Great Quotes
Quote: EvenBob
"Grizzlies, black bears, and even polar bears can attack humans, leading to fatalities. In fact, all bears have the potential to be dangerous when humans get too close or don't respect their space. There are an average of 11 bear attacks in the United States every year, with around half of those being fatal.Oct 5, 2023"
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/which-state-has-the-most-fatal-bear-attacks/
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Unlike black bears and grizzlies, polar bears are vicious predators who seem to have few inhibitions about killing humans or anything else that is moving. Polar bears even catch, slaughter and eat small whales. They may arguably be the most formidable killing machine on land in all of nature (excepting humans, I guess.)
Quote: Jim RohnWe must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Quote: gordonm888Quote: EvenBob
"Grizzlies, black bears, and even polar bears can attack humans, leading to fatalities. In fact, all bears have the potential to be dangerous when humans get too close or don't respect their space. There are an average of 11 bear attacks in the United States every year, with around half of those being fatal.Oct 5, 2023"
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/which-state-has-the-most-fatal-bear-attacks/
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Unlike black bears and grizzlies, polar bears are vicious predators who seem to have few inhibitions about killing humans or anything else that is moving. Polar bears even catch, slaughter and eat small whales. They may arguably be the most formidable killing machine on land in all of nature (excepting humans, I guess.)
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Except the ones that drink Coca-Cola. Those are friendly.
"Henry Hill says in Goodfellas, “your murderers come with smiles.” "
"We hate you guys - you stay in your hotel rooms and don't gamble."
The Def Con response
"That's because we studied math at school."
Quote: Elbert HubbardPositive anything is better than negative nothing.
Quote: Ansel AdamsA good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Quote: Brett WestonAnything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic.
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I don’t know about this one. Seems like some are disappointed if not enough misery is occurring to those around them.
Quote: rxwine“ The pessimist will never be disappointed”
I don’t know about this one. Seems like some are disappointed if not enough misery is occurring to those around them.
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I don't think that is a common trait of pessimists, maybe people with other issues that are also pessimistic.
Quote: Butt-headAnimation sucks.
... and yet, people still say it was a dumb show.
Quote: Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
Quote: Oran “Juice” Jones*
“I saw you and him
Walking in the rain
You were holding hands and now
I’ll never be the same”
*this may not be the original artist (it’s just the version I remember)
Quote: DieterQuote: Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
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Never enjoyed walking in the rain. Getting wet should only happen when you're in a bathing suit. Getting wet fully clothed is a giant pain in the ass.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
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Never enjoyed walking in the rain. Getting wet should only happen when you're in a bathing suit. Getting wet fully clothed is a giant pain in the ass.
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Unless you’re caught in the rain with a beautiful woman… Then, it’s a pain in the front! I recommend sweats. 🤔💡🤭 (for those of you who miss Nathan…)
Quote: camaplQuote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
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Never enjoyed walking in the rain. Getting wet should only happen when you're in a bathing suit. Getting wet fully clothed is a giant pain in the ass.
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Unless you’re caught in the rain with a beautiful woman… Then, it’s a pain in the front! I recommend sweats. 🤔💡🤭 (for those of you who miss Nathan…)
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Nathan is gone again? I didn't even notice
We must do
Doodly do, doodly do, doodly do
What we must
Muddily must, muddily must, muddily must
Muddily do
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do
Until we bust
Bodily bust, bodily bust. bodily bust.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: Roger MillerSome people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
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Never enjoyed walking in the rain. Getting wet should only happen when you're in a bathing suit. Getting wet fully clothed is a giant pain in the ass.
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There comes a point where you cannot get wetter.
If you're not uncomfortable in that, you can find aspects to enjoy.
My recommendation is "not wool, not silk".
The character of a leather jacket benefits from a little distressing, although I'll understand if golf ball sized hail isn't the way you care to do it.
Quote: gordonm888If you've been a long-distance backpacker, you have learned to walk in the rain.
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I have been watching thru hikers on YouTube since 2017 and every single one of them hates walking in the rain. They constantly complain about it and they dread to see it coming.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
this quote has been falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln - he never said it, but said something similar
the actual author of this quote is unknown afaik
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Quote: Fyodor DostoevskyAbove all, don't lie to yourself.
This seemed apropos for today.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
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Quote: lilredrooster.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
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That is a great quote and I don't think that I have heard it before.
Quote: DRichQuote: lilredrooster.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
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That is a great quote and I don't think that I have heard it before.
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As You Like It
The more he saw, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?”
Nursery rhyme
when asked by a reporter why he robbed banks Willie Sutton replied:
"because that's where the money is"
when that same reporter asked him why he always carried a Thompson submachine gun he answered:
"you can't rob a bank with charm and personality"
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"Believe nothing that you hear and only one half of what you see"
this quote has been attributed to several different people including Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe
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Quote: lilredrooster.
"Believe nothing that you hear and only one half of what you see"
this quote has been attributed to several different people including Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm afraid the quote has probably evolved into "Believe nothing."
Quote: billryanLet those who love us love us. And for those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. If he can't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we know them by their limp.
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Since we're getting into toasts now..
May our coffins be made from a hundred year old oak tree that we plant tomorrow.
That's a toast that Frank Sinatra used to give quite often.
My favorites were-
Everyone who walks through this door puts a smile on our faces. Some when they come in, some when they leave. Which will you choose to be?
This one lost its humor as I grew up, but when I was a Cub scout, this was the height of adult humor.
Don't worry if your work
is small
And that your rewards
are few.
Remember that the
Mighty Oak
Was once a nut
like you.
My Doctor told me the good news first:
I was going to have a disease named after me
Steve Martin
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when I was a little kid my Dad used to read me "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe on Saturdays when he was off work
since then I've re-read it dozens of times
to me, it's an amazing thing - I don't think there is anything else like it in all of literature - not to my knowledge anyway
the first and last stanzas are here and a link for anyone who wants to read the whole poem
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -
Only this and nothing more."
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - Nevermore!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
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Quote: billryanLet those who love us love us. And for those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. If he can't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we know them by their limp.
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"‟Never criticize a rifleman until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he will be barefoot, and you’ll be out of range.”
From 1978. These commercials were brilliant and hugely effective.
Quote: EvenBobWhen EF Hutton talks, people listen.
From 1978. These commercials were brilliant and hugely effective.
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It's too bad the Feds were 't listening, as EF Hutton was pulling the largest check-kiting scheme in American banking history.
Quote: billryanQuote: EvenBobWhen EF Hutton talks, people listen.
From 1978. These commercials were brilliant and hugely effective.
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It's too bad the Feds were 't listening, as EF Hutton was pulling the largest check-kiting scheme in American banking history.
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Talk about old news.
"Life's but a walking shadow,
A poor player struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more:
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare from Macbeth
William Faulkner took the title of his great book, "The Sound and the Fury" from this quote
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"The mattress is soft ... there're hangers in the closet ...and stationary with "Bates' Motel" printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious."
Quote: rxwineFor Halloween a quote from the Hitchcock movie "Psycho"
"The mattress is soft ... there're hangers in the closet ...and stationary with "Bates' Motel" printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious."
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The word should have been spelled "stationery" Can't be a great quote if it has a misspelled word.
Quote: gordonm888Quote: rxwineFor Halloween a quote from the Hitchcock movie "Psycho"
"The mattress is soft ... there're hangers in the closet ...and stationary with "Bates' Motel" printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious."
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The word should have been spelled "stationery" Can't be a great quote if it has a misspelled word.
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Quote:A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
"people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who actually do know everything"
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Isaac Asimov
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Quote: billryanI waz reading a studi last weak , wear it sed that people with superior intellekt could read a paper wit gross misteaks and understand it perfectly while people of middlin intel often can't sea the forest thru the trees.
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Oooh you reminded me of two mind tricks. I may not get this right though since I'm not looking it up.
!. In a page of text someone can easily spot their own name much quicker than other random suggested words.
2. As long as the first and last letter are correct most people can read a page even if the other letter in between are scrambled.
I think that's what they were.
