Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[Ivan Seeking]

Somebodies' got to stand up to experts

- Don McLeroy, Former Texas State Board of Education Chairman, speaking out against teaching evolution as a fact.

I’ve always been a fan of reality by majority vote

- Colbert

 

[jobyts]

(PF gods need at least 4 letters in a post. Attachment bytes don't count :(.)

 

[Jasongreat]

There are 100 billion stars in the sky, that used to be an astronomical number, now it is the amount of our federal budget making it an economical number. - Richard Feynman(in around 1963, in his famous lectures, not an exact quote though) now it is closing in on being only the interest payment on our federal debt. Kind of kills looking at the night sky for me. :)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

There are 100 billion stars in the sky, that used to be an astronomical number, now it is the amount of our federal budget making it an economical number. - Richard Feynman(in around 1963, in his famous lectures, not an exact quote though) now it is closing in on being only the interest payment on our federal debt. Kind of kills looking at the night sky for me. :)

It's a good thing we don't use smaller units of currency. You might lose your zest for life altogether!

 

[DaveC426913]

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This is what I use:

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[Ivan Seeking]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2282/bohrhorseshoe.jpg

 

[Astronuc]

A Cherokee Legend

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

- Will Rogers

 

[Hobin]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

*puts on his conspiracy-theory-hat* But what if it does?! Congress is secretly disturbing the dead.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Making death worse is a matter for the Vatican.

 

[Borg]

A Cherokee Legend

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

Nice. Very true.

 

[stevenelson53]

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.”
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http://www.ezeeprinting.com/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"A pit bull is delicious."
- President Obama

Moral of the story: Our President is soooooo tough that he eats pit bulls for breakfast.

 

[jobyts]

"A pit bull is delicious."
- President Obama

Moral of the story: Our President is soooooo tough that he eats pit bulls for breakfast.

Sour grapes! Obama tried to eat Sarah Palin and didn't work out.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sour grapes! Obama tried to eat Sarah Palin and didn't work out.

It didn't?

 

[Borek]

A Cherokee Legend

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

I know the guy who made this page. World is much smaller than one may think.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

World is much smaller than one may think.

I believe that originates as a Disney legend, not Cherokee.

 

[lighting]

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

~ Segal's Law

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

~ Segal's Law

I like that!

 

[OmCheeto]

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I have often wondered why it is that the warriors see things more clearly than the peaceniks.

I suppose, they are more aware of the wolves.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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I have often wondered why it is that the warriors see things more clearly than the peaceniks.

I suppose, they are more aware of the wolves.

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

 

[0Thomas]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

 

[Hobin]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

Did you, by any chance, mean to post this in this thread?

 

[OmCheeto]

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

Perhaps, but I haven't thought logically since my brain damage, and cannot take responsibility for anything I've said over the last 10 months.

But I find the thoughts of many an old warrior, that I've seen over the past few years, to be way ahead of their time:

Two years before I was born:

One final thought I should like to leave with you. High-energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power. The tendency is for political power to be concentrated in an ever-smaller number of countries. Ultimately, the nation which control - the largest energy resources will become dominant. If we give thought to the problem of energy resources, if we act wisely and in time to conserve what we have and prepare well for necessary future changes, we shall insure this dominant position for our own country.

Two years after I was born:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

At least 12 years before I was born:

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

But then again, I suppose it's all about which basketball team you rooted for during your childhood.

 

[fletch-j]

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite!
- Paul Dirac

 

[Infinitum]

One man's meat is another man's poison.

 

[fletch-j]

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
- Werner Heisenberg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

... And Mitt Romney is criticizing the president. He said Obama should not politicize the death of Osama bin Laden. Mitt Romney made that announcement on the anniversary of bin Laden's death, standing next to Rudy Giuliani, in a fire station, in New York City, at 9:11 in the morning...

- Jay Leno

 

[Borg]

That's why this is one of my favorite quotes:

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

 

[davenn]

my fave is from the late Prof Richard Fyenman...

" It's the way nature is!
If you don't like it, go somewhere else...
To another universe, where the rules are simpler
Philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy"

Dave

 

[daveb]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote

 

[davenn]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote

This is from the musical "Man of La Mancha", not the original book by Cervantes.

 

[Borg]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave

It's much easier to search threads with Exploded view.

 

[payalarora833]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad .... By William Shakespeare

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad .... By William Shakespeare

Thy overflow of good converts to bad. It's in The Life and Death of Richard the Second. It refers to the bad child of a good parent.

 

[Whovian]

"And you are forgiven, always and completely forgiven."

Uttered by Matt Smith in Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat.

 

[Char. Limit]

"And out of Zion shall come forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Nation shall not raise sword against nation, and they shall not learn war anymore, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken."

- David 2:2

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.

I don't know about this mother/father stuff. Sounds risque to me. Oh, and there's the hypocrisy too.

 

[OmCheeto]

Just so are these preachers and scholars holding various views blind and unseeing... In their ignorance they are by nature quarrelsome, wrangling, and disputatious, each maintaining reality is thus and thus.

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carrying on...

 

[lisab]

If you get something for free, you aren't the consumer. You're the product.

--variations of this all over the innerwebs

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Big-time football has no business on college campuses because it is inherently corrupting. We have grafted a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry onto higher education. It is inherently discordant with the mission of the university. It is inherently corrupting. And you’re going to get this and elsewhere different forms of corruption, but always forms of corruption, because big-time football has no business on college campuses.

- George Will commenting on Penn State
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...ng-penn-state-football-is-a-really-dumb-idea/

 

[CowedbyWisdom]

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous."

-Captain Beefheart

 

[member 428835]

great minds think alike and so do ours

 

[romsofia]

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be
but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!"
- Bob Marley

 

[FizixFreak]

"guess what chicken butt"
From The Family Guy

 

[Whovian]

\ \ \ \"'Nice knowing you, Becky,' Drake said to the Styx twin as they left the void and burst into the zero-gravity belt, still moving at phenomenal speed.
\ \ \ \"She saw he was smiling.
\ \ \ \"Then she saw his finger was poised over a button on the detonator.
\ \ \ \"Her lips began to form the word no, but she never uttered it as Drake pressed down.
\ \ \ \"There was a blinding flash, as bright as a thousand suns."

--From Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams in book 5 of the Tunnels series. Or, quite possibly,

"In her last moments of life, Sarah was smiling."

 

[dydxforsn]

"It is almost impossible for me to read contemporary mathematicians who, instead of saying, "Petya washed his hands", write "There is a t_{1} < 0 such that the image of t_{1} under the natural mapping t_{1} \rightarrow Petya(t_{1}) belongs to the set of dirty hands, and a t_{2}, t_{1} < t_{2} \le 0, such that the image of t_{2} under the above-mentioned mapping belongs to the complement of the set defined in the preceding sentence..." - V.I. Arnol'd

 

[greyhame]

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

 

[Tadd]

"All life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single part of it."