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About anything, such as "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" (Irina Dunn, but I thought it was Gloria Steinhem...), or "no one expects the Spanish inquisition" (Monty Python) No rules, except who said the quote. |
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| "No rules, except who said the quote."--Kgc5 |
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[b][i]Hofstadter's Law[/i][/b]: [i]It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take [b]Hofstadter's Law[/b] into account.[/i] - [i]Douglas Hofstadter[/i] |
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Yes, John, I thought I might be hit up on that one... Can you forgive me, just this once? Okay, [b]one[/b] rule, provide who said the quote... And you may call me Kevin. |
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"Seeing is intentional analysis." -Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
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"If you are not in bed by 10 o'clock you might as well go home" MagicSanta to Santa Jr. at age 17 |
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| "They have the internet on computers now?" -Homer Simpson |
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(when prompted to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence)... "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." -Dorothy Parker |
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Nice one Michael! :online: |
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| What's your damage heather? |
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[quote] On 2009-03-16 01:38, Michael Baker wrote: (when prompted to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence)... "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." -Dorothy Parker [/quote] That lady has a slew of great quotes, two that come to mind... " This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." from a book review... "I like to have a martini Two at the very most Three, I'm under the table Four, I'm under the host" Jim |
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me."--Immanuel Kant John |
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| If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need- Cicero |
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers. - Socrates |
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” --Abraham Lincoln Tom |
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"Cherchez les femmes!" ("Keep an eye peeled for broads!") Mike Doonesbury's grandfather |
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“To be is to do.” - Socrates “To do is to be.” - Sartre “Do be do be do.” - Sinatra |
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[quote]On Jul 27, 2018, karnak wrote: “To be is to do.” - Socrates “To do is to be.” - Sartre “Do be do be do.” - Sinatra [/quote] Lol. Awesome! |
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Win if you can, Lose if you must, but always cheat!" Jesse Ventura |
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| “Do not worry about perfection. You will never achieve it.” -Salvador Dali |
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| Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski |
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"It takes a big dog to weigh a ton" by Glen Stewart. Good magic to all, Eric |
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain. "Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I’m looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average." – Coach Cal Stoll |
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[I]"You can't believe everything you read on the internet."[/I] - Abraham Lincoln Ron |
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| Oh come on now. How could he even read the Internet in the dark? |
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| He read the Internet by firelight. Everyone knows that. |
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| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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[quote]On Aug 20, 2018, ed rhodes wrote: He read the Internet by firelight. Everyone knows that. [/quote] Oh oh oh. How stupid of me. Yep got it! Thanks. |
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| A mans got to know his limitations |
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[quote]On Aug 21, 2018, rowdymagi5 wrote: A mans got to know his limitations [/quote] good one! |
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| The older I get, the easier that is. |
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| You can't fix stupid |
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| "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes!" Walt Whitman |
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"Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." Mark Twain (Allegedly. People love to attribute it to him yet it was never in his writings or speeches. It was attributed ti him for a couple decades prior to his death though.) |
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| One of my all time favorites is from Jay Marshal. We were at a magic awards banquet of all things. When the next act was announced he grumbled an expletive for Intercourse. Naturally I asked what was wrong he said "I've already eaten anything I could throw." |
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“When Destiny speaks, she speaks to ME!” “She says; “Hi!” by the way.” - The Tick |
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| Understand life before it's to late. (author unknown ... by me, anyway). |
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society which honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" -Albert Einstein |
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[quote]On Aug 22, 2018, Dannydoyle wrote: One of my all time favorites is from Jay Marshal. We were at a magic awards banquet of all things. When the next act was announced he grumbled an expletive for Intercourse. Naturally I asked what was wrong he said "I've already eaten anything I could throw." [/quote] I just dropped in here, almost by accident. Danny, you have made my day, week, month!!! Thank you! I was fortunate to know Jay, and, further, be his FRIEND, for almost 40 years. We shared our thoughts. We laughed together, and, shed a tear together. BUT, THAT'S THE FIRST TIME THAT I EVER HEARD THAT LINE!!!!!!!!! |
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| Heard on TV: "Next time, break the Prozac's in half!" |
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"A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.” - Shane |
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Just found ... "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule." Samuel Adams |
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| Don't hate da playa, hate da game. |
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| I'm not familiar with this one but it sounds fun. Can you parse it for me and explain the word "da" and "playa"?Who/where is this from? |
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[quote]On Oct 3, 2018, magicfish wrote: I'm not familiar with this one but it sounds fun. Can you parse it for me and explain the word "da" and "playa"?Who/where is this from? [/quote] Sure, no problem. "Don't hate the playa, hate the game." - Ice T: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Don%27t%20Hate%20The%20Playa%2FPlayette%20Hate%20The%20Game "Don't hate da playa, hate da game." - Dynamike. It means the same thing. It is a shortcut for when a person is too lazy to say "the" at the moment. |
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| He tries to shoehorn this quote at every opportunity. |
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"Ultimately, all guns were ruled by old splitfoot." Stephen King (The drawing of the three) |
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[quote]On Oct 3, 2018, Dynamike wrote: [quote]On Oct 3, 2018, magicfish wrote: I'm not familiar with this one but it sounds fun. Can you parse it for me and explain the word "da" and "playa"?Who/where is this from? [/quote] Sure, no problem. "Don't hate the playa, hate the game." - Ice T: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Don%27t%20Hate%20The%20Playa%2FPlayette%20Hate%20The%20Game "Don't hate da playa, hate da game." - Dynamike. It means the same thing. It is a shortcut for when a person is too lazy to say "the" at the moment. [/quote] Interesting, however "the" has the same number of syllables as "da", so how does one take more effort than the other? Where does laziness enter into It? |
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| Everybody wanna' be a bodybuilder, nobody wanna' lift the heavy-ass weights! ( Ronnie Coleman, 8 time Mr. Olympia ) |
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[quote]On Oct 3, 2018, magicfish wrote: [quote]On Oct 3, 2018, Dynamike wrote: [quote]On Oct 3, 2018, magicfish wrote: I'm not familiar with this one but it sounds fun. Can you parse it for me and explain the word "da" and "playa"?Who/where is this from? [/quote] Sure, no problem. "Don't hate the playa, hate the game." - Ice T: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Don%27t%20Hate%20The%20Playa%2FPlayette%20Hate%20The%20Game "Don't hate da playa, hate da game." - Dynamike. It means the same thing. It is a shortcut for when a person is too lazy to say "the" at the moment. [/quote] Interesting, however "the" has the same number of syllables as "da", so how does one take more effort than the other? Where does laziness enter into It? [/quote] When one is writing... |
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| No good deed goes unpunished. |
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No act of charity goes unresented! Oh, I’m sorry. I thought this was the “Broadway Show Tunes Lyrics” thread! um, let’s see; If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you’ve misjudged the situation... badly! |
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For many, many years in modern life we prided ourselves on greater morals and being smarter than we were in the Middle Ages, but I think that online mannerisms are very close to open-square stonings many hundreds of years ago when people were f---ing barbarians." -Tobias Forge |
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| Man had always considered himself to be smarter than the dolphins because he had invented so much; the wheel, New York City, nuclear warfare. Where as all the dolphins had ever done is muck around in the water, having a good time. Oddly enough, the dolphins felt exactly the opposite, for exactly the same reasons! - Douglas Adams |
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I once decided to come up with my own "quote". Here is what I came up with: Scientists change our perception of reality. Engineers change reality - David Bond |
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| I think you ought to know, I’m feeling very depressed. - Marvin, the paranoid android. |
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[quote]On Oct 24, 2018, David Bond wrote: I once decided to come up with my own "quote". Here is what I came up with: Scientists change our perception of reality. Engineers change reality - David Bond [/quote] Good one! |
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| “Let joy be unconfined! Let there be singing in the tavern, dancing in the street, and necking in the parlor!”-Groucho Marx |
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| "The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot and a fool.. the guy who invented the other 3 was the genius." - can't remember |
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| My wife reminded me of an Ashleigh Brilliant quote, "I only want the chance to prove that money won't make me happy." |
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter Thompson Sadly, I've had to use this twice this past week. |
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[quote]On Nov 4, 2018, funsway wrote: My wife reminded me of an Ashleigh Brilliant quote, "I only want the chance to prove that money won't make me happy." [/quote] “Dear Lord, please let me prove to you that winning the lottery won’t spoil me!” - Anonymous |
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We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. Jean Baudrillard |
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Great thread. Common sense isn't so common. |
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THE MOST IMPORTANT ENDEAVOR IS THE STRIVING FOR MORALITY IN OUR ACTIONS. OUR INNER BALANCE AND EVEN OUR VERY EXISTENCE DEPEND ON IT. ONLY MORALITY IN OUR ACTIONS CAN GIVE BEAUTY AND DIGNITY FOR LIFE. -ALBERT EINSTEIN |
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"If you know one way of locating a chosen card which has been shuffled back into the deck and fifty ways of revealing that card, to the audience you know fifty tricks." This is quoted in Lee Earle's First Impressions. It seems that a certain veteran performer once said. His name is unknown. |
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[i] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.[/i] [b]~ Martin Niemoller[/b] |
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| "That's so ridiculous, it must be true." - Maxwell Smart |
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| “Anger, is nothing but fear, in drag!” - Spider Robinson |
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This one can be easily worked into a magical performance. "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant but has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein |
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Who said, "A goat full of dynamite! What are we gonna do?" Definitely not magical.... oh ok, yes it was... |
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| It's free! |
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Magic is about transformation. Transformation is one of the most fundamental symbols and metaphors of magic. This raises the question of my own transformation and your own transformation. Will there be transformation in our lives? Eugene Burger |
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To steer the barque of this life over the rough seas of passion without quitting the helm of rectitude is one of the highest degrees of perfection to which human nature may attain. -William Harvey |
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[quote]On Jul 27, 2018, karnak wrote: “To be is to do.” - Socrates “To do is to be.” - Sartre “Do be do be do.” - Sinatra [/quote] "Ya ba da ba do." - Flintstone |
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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[quote]On Jan 31, 2019, Roberto Juan wrote: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson [/quote] Wow ! |
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“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck. Mine is yum". Tom Robbins 'Still Life with Woodpecker' p.s.: While we're by Tom Robbins,... "You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.” |
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If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. Groucho Marx |
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"Fine and Fancy words, are inspiring. But those 'getting it done', aren't talking..... they're perspiring." |
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[quote]On Feb 11, 2019, Roberto Juan wrote: If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. Groucho Marx [/quote] “I never forget a face. But in your case, I’ll make an exception.” - also Groucho |
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[quote]On Feb 13, 2019, karnak wrote: [quote]On Feb 11, 2019, Roberto Juan wrote: If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. Groucho Marx [/quote] “I never forget a face. But in your case, I’ll make an exception.” - also Groucho [/quote] "Time flies like an arrow! Fruit flies like a banana!" - still Groucho |
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“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.“ Marcel Marceau |
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" ... " ~Teller |
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| Howling Mike! |
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[quote]On Feb 14, 2019, Mike Gainor wrote: " ... " ~Teller [/quote] Obviously, Teller was paraphrasing Snake Eyes from G. I. Joe when HE said; "..." |
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I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll |
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| Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. |
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company" - George Washington |
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| "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." |
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[quote]On Aug 2, 2019, karnak wrote: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." [/quote] Awesome. Who said it? |
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| Lincoln is credited |
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"If one's words are no better than silence, one should keep silent." - Kwai Chang Caine |
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| “It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." ~ Brian Stimpson (John Cleese), Clockwise |
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"We cannot understand the past unless we understand the individuals who were part of it. What they actually said and did is important- not what someone 100 years later claims they said and did." - Allen E. Roberts |
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"Never get a mime talking. He won't stop." -Marcel Marceau |
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." -Sir Francis Bacon |
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Trying is the first step towards failure Homer Simpson If you’re not laughing right now the problem is your imagination. Anthony Jeselnik Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems Homer Simpson Not everyone's as dried apricots as they think they are. James Acaster |
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"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - John Lennon & Paulo Coelho appear to have popularized this saying but I'm not clear on the origin. Despite that, the quote speaks for itself no matter who said it first. -Alan |
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My favorite quote comes from Channing Pollock: "A critic is a legless man who teaches running." Greg |
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"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink." charles bukowski |
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| As my Dr. said - "Your HEALTHIER than you THINK you are" and believe it or not - when worrying about it, I heard the same - out loud & no was in the room. I "Believe". |
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| “Never take **** from anyone because once you do it sets a precedent” - Greg Capullo |
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“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac; that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is - I'd rather read a book.” ~Madonna |
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My father had two great points he would preach that he most likely picked up somewhere else. He would never take criticism from someone he wouldn't ask advice from. He would never ask advice from someone he wouldn't want to trade places with. His main point here was that they live their advice and it got them where they are. |
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"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." George R.R. Martin |
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| "Some days you eat the bear. And some days the bear eats you, and you is eaten!" - Unknown. |
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Steven Wright |
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"I'm not a magician, so yeah, we've got a photograph of our client in what appears to be inside a federal building or inside the Capitol with federal property." Lawyer Dan Eckhart |
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I submitted a quote earlier but I might have a new favorite: The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. - Kurt Tucholsky |
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"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it...Want to change the world? there's nothing to it." W. Wonka |
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| "Rule 9 - Never go anywhere without a knife." - L. J. Gibbs |
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Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own. Chinese proverb (mentioned by Tom Mullica during his Penguin Magic lecture) |
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| Without rain,there would be no rainbows. |
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Expect temptation to your last breath. Anthony the Great |
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[quote]On Jan 8, 2021, PaulPacific wrote: “Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac; that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is - I'd rather read a book.” ~Madonna [/quote] "Gee, I wonder why people might think that?" ~Me :) :P :) |
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“Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself." Friedrich von Schlegel |
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How little in our culture do we cultivate our imaginations! We treat the imagination as if it were a poor relative of the rational mind, a somewhat distracting side journey on the larger logical journey of life. Yet, when we look at it, we realize that through the centuries most of the important discoveries and innovations in art, religion, and even science, were generated not so much hy logical, rational, step-by-step thinking as by intuition, sudden flashes of insight, and imagination. - Eugene Burger |
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| "Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -- from the movie Going Postal. |
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[i]Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.[/i] – [i]Thomas Gray[/i] [i]Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College[/i] |