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    • OnairdaO
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      @that_was_easy:

      Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Anonymous

      Great idea Giles for starting this thread!!  I love it. I have so many
      Ok, some of my favorites:

      "Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way"  Captain Benjamin L. Willard Apocalypse now

      "No man can work harder than a mule, but a mule cannot drink wine" My father, roughly translated from Portuguese

      "A free man blames no one when he fails" Anonymous

      "Real recognize real" Jadakiss

      "Get in where you fit in" Too Short

      "I think because he wants to be, i think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get" Barack Obama's half brother in Kenya

      "You're the architect, you tell me!" My boss …..... ugh

      women are jenga crossword puzzle rubix cubes strapped onto terrorists who are screaming at you in another language

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      • gollottiG
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        Onairda - I like your father quote

        Favorite quotes from Julia Childs:

        "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."

        "If you're afraid of butter, use cream."

        "Life itself is the proper binge."

        "Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

        "How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?"

        "The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit. "

        "Everything in moderation… including moderation."

        "Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!"

        "The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."

        "We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively."

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        • BlackheartB
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          " It's not what you do, it's how you look while you're doing it. "  - David Lee Roth

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            "The Greatest Wealth is Health" - Virgil, the classical Roman poet.

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            • hastyH
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              "When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom." Larry David

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                In my last job I had a 'work experience' chap working alongside me. He used to crack me up - always coming out with wacky stuff. Two of his gems that I remember are - 'No problem's too small to run away from' and, 'It wasn't qualifications that got me where I am now'.  🙂

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                  All of these sayings are those of  James Anthony Froude (23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) – an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine

                  -We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
                  My dad, who was a psychiatrist, used to quote this one all the time. Daddy died young - RIP. But this one is pretty much drilled into my head, I can't ever shake it. But the good thing is…it always gives me a feeling of contented resignment and peace. My strong belief in this one is why I'll always remain single. The person who makes me feel least alone in this world is my Mum...but most likely, I'll last on earth a lot longer than she will.

                  -The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

                  -Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

                  -Human improvement is from within outward.

                  -Fear is the parent of cruelty.

                  -As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

                  -The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

                  -Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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                    Another favorite of mine, quotes from the ingenious Woody Allen (do I need to explain him ?). I can watch his movies over and over again without getting bored. He put NYC (Manhattan) on the map and in the minds of suburban Americana way before "Sex In The City" did.

                    • Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

                    • Eighty percent of success is showing up.

                    • I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

                    • I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

                    • I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

                    • I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

                    • I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

                    • If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

                    • If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

                    • In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

                    • Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

                    • Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

                    • Marriage is the death of hope.

                    • Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

                    • Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

                    • The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

                    • There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

                    • You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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                    • GeoG
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                      Been doing a fair bit of reading recently and somehow ended up reading European history and also semiotics

                      A quote that appeared in both subjects was " . . . verbum e verbo sed sensum exprimere de sensu" (St Jerome)

                      Ironically itself, something that in translating should not be translated

                      Basically it's why we sort of understand what the feck Seul is usually banging on about but have no clue as to why . . . 😉

                      Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                      • B
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                        The one that really does stick with me and stops me from becoming a complete c**t is this:

                        “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

                        Lord knows I need to remind myself regularly of this when trying to find a parking space or queueing up in a french supermarket. I do believe i'd have killed someone by now had it not been for these immortal words.

                        Oh and this one always brings a smile to my face:

                        “Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
                        Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.” Winston Churchill

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                        • GeoG
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                          That's a very balanced view Bertoni

                          Do you also subscribe to Non-possession?

                          It is one of the principles of Satyagraha that Gandhi also preached.

                          If that's the case then I'd be happy to receive your IH gear . . . I think we're about the same size . . .

                          Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                          • madmondayM
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                            glad to read you Geo, i see back to your old tricks  😉

                            head high, middle finger higher

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                            • GeoG
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                              I can only be what I am Monday, my friend, but I can also learn from the forum trick-meister . . . thanks sir 😉

                              Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                              • PomitoP
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                                "Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."
                                Homer Simpson

                                Illegitimi non carborundum

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                                  @Geo:

                                  That's a very balanced view Bertoni

                                  Do you also subscribe to Non-possession?

                                  It is one of the principles of Satyagraha that Gandhi also preached.

                                  If that's the case then I'd be happy to receive your IH gear . . . I think we're about the same size . . .

                                  Nice try my friend, nice try 😉 I couldn't ever subscribe to a no-possession philosophy…not sure many today could. I do however try and buy products that are local and seasonal (vegetables, fruit and until recently Atelier LaDurance gear!) or made in a non exploitative manner and of high quality (that's what i'm doin hanging around here). I don't buy much but what I do buy tends to respect these criteria where possible (don't rate my chances of finding an ethical, non-exploitative high quality tv!).
                                  If YOU decide to get all "non-possessional" though (I hear it's VERY rewarding spiritually ;)), please forward your nice threads to my good self 🙂

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                                  • GeoG
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                                    That'll be right! I like stuff too much 🙂

                                    Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                                      What, even those shoddy Ditas and terrible fitting IH shirts, oh and the Mister Freedom jacket you just got which i'm sure looks just atrocious 😉 Come on, just get rid….

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                                      • SeulS
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                                        Feeling you on a lot of things there, bertoni… I have thé most luck with my local veggie/ hippy shop... Fresh (veg) burgers, outrageously heavyweighing sour dough based bread (and tons to choose between), lovely huge chunks of tempeh; the lot...
                                        And yeah: I'm trying to get only high quality, ethically made gear in my life... Or just buy the non-ethical stuff 2ndhand...

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                                          I'll always pay that bit extra for the good stuff.  😉

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                                          • GeoG
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                                            . . . If something is genuinely worth the money then it's genuinely worth having . . . Even a shoddy pair of ditas and some poorly fitting IH shirts (and multiple mister freedom products)

                                            And that goes for food and drink too - nothing like a good bottle of wine and some well farmed meat (sorry Seul)

                                            Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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