Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Adams
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Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
Mark Twain
Mr Twain has come up with many a good quote but this is the one that I think of when the boredspelling nazispedants start there wineing.Coffee's for closersComment
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Nicely done SC.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsOriginally posted by vetranComment
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It could have come from either I suppose, but Winston said it first...Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostWhat? OUR Churchill or that other bloke?
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
Thomas JeffersonComment
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'Boiiing'
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("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to WorkComment
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"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
From The House at Pooh Corner
Anyone else see a similarity with Zeity's early morning trek to work?Comment
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"You've got to be bad enough to beat the brave"
-OasisComment
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"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville.sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice - Asimov (sort of)
there is no art in a factory, not even in an art factory - Mixerman
everyone is stupid some of the time - trad.Comment
their whining
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