Great Quotes

Quote: George Burns

The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.

Quote: unJon

Quote: George Burns

The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.

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Alexander Hollenius: [snatches his bleeding hand away from Christine] Like all women - white as a sheet at the sight of a couple of scratches... calm and smiling like a hospital nurse in the presence of a mortal wound... Good night! [walks out of the room]

Quote: Ernest Hemingway

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Quote: Bertie Wooster, in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" (1916) by P. G. Wodehouse

Lady Malvern was a hearty, happy, healthy, overpowering sort of dashed female, not so very tall but making up for it by measuring about six feet from the O.P. to the Prompt Side. She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.

Quote: Dieter

Quote: Ernest Hemingway

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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Quote: Friedrich Nietzsche

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Quote: lilredrooster

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no one wants to get old

but no one wants to die young either



𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴


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Quote: Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Quote: VladAlex1

"I have no more patience for certain things, not because I've become arrogant, but because I've reached a point in my life where I don't want to spend any more of my time with people or things that I'm not happy with or hurt me.
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Quote: Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Quote: Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Quote: DRich

Quote: Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Sadly, I am one of those people that try to haggle over everything just on principle. It is not a trait that I am very proud of because I even do it when the money means almost nothing to me. I remember one specific one that still bothers me. We were in Tijuana trying to get a taxi back to the border. The taxi driver wanted $4 and I refused saying that I would only pay $3. In retrospect, obviously that $1 meant nothing to me and probably meant a lot more to that taxi driver. That one still bothers me.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: DRich

Quote: Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Sadly, I am one of those people that try to haggle over everything just on principle. It is not a trait that I am very proud of because I even do it when the money means almost nothing to me. I remember one specific one that still bothers me. We were in Tijuana trying to get a taxi back to the border. The taxi driver wanted $4 and I refused saying that I would only pay $3. In retrospect, obviously that $1 meant nothing to me and probably meant a lot more to that taxi driver. That one still bothers me.
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This is something I don't understand. I watch a lot of travel videos with these people who travel all around the world for a living and make a lot of money doing it on YouTube. When they're in countries like the Middle East or Pakistan or India when they're in the market places the prices are usually extremely low to begin with. Yet invariably they will try and get the price to go even lower and I don't understand it. Say they're buying a shirt in India that in the United States would cost you $22, in India it's $8 and they try to get it for $5. The exact same shirt from the exact same manufacturer. What do they think, the Indian person is living the Good Life from selling shirts out of a booth? It really makes me angry but I see it all the time and they all do it. People making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on YouTube. It's embarrassing, and they do it with everything. Rickshaw rides, hotel rooms, cab driver rides. Then they brag how they got a hotel room for $12 instead of $16 where in the United States they'd be paying $100. Like Drich says that one or two dollars discount they're giving you means far far more to them than you could ever imagine. It literally means nothing, less than nothing, to these people from the West yet they do it anyway.
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Quote: billryan

Anyone who has spent time in these countries knows the sellers almost always jack up the initial price and no one pays it. It's a game.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: billryan

Anyone who has spent time in these countries knows the sellers almost always jack up the initial price and no one pays it. It's a game.
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It's a game if you're local dealing with another local vendor. If you're a filthy rich Westerner, which these people are, it's not a game it's just being a greedy jerk. These people aren't living in split level homes with air conditioning and modern appliances, they're living in what amounts to a shack and are barely supporting themselves. Some of them even live in the back of their booth. To rip them off like this for no other reason than your ego, it's not right. Especially with the cab drivers, these drivers work 12 to 15 hours 7 days a week to support their families and to try and rip them off just because you can, is awful.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: billryan

Anyone who has spent time in these countries knows the sellers almost always jack up the initial price and no one pays it. It's a game.
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It's a game if you're local dealing with another local vendor. If you're a filthy rich Westerner, which these people are, it's not a game it's just being a greedy jerk. These people aren't living in split level homes with air conditioning and modern appliances, they're living in what amounts to a shack and are barely supporting themselves. Some of them even live in the back of their booth. To rip them off like this for no other reason than your ego, it's not right. Especially with the cab drivers, these drivers work 12 to 15 hours 7 days a week to support their families and to try and rip them off just because you can, is awful.
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Quote: DRich

I can't agree with your characterization of "ripping them off". If it is bargaining they can say no if it isn't making financial sense for them.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: billryan

Anyone who has spent time in these countries knows the sellers almost always jack up the initial price and no one pays it. It's a game.
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It's a game if you're local dealing with another local vendor. If you're a filthy rich Westerner, which these people are, it's not a game it's just being a greedy jerk. These people aren't living in split level homes with air conditioning and modern appliances, they're living in what amounts to a shack and are barely supporting themselves. Some of them even live in the back of their booth. To rip them off like this for no other reason than your ego, it's not right. Especially with the cab drivers, these drivers work 12 to 15 hours 7 days a week to support their families and to try and rip them off just because you can, is awful.
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Quote: DRich

Quote: Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Sadly, I am one of those people that try to haggle over everything just on principle. It is not a trait that I am very proud of because I even do it when the money means almost nothing to me. I remember one specific one that still bothers me. We were in Tijuana trying to get a taxi back to the border. The taxi driver wanted $4 and I refused saying that I would only pay $3. In retrospect, obviously that $1 meant nothing to me and probably meant a lot more to that taxi driver. That one still bothers me.
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Quote: billryan

Here is a hint- not everyone in foreign countries lives in shacks, survives hand to mouth, or relies on abusing tourists to make a living.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: DRich

I can't agree with your characterization of "ripping them off". If it is bargaining they can say no if it isn't making financial sense for them.
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Here's what people don't understand. Competition is so fierce in those countries for every dime that they can't afford to say no. They're not in a position to say no because they need the money so desperately. If a cab driver can make 50 cents on a fare instead of a $1.50 he's going to take it because he doesn't know when his next fare is going to get in his cab. This is why it's wrong that if you're a rich American, to bargain with these people. Sure it's fun, sure it's a game, but it's a game where only you win. Americans also complain that shopkeepers charge more if they know you're American even though the price is still dirt cheap. I don't fault them for that at all, you make your money where you can when you're in poverty. It's not going to hurt you in the least to pay 10 times what they're asking and it should be enough for you to know that you're helping somebody out rather than ripping them off.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: billryan

Anyone who has spent time in these countries knows the sellers almost always jack up the initial price and no one pays it. It's a game.
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It's a game if you're local dealing with another local vendor. If you're a filthy rich Westerner, which these people are, it's not a game it's just being a greedy jerk. These people aren't living in split level homes with air conditioning and modern appliances, they're living in what amounts to a shack and are barely supporting themselves. Some of them even live in the back of their booth. To rip them off like this for no other reason than your ego, it's not right. Especially with the cab drivers, these drivers work 12 to 15 hours 7 days a week to support their families and to try and rip them off just because you can, is awful.
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Quote: gordonm888

But I don't spew money to every anonymous hyper-aggressive street vendor with oozing sores in a poor country. I know nothing about them and that's just being irresponsible with my charitable giving,
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Quote: Bob Dylan

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Quote: DRich

That is a big bear.
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Quote: billryan

The bear reacted to the dog the way humans respond to bees. Knowing when not to fight is as important as knowing how to fight.
Where there are dogs, there are humans, and few bear-human encounters work out well for the bear.
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Quote: billryan

The bear reacted to the dog the way humans respond to bees. Knowing when not to fight is as important as knowing how to fight.
Where there are dogs, there are humans, and few bear-human encounters work out well for the bear.
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You mean later, or hand-to-hand combat?

j/k
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Quote: billryan

A bear that attacks a human will wind up dead. I believe they know that.
Bear attacks kill about one human a year. Hundreds of bears are killed because they attacked or are a threat.
Many bears could kill a human with one swipe of their paws, but their life expectancy would be nil.
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Quote: EvenBob

Quote: billryan

A bear that attacks a human will wind up dead. I believe they know that.
Bear attacks kill about one human a year. Hundreds of bears are killed because they attacked or are a threat.
Many bears could kill a human with one swipe of their paws, but their life expectancy would be nil.
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In the United States there are an average of 11 bear attacks every year and on average they kill five or six people in those attacks. 50,000 bears are legally hunted and killed every year. Many more are illegally poached.
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Quote: billryan

I don't know where you get your information, and I know little about it, but a quick google search shows two sources that say it is less than one fatality a year. I did see a source that included Canada that said five, and another source didn't include Alaska, only the 48.
Friends, who know more about this than I do tell me bears instinctively avoid humans and dogs Perhaps they are wrong.
My Dad wrestled a bear in the 1950s, but it was a trained bear that wrestled for its dinner.
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