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Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:24 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Ruedii-X @ Dec 25 2004, 09:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> That's one of my favorites, did you get it from GNU Fortune? That's where I first heard it.  </td></tr></table>  No, I didn't. It was from a list of Mark Twain quotations I read at one time. "It's alright letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back." -- Mick Jagger

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 4:19 pm

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle Three Wise Women would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the babby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, brought practical gifts, and there would be peace on Earth. - (can't remember who) There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton Money doesn't talk, it swears. - Bob Dylan The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein Humor is also a way of saying something serious. - T.S. Eliot (I love this quote, it was my signature before the one i have now) They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. Otto Von Bismarck Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:17 pm

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." Publilius Syrus

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:23 am

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit." -- George Santayana

Maeglin · Postby **Maeglin** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:13 am

"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. " The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Gandhi)

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:51 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Jacob @ Dec 26 2004, 11:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle Three Wise Women would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the babby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole, brought practical gifts, and there would be peace on Earth. - (can't remember who) There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton Money doesn't talk, it swears. - Bob Dylan The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein Humor is also a way of saying something serious. - T.S. Eliot (I love this quote, it was my signature before the one i have now) They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. Otto Von Bismarck Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde </td></tr></table>  Aristotle and Einstien go on my list of best phillosopher's of all time. Somehow Dr. Suess fits in there too; dispite his younger target audience he had great wisdom in his words. Maybe if some parents payed more attention to what they were reading they're kids, they'd have a better understanding of the world. "To believe as a child is not to have blind faith, but to have faith until you have the knowlege to know for greater certainty." That's one of my addage about the American misperception of how children think.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Maeglin @ Dec 27 2004, 12:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Gandhi)</td></tr></table>  Gandhi was a very wise man. However, I beleive all people can be strong if they put forth the effort, just most don't want to, because it's easier to be weak. ADDITIONAL NOTE Someone mentioned Sigman Frued, Although I agree that he was a good revolutionary for science making a scientific form of a logic normally reserved for mystics and seuthsayers. He provided some base insite, but like all base insite, much of it was wrong. As such, I have never found a psychiatrist that follows pure Fruedian logic that I would call a "good" psychiatrist, or that I would even agree with. I have found much more agreement with the "moderate" Humanist Psychiatry and the NeuroPsychiatry methods of thought. What's strange is even though they are of greatly different sources, the two seem to agree, as they are from separate layers of analysis, the first practical, the second extracting the practical from the logic base. A note from an evening spent with Einstien said "He knew as much about psychiatry as I knew about physics, so we had dinner and a pleasent evening." An interesting note. Einstien's account was quite similar.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:47 pm

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder. - Aldous Huxley The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:06 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Jacob @ Dec 27 2004, 09:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley  </td></tr></table>  I thought that myself one time...

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:17 pm

"I smoked my first cigarette and kissed my first woman on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since." -- Arturo Toscanini

Loeln · Postby **Loeln** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:21 am

"Life as it is,... I have lived for over fourty years and I've seen life "as it is"; pain, misery, cruelty beyond belief. I've heard the voice of all god's noblest creature ...moan from bundles of filth in the streets. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle, or die more slowly by the lash in Africa -I've held them at their last moment. These we're men who saw life "as it is", yet they died despairing. No glory, no brave last words,... only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning "Why?" ...I do not think they were asking why they were dieing, yet why they had ever lived. When life its' self seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too pratical may be madness, to surrender dreams -this may be madness, to see treasure where there is only trash; too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all! To see life as it is, and not as it should be!" -Don Miguel De Cervantes, "Man of La Mancha"

Blue Blur · Postby **Blue Blur** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:34 am

Well, now that it's been resurrected, I like this lyric. (Actually, I just like Bob Dylan's music as a whole, but nonetheless)

johndoe0028 · Postby **johndoe0028** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:58 am

"He's got MAMMOTH HANDS!.......oh wait..." [Hold hands up in a menacing gesture, then kinda helplessly drop to side] --ME

DesertFoxCat · Postby **DesertFoxCat** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:15 am

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman." - Alice Walker

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:01 pm

Any gift that cannot be thrown away is not a gift at all but a trap. --paraphrased from a scholar in Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Of course, this doesn't account for video games where you pick up an indisposable item that offers no drawbacks whatsoever.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:14 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Roberts Rules of Order)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> If a question or series of questions (including motions on which the Previous Question has been ordered) ceases to be the pending business before all of the motions affected by the oeder have been voted on, execution of the order is said to be interrupted.</td></tr></table>   <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (CRC Standard Mathematical Tables)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Involute of Circle: x = r*sin(theta) + r*theta*sin(theta) and y = r*sin(theta) - r*theta*cos(theta)</td></tr></table>

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