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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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          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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                                I take it said items are keepers then eh mate? Ah well it was worth a shot. I genuinely think people are starting to wake up. The days of Primark and H&M are hopefully numbered as quality makes a comeback 😉

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                                • GeoG
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                                  sorry dude - i am happy enough to buy IH gear from the forum, but it is highly unlikely I will ever part with what i have now

                                  . . . as for the ditas - well they've got me into the trouble i'm in . . . refer to our conversation in that thread . . . so i'll only be adding to the range

                                  however - i do agree, we've had a decade or so of cheap consumerism, and i think a lot of folks have learned to figure out what's good and what wants to masquerade as good

                                  so i guess getting back to the topic

                                  "Quality is not an act, it is a habit" . . . Aristotle

                                  Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                                  • GilesG
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                                    Jakes Saloon, Lone Pine, CA

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • GilesG
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                                      A couple form Las Vegas, that had a certain resonance…..

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      • GeoG
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                                        “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” - Henny Youngman

                                        Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity

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                                        • SeulS
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                                          "I only drink for medical reasons!.. I'm sick… sick of being sober!.." - Tommy Cooper

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                                          • hecticH
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                                            My frined sent me this today:

                                            “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

                                            Theodore Roosevelt.

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