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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #600 on: December 22, 2023, 09:12:50 AM »
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #601 on: December 23, 2023, 09:51:08 AM »
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #602 on: December 24, 2023, 03:36:13 AM »
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #603 on: December 25, 2023, 07:53:32 AM »
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #604 on: December 26, 2023, 01:46:04 AM »
People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #605 on: December 27, 2023, 09:14:18 AM »
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #606 on: December 28, 2023, 03:01:23 AM »
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #607 on: December 29, 2023, 01:10:16 AM »
A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #608 on: December 30, 2023, 09:54:44 AM »
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #609 on: December 31, 2023, 12:43:47 AM »
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #610 on: January 01, 2024, 12:30:04 AM »
What I mean is that public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn’t do: they were exclusive practices and skills that defined masculinity as a gender.
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #611 on: January 02, 2024, 12:32:53 AM »
It’s funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don’t think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don’t know it till you die.”

Marianne McDonald



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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #612 on: January 03, 2024, 09:02:51 AM »
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #613 on: January 04, 2024, 08:57:40 AM »
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #614 on: January 05, 2024, 08:32:40 AM »
Reality is for people that lack imagination.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #615 on: January 06, 2024, 06:01:51 AM »
By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #616 on: January 07, 2024, 09:16:57 AM »
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #617 on: January 07, 2024, 02:19:02 PM »
“Twelve strangers,” he interrupted, “twelve citizens picked off the street. In this world we’re unfortunate to live in, and especially in this septic isle we live on, where squalid politicians conspire with the squalid press to feed a half-educated and wholly complacent public on a diet of meretricious trivia, I’m sure it would be possible to concoct enough evidence to persuade twelve strangers that Nelson Mandela was a cannibal.”

Reginald Hill  - The Woodcutter.
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 #618 on: January 07, 2024, 04:14:36 PM »
"Marxist science and Creation science have about as much validity as  Bulgarian science, or April science, or Forty-Second Street science"
Maitland A. Edey & Donald C Johanson,
in "Blueprints".
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

Le Bon David

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #619 on: January 08, 2024, 10:36:25 AM »
Hope is a talent like any other.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #620 on: January 09, 2024, 09:47:01 AM »
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #621 on: January 10, 2024, 08:47:57 AM »
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #622 on: January 11, 2024, 08:38:53 AM »
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #623 on: January 12, 2024, 02:09:38 AM »
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

John Singer Sargent

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #624 on: January 13, 2024, 09:49:52 AM »
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

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