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Topic Started: Sep 26 2016, 04:44 PM (335 Views)
Steve K
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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
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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
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Steve K
Sep 26 2016, 04:45 PM
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. "

What do I think?
I think Paxman was exercising literary license.

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Marconi
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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
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A Conservative is someone with two perfectly good legs who can't move forward.

FDR.
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Gand
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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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Gand
Sep 30 2016, 10:28 PM
“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.
I cried because I had no shoes..until I saw a man who had no feet..
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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
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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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RoofGardener
Oct 1 2016, 05:36 PM
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. "

Isaac Asimov
!clp!
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Tigger
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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
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"those with hope are way out in front when it comes to credibility"

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Affa
Oct 1 2016, 09:54 PM
"those with hope are way out in front when it comes to credibility"

RJD
Scott and Rasmussen come to mind here.........
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"What the fuck was that?"

Mayor of Hiroshima August 6th 1945.
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Gand
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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
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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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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election - Otto von Bismarck
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Steve K
Sep 26 2016, 04:44 PM

If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree.
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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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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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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't ,you're right

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Ewill
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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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“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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“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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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse'. - Randy Pausch, 'The Last Lecture'
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