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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #875 on: August 15, 2024, 02:24:12 PM »
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #876 on: August 16, 2024, 09:40:21 AM »
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #877 on: August 17, 2024, 01:21:31 AM »
Well behaved women do not make history.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #878 on: August 18, 2024, 08:20:04 AM »
One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #879 on: August 19, 2024, 09:46:24 AM »
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #880 on: August 20, 2024, 10:05:57 AM »
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #881 on: August 21, 2024, 08:53:45 AM »
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #882 on: August 22, 2024, 10:28:56 AM »
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #883 on: August 22, 2024, 10:45:26 AM »


“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people.

If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for me right here at home. “

- Muhammad Ali
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #884 on: August 23, 2024, 02:55:59 AM »
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #885 on: August 24, 2024, 09:00:38 AM »
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #886 on: August 24, 2024, 12:07:20 PM »
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. - Federico Garcia Lorca
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 #887 on: August 25, 2024, 06:31:01 PM »
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #888 on: August 26, 2024, 12:12:13 PM »
Some leaders are born women.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #889 on: August 27, 2024, 11:13:34 AM »
. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #890 on: August 27, 2024, 09:41:35 PM »
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #891 on: August 28, 2024, 05:58:44 PM »
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #892 on: August 29, 2024, 11:18:04 AM »
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #893 on: August 30, 2024, 08:22:15 PM »
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #894 on: October 04, 2024, 08:15:21 PM »

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #895 on: October 29, 2024, 12:03:48 PM »
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

James Boswell

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #896 on: November 03, 2024, 07:36:16 AM »
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

H L Mencken

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #897 on: November 06, 2024, 10:17:30 AM »
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #898 on: November 08, 2024, 08:47:06 PM »
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

Aristotle