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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #275 on: March 02, 2020, 09:58:56 AM »
A cult is a religion with no political power.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #276 on: March 03, 2020, 09:30:21 AM »
My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #277 on: March 04, 2020, 08:17:02 AM »
Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #278 on: March 05, 2020, 07:01:18 AM »
The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #279 on: March 05, 2020, 01:12:09 PM »
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things."

Zapp Brannigan
A lot of people don't believe that the loch ness monster exists. Now, I don't know anything about zooology, biology, geology, herpetology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, marine biology, cryptozoology, palaeontology or archaeology... but I think... what if a dinosaur got into the lake?

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #280 on: March 06, 2020, 10:34:22 AM »
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #281 on: March 06, 2020, 01:30:02 PM »
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #282 on: March 07, 2020, 08:18:35 AM »
Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #283 on: March 08, 2020, 09:01:35 AM »
Well behaved women rarely make history


Eleanor Roosevelt

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #284 on: March 09, 2020, 06:44:04 AM »
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

William Cobbett


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #285 on: March 09, 2020, 03:56:21 PM »
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Max von Sydow
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #286 on: March 10, 2020, 07:15:32 AM »
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #287 on: March 11, 2020, 06:17:22 AM »
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #288 on: March 12, 2020, 06:01:06 AM »
All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #289 on: March 12, 2020, 02:27:34 PM »
why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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A lot of people don't believe that the loch ness monster exists. Now, I don't know anything about zooology, biology, geology, herpetology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, marine biology, cryptozoology, palaeontology or archaeology... but I think... what if a dinosaur got into the lake?

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #290 on: March 13, 2020, 07:23:43 AM »
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Charles Krauthammer


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #291 on: March 14, 2020, 09:38:43 AM »
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #292 on: March 15, 2020, 02:37:25 PM »

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #293 on: March 16, 2020, 06:58:55 AM »
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #294 on: March 17, 2020, 08:00:46 AM »
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #295 on: March 18, 2020, 08:40:38 AM »
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #296 on: March 18, 2020, 01:35:09 PM »
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

A.A. Milne


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #297 on: March 19, 2020, 01:09:05 PM »
People are dying who have never died before

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #298 on: March 19, 2020, 01:10:31 PM »
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Tommy Cooper


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #299 on: March 19, 2020, 01:12:18 PM »
People are dying who have never died before

Donald Trump

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You couldn't make it up could you.

I said that.
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