Great Quotes
Quote: lilredroosterQuote: UP84
And that my liege is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped.
I'm not posting this to laugh at the guy
actually it makes me sad
Mike Hughes died after crashing his homemade rocket that he launched trying to prove the earth is flat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51602655
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Flat Earth Society members all around the globe mourned him.
Harley Quinn
"The taverns are full of gadabouts making merry this eve and though I may press my face like an urchin at a confectioner's, I am tempted not by the sweetness within. A dram in exchange for the pox is an ill bargain indeed."
Diary of Samuel Pepys re the Great Plague of 1665-6.
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no quotes thread could be really good without some yogi-isms
my 2 favorites:
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
90% of the game is half mental
some others:
It gets late early out here.
If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Never answer an anonymous letter.
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lines from the movie "The Naked Gun"_________
while undercover in prison___
"I was surrounded by rapists and murderers - it was like being in the stands of a Los Angeles Raiders game"
"I was like a blind man at an orgy - I was going to have to feel my way around"
"I was like a midget at a urinal - I was going to have to stay on my toes"
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My guys love saying that at the casino main entrance.
And when they leave-----
"Hope they made a nice deposit into those lock boxes our crew picks up."
Allow me to add my favorite:Quote: lilredrooster__________
no quotes thread could be really good without some yogi-isms
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Albert Einstein,
Quote: jjjoooggg“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.”
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Albert Einstein,
"Half of what you read on the internet is misunderstood" Kubali Khan
The above Einstien quote is a very poor translation of what he said and meant. A better translation would be = blindly following is the enemy of truth.
He was also 22 at the time, and far from a finished product. He was trying to obtain more academic freedom to divert from the usual course schedule at a school, if I recall.
Ive read different versions of his quote. Yes, it took years for his papers to be accepted. He was blacklisted by one of his professors. There is one college that has a postcard of his request for a teaching job. He had resorted to postcards after he got so many rejections.
I stood in his home in Bern, Switzerland, now a museum.
Einstein could have also been thinking about the reichstag fire. That falsely blamed the jews of terrorism in 1933. In 1933, the jews were placed in concentration camps by the thousands. It wouldnt be til 8 years later that ww2 would start, after germany had already conquered numerous countries in 1940, belgiun norway poland etc
Einstein was not just a nerd. He dated women and did long bicycle rides. He went through depression after his professor blacklisted him. But he probably never would have made those papers in a conventional graduate school and teaching.
There are not different versions of his quote, there are different translations. Some words in German simply don't translate very easily into English without understanding the context.
The same with the Bible. Translating from Hebrew is not easy. Some Hebrew words don't match exactly with an English word. Semantics.
Earl Monroe re his game in hoops_________
"I'm quite sure the defensive player doesn't know what I'm going to do next
Because even I don't know what I'm going to do next"
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Quote: Gialmere"The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine.”
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— Joseph Stalin
Funny :D A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. Don Marquis
you're sitting at a table - you notice the guy next to you has a fair amount of chips - you make some chit chat and say - "looks like you're doin' okay"
and he replies:
𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺
truly a classic____________________________it will never die
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just one more from the sage:
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"It's never a problem... until it is."
AxelWolf.
"The casino giveth and the casino hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the casino."
Job____1:21
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Rodney Crowell
Bill Belichick
Quote: Vannevar BushI have a great reservation about these studies where somebody goes out and interviews a bunch of people and reads a lot of stuff and writes a book and puts it on a shelf and nobody ever reads it.
Quote: Leonard Nimoy
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
Overheard during a coffee break at a mtg I attended a few years back in WDC
blonde bombshell movie star Jessica Simpson_____
was sitting on a couch on a reality TV show eating a can of "Chicken of the Sea" tuna
she then posed this perplexing question___
"Now," she asked
𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙨𝙝?
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this is one of my all time faves
from the movie "48 Hours"
Reggie (Eddie Murphy) tells Jack (Nick Nolte) that (IIRC) a Mercedes has a lot of class
Jack replies:
"Class isn't something you buy."
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life----Steve Jobs
-Nelson Mandela
from the TV show "The Office"_________
"you're so weak you need to be on steroids just to watch baseball"
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Yogi Berra:"50% of this game is half mental"
Casey Stengl: " You see that player over there?, he's 21 and has a good chance to be a great ball-player. That other player next to him is also 21, and he might make it to 22."
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
Quote: lilredrooster__________
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
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Also pretty much what the unabomber said.
Quote: mcallister3200Quote: lilredrooster__________
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
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Also pretty much what the unabomber said.
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What’s the line about genius and madness . . .
Quote: unJonQuote: mcallister3200Quote: lilredrooster__________
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
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Also pretty much what the unabomber said.
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What’s the line about genius and madness . . .
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Hmmm. Now that you mention it, I've never seen the two of them together. Have you?
I don't remember the reference.
Quote: lilredrooster__________
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
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Astonishing that you would post that. It’s good stuff.
Quote: Mooseton
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
Astonishing that you would post that. It’s good stuff.
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How prophetic.
As a boy I believed America was the greatest country in the world, a beacon of freedom and good government.
Today I watched Lady Liberty throw down her torch and start swimming back to France.
And
“Turn that card around and peel each side once again, that stupid black thin line will still be present on each and every side”
By;
Marcus Clark
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"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Quote: odiousgambit
Your mom.
Quote: Isaac AsimovThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
Quote: odiousgambit
That is a quote from an angry neo-nazi, not Voltaire.
It's sad so many people don't seem to know the difference.
Voltaire is a long-dead philosopher. Kevin Strom is a living, convicted, child abuser and white supremacist. Why anyone would want to quote him on anything escapes me.
Quote: Leo TolstoyAn arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
Quote: billryanQuote: odiousgambit
That is a quote from an angry neo-nazi, not Voltaire.
It's sad so many people don't seem to know the difference.
Voltaire is a long-dead philosopher. Kevin Strom is a living, convicted, child abuser and white supremacist. Why anyone would want to quote him on anything escapes me.
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I am quite shocked. When you google 'voltaire allowed to criticize' and click on 'images' you get page after page. Strom has bamboozled a remarkable number of people on that over a remarkable number of years, at least according to this fact check site.
How could I have doubted Mr. Ryan?
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/10/02/fact-check-voltaire-learn-rule-allowed-criticize/
wife asks:
"honey - am I wearing too much makeup"__________?
husband answers:
"that depends. are you planning on going out with friends_________? _______ or are you planning on killing Batman"___________?
my mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch
Jack Nicholson
from the blues song "That Same Thing" by Willie Dixon
"Why are all you men_______ tryin' to run a good lookin' woman down__________?
Why are all you men________ tryin' to run a good lookin' woman down____________?
Well it's That Same Thing________________that makes a Preacher lay his Bible down"
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Quote: Bob MarleyThe problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake
"Sometimes I think_________ "The whole world has gone completely crazy'.
And then I think__________________ 'Aw who cares anyway'?'
And then I think_________________________ 'Hey, what's for supper'?"
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
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Quote: odiousgambitQuote: billryanQuote: odiousgambit
That is a quote from an angry neo-nazi, not Voltaire.
It's sad so many people don't seem to know the difference.
Voltaire is a long-dead philosopher. Kevin Strom is a living, convicted, child abuser and white supremacist. Why anyone would want to quote him on anything escapes me.
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I am quite shocked. When you google 'voltaire allowed to criticize' and click on 'images' you get page after page. Strom has bamboozled a remarkable number of people on that over a remarkable number of years, at least according to this fact check site.
How could I have doubted Mr. Ryan?
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/10/02/fact-check-voltaire-learn-rule-allowed-criticize/
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It should be pretty easy to find the original Voltaire quote if it existed. I've no idea why people go around quoting neo-nazis and then pretending they are not.
