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| Topic Started: Sep 26 2016, 04:44 PM (335 Views) | |
| Steve K | Sep 26 2016, 04:44 PM Post #1 |
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This works on another site, might work here. The idea is if you find a quote elsewhere that makes you think or you think will make others think, post it up and see what it prompts |
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| Steve K | Sep 26 2016, 04:45 PM Post #2 |
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So to kick it off, one from Jeremy Paxman's memoirs: "Blair loved risk, and was eventually undone by it. Brown did not, and was undone by that. " |
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| Affa | Sep 26 2016, 08:46 PM Post #3 |
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What do I think? I think Paxman was exercising literary license. |
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| Marconi | Sep 26 2016, 08:53 PM Post #4 |
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"Son, if you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers." Homer Simpson |
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| Tigger | Sep 26 2016, 08:54 PM Post #5 |
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A Conservative is someone with two perfectly good legs who can't move forward. FDR. |
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| Gand | Sep 30 2016, 10:28 PM Post #6 |
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“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” ~ Noam Chomsky, (Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda) The book is also a good introduction to Chomsky. |
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| marybrown | Oct 1 2016, 04:00 PM Post #7 |
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I cried because I had no shoes..until I saw a man who had no feet.. |
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| Happy Hornet | Oct 1 2016, 04:59 PM Post #8 |
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"Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do judge him, you'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes." Stephen Fry |
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| RoofGardener | Oct 1 2016, 05:36 PM Post #9 |
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Lord of Plantpots
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"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. " Isaac Asimov |
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| Affa | Oct 1 2016, 09:00 PM Post #10 |
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| Tigger | Oct 1 2016, 09:45 PM Post #11 |
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Some bloke called Blair said that. |
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| Affa | Oct 1 2016, 09:54 PM Post #12 |
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"those with hope are way out in front when it comes to credibility" RJD |
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| Tigger | Oct 2 2016, 08:18 AM Post #13 |
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Scott and Rasmussen come to mind here......... |
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| disgruntled porker | Oct 3 2016, 06:41 AM Post #14 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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"What the fuck was that?" Mayor of Hiroshima August 6th 1945. |
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| Gand | Oct 3 2016, 08:16 AM Post #15 |
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." ~ H. L. Mencken |
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| Steve K | Oct 3 2016, 10:21 AM Post #16 |
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“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!” Shakespeare (The Tempest) - spotted in Selfridges current excellent series of Shakespeare Refashioned theme windows |
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| Oddball | Oct 5 2016, 11:23 AM Post #17 |
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election - Otto von Bismarck |
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| Ewill | Oct 7 2016, 10:49 PM Post #18 |
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If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree. |
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| Rich | Oct 7 2016, 10:55 PM Post #19 |
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Marriage is like a violin....once the beautiful music has ended, the strings are still attached. What is a woman? A woman is somebody who does not know what they want in life and will not be happy until they have got it. Rich. |
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| Oddball | Oct 10 2016, 08:32 AM Post #20 |
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For those who often get too personal during debates:- "Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine any brighter" - from 'The Prince and the Pauper' [D Trump and H Clinton take note!] Edited by Oddball, Oct 10 2016, 08:42 AM.
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| Ewill | Oct 11 2016, 05:57 PM Post #21 |
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't ,you're right Henry Ford |
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| Ewill | Oct 11 2016, 06:03 PM Post #22 |
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words Anna Sewell , Black Beauty |
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| Gand | Oct 15 2016, 05:50 PM Post #23 |
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ~ H.L. Mencken |
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| Gand | Nov 25 2016, 11:03 AM Post #24 |
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“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe the world can be divided into two kinds of people, and those who don’t,” ~ Robert Benchley |
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| Oddball | Nov 27 2016, 11:23 AM Post #25 |
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse'. - Randy Pausch, 'The Last Lecture' |
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