died of tuberculosis.

Shaw was educated at Wesley College, Dublin and moved to London during the 1870s to embark on his literary career. He wrote five novels, none of which was published, before finding his first success in the late 1880s as a music critic on the Star newspaper, under the pseudonym "Corno di Bassetto". From 1895 to 1898, Shaw was the drama critic on Frank Harris's Saturday Review.

During this time, Shaw became a socialist and joined the Fabian Society. He was heavily involved in politics and even held office as a borough councilor in the St. Pancras district of London from 1897 to 1903. While Shaw's political beliefs inform his plays, they do not generally overwhelm them.

Shaw started working on his first play, Widower's Houses, in 1885, in collaboration with critic William Archer. Archer, who came up with the structure, felt Shaw was no playwright (an opinion he apparently never changed), and the project was abandoned. Years later, Shaw gave it another shot and, in 1892, completed his first play—alone.

Widower's Houses debuted at London's Royalty Theatre on December 9, 1892. Shaw would later call it one of his worst works, but he had found his medium. He would go on to write over 50 plays, most of them full-length.

Many of his earliest pieces had to wait years to receive major productions in London, but they are still being performed today. Among them are Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894) and You Never Can Tell (1895).

His first financial success as a playwright came from Richard Mansfield's American production of The Devil's Disciple (1897). Shaw, in fact, would often see his plays succeed in America (and Germany) before they did in London.

The ideas in his earliest theatrical work were unconventional, and his wit unmatched by contemporaries (save Oscar Wilde), but his plays were still designed for the theatre of his time. Once he became more experienced, and more popular, his plays tended to be less compact and talkier, though no less successful. These works from what might be called the beginning of his "middle" period include Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905) and The Doctor's Dilemma (1906).

From 1904 to 1907, several of his plays had their London premieres in notable productions at the Court Theatre, managed by Harley Granville-Barker and J.E. Vedrenne.

His first original play performed at the Court, John Bull's Other Island (1904), though not one of his more popular plays today, made his reputation in London when, during a command performance for King Edward VII, the King laughed so hard he broke his chair.

By the 1910s, Shaw was a well-established playwright. New works such as Fanny's First Play (1911) and Pygmalion (1912)—on which My Fair Lady was based—had long runs in front of large London audiences. (Even though Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier (1908)--an adaptation of Arms And The Man--was very popular, Shaw detested it and for the rest of his life forbade any musicalization of his work, including a potential Franz Lehar operetta based on Pygmalion. Only after Shaw's death did My Fair Lady become possible.)

Many feel Shaw's outlook was changed by World War I, a war he—quite unpopularly—opposed. His first full-length piece presented after the War, written mostly during it, was Heartbreak House (1919). This seemed to be a new Shaw; the wit was still there, but the action and theme were darker, almost despairing at times.

In 1921, Shaw completed Back to Methuselah, his "Metabiological Pentateuch." The massive, five-play work starts in the Garden of Eden and ends thousands of years in the future. Shaw claimed it was a masterpiece, but many critics did not share that opinion.

His next original play, however, is generally conceded to be one of his best, Saint Joan (1923). Shaw had long thought of writing about Joan of Arc, and her recent canonization spurred him on. It was an international success, and is believed to have led to his Nobel Prize in Literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:George_Bernard_Shaw_1934-12-06.jpg

He continued writing plays for the rest of his life, but very few of them are as notable—or as often revived—as his earlier work. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Later full-length plays like Too True to Be Good (1931)[1], On the Rocks (1933)[2], The Millionairess (1935), and Geneva (1938) have been seen as marking a decline. His last significant play, In Good King Charles Golden Days[3] has, according to St. John Ervine, passages that are equal to Shaw's major works. His last full-length work was Buoyant Billions (1946–48)[4], written when he was in his nineties.

Many of Shaw's published plays come with lengthy prefaces. These tend to be essays more about Shaw's opinions on the issues dealt with in the plays than about the plays themselves. Some prefaces are much longer than the actual play. For example, the Penguin Books edition of his one-act The Shewing-up Of Blanco Posnet (1909)[5] has a 67-page preface for the 29-page piece.

One of the world's most notable theatrical voices was silenced when Shaw died in 1950 at the age of 94 due to a fall from a ladder.[2]

[fourier jr]

"The educated person must be taught that it is not a disgrace to fail,
and that he must analyse for every failure to find its cause.
He must learn to fail intelligently,
for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." C.F.Kettering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kettering)

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

The great also make mistakes, and some of them make so many you are almost tempted to think they weren't great at all.
Georg Lichtenberg

some other person (bertrand russell maybe) said something like "people who lack any vices are very likely lacking in virtues also", that's another good one.

[ranger]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

[fourier jr]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

no, it's not russell; I thought it may have been either La Rochefoucauld or Georg Lichtenberg but it's not them either, it's abe lincoln:
"It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues."
wikiquote says lincoln heard someone else say it when he was on a train.

along the same lines la rochefoucauld DID write this one:
"Only the great are entitled to great faults."

[Ivan Seeking]

~"It's not possible to take a bad picture of a pig" - National Geographic Photographer.

[Ivan Seeking]

...It hit a line of small craters in the sand and began to turn to starboard, careering towards Klemantaski, who, viewing events through a telescopic lens, misjudged the distance and continued filming. Hearing the approaching roar he looked up from his viewfinder to see Panjandrum, shedding live rockets in all directions, heading straight for him. As he ran for his life, he glimpsed the assembled admirals and generals diving for cover behind the pebble ridge into barbed-wire entanglements...
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=114542

[Ivan Seeking]

I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.
- Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/

[radou]

- A woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood.
- Oh, shut up!

[Ivan Seeking]

You're not really famous until you're a PEZ dispenser...

We had signed our lives away. I had to pay George [Lucas] two dollars every time I looked at myself in the mirror.

- Carrie Fisher [Princess Leia from Star Wars]

[Curious3141]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but it's my favorite.

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

Not one of his quotes more of an anecdote.

[Ivan Seeking]

In order to appreciate this story, note the accent marks.

I was watching some super-wacko UFO contactee stuff from the fifties and sixties [unfortunately, it goes with the turf]. There was some guy wearing a full native American headdress, and talking about his meeting with people on a flying saucer from “O’rean”. “And I don’t mean Ori’on”, he specified. “I mean O’rean. It is a planet outside of our galax’y”.

[Astronuc]

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
From the Secret World of the Irish Male by Joseph O'Connor

True friends stab you in the front. :rolleyes:
Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw - He foresaw GWBush.

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/Quotes/WitHumor.html

[Ivan Seeking]

"I'm not going to kiss or date anyone until I'm married" - teenage daughter of a fundamentalist.

[Geographer]

The quotes of Lao Ma:

-Fill yourself with desire and see only illusion. Empty yourself of desire and understand the great mystery of things.

-To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way.

-The entire world is driven by a will, blind and ruthless. In order to transcend the limitations of that world, you need to stop willing, stop desiring, stop hating.

-Heaven endures and the Earth lasts a long time because they do not live for themselves. Therefore she who would live a long time should live for others, serve others.

[Tom Mattson]

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

--Frank Sinatra

[twisting_edge]

"Does it bother you when I torture you?"

-- Evo (20:15 EDT, 23 March 07)

[radou]

Apropos member quotes, here's one I find brilliant:

"boy are you naive. we are building a totally artificial persona here that we live with in in our fantasies. E.g. I have pretended for years here to understand tensors, whereas actually they scare me to death."

mathwonk

[Tom Mattson]

"boy are you naive. we are building a totally artificial persona here that we live with in in our fantasies. E.g. I have pretended for years here to understand tensors, whereas actually they scare me to death."

mathwonk

:rofl: Great quote from a great member.

It reminds me of another great quote by Integral. It was in some GR thread a while ago, and it was full of tensor notation. Integral said something to the effect that he would love to get involved, but "I get tenser around tensors."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lunarmansion]

To be lacking in everything but intelligence is the necessary qualification of thinking like you--Unamuno
Para pensar cual tu, solo es preciso no tener nada mas que inteligensia.

It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight--Thoreau

[fourier jr]

I say then that the hardships of the student are these: first of all, poverty -- not because they are all poor, but to put the case as strongly as possible -- and when I say that they suffer poverty I do not think that there is anything more to say about their misery; for the poor man lacks everything that is good. This poverty they suffer in various forms: sometimes hunger, sometimes cold, sometimes nakedness, sometimes all of them together. But, all the same, things are not so bad that they do not eat, although it may be a little later than thye are used to, or from the leavings of the rich man's table; for what students call "going on the soup", or begging for their supper is their worst misery. And moreover they do share someone's brazier or hearth, which may not warm them but at least takes the edge off the cold; and, last of all, they sleep under cover at night. I do not want to go into other details -- lack of shirts, for instance, and shortage of shoes, or scanty and threadbare clothing -- or to describe their way of stuffing themselves over-eagerly when Fortune sends them a feast. But by the rough and difficult path which I have indicated, stumbling at times and falling, getting up and falling once more, they do acquire the degree they desire. And when they have got it, I have seen many of them, once passed through those shoals, those Scyllas & Charybdises, as if borne on the wings of Fortune's favour; -- I say that we have seen them command and govern the world from an armchair, their hunger exchanged for a full stomach, their cold for a pleasant coolness, their nakedness for fine clothes, and their sleep on a mat for a comfortable rest on fine linen and damask: the justly merited rewards of their virtue.
Don Quixote on students

After studying Newton's work on gravitation we considered the question: What is gravity and how does it act? We found that in that case, too, that we had no understanding of the action of gravitation. We have a mathematical law describing the quantitative value of this force and, by using this law and laws of motion, we can predict effects that can be experimentally checked. The central concept of gravitation, however, remains unknown. We see, then that at the heart of our best scientific theories is mathematics or, more accurately, some formulas and their consequences. The firm, bold design of a scientific theory is mathematical. Our mental constructions have outrun our intuitive and sense perceptions. In both theories, gravitation and electromagnetism, we must confess our ignorance of the basic mechanisms and leave the task of representing what we know to mathematics. We may lose pride in making this confession, but we may gain understanding of the true state of affairs. We can appreciate now what Alfred North Whitehead meant when he said, "The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions [of mathematics] are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete facts."
Morris Kline

It was Newton's work that presented humanity with a new world order, a universe controlled by a few mathematical laws, which in turn were deduced from a common set of mathematically expressible physical principles. Here was a majestic scheme that embraced the fall of a stone, the tides of the oceans, the motions of the planets & their moons, the defiant sweep of comets, and the brilliant, stately motion of the canopy of stars. The Newtonian scheme was decisive in convincing the world that nature is mathematically designed and that the true laws of nature are mathematical.... Man today uses the Newtonian theory to send people to the moon, to send spaceships to photograph planets such as Mars and Saturn, and to launch satellites the circle the Earth (an idea that had occurred to Newton). All of the planning based on the mathematical theory works perfectly. Any misadventures would result from the failure of human mechanisms.
Morris Kline

What I say will or will not come to pass.
Kepler's disclaimer to his clients

i recently read 'they thought they were free' by milton mayer, who in the late 1940s (i think) interviewed 10 "ordinary" germans (a tailer, a baker, a policeman, etc etc) who were members of the nazi party during the 1930s & 1940s, & asked what germany was like at the time & why they joined the party, etc. chapter 13 was by far the most interesting imo, because it shows how similar the attitudes of the germans towards their government was to other countries (like the united states & especially the red states if you ask me). here's what a philologist had to say in chap 13:
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it....
...To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it -- please try to believe me -- unless one had a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' that no 'patriotic German' could resent must someday lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head....
..."Once the war began," my colleague continued, "resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was "defeatism." You assumed that there were lists of those who would be "dealt with" later, after the victory. Goebbels was very clever here, too. He continually promised a "victory orgy" to "take care of" those who thought that their "treasonable attitude" had escaped notice. And he meant it; that was not just propaganda. And that was enough to put an end to all uncertainty.""
(the last bit describes people like bill o'reilly, ann coulter & tucker carlson perfectly)

the same philologist talked about 'pastor niemoller' in the same chapter a bit later on; i wondered for the longest time where this famous quotation came from:
"Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something -- but then it was too late."

the whole chapter is here:
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding the different smells produced by alternative fuels for automobiles and trucks - used cooking oils that smells like the food cooked, such as McDiesel, or the officially dubbed "clean laundry" smell of hydrogen combustion - from Alan Alda [actor].

That will be a thing that people do; smelling each others tailpipes

absolutely prophetic!!! :biggrin:

[Abhorsen]

Does the walker choose the path or path the walker ?

Garth Nix

[enricfemi]

you may live,but just for a while

wallace

[Ivan Seeking]

Question: All mariners know that if a man falls off the boat, you are supposed to yell "man overboard!". What are you supposed to yell if a woman falls off the boat? Answer [Paul Lynde]: Full speed ahead!!!

[Moridin]

'Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.' - Louis Pasteur

'A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.' - Max Planck

'Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?' - Victor Hugo

'There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.' - Richard Feynman

'Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?' - Carl Sagan

'In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual' - Galileo Galilei

'To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.' - Modern Zen poem

'Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?' - Victor Hugo

[jimmysnyder]

Has this one been posted yet?
The zen you find at the top of the mountain is the zen you bring with you.

[Ivan Seeking]

Robert Novak? I love Robert Novak. He has one of the finest minds of the 12th century. - Paul Begala

[Astronuc]

physics goes in the part of my brain with Algebra, British comedy, and making flambe. Ill never understand it :rofl: ManiacMike on some internet forum about spacewarps, wormholes and FTL travel. :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Without a doubt, Stephen [Hawking] is the most stubborn person in the entire universe!
- Leonard Susskind

[Ivan Seeking]

From a couple of CNN viewers commenting on a story about divorce:

Love is fleeting but stuff lasts forever. I want to keep my stuff.

Marriage again? It would be easier to just find a woman that I don’t like and buy her a house.

[fourier jr]

The West has never been allowed to forget the Nazi holocaust. For 55 years there has been a continuous outpouring of histories, memoirs, novels, feature films, documentaries, television series... played and replayed in every Western language; there have been museums, memorial sculptures, photo expositions, remembrance ceremonies... Never Again! But who hears the voice of the Vietnamese peasant? Who has access to the writings of the Vietnamese intellectual? What was the fate of the Vietnamese Anne Frank? Where, asks the young American, is Vietnam?
Bill Blum, Killing Hope

This science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.
Galois

[Astronuc]

At least I don't have to put up with the administriviality.

A friend and co-worker on changing employment.

[turbo-1]

The West has never been allowed to forget the Nazi holocaust. For 55 years there has been a continuous outpouring of histories, memoirs, novels, feature films, documentaries, television series... played and replayed in every Western language; there have been museums, memorial sculptures, photo expositions, remembrance ceremonies... Never Again! But who hears the voice of the Vietnamese peasant? Who has access to the writings of the Vietnamese intellectual? What was the fate of the Vietnamese Anne Frank? Where, asks the young American, is Vietnam?
Bill Blum, Killing Hope

This science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.
GaloisYou should know that Ho Chi Minh was a patriot. When the OSS contacted him During WWII, he wanted to drive the Japanese out of his country and he promised to do that. The OSS asked what he wanted, and he said that he wanted 12 Colt 1911 pistols with holster rigs and ammunition as a show of US support. One for himself, and one for each of his deputies, and he wanted a promise that the Vietnamese people could rule themsevles, and not be subject as a colony of a foreign government. After the war, our government gave him nothing and gave the region back to France. The roots of that war lie in the deceptions and the unmet promises of WWII.

[moe darklight]

Here's my official boring friday with no plans Quote-O-Rama!

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
- Emo Philips

"What's wrong with getting what you want?"
- McLusky

"Heaven's just a scab away"
- Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen but he could not read it; he thought I was just trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P)

If ignorant people could fly, it'd always be dark out.
- My dad says his dad used to say that. I don't know where it's from but I like it.

(on the Bush administration) Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
(to bush) The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
- Stephen Colbert

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell

Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
- Scott Adams

(...) in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie (...)
- Hitler (ironically, he was referring to the Jews' "big lie", not his own)

What, me worry?
- Alfred E. Neuman

But I'm hungry now.

[end3r7]

"The volume of success is a product of wide experience, deep imagination, and a lengthy effort.
One may at times find himself lost in an area where his knowledge is useless, and even become reduced to an ordinary line of thinking. But as long as he does not fail to try, he will never reach the point of no return." - moi

This one cracks me up every time
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." - Van Wilder

[teknodude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-cnizLDEE

[matthyaouw]

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
Albert Einstein

[Astronuc]

One of the frustrations in science and engineering is learning not be frustrated. :biggrin: It helps to have a certain level of stubborness or perserverance, not so much to hold on to old ideas or notions, but to be able to push on regardless, even if it means developing new ideas or understanding.

Somebody is bound to have realized this in their career.

[fourier jr]

Evariste Galois was a strange and complex character. Genius, dreamer, poet, revolutionary - he was all these with a passion which would early have burned him out, had fate permitted him a less violent death. He truly belonged to the age which produced the romantic poets, musicians and revolutionaries who were his contemporaries, most of whom died young.
B Melvin Kiernan

Preserve my memory, since fate has not given me life enough for the country to know my name.
Galois (who now has a street & a moon crater named after him, & has one of the best stories in math)

[Astronuc]

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privelege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.
<D. Sutten>


There is nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. <Anonymous>


There comes a period when everything is going well - but don't worry - it won't last. <An optimist>

[Ivan Seeking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-cnizLDEE

I had an employer once tell me the same thing on my first day of work. :rofl:

[Jallu]

I think it's my own, but possibly I picked it up somewhere. :smile:

"Once the question is clear, the answer is near."

[Astronuc]

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong...although I'm sure downloading illegal files, but, nah, that's a different story.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. - Jon Stewart's advice to the graduates of William and Mary, 2004.

'Oops...We Broke the World' (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/147/story_14743_2.html)

[Evo]

"It is better to be rich and healthy than to be poor and sick."

I read this the other day.

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do today what I can do tomorrow? If I wait until tomorrow I'll be under pressure, and I work better under pressure - Charlie Brown

[Ivan Seeking]

Scully: Kuru was transmitted from victim to victim by eating the infected brains of the dead
Mulder: Geez, and I thought my grandpa slurping his soup was bad.

[moe darklight]

(paraphrasing)

"forgive: and be free
forget that you have forgiven: and be freer"

Buddha

[daveb]

From Mindwalk, "Life is infinitely more than your or my obtuse theories about it" (or something like that).

[Astronuc]

Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

- Albus Dumbledore :approve:


All's well. :wink:

[Danger]

I can't believe that I never noticed this thread before.
My two favourite quotes are confrontational, in a defensive sort of way. One is fictional, wherein Spider-Man tells some villain "If you ever hit me again, and I find out about it..."
The best one, along the same line, is true, witnessed by and related to me by a very good friend. It was back in the little Ontario town that he came from. A smallish, quiet guy was sitting at the bar having a beer and minding his own business. For no discernable reason, the huge biker-type sitting beside him just hauled off and belted him in the head. Apparently suffering no ill effect, the little guy slowly turned toward his attacker and said "If that's the best you've got, you'd better go home right ****ing now." He sat alone and unmolested for the rest of the evening. :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, they may have running water on Mars, but they don't have plumbing.
- Jon Stewart

There are more bacteria living in your colon than the total number of people who have ever lived on earth - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thank God the opposite isn't true - Jon Stewart

[Ivan Seeking]

There are more Christians in China than members of the Communist Party - Rob Gifford

THAT was quite a surprising statement! I would assume that only our more mature members can fully appreciate the significance of this.

[EugP]

"I'm not trying to knock you out, I just know I will" - Chuck Lidell

I'm a huge UFC fan, and pretty much a genera MMA fan, so this is probably one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

[rewebster]

I can't place why this came to mind, but it came to mind while I was mediating the other day-






“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/oh-the_comfort-the_inexpressible_comfort_of/170845.html


-(no,.. wait,.. I meant..---meditating)

[Schrodinger's Dog]

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

- Gandhi

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goering

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent

- Issac Asimov

am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

- John Fowles, "The Magus"

Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before!

- Larry Reeves

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

- Peter Weiss

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

- Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos (1741-1803

Revenge is a dish best served cold, unless my French deserts me.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

- Ronald Reagan

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

- Christiaan Huygens, (1629 –1695), In Humanity

How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

- Chuck Palahniuk, In Philosophy

"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."

Annie Dillard

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Barbara Kingsolver

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

General Douglas MacArthur


I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeanette Rankin

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Omar N. Bradley

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Howard Thurman

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

War quotes from the wise.

[ranger]

I always get a kick out of these kinds of discussions:

"By the way, I always felt that hell might not be such a bad place after all: it would be populated with people of at least a somewhat higher average IQ than heaven. It wouldn't get dull, that's for sure.
~Arto (sciforums)

"Yup looks like all the rational thinkers will go to hell – should provoke some really good debates without interruptions from the idiots who will have gone upstairs. So I’ll see you in hell"
~Cris (sciforums) in response to the above (Arto)

[Ivan Seeking]

In my house, we used a smoke alarm as an oven timer - Murphy Brown

[fourier jr]

(for all the canadians)
With the National Policy in ruins, the tariff failing to generate sufficient employment, the West empty, Ontario in revolt, and discontent rife in Manitoba and Nova Scotia, the Old Chieftan rose to the occasion. A time of grave national crisis required strong, imaginative leadership. The Macdonald government resonded by falsifying the 1890-91 census returns, bribing the statistician to exaggerate the number of factories and hands employed. In one riding the census takers were given instructions to include in the list of factories all blacksmiths, shoemakers and artisans engaged in handicraft production. In another, 72 new industries were reported as having begun since 1881 -- in fact not a single one existed. To increase the apparent population, the names of people who had moved to the US were carefully reported as still present in Canada. -- RT Naylor
:tongue:

[Astronuc]

"Going barefoot is the practice of not wearing shoes, socks, or other foot covering." :rofl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot

For those who might miss the exceedingly obvious.

Well, were would we be without Wikipedia!?

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't believe in the lesser of two evils. I believe in the evil of two lessers. - a buddy speaking of the field of 2008 Presidential candidates.

[morphism]

J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!" Dieu m'a exaucé.
- Voltaire

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson

And on the more humorous side:

Dressed like he's ready to run a marathon. Fitting because his class is long-winded.
- Professor evaluation

[Ivan Seeking]

The money don't matter... as long as I'm getting it. - Groucho Marx

[Ki Man]

Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation. -R. Feynman

[mgb_phys]

From which we know that Feynman considered himself a physicist not a mathematician.

[morphism]

From which we know that Feynman considered himself a physicist not a mathematician.
And that he must've been having quite the masturbation sessions!

[ranger]

In light of all the unprofessionalism and incompetence shown by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) and the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) and its management, I've been hearing a couple of comments over and over again:

"F*ck the MTA"
~More than half of New York City.

"The MTA is F*cking up"
~More than half of New York City.

http://www.mta.info/alert/images/alerthomenyct-sm.gif

[Ivan Seeking]

"I will not be right back after this message" - requested as an epitaph by Merv Griffin.

This reminded me of the epitaph seen on two headstones during a recent funeral: "See you soon"

[Ivan Seeking]

"I don't think the military would lie about anything because they are too worried about their public image" - a noted UFO conspiracy theory debunker.

Sometimes the debunkers are more naive than the true-believers.

[Astronuc]

"Hey, this is real science. We get to make stuff up."

Mentioned during a recent project meeting. :tongue:

[turbo-1]

Einstsin in a memoriam on the death of Ernst Mach:

"How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there no more valuable work in his specialty? I hear many of my colleagues saying, and I sense it from many more, that they feel this way. I cannot share this sentiment. ... Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as 'necessities of thought,' 'a priori givens,' etc. The path of scientific advance is often made impassable for a long time through such errors. For that reason, it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing the long common place concepts and exhibiting those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. By this means, their all-too-great authority will be broken."

Any person who aspires to the title of "scientist" cannot claim that title if they have not wrestled with these demons. They are many, and they are very foundational.

[Ivan Seeking]

Today, from Craigslist:

The bathroom at the Minnesota airport
The bathroom at the park
The bathroom at the rest stop
...

[josht]

"If you are always looking down, you will never see what lies above you."
- C.S. Lewis

[moe darklight]

"You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem, and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist."

— Anton Chekhov

meanwhile, the poor scientist must worry about both :biggrin:.

"-Ésa es natural condición de mujeres -dijo don Quijote-: desdeñar a quien
las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. Pasa adelante, Sancho."

(my attempt at a translation):
"That is a natural condition of women," said Don Quixote: "to disdain the ones who love them, and love the ones who hate them. Now, go on, Sancho."

— Miguel De Cervantes

[fargoth]

The Church of the SubGenius® has some great quotes in their Pamphlets:

YOU MUST BE SAVED
-- EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU!!

ETERNAL SALVATION
-- OR TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK

LIVE WITH YOUR SINS!!
-- "Bob" Dobbs Can Show You How!

THIS INCREDIBLE NEW FAITH, AUTHORIZED TO BLASPHEME BY THE GODS THEMSELVES, IS THE FIRST ALL-PURPOSE BELIEF SYSTEM TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH MOST MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS AND MANY WEIRD CULTS -- WITHOUT EXPENSIVE INTERFACES!!

theres also a movie =) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=189126860809168021&q=ivan+stang&hl=en)
and another one... (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746465052705276656)

and now, for something completely different...

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

I'm not just talking about my wife, I'm talking about my LIFE, I can't seem to get that through to you. I'm not just talking about one person, I'm talking about everybody. I'm talking about form. I'm talking about content. I'm talking about interrelationships. I'm talking about God, the devil, Hell, Heaven. Do you understand... FINALLY?
-Harding (one flew over the cuckoo's nest)

"his name was Robert Paulson"
and
"I just wanted to destroy something beautiful"
-fight club

and finaly, i'd like to quote a song:
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles per hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles per second, so it's reckoned
The Sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun, and you, and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are travelling at a million miles per day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles per hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way

The galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
The fastest it can go
The speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So, remember when you're feeling down and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

heres the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmeSBUPswM)

(i know it's too much... i got carried away =P)

[Ivan Seeking]

GQ magazine interviewer: Do you miss the President?

Donald Rumsfeld: Mmmmmm, no.
________________________________________

"What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?" - Colin Powell

[Astronuc]

Putting reseach and science in context.

It's the birthday of naturalist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould, (books by this author) born in New York City (1941). He was five years old when his father took him to the Museum of Natural History, and he saw his first dinosaur skeleton, a 20-foot high tyrannosaurus. He went on to study geology and paleontology and wrote his dissertation on an extinct land snail native to the Bahamas. He once said that his research on the taxonomy of the snail was of interest to about eight people in the world, but, he said, "Those eight people really care."

In 1974, he was offered a job writing a monthly column for Natural History magazine. He decided that his guiding focus in the column would be the theory of evolution, but aside from that, he would write about whatever he was interested in, from the history of Mickey Mouse to the unreliability of IQ tests. His essays were collected in books such as The Panda's Thumb (1980) and The Flamingo's Smile (1985), and he became one of the most famous scientists in America. He believed he was successful simply because he tried to be a good writer. He said, "So many scientists think that once they figure it out, that's all they have to do, and writing it up is just a chore. I never saw it that way; part of the art of any kind of total scholarship is to say it well.''

Stephen Jay Gould said, "Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree."

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/09/10/#monday

[Moridin]

"Science is the poetry of reality" - Richard Dawkins

"Reason and the respect for evidence are the source of our progress; our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth. We live in dangerous times when superstition is on the rise and rational science is under attack" - Richard Dawkins

[Ivan Seeking]

The US ambassador to Iraq [Crocker] on the future of Iraq: "My confidence is under control".

[Math Jeans]

Woman: Sir Winston! You're drunk!
Winston: Yes madam, and you're ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober.

[Ivan Seeking]

The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb...

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added...
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=61671&sc=89

[Astronuc]

"Semper gumby" - "Always flexible". :rofl: Well, you'd have to know the context to appreciate the humor.

a play on "Semper Fi" short for "Semper fidelis" - "Always faithful"

[B. Elliott]

"Think yourself a puny form when within yourself the Universe is folded." - Sufis

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours, that's relativity." - Albert Einstein

[turbo-1]

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams

[Izzhov]

"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver." -George Carlin

[Ivan Seeking]

~ After my work in show business, I had a fairly extensive vocabulary of four letter words. When I had my first meeting [with Nixon], that vocabulary was significantly augmented. - Alan Greenspan.

[glondor]

"It's the things you do you don't have to do that makes the differance before it's to late to do anything about it". Dont know who wrote it but I like it and try to live it.

[Burnsys]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

[Ivan Seeking]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Nice.

[turbo-1]

"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

[Astronuc]

And we are talking about the y-direction (also known as the j direction). :rofl: Doc Al

[dilletante]

some Kurt Vonnegut quotes:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

[enricfemi]

some Kurt Vonnegut quotes:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

what is conquer and what we conquered?

[rewebster]

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjamindi136856.html


"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
Benjamin Disraeli

[jimmysnyder]

"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver." -George Carlin
He's wrong on one point. I am a very bad driver and freely admit it. However, I'm not the worst. When people tailgate me and grumble what a poor driver I am, they fail to see the irony.

I don't have a favorite quote, there are too many great ones. But just now, I'm liking this one:

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. - Will Rogers.

[rewebster]

“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places”

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mark_twain/


“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”

[rewebster]

"The more I know about men the more I like dogs."

-- Gloria Allred

[Evo]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[jimmysnyder]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that's great, but then what do I know?

[rewebster]

"Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show."

David Gerrold

[Ivan Seeking]

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen." - Ann Coulter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905799/posts

A true American!!! :rofl:

[Izzhov]

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”

I love that movie!

[Ivan Seeking]

Question to Mit Romney in a town hall meeting: "If you are elected, how many first ladies will we have?"

[Astronuc]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He forsaw GW? :bugeye:

[Astronuc]

the First Law of Materials Science is

"Everything can be broken".

http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/elmat_en/kap_3/backbone/r3_5_1.htm

[pace]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yeah, we all know that. :rofl: And some of us from personal experience :blush:

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=61671&sc=89

.....yay......

----

"I am not my oppinions, but much rather my commitments"



................... I still wish I were my oppinions tho :biggrin:

[moe darklight]

Once I dreamt that I suddenly realized that I could travel through time by drinking anti-freeze.
:rofl:

[fourier jr]

Creative politics at the national level has not been known in Canada since before World War I when the westward thrust to Canada's empire was still a major national goal. Since the empire of the west was secured national goals of development have not been known. Creative politics is politics which has the capacity to change the social structure in the direction of major social goals or values. By mobilizing human resources for new purposes, it has the initiative in the struggle against the physical environment and against dysfunctional historical arrangements. Creative politics requires a highly developed political leadership to challenge entrenched power within other institutional orders. It succeeds in getting large segments of the population identified with the goals of the political system and in recruiting their energies to political ends.
John Porter

[JasonRox]

I have many favourite quotes. The current one on my MSN name is...

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity." - James F. Bymes

[fourier jr]

Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well-fitted to make discoveries
Claude Bernard

[Werg22]

I find the non-pragmatic quotes to be redundant and have an element of pseudo-depth.

[rewebster]

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt



I read the above one first, and then ran across this one:

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton

I wondered if Paris has learned anything from the time when she did say that --yet.

[Evo]

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt



I read the above one first, and then ran across this one:

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton

I wondered if Paris has learned anything from the time when she did say that --yet.That's an old quote, it was someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mae West that originally said it.

[rewebster]

That's an old quote, it was someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mae West that originally said it.

Paris, Mae, Marilyn, Zsa Zsa----why are all the good women alcoholics and gold diggers?

(it was Mae West who said it--I don't think Paris has said anything and original and 'quotable' yet)

[7ala.elward]

I will drive the walking Wst and will not stand observant the passerby procession in front of me .
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jobran khaliel jobran

[Ivan Seeking]

"The Supreme Court ruled today that George Bush will be awarded the Nobel Prize instead of Al Gore. That was the joke going around Washington today." - David Brooks.

[Astronuc]

"The Supreme Court ruled today that George Bush will be awarded the Nobel Prize instead of Al Gore. That was the joke going around Washington today." - David Brooks. :rofl:



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia.

[Ivan Seeking]

....yay......

Hopefully everyone gets the irony of an "environmentally friendly" bomb. Only a politician could come up with that one!

[rewebster]

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains,


because the average man can see better than he can think.

~Author Unknown

----------------------------------------------

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.


Mae West

------------------------------------------------

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

--Ogden Nash

[pace]

Hopefully everyone gets the irony of an "environmentally friendly" bomb. Only a politician could come up with that one!

Yeah. Soon we'll be told a whole lot of people will die environmentally friendly I'm sure.

[Lockheed]

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

-- Albert Einstein

[rewebster]

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe


-----------------------------------------------
I never had a man come to me for advice yet,

but what I soon discovered that

he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Josh Billings

[Evo]

I think this has already been quoted, but it bears repeating.

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

–Anonymous

[Andre]

That's where groupthink (http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/06/howd-we-get-here-from-there.htm) is generated.

[Ivan Seeking]

Stephen Colbert: Ah, the famous pocket Constitution. Did you shrink it yourself?

Dennis Kucinich: No, George Bush already did that for me

[Ivan Seeking]

One in three meals is eaten in a car
http://media.pbs.org/ramgen/newshour/expansion/2007/10/16/20071016_school28.rm?altplay=20071016_school28.rm

That is amazing!

[Phred101.2]

I thought Colin Powell was a big letdown. He could have made a good Pres. but now he's blown it, well for a while anyway. I thought the guy had class until the UN crap.

[rewebster]

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,

the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'

but,

'that's funny...'

Isaac Asimov

______________________________________

All great discoveries are made by men
whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

[Astronuc]

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,

the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'

but,

'that's funny...'

Isaac Asimov Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:

[rewebster]

Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:

so your job can be called either 'The Janitor' or 'The Bounty Hunter'?----

[Astronuc]

More like the Janitor or Mr. Fixit.

When technology don't go as planned - for the last 30+ years.

Keeps me busy - and employed - for a long time to come.

[Ironside]

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. - Jack Dempsey

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Einstein

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot. - Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

A politician should always be sincere whether he means it or not - Pat Paulsen

[Ivan Seeking]

From [I assume] the Dean of Wellesley College, while introducing Hillary as the guest speaker:
You should have seen the debate last night: It was six guys all ganging up on Hillary, which is what I call a fair fight!

I'm not a Hillary fan, but I liked that one.

[Astronuc]

Hear me, four quarters of the world.

A relative I am!

Give me the strength to walk the soft earth.

Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand.

Look upon these faces of children without number,
that they may face the winds and walk the good road to the day of quiet.

This is my prayer; hear me.


The Sacred Hoop (Ring/Circle)
Then I was standing on the higher mountain of them all,

and around beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell,

and I understood more than I saw.

For I was seing in the sacred manner the shape of all things of the spirit

and the shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle;

wide as daylight and starlight,

and in the center grew one mighty tree

to shelter all the children of one mother and one father

And I saw that it was holy.

Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) of the Oglala Lakota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk

Remarkable person with great wisdom he was.

[turbo-1]

Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:Yep, that was probably the motivating factor behind my travel to far-flung pulp and paper mills more often than I know. Once you solve a few WTF problems, word gets around. In industry, time not only equals money, it is the life-blood of the business and sub-standard efficiencies for any significant period of time can destroy your company, especially if you are producing a commodity like wood pulp, paper, etc that can be picked up anywhere and can't easily be branded.

The paper machine that I was the lead operator on from start-up and six years thereafter made coated, calendared paper for Elle, Playboy centerfolds, and other uses where high print quality was essential. I could have accepted nominal adviser status at any number of paper mills after that and have made a whole lot of money for not a lot of work, but my old employer and the manufacturer of the initial paper machine would still be suing me to this day. Not good.

[Phred101.2]

Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) of the Oglala Lakota
The haka (battle dance) performed by the Tainui tribe of the NZ Maori (people) ends as follows (it was first spoken by a chief who was emerging from a cave where he had hidden from an enemy):

..."E houpane! E koupane!
E houpane koupane, whiti Te Ra!"

...which means "I step forward! I step back!
I step forward I step back, the Sun shines!"

this was essentially a giving of thanks to both the Sun and to the grace of his enemy for not killing him as he emerged. Many chiefs were accomplished poets and speakers.
Just a little insight into what the NZ All-Black rugby team does before the kick-off...

[rhuthwaite]

The haka (battle dance) performed by the Tainui tribe of the NZ Maori (people) ends as follows (it was first spoken by a chief who was emerging from a cave where he had hidden from an enemy):

..."E houpane! E koupane!
E houpane koupane, whiti Te Ra!"

...which means "I step forward! I step back!
I step forward I step back, the Sun shines!"

this was essentially a giving of thanks to both the Sun and to the grace of his enemy for not killing him as he emerged. Many chiefs were accomplished poets and speakers.
Just a little insight into what the NZ All-Black rugby team does before the kick-off...

I love the haka!!! It's the part of the rugby I just can't miss :tongue:

Glad to see you can still talk about the ABs with pride!!

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, everyone complains about the weather but no one ever does anything about it! - Zoobyshoe

If Kucinich is elected President, his wife would be the first First Lady with a pierced tongue - unknown, but probably from The Daily Show or The Colbert Report

[Math Jeans]

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. ”

~ Terry Pratchett on fire

:rofl: I love this one.

[rewebster]

Dogs look up to you.
Cats look down on you.

Give me a pig.
He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal.


- Winston Churchill






http://ecards.alege.net:81/31/pig_smiling.jpg

[Ivan Seeking]

"Giuliani got the support of Pat Robertson today. That's about like getting a kiss from your crazy old aunt!" - Cafferty.

[Astronuc]

This could go in LOL, but

"Politicians are like diapers, they all stink and should be replaced frequently!" :rofl:

From the new Robin Williams movie, or so I was told.

[Ivan Seeking]

This could go in LOL, but

"Politicians are like diapers, they all stink and should be replaced frequently!" :rofl:

From the new Robin Williams movie, or so I was told.

Hah! I heard that recently and meant to quote it.

Here is one from a newspaper today.

Gary Lindstrom has lived in Summit County since 1974 and is a retired police officer and a recovering politician.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20071118/COLUMNS/71116006/0/FRONTPAGE

[Ivan Seeking]

When you go to Toys R Us these days, they ask if you want to see the leaded or unleaded toys
- Mark Shields

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding Obama...approximate:

uhhh, yunno, uh, I don't wanna sound like a racist or anything, but I wouldn't vote for a colored man for President
- Some racist on the CBS Evening news

[Ivan Seeking]

Katie Couric - Question: Besides the Bible, what would be the one book that you would take with you to the White House?

Hillary Clinton - Answer: I would take my copy of the Constitution because apparently they don't have one.

[Ivan Seeking]

Glen Beck commenting on his dedication to his faith; today on the Situation Room, on CNN:

If they [the Mormons] had Kool-Aid in the basement, I'd drink it!

I'm sure that helped Mit Romney alleviate people's concerns about his church a great deal!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Astronuc]

I may be on old dog, but I can still learn new tricks. - an old dog.

which someday will become

I may be an old dog, but I can learn one new trick.

[lunarmansion]

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness--Chinese Proverb

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them--Henry David Thoreau

[lunarmansion]

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors-Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative-Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to conpensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is--Francis Bacon

[lunarmansion]

The gods too are fond of a good joke-Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims-Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind-Aristotle

[akatz]

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

– Frank Leahy

[Andre]

If you show an honest man why he is wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being honest

Anonymus.

[devil-fire]

the strong feed on the weak and the clever feed on the strong.

[Ivan Seeking]

"After years in Washington, I long for the honesty and sincerity of Hollywood" - Fred Thompson

[Astronuc]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the message straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?


The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.











Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Easier?


The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

[Astronuc]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the message straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?











The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.


Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?


The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

[lunarmansion]

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great. -Mark Twain

[Andre]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

That's awesome, Astro, I can't google it back but the best peanuts strip goes like this:

Lucy: Why are we on Earth?

Charley Brown: I don't know, perhaps to make somebody else happy.

Lucy (running away crying): Happy? I'm not happy! somebody is not doing his job!

Edit: However what I learned in 54 years is that in trying to make some people happy, it's very tough to avoid making other people unhappy.

[lunarmansion]

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.- Voltaire
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. [Uncle Vanya, 1897] Anton Checkhov

[Ivan Seeking]

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:

So what is the lesson here? :uhh:

[rewebster]

“Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.”

Cicero

[Ivan Seeking]

“Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.”

Cicero

Boy, I would sure argue that one - I would say the love of logic.

[rewebster]

Maybe the love of 'logic and wisdom'--

(word's meanings may have changed a little since they sat around the Colosseum drinking and watching the action.)

[DaveC426913]

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:


Which show? Uhuru is fifth in command (I think), though she's not a Commander.

[Ivan Seeking]

There were five series. I was referring to the lead roles in each.

Actually, what made me think of this was an audience test done years ago on something like the Johnny Carson show. Hardly anyone could remember the National Anthem, but almost everyone could sing the Brady Bunch song. :biggrin:

[lunarmansion]

A man cannot think deeply and exert his utmost muscular force.- Charles Darwin(Expression of the emotions in man and animals.)

[Math Jeans]

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:

So what is the lesson here? :uhh:

I only know Kirk and Archer. The famous one and the new one.

[NeoDevin]

Kirk, Archer, Janeway, Sisko, Picard (not in order...)

[DaveC426913]

Kirk, Archer, Janeway, Sisko, Picard (not in order...)
Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

I thought you were posing a question that at least some people might not get...

[Math Jeans]

Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

What? :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

I thought you were posing a question that at least some people might not get...

Who was the sixth?

[NeoDevin]

Christopher Pike

Or if you include the animated series, there was also Robert April.

[Huckleberry]

Maybe the love of 'logic and wisdom'--

(word's meanings may have changed a little since they sat around the Colosseum drinking and watching the action.)

So if I asked you about art you could
give me the skinny on every art book
ever written...Michelangelo?
You know a lot about him I bet. Life's
work, criticisms, political aspirations.
But you couldn't tell me what it smells
like in the Sistine Chapel. You've
never stood there and looked up at
that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked
you about women I'm sure you could
give me a syllabus of your personal
favorites, and maybe you've been laid
a few times too. But you couldn't
tell me how it feels to wake up next
to a woman and be truly happy. If I
asked you about war you could refer me
to a bevy of fictional and non-fictional
material, but you've never been in
one. You've never held your best
friend's head in your lap and watched
him draw his last breath, looking to
you for help. And if I asked you about
love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never
looked at a woman and been truly
vulnerable. Known that someone could
kill you with a look. That someone
could rescue you from grief.
That God had put an angel on Earth
just for you. And you wouldn't know
how it felt to be her angel. To have
the love be there for her forever.
Through anything, through cancer. You
wouldn't know about sleeping sitting
up in a hospital room for two months
holding her hand and not leaving because
the doctors could see in your eyes
that the term "visiting hours" didn't
apply to you. And you wouldn't know
about real loss, because that only
occurs when you lose something you
love more than yourself, and you've
never dared to love anything that much.
I look at you and I don't see an
intelligent confident man, I don't see
a peer, and I don't see my equal. I
see a boy. Nobody could possibly
understand you, right Will? Yet you
presume to know so much about me because
of a painting you saw. You must know
everything about me. You're an orphan,
right?

Will nods quietly.

SEAN (cont'd)
Do you think I would presume to know
the first thing about who you are
because I read "Oliver Twist?" And I
don't buy the argument that you don't
want to be here, because I think you
like all the attention you're getting.
Personally, I don't care. There's
nothing you can tell me that I can't
read somewhere else. Unless we talk
about your life. But you won't do
that. Maybe you're afraid of what
you might say.
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting

(And yet some things stay the same.)

[Ivan Seeking]

~ "This year I will vote however my wife does. In 2000, she voted for Gore, and I voted for Bush, and I will never live it down"

--- viewer comment today on the Cafferty File

[pace]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

The bad thing about being unemployed is that right when you get up, you're on the job.

- Unknown


Not so funny:

I used to be a vegetarian, but then I leaned to the sunny side of life.

- Don't remember.

[pace]

This one's a bit consilidating for us hobby-philosophers who doesn't seem to get a deegre from it:

"A good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and a good philosopher is at least half a mathematician" - Gottlob Frege.

uh, maybe not so consilidating since he ended up quite lonely and depressed himself. Great historical mathematician and logican nonetheless.

[Andre]

Knowledge is power.
Power currupts.

Knowledge corrupts?

[rewebster]

Who was the sixth?

Riker

[rewebster]

Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting



good movie---

[jim mcnamara]

This is my favorite quote:

If you went to the trouble to read this, then you have too much time on your hands:
Terry: God helps those who help themselves
Larry: God helps thieves?

[ranger]

From am episode of scrubs:

Cox: You are, in fact, a perfectly healthy 26-year-old doctor who keeps
whining about how horrible his father was.
J.D.: Well, he did some considerable emotional damage, so...
Cox: Every one of our parents does considerable emotional damage, and from
what I've heard, it just might be the best part of being a
parent. Now, if some guy ever does put a ring on your finger and
you're lucky enough to pop out a youngster I'm sure you'll
understand. But for now, believe me when I tell you I wouldn't
care if this was the first time you ever met your daddy. Because,
in reality... well, he could have done a much, much worse job.

[DaveC426913]

From am episode of scrubs:
:rofl: I love Scrubs.

Inimitably, Cox' line there is actually a compliment to J.D. (read last line, all the rest is smoke screen).

[rewebster]

Quote from my Grandfather:

I was about twelve staying with the grandparents one summer and he answered my question about which piece of chicken he liked to eat first (but it really covers just about anything in life):

"Eat the best first, and you'll always have the best."

(meaning: of what's left, there will a 'best' of the group still to choose from)

[RyanSchw]

“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are.” –Richard Feynman

“I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don’t confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything is gonnna be alright.” –George Carlin

[grafica]

unborn tommorrow dead yesterday
why fred about them if today be sweat

[Math Jeans]

"He has no enemies, but is intensly disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend...if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." - Response from Winston Churchill

"Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!" - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it!" - Response from Winston Churchill

[sdeed]

Life is too short, you need to spend more time with the people you love

[Ivan Seeking]

The Clintons have dreamed of the day that a black man would be President; but not on their watch! - Carl Bernstein

[pitot-tube]

" If you didn't cure cancer today then you did nothing today"

CLINT EASTWOOD

[Ivan Seeking]

So you are going to send the Daleks to hell?!?!?

I told you he was good. :approve:

- Mickey

[_Mayday_]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"

- Jimi Hendrix

[Ivan Seeking]

South Carolina is not what the Greeks had in mind when they founded democracy.
- Mark Shields
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/sbfallon_01-18.html

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Math Jeans]

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I send a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

[SpitfireAce]

Why is it that Physicists always always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for papers, pencils, and waste paper baskets and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for waste paper baskets.
-University President

There is no such thing as a foolproof device, because fools are so ingenious

[falc39]

The stories speak to something inside us that wants to know how our world lives, that wants to make order of it and find some meaning. Myths fulfill that in a way that science and facts don't always do, because science and facts don't always give us meaning.

This is my all time favorite quote for the reason that the first time I read it, I seriously felt like a switch was suddenly turned on in my head. It's like I never realized that there was such a different way of seeing things in the world. My bookshelf now is incredibly different than what it was two or three years ago.

[turbo-1]

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I send a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
All three are great, though Groucho and Twain have a special place in my heart. If you haven't read Ambrose Bierce's "Devils Dictionary", you should. You seem to have an appreciation for the sardonic that matches mine.

[hypatia]

Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Larry the Cable Guy

[hubertg]

"Mix religion and politics and you get politics"

[Andre]

Have we covered this one?

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

[euler_fan]

However, I'm not denying' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I promise I will never even THINK about going up in a tall building again.
John McClane (Die Hard)

[Andre]

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.” Pierre-Simon Laplace

For an alternative point of view:

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Josh Billings

[grafica]

man ,proud man
rest in the little brief authority
most ignorant of what hes assured
playing fantastics tricks before high heaven
as make the angels weep..............

[Ivan Seeking]

The other day I felt like exercising, so I decided to lie down until the feeling went away - WC Fields.

[_Mayday_]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means :cry:

[lisab]

Not that I would know, first hand...

"Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places." -- Garrison Keillor


But my personal favorite:

"They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!" -- Bob Monkhouse

:rofl: Makes me laugh every time I hear it!

[AFG34]

its supposed to be "favourite quotations"

[Chipmunks]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough

Because people can kill more than two birds with one stone
I have read many lyrics millions of times. I think I may clearify about these people in my signature next time. They must rise and be famous!

[DaveC426913]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough
Are you wearing a Freudian slip?

[DaveC426913]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means :cry:

My interpretation is that he's saying all sciences - chemistry, biology, astronomy, even psychology are nothing more than a logical extrapolation of the fundamental phenomena that are studied in physics. They are all extremely narrowly-focused studies of physics.

eg. Even the way your mind works can be ultimately traced back to subatmic particle interaction.

[ffleming7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
-Carl Sagan's quote about the Pale Blue Dot

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-Abraham Lincoln

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow if I can.

Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it meets some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

[Astronuc]

For the older folks -

It's never to late to recapture who you were,

or to become who you want to be.

Don't pass on your dreams.

- synthesized from characters on Kyle XY.

[Ivan Seeking]

We are the universe trying to understand itself - a buddy of mine, original source unknown

[ranger]

"Life so fragile. Loss so sudden; many hearts so broken. In the wake of such a loss, we’re haunted by things we don’t - and may never - understand. Yet the solace we seek may not come from answers. Therefore, we look for comfort in the belief of love’s everlasting connection. May that love lift you, hold you close, and give you peace."
~Pt. SURESH SUGRIM.
Original Letter (http://myguyanachronicle.com/2007/10/26/new-jersey-arya-samaj-share-grief/)

[Ivan Seeking]

The Innuit have a language that is ten-thousand years old, but they never had a word for "robin". Now they have robins flying all around.
- Sen John McCain

[Astronuc]

There is a time for compromise - it's called "later". - some wiseguy, smart@$$.


I recommend our 'wildest' expectations be downgraded to 'great'. - some optimist. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

"Why, this is so simple that even a four year old child could understand it. Now, someone go find me a four year old child. I can't make heads or tails out of this". - Groucho Marx

[Ivan Seeking]

A lie requires two people: One to lie and one to listen. - From Bill Moyer's Journal tonight.

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding concerns expressed by the 60+ crowd that Obama is too young to be President, Ellen Goodman asks a rather interesting question:

Is it possible that the very people who didn't trust anyone over thirty when they were twenty, now won't trust anyone under fifty, when they're sixty?

[Astronuc]

"I'm taking the weekend off - for the rest of the year" :biggrin:

Came up in a conversation with a colleague. We've been working 12+ hr days and weekends for several weeks now.

[Danger]

I totally lost track of this thread, and don't have time to read the whole thing now, so this might be a rerun.
In the second worst movie that I've ever tried to watch (after 'The 40-Year Old Virgin'), namely 'Lost In America', the wife reprimands Albert Brooks when he returns from the bathroom in the middle of the night with, "Didn't your mother teach you to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?"
His response was, "No; she taught me not to piss on my fingers."
It was the only decent thing about that show, and we had to stop watching after half an hour.

[_Mayday_]

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

Reporter: Some analysts are predicting that gasoline will hit $4 a gallon this summer.

Bush: Really, I hadn't heard that.

[CaptainQuasar]

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows
obedience like corn, which grows in
rows and makes weeding easy. But
sometimes it grows the potatoes of
defiance, which flourish underground.”· Terry Pratchett

―


“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.”· A.E. Houseman

―


“For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike:
When you are the anvil, bear;
When you are the hammer, strike.”· Spanish Proverb

―

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined,
with all the treasure of the Earth in their military chest;
with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,
take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger
to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must
spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its
author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must
live through all time, or die by suicide.”· Abraham Lincoln⚛

[Astronuc]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

[Ivan Seeking]

I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars. - Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/

[lisab]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

[CaptainQuasar]

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

LOL! I remember reading that in a little book called “Donald Rumsfeld: Zen Master Poet.”⚛

[Jame]

I don't remember the quote litterally, but Einstein once said something like that the most remarkable thing about nature is that we can actually understand it.

I have a long way to go in the world of science, but the more I learn the more amazed I am that we can make even a slightest sense out of anything. The odds seem so small to me, how come all these square laws work, why and how do the mathematical constants pi and e arise. And what is that we human beings are actually doing when we're "thinking"? If the slightest thing in nature would change it seems that nothing would work anymore.

[Ephratah7]

Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.

"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"

Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.

Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad

Ah I love that movie :biggrin:


God Is Great! God Is Love! God is Good!

[Quincy]

"When history was written, it will say..." -- George Bush at some speech. Lol, looks like he needs to review some basic grammar.

"Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" from the movie Dr. Strangelove.

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." from the movie GoodFellas

[morphism]

"I could never understand ethnic or national pride, because to me pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own -- not something that happens by accident of birth." - George Carlin

[Ivan Seeking]

[William F] Buckley and I debated Ronald Reagan and John McCain's father... and we beat Reagan so badly that day in 1978 that he was never heard from again!

~ George Will

[moe darklight]

"Dreams" by Poe

O! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,
A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.
But should it be- that dream eternally
Continuing- as dreams have been to me
In my young boyhood- should it thus be given,
'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.
For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright
I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light
And loveliness,- have left my very heart
In climes of my imagining, apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen?
'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour
From my remembrance shall not pass- some power
Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night, and left behind
Its image on my spirit- or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was
That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass.

I have been happy, tho' in a dream.
I have been happy- and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.

[moe darklight]

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel” — Socrates

[Danger]

It's been so many decades since I read this that I can't remember who said it. I believe that it was either one of the old-time scientists like Einstein or Bucky Fuller, or one of the 'Golden Age' SF writers. "Knowledge is the ultimate instrument of Mankind's survival in the universe." I always loved that one for its simplistic truth.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Dr Wolper: I tell you Boris, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles.

Peter O'Toole: from the film Creator.

[ffleming7]

"We cannot achieve perfection, but if we reach for it, then we can achieve excellence."

Patrick Awuah at a TEDGlobal conference.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/156

[mikelepore]

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, and abolish the wage system."

Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World, ratified in 1905

[moe darklight]

Praise no day until evening, no wife before cremation, no sword till tested, no maid before marriage, no ice till crossed, no ale till it's drunk.

Tend the oak if you want to live under it.

Great deeds and ill deeds often fall within each other's shadow.

Confide in one, never in two. Confide in three and the whole world knows.

Only a fool lies awake all night and broods over his problems. When morning comes he is exhausted. And his troubles are the same as before.

Old Norse sayings (from the Poetic Edda/Hávamál)

[Ivan Seeking]

Chris Mathews [Hardball] ~ Senator Obama, do you ever go to bed laughing at the absurdity of the events of the day?

Obama: Yes, every time I watch a cable news station.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ It was announced today that the Clinton's combined income of 109 million dollars was derived mainly from Bill Clinton's speaking engagements, book sales, and stud fees.
- SNL

[Astronuc]

How true is this?
Politicians consider a collection of platitudes a plan. ~ Elizabeth Edwards on someone's health care plan

[Ivan Seeking]

Robin Wright: I have covered six wars in the Middle East...

Stephen Colbert: Which one did you like best?

[qspeechc]

Ok, not to sound, er, insulting? but american politics? C'mon.... So much for 'favourite quotes'...

[vincentm]

Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book one of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series), p 50

[Vosh]

If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they'll kill you. -G.B. Shaw

[Astronuc]

"Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth"

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/157

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity.

http://www.acumenfund.org/

[Ivan Seeking]

I had to laugh when I saw a uniquely British protest sign:

"Make Tea Not War"

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I had to laugh when I saw a uniquely British protest sign:

"Make Tea Not War"

Wise words, unless China is involved, or the US, ungrateful cads. That was no party! Jeez it wasn't the rebellion, it was all that tea gone to waste, now steady on! :wink::smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

Is it true that the French make better tea than the Brits?

[Ivan Seeking]

The Pope's jet has the call sign "Shepherd 1" :rolleyes:

[Alienjoey]

"Is there intelligent life on Earth?" -- Frank Drake, founder of SETI.

[Moridin]

"It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions." - Sam Harris, The End of Faith.

"Philosophical theology is intellectual tennis without a net" - Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

"Cheetahs give every indication of being superbly designed for something, and it should be easy enough to reverse-engineer them and work out their utility function. They appear to be well-designed to kill antelopes. The teeth, claws, eyes, nose, leg muscles, backbone and brain of a cheetah are all precisely what we should expect if God's purpose in designing cheetahs was to maximize deaths among antelopes. Conversely, if we reverse-engineer an antelope we find equally impressive evidence of design for precisely the opposite end: the survival of antelopes and starvation among cheetahs. It is as though cheetahs had been designed by one deity and antelopes by a rival deity. Alternatively, if there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? Is he trying to avoid overpopulation in the mammals of Africa? Is He maneuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

[...]

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must be so. If there is ever a time of plenty. this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." - Richard Dawkins

"Mathematics is a religion" - Kent Hovid (excellent example of creationist 'logic')

[SpitfireAce]

that third quote sounds like it's making a case for polytheism =), and I think it contradicts the fourth quote

[Astronuc]

"True friends are those, who when you make of fool of yourself, do not think that it is a permanent condition" - Irwin T. Randall

I wonder how many friends he had?

[LightbulbSun]

love maynard's lyrics :smile: and Robin Williams is one of the most brilliant comedians ever.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~
Lily Tomlin

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy

Maynard is pretty good when he doesn't get on his high horse about Buddhism or some other new age concept.


"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

[Poop-Loops]

"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

[LightbulbSun]

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

And I made a deliberate play on hers.

[moe darklight]

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

And I made a deliberate play on hers.

"Crutches are people for people who really can't cope with drugs." — Me

there. settled?

[Ivan Seeking]

Polls from last week in Pa.

Amongst hunters, Clinton 56, Obama, 31.
Gun owners, Clinton, 53; Obama, 28.
Bowlers, 54-to-33.
Beer drinkers, 44-to-44.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226233/page/6/

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Is it true that the French make better tea than the Brits?

We've gone to war for less than that. That's the equivalent of me saying is it true that Americans are all fat and patriotic hidebound idiots. :rofl:

Steady on!

Only the Chinese make better tea than the English and that's theoretical.

[Ivan Seeking]

We've gone to war for less than that.

Yeah, we noticed! :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Clinging to anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die - Mitch Albom

[Astronuc]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.

Well that's quotable in itself. :biggrin:

[Astronuc]

Concerning the US Presidential Election of 2008 -

The American electorate is faced with a trio running for office whose ability to self-destruct would be the envy of kamikaze pilots. - Bonnie Erbe, US News & World Report

[Ivan Seeking]

I started to realize that green jobs means blue jobs. Green technologies need welders, pipefitters, plumbers...

-- former steel worker living in the rust belt.

[Texag]

Sad that I havent seen any Groucho Marx!

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. "

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. "

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. "

-Groucho Marx

[Ivan Seeking]

Sometimes silence is golden, and sometimes it is just yellow. - a local church sign.

[Ivan Seeking]

Eleanor Clift: Rupert Murdoch predicts a landslide this November.

Pat Buchanan: When was the last time that you quoted Rupert Murdoch?

[bassplayer142]

Money can't buy life. ~ Bob Marley spoken on his death bed to his son (Ziggy I think)

[Holocene]

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823.

[Ivan Seeking]

This is a five-hundred year flood plain. This isn't supposed to happen
- reporter standing in the flood waters in Iowa.

Technically, I think they have floods on 500 year flood plains about, oh, every 500 years?

We live just above a 500 year flood plain, and we have seen two floods in twenty years. My how time passes!

[force_air_1]

'Impossible is almost always not impossible'

[Ivan Seeking]

The future is ours, not to predict, but to create
- Al Gore

[Ivan Seeking]

Note quite a quote, but worthy of mention:

There was shock and awe when it was discovered that FEMA recently gave away to other groups, $85 million in supplies intended for Katrina victims, when there was still a great need for the supplies! As CNN was running this story, they were showing some of the supplies. One of the items shown was a fire extinguisher.

Okay, it is perfectly reasonable, but the notion of handing out fire extinguishers to flood victims is too funny!

[Ivan Seeking]

Here are three things to remember about old age:

Never pass up a bathroom
Never waste a hard-on
Never trust a fart

Jack Nicholson - The Bucket List

[September]

" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"

[Ivan Seeking]

We didn't think Dick would turn out this way
-Friends of Dick Cheney in Wyoming [according to the governer.]

[WardenOfTheMint]

'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?

[Ivan Seeking]

'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?

It is actually to "Speak softly", and it refers to Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy. It means ~ to act with caution and reserve, but be prepared to use extreme [military] force.

[Ivan Seeking]

Hitler was fun at parties and great with kids
- George Carlin

[GeorginaS]

I haven't read through this thread to see if this has been mentioned before. Wilde is astoundingly quotable in my world.

Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

Oscar Wilde, dying in a Paris bedroom

[Ivan Seeking]

'Free Tibet' flags made in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7370903.stm

[TheStatutoryApe]

" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"

I remember this, and I liked it, but I can't remember where it's from.

[TheStatutoryApe]

http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=8391955302

It seems there is alot of discussion on it's origins. Interesting. And now that I think about it I may have heard it in "The Fountain" but I'm still unsure.

[Astronuc]

I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. ... Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. Woodie Gurthrie

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/07/14

[neu]

"drink coke" - Coca-cola company

[Ivan Seeking]

The US consumes about 10,000 gallons of [crude] oil per second. - CNN report.

[Ivan Seeking]

Never cook bacon when you're naked - Ed Slott

[nbk]

An acrostic poem by Lewis Carroll...

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden dream
Life, what is it but a dream?

It was believed Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a girl name Alice Pleasance Liddell. If you take the first letter of every line to form words, it makes her name exactly. Though this poem was not a part of Alice in Wonderland. It was found at the end of Through the Looking-Glass... Never a doubt in my mind that Lewis Carroll was one of the best poets of all time.

[FrancisZ]

"Be ashamed to die, until you have won some victory for humanity"--Horace Mann

[Helios]

"Freedom of speech means you have the right to yell MOVIE in a crowded fire station." --Abbie Hoffman

[Oberst Villa]

"Our country doesn't need your fireworks. Or maybe you're making rockets for an attempt on the life of our leader ?"

Unknown NKVD interrogator, talking to Sergei Korolev in 1938. In 1957, Korolev became father of the Sputnik.

[Ivan Seeking]

"They are called missiles, not hittiles. That's why we shoot two of them"
--- F-15 Pilot

[Oberst Villa]

"They are called missiles, not hittiles. That's why we shoot two of them"
--- F-15 Pilot

:rofl:

Can't resist a little smartass remark: The British actually called one of them a "Hittile" (the Rapier , surface-to-air). Normal anti-aircraft missiles use a proximity fuse and a big-as-can-be warhead to bring an aircraft down even with a near miss. But the Rapier's designers (initially) equipped it only with an impact fuse and a small warhead, because they were so confident in its ability to actually HIT the target - hence the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapier_missile <= (I know that "Rapier_missile" makes it look as if I'm talking nonsense, but look at the page, the Mk1 was actually called "Hittile". Honestly ! :smile: )

[Andre]

I know that story too, Oberst, anyway, seen on another forum:

"You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary."
--- Abel Aganbegyan, economist, 1987


"I tend to disagree with that"
--- Zombie

[Ivan Seeking]

What do you have when you take the greed out of Wall Street?
...
...
Pavement
- Robert Reich, Former Sec of Labor [D]

[Astronuc]

To be with the one who cares for you,
who understands every fibre of your being,
and who would not abandon you in even the most desperate of circumstances,
that is the most precious relationship a person can have,
and it is a treasure to cherish.

Rephrased from a passage in Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

[Astronuc]

"When one teaches, two learn." Robert Half

"When one teaches others, one also learns" rephrased of a quote by David Lodge, and probably observed by K'ung Fu Tzu

[FrancisZ]

"Talkative tailors yarn on till the end of twine."--Anonymous.

[jimmy.neutron]

"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons!" - Vic Deakins (John Travolta) in Broken Arrow

[kasse]

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church


Unknown

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours


Stephen Roberts

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend

Richard Jeni

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes

Gene Roddenberry

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.

Carl Sagan

[Phrak]

"Mother, where are my shoes?" -A. Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

"I don't lie awake at night worrying that I might lose. I lie awake worrying that I might win" - Barack Obama

[B. Elliott]

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
- Hunter S. Thompson

:rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Fair Trade:

"The Chinese sell us poison toys and tainted food, and we sell them toxic securities"
- Paul Krugman

[Ivan Seeking]

"The Dow is like riding a roller coaster, but you vomit your money" - Colbert

[LightbulbSun]

Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos."

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless."

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true."





Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

[DaveC426913]

...and all of those are your favourites? :uhh:

[LightbulbSun]

...and all of those are your favourites? :uhh:

Yes. It's hard to decide.

[Redbelly98]

3 quotes that go together, all from U.S. presidents:

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light”
-- George Washington

It is closer to the truth to believe nothing than to believe what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson (paraphrased)

"We know Saddam has these weapons."
-- George W. Bush

[Ivan Seeking]

"'Drill baby drill'? I don't like having my teeth drilled. And I don't like baby dentists!" - SNL

[Ivan Seeking]

"Party boobytrap" is a palindrome. - an observation by BobG

Palinode
noun: A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem

[turbo-1]

"The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me." Chris Buckley

[hagopbul]

you die hero ,or you live long enough to become the felon

or the venal

[Ivan Seeking]

On my block, a lot of people walk their dogs, and I always see them walking
along with their little poop bags, which to me is just the lowest function of
human life. If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're gonna think
the dogs are the leaders. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a
poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume was in charge?
- Seinfeld

[Ivan Seeking]

You know, I played high school football for four years, and this is the first time that I've been on the field
---Sen. Lindsey Graham; speaking from a high school football field.

[Redbelly98]

"Party boobytrap" is a palindrome. - an observation by BobG


Excuse me. Did you say Palin-drome?

[OmCheeto]

We still don't believe in evolution....... Except in your case.
a christian acquaintance of mine

[Ivan Seeking]

The practice of registering dead people to vote:

"Representation without respiration" - Mayor Daley, of Chicago

[lisab]

a christian acquaintance of mine

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

[Ivan Seeking]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

When I was about twenty years of age, I went through a real religious phase that included a revisitation of my Catholicism. Having never approached Catholicism as an adult, I went to a priest to discuss some of my concerns. Before the evening was over, he accused me of going there to trick him. :rofl:

I figured that if I managed to rattle a priest, at least they must be good questions. :biggrin:

[DaveC426913]

I went to a priest to discuss some of my concerns. Before the evening was over, he accused me of going there to trick him. :rofl:
This doesn't surprise me. Nothing personal to you but I'll bet a lot of non-practicing people go to priests with a hidden agenda - hidden even from themselves. They probably genuinely think they're there to be open-minded, but they end up arguing their own beliefs and "taking easy shots" at religion. Priests probably look like slow-moving captive targets for such discourse. I'll bet people get quite accusatory in fact.

I'm not suggesting you were doing this, but I imagine you're not the first person to walk into that priest's church with questions.

[rootX]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

Mine said we all going to hell (including herself).

[OmCheeto]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

Do you remember what I said my brother said?


I've volunteered to go to hell, to comfort the suffering.


He's a devout atheist, much to the chagrin of my devout sister.
I was going to recommend to my brothers husband that he take up pastafarianism.
At least he'd be a deist.

[JasonRox]

All the naughty girls are in hell. All the virgins are in heaven.

Looks like I'm going to hell.

[NeoDevin]

I've gotta side with Jason on this one, it's a no brainer.

[Ivan Seeking]

US President Lyndon B Johnson was known to possess a forceful personality that helped him get what he wanted. One morning, being anxious to discuss some issue with a US Senator [IIRC], Johnson called him at home at 5 AM and asked what he was doing.

"Oh, nothing Mr. President. I was just lying here hoping that you would call", he responded.

[phyzmatix]

Don't do anything you can't undo unless you know what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb (quoted from one of her books)

[sigh]

"life is like a box of chocolates"
outa the movie forest gump

Funny how i dont seem to like chocolate at the mo...
(woop woop 1st post)

[Ivan Seeking]

"No matter what happens on November 4th, there won't be any black people at work on November 5th." - Chris Rock

[Ivan Seeking]

During Reagan's last day as President, Tim Russert asked him if it helped being an actor.
Reagan replied: "I dont think anyone could do this job if they weren't an actor".
-- as told by Paul Begala

[OmCheeto]

"No matter what happens on November 4th, there won't be any black people at work on November 5th." - Chris Rock

:rofl:

I'll put that on my vacation schedule calendar tomorrow.

Poor old 55 year old kid never takes a day off.........

Calvin! You get a day off!
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Please don't ixnay this post. Calvin will get a kick out of it. I hope. Tuesday of course will tell......

[Ivan Seeking]

JIM LEHRER: How do you read it, David, the Obama campaign?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, it has been a smoothly run campaign. The thing that strikes me about the campaign is how nice it is. I mean, they're not always accessible, especially with the candidate, but they are nice people.

MARK SHIELDS: They are nice.

DAVID BROOKS: When, in our business, you write something negative about a campaign, and you get a call often the next day, and they tell you you're a complete idiot.

With the Obama campaign, they'll call you up and they'll say, "You know, David, we love you. You're a great guy. We really respect your work. It's so sad that you're a complete idiot."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec08/sbelection_10-31.html

Another interesting one that I caught tonight. Apparently this is a common saying among [water impoverished] cattle ranchers in Montana.

Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting!

[flying fish]

"It IS a take-home test. Once I grade it and give it back, you can take it home"

- One of my Physics Professors.

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs."

- Mitch Hedberg

[Ivan Seeking]

I am Joe the cellist - Yo-Yo Ma

[Ivan Seeking]

There is no Republican Party. It has been crushed.
- Ed Rollins; Republican political strategist

[OmCheeto]

“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”


My local radio stations response to Obama's xmas puppy comment.

[OmCheeto]

Vote for a Senator with convictions!


Norman Ornstein's slogan for Ted Stevens
C-Span
Live
7:44 am

[needlesstosay]

"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time" - Danny Vinyard off American History X

[Ivan Seeking]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/06/subs/06_a04.html

[OmCheeto]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/06/subs/06_a04.html


Barack Obama is proof that no matter how successful a black man you are, you still live in government housing.

Or should that go in the favorite/worst jokes section?

[jimmysnyder]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
As a (public) servant.

[Ivan Seeking]

Jay Leno to Senator McCain: How are you sleeping this week?

McCain: I'm sleeping like a baby! I sleep two hours, then I wake up and cry; sleep two hours...

[Ivan Seeking]

When it is darkest, the stars shine brightly
- Jesse Jackson on Obama.

[dyosa]

A line of Gandalf Greyhem to Saruman the Wise in Lord of the Rings ' Tell me, when did Saruman abandon reason for madness?':tongue2:

[Ivan Seeking]

Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful
- Warren Buffett

[sigh]

Common sense is not so common.

[sigh]

A high IQ can never make up for a lack of commen sence.

[Ivan Seeking]

Twenty-five percent of those exonerated by DNA evidence had confessed to a crime that they did not commit
-Jami Floyd; Defense attorney

[DaveC426913]

In the spirit of Monty Python's "You are all individuals!", "(I'm not.)", I give you something that my friend said to me the other day, while we were moving a dresser of drawers:

"All the drawers are different sizes, except the last one." :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1936

[jimmysnyder]

I hope this hasn't already been posted.

Are we there yet?

[Ivan Seeking]

On the average, married men claim that about five hours are dedicated to sexual activities each week - thirty minutes of actual sex, and four hours and thirty minutes of begging. - a Jewish Rabbi [name unknown]

A Christian minister has been urging the married couples in his congregation to make love every night for a week. The Rabbi said that Jews would do this too, but it gets in the way of their suffering.

[Astronuc]

My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people in her head, flattered by my father's attention, confused and alone, trying to break out of the grip of her own parents' lives. The innocence she carried that day, waiting for my father, had been tinged with misconceptions, her own needs. But it was a guileless need, one without self-consciousness, and perhaps that's how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we're lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer. Barack Obama reflecting on his mother in his book, "Dreams of My Father".

I find Obama to be exceptionally introspective as well as insightful.

[Eezekiel]

"great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
A.einstein

[neu]

Put it in the curry.

Spike Milligan et al

[Redbelly98]

I used to have a book of fake quotes, this was one of my favorites:

"And how did I do?"
-- Dan Quayle, election night 1992

[Astronuc]

We aren't the consumers of democracy, we are the proprietors, . . . . Raj Patel

I would have used the word stewards instead of proprietors, or both, as in

We are the proprietors and stewards of democracy.

[Quincy]

"I have no special talent. I was just passionately curious." -- Albert Einstein - the most modest quote I've ever heard in my life; no surprise, it's from Einstein.

[Ivan Seeking]

Welcome to my hanging
GW Bush






- at his portrait hanging.

[Astronuc]

What is family? Is it just a genetic chain, parents and offspring, people like me? Or is it a social construct, and economic unit, optimal for child rearing and divisions of labor? OR is it something else entirely: a store of shared memories, say? An ambit of love? A reach across the void?

I could list various possibilities. But I'd never arrived at a definite answer, aware early on that, given my circumstances, such an effort was bound to fail. Instead, I drew a series of circles around myself with borders that shifted as time passed and faced changed but that nevertheless offere the illusion of control. An inner circle, where love was constant and claims unquestioned. Then a second circle, a realm of negotiated love, commitments freely chosen. And then a circle for colleagues, acquaintances; the cheerful grey-haired lady who rang up groceries back in Chicago. Until the circle finally widened to embrace a nation or a race, or a particular moral course, and the commitments were no longer tied to a face or a name but were actually commitments I'd made to myself. Good book, which I highly recommend.

I'm now reading "The Audacity of Hope".

I think Obama is the right man for the job, particularly at this time. Seems he's already pissed off the far left. :biggrin:

[OmCheeto]

Good book, which I highly recommend.

I'm now reading "The Audacity of Hope".

I think Obama is the right man for the job, particularly at this time. Seems he's already pissed off the far left. :biggrin:


If he(Obama) just sits on his hands for the next four years, he'll do much better than G.W.

sorry.......
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but I really do hate GW
Hey!
I'm a Veteran!
I didn't spend 6 years of my life defending our right to free speech such that I couldn't say I hated my president at least once!
God let this be the last time.........

[Ivan Seeking]

Blagojevich gives idiots a bad name
- CNN panel discussion.

[Astronuc]

Obama on liberty and values

As its most elemental level, we understand our liberty in a negative sense. As a general rule we believe in the right to be left alone, and are suspicious of those - whether Big Brother or nosy neighbors - who want to meddle in our business. But we understand our libery in a positive sense as well, in the idea of opportunity and subsidiary values that help realize opportunity - all those homespun virtues that Benjamin Franklin first popularized in Poor Richard's Almanack and that have continued to inspire allegiance through successive generations. The values of self-reliance and self-improvement and risk-taking. The values of drive, discipline, temperance, and hard work. The values of thrift and personal responsibility.

These values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will - a confidence that through pluck and sweat and smarts, each of us can rise above the circumstance of our birth. But these values also express a broader confidence that so long as individual men and women are free to purusue their own interests, society as a whole will prosper. Our system of self-government and our free-market economy depend on the majority of individual Americans adhering to these values. The legitimacy of our government and our economy depend on the degree to which these values are rewarded, which is why the values of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination complement rather than imping on our liberty.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communial values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. We value the imperatives of family and the cors-generational obligations that family implies. We value community , the neighborliness that expresses itself through raising the barn or coaching the soccer team. We value patriotism and the obligations of citizenship, a sense of duty and sacrifice on behalf of our nation. We value a faith in something bigger than ourselves, whether that something expressess itself in formal religion or ethical precepts. And we value the constellation of behaviors that express our mutual regard for one another: honesty, fairness, humility, kindness, courtesy and compassion.

In every society (and in evey individual), these twin strands - the individualistic and the communal, autonomy and solidarity - are in tension, and it has been on of the blessings of America that the circumstances of our nation's birth allowed us to negotiate these tensions better than most. We did not have to go through any of the violent upheavals that Europe was forced to endure as it shed its fuedal past. Our passage was eased by teh sheer size of the continent, vast tracts of land and abundant resources that allowed new immigrants to continually remake themselves.

But we cannot avoid these tensions entirely. At times our values collide because in the hands of men each one is subject to distortion and excess. Self-reliance and independence can transform into selfishness and license, ambition into greed and a frantic desire to succeed at any cost. More than once in our history we've seen patriotism slide into jingoism, xenophobia, the stifling of dissent; we've seen faith calcify into self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and cruelty toward others. Even the impulse toward charity can drift into a stifling parternalism, an unwillingness to acknowledge the ability of other to do for themselves.

When this happens - when liberty is cited in the defense of a company's decision to dump toxins in our rivers, or wehn our collective interest in building an upscale new mall is used to justify destruction of somebody's home - we depend on the strength of countervailing values to temper our judgement and hold such excesses in check.

Sometimes finding the right balance is relatively easy. We all agree, for instance, that society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others. . . . .

More often, though, finding the right balance between our competing values id difficult. Tensions arise not because we have steered a wrong course, but simply because we live in a complex and contradictory world. . . . But I acknowledge that even the wisest president and most prudent Congress would struggle to balance the critical demands of our collective security against the equally compelling need to uphold civil liberties. . . . . His thoughts seem generally consistent with mine. I'd love to have a chat over a few beers with him some afternoon. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Here is a curveball for the right

Nothing will stamp out gay sex faster than gay marriage - a comment made by an unnamed person on CNN.

[Astronuc]

Shake the dust from you sandals: Disappointment without Cynicism
From Jacob's Shadow, by Rev. Herbert Anderson

Sometimes, we get trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of setbacks that turn life sour. The chief energy of the soul is not disappointment or sadness but pretense and cynicism.

Mix of paraphrase and quote from Jacob's Shadow:

When disappointments are not resolved, they fester and foster a negative attitude about life that tilts toward cynicism. If the personal return on our emotional investment in the company, one's marriage, one's social or collegial group, is not enough, the temptation is to withdraw, shutdown, declare it was a dumb idea in the first place, pledge not to do it again, and risk becoming cynical. When one concludes that nobody really cares, nothing matters, people cannot be trusted, change is not possible, and no matter how hard one tries, things are not likely to get better, then disappointment transforms into cynicism.

When one is disappointed or things don't go as intended or expected, let it go.

Once one has named the pain and grieved the loss, one needs to let go in order to dream again and move toward a new future.

It may not be easy to lose or let go, for "giving it up" seems like defeat. But "letting it go" or "giving it up" is the only healing option.

Disappointment will not go away on its own accord. One simply needs to grieve the loss and let it go, and renew the dreams and expectations of a better future.

[moe darklight]

Here is a curveball for the right

"Nothing will stamp out gay sex faster than gay marriage"

- a comment made by an unnamed person on CNN.

:rofl: I'm so stealing that.

*yoink!*

Here's one from some comedian I saw on TV:

A friend is someone who will help you move.
A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

[jobyts]

"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself." ―conservative columnist Kathleen Parker

[lonton]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
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Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
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làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
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Em không thèm mua kem
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Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Translation?

[Ivan Seeking]

Luke: Alright, I'll try.

Yoda: NO! Do, or do not. There is no try.

[Math Jeans]

"Would you believe that this amazing sentence contains ninety two letters, one comma and a single question mark?"

-Not sure

[baywax]

The trick to money is having some.

Stuart Wilde

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it. :uhh:

[Ivan Seeking]

Birds are like teenagers: They look for a place to eat; a place to hangout; a place to reproduce.

- aviation expert talking about birds

[Red Rum]

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

- Brendan Behan

[OmCheeto]

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it. :uhh:

That makes about as much sense as something my mother used to say:


Die hexe mit die besenstiel
hott die kinder viel zu viel
viel zu viel ist ungesund
meine mutter ist schweinehund


translation:

The witch with the broomstick
hit the children much too much
much too much is unhealthy
my mother is a pigdog

hmmm.... I think the Vietnamese might be runners up in the oddball game, right behind the Germans.

I mean really. Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen. :redface:

[Ivan Seeking]

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen. :redface:

Strange and disturbing images enter my mind! Too much information!!! :yuck:

[Red Rum]

Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?


The Swiss?

[baywax]

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)

(thought this fit with the wearing leather banter!)

edit:

Had to get this one on as well.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Same author.

[Ivan Seeking]

Just because you have the legal right to withhold information, doesn't mean you should... For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

[OmCheeto]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

Wow. It's no wonder the right wing was afraid of him: openness, pay freezes for the senior white house staff, public servants actually serving the public interest, tighter restrictions on lobbyists. I think I like my new president.

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
---- Thomas Jefferson

[Ivan Seeking]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

[Mit-chan]

Talk to the hand, 'cause the face is on vacation. :bugeye:

[DaveC426913]

"I'm getting downsized."
- DaveC426913 Jan 27 2009

Oh wait. That's not a favourite quote, that's just my day so far.

[Gokul43201]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"Priceless!

Did that really happen?

Edit: Looks like it did - skip to about 7 minutes in.

mbs8uw22DKM

[OmCheeto]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

:rofl: O...M...G... :rofl:



Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

If I had been watching from the treadmill, where I’m usually watching, I would have fallen off...

[Ivan Seeking]

Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

I didn't realize that Obama had a senate seat on Good Morning America.

[Dadface]

A college professor is someone who talks in other peoples sleep......Bergen Evans
Eating food with a knife and fork is like making love through an interpreter....Anon
Obesity is a fat accompli.......................................... ...............Len Elliott

[baywax]

Author John Updike, dies today at 76.

"I am very prone to accept all that the scientists tell us, the truth of it, the authority of the efforts of all the men and woman spent trying to understand more about atoms and molecules. But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it. Carpe diem (seize the day), and tough luck.' "

[Ivan Seeking]

Question: Have you ever thought of running for President?
Dolly Parton: We've had enough boobs in the White House.

[Astronuc]

One of the cheapest forms of entertainment is watching other people.

Someone in the local region talking about local economics.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ If Rush [Limbaugh] wants Obama to fail, then he wants America to fail. So Rush and Bin Laden are on the same page. - Bill Maher

[Ivan Seeking]

~ It doesn't matter if it [the stimulus package] works. Economists, once we come out of this, will argue forever what did it; or this did it, or this did it... The Republicans opposed FDR to a man, and five decades later they finally came back in Congress.
- Sam Donaldson

[Ivan Seeking]

Obama vs Bush? The difference is like black and white.

[Red Rum]

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

[WhoWee]

Has to be Chris Matthews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9Gbb6NSwM

[baywax]

"I love this country..."

(President Obama on Canada.)

[Astronuc]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there

[turbo-1]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals thereYes. There are some pretty pricey properties on that old Pease base, and I'm sure he didn't get a dime for himself.

[Ivan Seeking]

... Republicans now are as close to irrelevant in Washington as we've been. We're kind of like eunuchs invited to a wild party at the Playboy mansion, you know. We get to watch, we have very detailed opinions about everything, but we're not participating...

Mike Murphy - Republican Strategist
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29453052/page/3/

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh Lord, give me sobriety, but not yet - the drunk's prayer.

[Ivan Seeking]

THE LEHMAN BROTHERS
GUIDE TO EXOTIC CREDIT DERIVATIVES
http://www.investinginbonds.com/assets/files/LehmanExoticCredDerivs.pdf

[Ivan Seeking]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

[lisab]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

Woo-Hoo!!!

[tux204]

"I have mountains and valleys and rivers and oceans of questions about that, but now is not the time."

[Ivan Seeking]

Woo-Hoo!!!

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

[WhoWee]

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

Unless you actually have a job...and voted for Obama...(opps, wait - you said "a dime" - my mistake).

[Brilliant!]

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

-- Ayn Rand

In fact, many of my favorite quotes can be found within the pages of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't know if the New Deal was responsible for ending the depression or not, but what I do remember is that after Roosevelt took action, people had enough food to eat - my father-in-law

[Brilliant!]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

[OmCheeto]

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

Coincidence? Or did FDR's father tell him about the French Revolution, and the consequences of people not having their brioche?

Hey! Wait a minute... This is quotesville. Why are we arguing politics?


for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always

which I always mangle into


Do not ask how anyone can be so, for the stupid will always be with us.

[Astronuc]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food. Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

[Ivan Seeking]

Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

What's more, this is not a thread for debate.

[Brilliant!]

I was only commenting on your quote like so many in this thread have done of others. My apologies for forgetting the standard emoticon :smile:

[Oscar Wilde]

From Martin Heidegger,

"The possible ranks higher than the actual"

And from Friedrich Nietzsche, and Master/Slave Morality

"All rare things for the rare"

[baywax]

More favorites:

"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability".

Murray Gell-Mann

"A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability".

Earl Blumenauer

Couldn't resist this one:

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again".

B. F. Skinner (of the box)

[Ivan Seeking]

When people in other countries get mad, they have riots and protests. Here in the US, we send emails typed in capital letters. - John Stewart

[Wellesley]

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Something I wish our politicians would follow more....

[Redbelly98]

90% of the referees are great. And the other 10% ... do all our games.

Geno Auriemma
Head Coach, Univ. of Connecticut womens' basketaball

[IamWhatIam]

Thanks for great ones..Here are a few

Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

Philosophy begins with wonder - Socratese

Luxury is artifical poverty,Contentment is natural wealth - Socratese

A signboard infront of an office- "We are a non-proft organization. We did not mean to be, but we Are"

A priest sees a robber in the night at his home. He decides to shoot the robber saying-- "I do not intend to kill thee, but thou art standing where I am about to shoot" :-)

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:

[Astronuc]

"But there is a wider set of issues: this financial crisis has gone to the heart of how you create a good economy and a good society.

"We believe in markets. We also know that our success as a market economy - and indeed the operation of the market itself - depends upon upholding values which the market alone cannot generate.

"Successful market economies need trust which can only be built through shared values.

"My values, the values of the country, celebrate hard work, effort, enterprise and responsible risk taking - qualities that markets need to ensure that the rewards that flow are seen to be fair." Gordon Brown urging global markets to abide by a system of "morals", including "responsible risk-taking" and a "work ethic".

[baywax]

"Giggity giggity goo".

Quagmire

[IamWhatIam]

For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:


:shy: LOL, yeah that was cool

Here are few more

"Math and alcohol do not mix, so don't drink and derive"

"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit"

‘The kind of humor I like is that which makes me smile for five seconds
and think for ten minutes.’


‘I just got the bill for my operation.Now I know why those guys wear masks.’

[IamWhatIam]

Excellent ! as always! :smile:

(That's the style I 'd like to hear)

:tongue2: I'm glad you liked'em

--Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they're going to heaven somehow make me glad that we're going in separate directions. :wink:

[Focus]

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
-John von Neumann

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith, it is something entirely dierent.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
-Robert Silensky

[jobyts]

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. - George Bernard Shaw

[Ivan Seeking]

It feels really great to work with an American president who wants to change the world
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy

[Ivan Seeking]

~ Some financial institutions have been compared to casinos, but that does a disservice to casinos! When you go to cash your chips in at a casino, they have the money to back them up. When you go to cash in a credit default swap, the money isn't there. - Fareed Zakaria

[Ivan Seeking]

There is nothing like a ballistic missile to take your mind off of Wall Street bonuses. - George Will

[Ivan Seeking]

When President Obama was elected, a Turkish paper reported that one county sacrificed 44 sheep in his honor.
- Jessica Yellin
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/06/ec.01.html

Never let it be said that Obama is soft on sheep.

[Astronuc]

Neutron Transport Equation (Boltzmann) :biggrin:

\frac{1}{v}\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial{t}}\,+\,\O mega\cdot\nabla\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,+\,\Sigma_t(r,E )\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,=\,\frac{1}{4\pi}S_f(r,E,t)\, +\,\\
\int_{\Omega'}\int_{E'}\Sigma_s(r,{E'\rightarrow{E }},\Omega'\rightarrow\Omega)\phi(r,E',\Omega',t)dE 'd\Omega'

The study of the neutron transport equation is a delicate blend of theoretical mathematics,
numerical methods and computational strategies describing the interaction of neutrons and nuclei. American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division [RPD]
http://rpd.ans.org/

[Dadface]

THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?

[jimmysnyder]

THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?
More famously at IBM under founder Thomas J.Watson.
Think (http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2024.html)
Ernest Ruthorford said:
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
Thinkexist (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we-haven-t-got-the-money-so-we-ve-got-to-think/408460.html)

As for short quotes, there is a story told sometimes of Oscar Wilde, sometimes of Victor Hugo, that the author sent a telegram to his publisher asking about the sales of a new book. The telegram consisted of just an question mark. In response the publisher replied that sales were enthusiastic in a telegram that consisted of just an exclamation point.

[Ivan Seeking]

Guns don't kill people, peanut butter does
- position of Congress, according to Mark Shields

[sas3]

Epicurus quote
Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

[Ivan Seeking]

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. - unknown

[Ivan Seeking]

If you prick me, do I not...leak?
- Data

[NeoDevin]

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not real, he becomes furious when they are disputed.
A brilliant man.

[Ivan Seeking]

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell,

[NeoDevin]

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.-- Bertrand Russell,

Agreed.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ Now you understand that I have to charge you as much as I can. That way you know I'll still be here in twenty years if you need me.
- A roofing contractor making a bid for us

I had to laugh at that one. He wants me to think it is in my interest that he makes as much money as possible, from me. :rofl:

I think he gets an A for creativity!

[Astronuc]

And what if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about? bumper sticker

[Ivan Seeking]

And what if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?

For many years it was, but ever since I hit middle age...

[Ivan Seeking]

In order to protest wasteful spending, TEA party activists purchased a million tea bags.
- John Stewart

[DuncanM]

" . . . I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: ..."

-- Thomas Jefferson

[baywax]

"I don't even know what street Canada is on".
- Al Capone

[hagopbul]

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.
V for Vendetta (comics)

V: Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

v for vendetta (film)

Remember, Remember
The fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

v for vendetta (film)

[Astronuc]

This may have been posted before, perhaps in some form.

Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Today's Message of the Day is:

Life is short,
Break the rules,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile.

Life may not to be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we should dance! Anonymous

[Ivan Seeking]

"We're also actively monitoring travelers at our land, sea, and air ports. We're watching them for signs of illness, and we have appropriate protocols in place to deal with those who are sick. Anyone exhibiting symptoms is being referred to an isolation room where they can be evaluated by a public health official before proceeding to their destruction."
- a whoops by the dhs

[Ivan Seeking]

The oil and natural gas industries will create well-paying jobs
- from a commercial for the oil and natural gas industries

[Oscar Wilde]

A quote with no politcal undertones:

"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men"

From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Wonka himself has many brilliant one-liners

[Ivan Seeking]

Most human beings associate sex with love; except for men
- Roseanne Barr

[Astronuc]

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
Dust tracks on a road, 1942
Zora Neale Hurston

http://www.zoranealehurston.com/

The quote is care of Mae Jemison in her TED talk care of Cyrus in his TED thread.
6Vy0ncmUvUw&feature=channel_page

[Ivan Seeking]

During my second one-hundered days in office, we will design, build, and commemorate a library dedicated to my first one-hundred days in office
- Barack Obama

[Ivan Seeking]

I thought this was a classic bit of double-talk from President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.


MR. GREGORY: ... But I wonder why you're continuing to add to your stockpile, add to your arsenal at what is described as a pretty fast rate when there's so much instability in the country?

MR. ZARDARI: That's, that's, that's not a fact. It's a, it's a position that some people have taken. We, we're not adding to our stockpile as such. Why do we need more?

MR. GREGORY: So you're not adding to your nuclear arsenal at all?

MR. ZARDARI: I don't think so, no.

MR. GREGORY: You don't--do you know?

MR. ZARDARI: Even if I did, I wasn't going to tell you.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30658135//

[DaveC426913]

I thought this was a classic bit of double-talk from President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.
You sure that wasn't Peter Sellers talking to the Russian President (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)? :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

You sure that wasn't Peter Sellers talking to the Russian President (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)? :biggrin:

CHENEY: If we had been about torture, we wouldn't have wasted our time going to the Justice Department.

SCHIEFFER: How much did President Bush know specifically about the methods that were being used? We know that you-- and you have said-- that you approved this...

CHENEY: Right.

SCHIEFFER: ... somewhere down the line. Did President Bush know everything you knew?

CHENEY: I certainly, yes, have every reason to believe he knew -- he knew a great deal about the program. He basically authorized it. I mean, this was a presidential-level decision. And the decision went to the president. He signed off on it...
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_051009.pdf

I thought that was an interesting moment.

[Astronuc]

In the end, the government's job -- it seems to me -- in any country, is to make sure the economy works in the interest of the majority and not the minority. And it's to make sure that if people have aspirations and abilities and aptitudes, they're given the opportunity to realize their own aspirations to progress. Alan Milburn, MP, UK

[Ivan Seeking]

What's a newspaper? Never mind; I'll go online and look it up.
- CNN Viewer; The Cafferty File

[Ivan Seeking]

...PAUL SOLMAN: Andrews applied for, and got, a no-ratio loan, in which his $2,500 monthly payments would consume nearly all his take-home pay.

No-ratio?

EDMUND ANDREWS: A no-ratio mortgage in which literally I left the income space blank.

PAUL SOLMAN: Therefore, there would be no ratio.

EDMUND ANDREWS: Correct, yes, because there was an issue of my debt-to-income ratio. But if you don't have any income that you're declaring, you have no debt-to-income ratio. Problem solved. Even at the time, I'm going, "I can't believe this. Is this a great country or what?"...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/andrews_05-21.html

[Astronuc]

Economists have yet to figure out what combination of mass delusion and perverse incentives led banks to undertake so much leverage. N. GREGORY MANKIW from

Economic View - NYTimes
That Freshman Course Won’t Be Quite the Same
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/business/economy/24view.html


Interesting term he used for what banks and financial institutions do - financial intermediation.

[Ivan Seeking]

I wish people could live for hundreds of years. That way they would have to live with the consequences of their actions. The problem with the world is that everyone dies too soon.
- not sure who said it. It was a comment made on a show about the science of aging.

[Ivan Seeking]

Paraphrasing here:

As Catholic Father Alberto Cutie' announced that he was leaving the Catholic church, and joining the Epoiscopal Church, the news conference was interrupted by a lightning storm.
- CNN

[misgfool]

At the bus stop:

"If one could make a difference by voting, it would be illegal."

[Astronuc]

but, life is a process...

Ideals are never reached, but they give us a standard and a direction to guide our fumbling steps.

Democracy is based on respect. Not on respect for leaders, or flags, or classes, but for EACH OTHER. The whole basis of democracy is that all are equal and all are worthy. It has no meaning without that foundation.

And democracy REQUIRES an informed citizenry and open communication, or it cannot exist.

To communicate requires respect for the views of all.... Not necessarily agreement, but an openess.

yale - a friend

[Ivan Seeking]

No matter how high-tech an application may be, never leave home without duct tape
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

[DaveC426913]

Revenge is a dish best served upside the head.
- Mrs. DaveC426913, June 17, 2009

[lisab]

- Mrs. DaveC426913, June 17, 2009

:rofl:

She'd be a great PF sister!

[baywax]

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to
stay home and dye my eyebrows".

Andy Warhol

[Ivan Seeking]

In regards to the accusation that Obama is in bed with the press...

“A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning trying to figure exactly what to say. Finally, when I couldn’t get back to sleep, I rolled over and asked (NBC News anchor) Brian Williams what he thought,”
- Barack Obama

[Ivan Seeking]

Another Obamaism. What can I say? The guy is funny.

From a While House press conference.

Q Then I have a two-part question. (Laughter.) Is the public plan non-negotiable? And while I appreciate your Spock-like language about the logic of the health care plan... [half a paragraph follows]

THE PRESIDENT: I got you. You're pitching, I'm catching. I got the question. First of all, was the reference to Spock -- is that a crack on my ears? (Laughter.) All right, I just want to make sure. No?

Q I would never make fun of your ears, sir. (Laughter.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Conference-by-the-President-6-23-09/

[qntty]

"A witty saying proves nothing."
--Voltaire

[Ivan Seeking]

I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London
- Mort Sahl's name for the movie about Wernher von Braun, I Aim For The Stars.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/news/cmcmagazine/2008winter/mort_sahl.pdf

[Astronuc]

That’s the art of it, creating these beautiful little poems of thought, these sonnets of pure reason. Mathematician and math teacher Paul Lockhart on the art of mathematics.

[OmCheeto]

Another Obamaism. What can I say? The guy is funny.


That was the first news conference I've ever read.

I thought it was funny that it was mentioned that the reporters ask him about his smoking at least once a month.

The topic came up at our local smoking hot spot at work about a month after he was elected. One of the Russian emigre's made a comment about the topic:


I think it would be very very bad to tell the man with the biggest red button on the planet that he cannot have a cigarette when he is having a, how do you say it, a bad moment. I mean, it would be very very stupid.

[DaveC426913]

I think it would be very very bad to tell the man with the biggest red button on the planet that he cannot have a cigarette when he is having a, how do you say it, a bad moment. I mean, it would be very very stupid.:biggrin:

Does that Red button say 'EASY' on it?

[OmCheeto]

:biggrin:

Does that Red button say 'EASY' on it?

:rofl:

Nyet!

http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Staples/s0105150_sc7?$sku$

It says "Matra of all Tzar bombas, ne ja jeba Kim Jung............"

Ooops! Now I'm trying to quote mommy dearest in the worst broken Russo-Serbian I've ever uttered:

Don't foop with me fella's!

[Sorry!]

'life isn't fair, its just fairer than death.'

love this quote :D I forget who it was though

[bucher]

Dr. Seuss ones are my favorite:

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

"I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you"

I'm sure there's more.

[jobyts]

“Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use to first, shrink wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury” - Arundhati Roy

[Borek]

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry

[Ivan Seeking]

Semper ubi sub ubi

[DaveC426913]

Semper ubi sub ubi

This is the only thing Mrs. DB uses from her Latin class days!

[Ivan Seeking]

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov

[Ivan Seeking]

I want a genetically engineered cow that can... [poop] Happy Meals
- Jon Stewart

[baywax]

"erm"

someone on PF

[baywax]

"Wish you were beer"

One of Bart Simpson's T-shirts

[Ivan Seeking]

The Hindenburg had a smoking room. There were little cups filled with water for the ashes. A crew member was assigned to be sure that not one ash fell on the floor - Antiques Roadshow

[Ivan Seeking]

If you go to a bar filled with archeologists, you might see a knock-down drag-out fight about whether one should us a triangular trowel, or a square trowel, at acheological dig sites. - The Time Team

[jobyts]

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.
- Bill Maher

[colonelcrayon]

10^50 is a long way from infinity.
- Daniel Shanks

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
- Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
- Larry Wall

Now if you had a milkshake and I had a milkshake and I had a straw, you see watch it. My straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!
- Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)

What I cannot create, I do not understand.
- Richard Feynman

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
- Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)

But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.
- Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22)

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
- Catch-22

I will tell you what I am talking about," he said. "Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it's your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
Now what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the you so that you won't abuse it.
- Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes.
- Najavo proverb

And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
- Milton (Office Space)

[Ivan Seeking]

Why don't they make Band-Aids for black people?
- Colbert

It never even occured to me before! He also pointed out that "flesh" colored crayons are really "caucasion" colored.

[turbo-1]

I have seen lots of flesh (as opposed to skin). Surprisingly, there is no discernible difference across races and species.

[Ivan Seeking]

Whoops! Good point. But the color of the crayon was still that of "typical" caucasian skin.

[turbo-1]

I must confess that I have never butchered a human (It's true!!), but once you get past the obvious gross differences, most mammals are pretty easy to figure out as you take them apart, and muscle tissue fed oxidants via hemoglobin looks pretty darned similar on fine scales, no matter where it came from.








(tastes like chicken)

[Ivan Seeking]

I must confess that I have never butchered a human (It's true!!)

That is nothing to be ashamed of...

(tastes like chicken)

On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.

Um, hey, are you gonna eat that?
- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit

[turbo-1]

That is nothing to be ashamed of...



On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.


- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena BobbitOoh! that last one was a zinger.

[DaveC426913]

On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.


Also: the other other white meat.

[GeorginaS]

Um, hey, are you gonna eat that?

- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit

I can't believe you said/wrote that.

[Borek]

I had to check Dehmer on wikipedia. Bobbit case was heard about even here.

[Ivan Seeking]

The manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel was rejected by eight publishers before finally being accepted. Only 1000 copies were printed on the first run with 500 copies destined for libraries. Each of those copies is now worth upwards of $50,000.
- Biography; The Harry Potter Kids

[*-<|:-D=<-<]

You spend way too much time at the computer.
- Everyone around me.

[ideasrule]

"A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world" -- Arthur C. Clarke

This nicely captures the spirit of scientific research.

[Redbelly98]

Here are a couple of fake quotes:

I'm not a knowledgeable person, but I play one on TV.
-- Alex Trabek

That's too bad. And how did I do?
-- Dan Quayle, election night 1992

[Ivan Seeking]

Imagine Jesus on Twitter

Today we will read the Tweet according to Luke.

[Ivan Seeking]

Economic forecasting makes weather forecasting look like physics
- Ben Bernanke

[baywax]

There are no experts on China.

Dr. Romie F. Littrell

[Ivan Seeking]

A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom
- Dan Rather

[Ivan Seeking]

The best [most effective] way to reduce your carbon footprint is to not reproduce
- the latest study released by the EPA [~today]

[Ivan Seeking]

Journalist Cokie Roberts, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, commenting on the people who are intentionally disrupting town hall meetings with lies and false accusations about health care reform:

Roberts: We need more nuns.

Stephanopoulos: Why nuns?

Roberts: No one raised by nuns would act like that.

[Ivan Seeking]

Shhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell Obama what comes after "trillions"
- a buddy :rofl:

[jobyts]

Ted Kennedy's last words - "I killed Mary Jo."

someone's comment on cnn news.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/04/book-ted-kennedys-last-words/#comments

[Astronuc]

A week before he was killed during a commando raid that freed his colleague, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, from Taliban captors, the Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi wrote a post for the Times’s “At War” blog. His conclusion:
Being a journalist is not enough; it will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. I want to work for the education of the country, because the majority of people are illiterate. That is the main problem facing many Afghans. I am really committed to come back and work for my country. Ref: http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/sultan_munadi_rip.php

http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2341757

[drizzle]

speaking of learning a new language,

an inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

- David Hare

:biggrin: I like it

[baywax]

"History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes".
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

[Astronuc]

I believe every educated person should study physics. Why? Because it is interesting – the natural world is a remarkable and fascinating place; because it is liberating – the universe is not arbitrary, but rational and comprehensible; and because physics is unequivocally the most powerful and profound system of thought ever devised. Perhaps, after all, I do agree with my parents. My purpose is to teach students how to think, by exposing them to the most brilliant and successful example of human thought: physics. David Griffiths in Illuminating physics for students, PhysicWorld, Sept 2, 2009
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/40214

[CFDFEAGURU]

"You'd think I could predict the future" - my father.

and

"It ain't wrong but this will make it right" - not sure.

and from Point Break

"This the guy? Yeah. Ohh so this is where you tell me how locals rule and yuppie insects like me shouldn't be surfing the break and all that. Nope. That would be a waste of time. Were just going to f*** you up. Ohh."


Thanks
Matt

[baywax]

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,
but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Mark Twain

[Borek]

"Well educated person should know everything about something, and something about everything."

Sławomir Kalembka, Polish historian (died today)

[check_itjess]

hi newbie here...

"when there is great love there are always miracles" i just got this from a song hits...i know don't know who wrote this but i liked this quote...this one is one of my favorite quote.

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[rootX]

Wow, youtube has an infinite supply of retards.


a youtube video comment