Favorite Quotes
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I figured we should put together some of our favorite quotes (that we can post without violating the forum guidelines)
I will start
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the 2nd, but you can be certain of getting the 1st. - Philip K. Dick
I will start
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the 2nd, but you can be certain of getting the 1st. - Philip K. Dick
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees; but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." -Nietzshe. Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana
Julius Henry "Groucho" MarxOutside of a dog, a book is Man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read
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-Louis PasteurChance favors the prepared mind
- James Thayer, PhDIf we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research
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- Tagline for a local radio station WPTE back in the 90'sThe straightest distance between two lines is a point. Err, something like that.
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If I had $5.00 for every time a woman thought me unattractive, I would be attractive.Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel…….Samuel Johnson
Since we don’t know where we are going we have to stick together in case someone gets there….Ken Kesey
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
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If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
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A bird in the hand feels funny...
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"God is dead." - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." - God
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
Never insult a crocodile until after you have crossed the riverJC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
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Never chase woman and busses, you'l always get left behind.
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'' The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. '' Tom Waits
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW-- What a Ride!"
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Margaret Dumont: This is a gala day for you.
Groucho: Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't know if I could handle any more.
^^From "Duck Soup". Quite a number, IMO, of quotable quotes in that movie. I've used the phrase, "Can't you see what I'm trying to tell you ? I love you !" on several occasions. Occasions that some may have considered inappropriate, but I highly recommend it (especially in the workplace)
A little primer of quotable quotes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw9jYU_rJI Sal Palooza -
Evil will always win.
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The further we get from 1984 the closer we get to itSal Palooza
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
This photo reminds me of Groucho saying his personal gift to his lady friends was always an
Anklet
with the inscription:
"Heavens Above".
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
Hesitation is a hole in the head and contradiction buys you time. Warren HaynesIf you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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A flute with no holes in not a flute.....but a donut with no holes is a....
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A flute with no holes in not a flute.....but a donut with no holes is a....
I think that's because one cannot play scales on a donut -- but I may be wrong about that.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I think that's because one cannot play scales on a donut -- but I may be wrong about that.
Possibly true, but with a bag of donuts, one can play that funky music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-On0EeTXd0
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I often say that I think I missed my true calling in law enforcement, because I love donuts.
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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
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wonder if Gene Simmons knows one of those bag of donuts dudes stole his shoes.....
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