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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:48:30 GMT -5
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror" Francois Rabelais
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:48:41 GMT -5
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them" P. J. O'Rourke
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:52:49 GMT -5
"My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up,my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. Arise, my love, and come away." Song of Solomon
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:53:16 GMT -5
"I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise." Mohandas KJ. Ghandhi
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:53:52 GMT -5
YOU NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD = Your life is much better now than it used to be.
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:54:02 GMT -5
"No matter how bad things get, the politicians can always point to us and say that a majority of the people in this country really have never had it so good." Art Buchwald - Washington is Leaking - 1976
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:54:12 GMT -5
THE FUTURE AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE = The climate of American optimism has waned, so that the past always looks better by comparison.
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:55:17 GMT -5
""After the Persian Gulf war, when an NBC News interviewer asked Gen H. Norman Schwarzkofp about his plans, he replied: "Well, as Yogi Berra said, 'The future ain't what it used to be'" - New York Times Magazine - 1991
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:55:29 GMT -5
WAR IS HELL = War is an experience full of horror.
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:55:42 GMT -5
"War may be Hell...but is good for business!" - Robert Asprin - Myth Directions - 1982
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:56:18 GMT -5
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud, for blood, vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." William T. Sherman
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:56:29 GMT -5
"War may be good for business but it is not so great for people" Don Nolte
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:56:48 GMT -5
A tree's a tree. How many do you need to look at?" Ronald Reagan, opposing legislation to protect our national forests.
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:57:00 GMT -5
"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life" Senator Orrin Hatch
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:57:16 GMT -5
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it" Vice-president Dan Quayle
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:57:29 GMT -5
"We found the weapons of mass destruction" President George W. Bush, refering to two tractor-trailers found in Iraq, no trace of chemicals.
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 17:57:47 GMT -5
"Young men think old men are fools. But old men know young men are fools" Don Marquis
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:03:10 GMT -5
"If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons" Daniel Marsh, Boston University president, made this prediction in 1950 (Seeing the candidates for president I say he was right)
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:03:20 GMT -5
"If you're rich enough, no one will call you stupid" Tevye, the character of "Fiddle on the Roof"
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:03:56 GMT -5
"The automobile will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle" The Literary Digest in 1899
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:04:06 GMT -5
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You are crazy" Professional well drillers in 1859
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:04:18 GMT -5
"I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language" An American newspaper editor to Rudyard Kipling in 1889
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:04:37 GMT -5
"They're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing." President Obama, condemning the people who rioted in Baltimore
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:05:02 GMT -5
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing!" Neville Chamberlain - British prime minister in 1938
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:05:23 GMT -5
"Motherhood is the most important of all professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs." - Elizabeth Cady Stantos
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:05:33 GMT -5
"The only thing I regret, as a working mother is the energy I wasted on feeling guilty" - Leslie Bennetts
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Post by gorm on Apr 5, 2024 18:07:59 GMT -5
"Three things about our government: If it doesn't move, they'll subsidize it. If it does move, they'll tax it. If it moves too fast, they'll regulate it." Attributed to Herman Cain
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Post by dilvish on Apr 30, 2024 10:19:15 GMT -5
"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success." - Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915]
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Post by dilvish on Apr 30, 2024 10:19:35 GMT -5
"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on." - Robert Kennedy [1925-1968]
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Post by dilvish on Apr 30, 2024 10:19:52 GMT -5
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [1881-1955]
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