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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #750 on: April 29, 2024, 05:40:12 AM »
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

C.P. Cavafy

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #751 on: April 29, 2024, 04:08:25 PM »

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #752 on: April 30, 2024, 10:38:20 AM »
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

Claude Shannon

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #753 on: May 01, 2024, 09:51:52 AM »
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Joseph Heller

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #754 on: May 02, 2024, 10:10:58 AM »
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #755 on: May 02, 2024, 11:33:07 AM »
A problem for inclusion is that it supposes that everyone wants to be included.
Togetherness is a lovely thing.
So is autonomy for The Cat That Walks Alone.
Not all creatures are at home in a hive.

Alison Moyet
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 #756 on: May 03, 2024, 10:54:52 AM »
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Mary Astor

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #757 on: May 03, 2024, 05:35:57 PM »
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have.  The older she gets the more interested he is in her.     

Agatha Christie.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #758 on: May 04, 2024, 09:30:48 AM »
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #759 on: May 05, 2024, 09:46:42 AM »
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #760 on: May 06, 2024, 09:35:57 AM »
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #761 on: May 07, 2024, 08:33:32 AM »
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #762 on: May 07, 2024, 12:16:21 PM »
Another gem from Tagore:
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade: it makes the hand bleed that uses it.
When conspiracy nuts start spouting their bollocks, the best answer is "That's what they want you to think".

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #763 on: May 07, 2024, 12:39:14 PM »
Fascists are pretending
to be humanitarians,
like cannibals on a health kick
eating only vegetarians.

Roger McGough
When conspiracy nuts start spouting their bollocks, the best answer is "That's what they want you to think".

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #764 on: May 08, 2024, 08:43:56 AM »
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #765 on: May 08, 2024, 11:57:31 AM »
Liberal: a radical with two kids and a mortgage.
When conspiracy nuts start spouting their bollocks, the best answer is "That's what they want you to think".

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #766 on: May 09, 2024, 09:27:50 AM »
The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

Glenda Jackson

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #767 on: May 10, 2024, 07:56:40 AM »
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #768 on: May 11, 2024, 09:26:16 AM »
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Richard P. Feynman

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #769 on: May 12, 2024, 08:53:48 AM »
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #770 on: May 13, 2024, 08:37:21 AM »
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #771 on: May 14, 2024, 09:33:54 AM »
Abraham Lincoln was correct when he said that less than one-half day's cost of the Civil War could have purchased the freedom of all the slaves in Delaware.

The Civil War cost the two sides a total of $6.6 billion in 1860s dollars, enough to buy the freedom of all the slaves at their 1860 market value, give each slave family 40 acres and a mule and make $3.5 billion in reparations to former slaves in lieu of 100 years of back wages.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #772 on: May 15, 2024, 09:16:19 AM »
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #773 on: May 16, 2024, 07:59:43 AM »
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #774 on: May 17, 2024, 08:33:20 AM »
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Dennis Potter