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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    Just learned my grand nephew has COVID.

    @Yakster

    Just going back through some of my posts to see if I could find something that could have been construed as spam (the reason for my recent posting problems), and I saw this post. How is your grand-nephew doing? I hope he is well.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He's good, limited symptoms and it wasn't spread to everyone.

    Join us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “History shows us we need labels to help define our place. For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. ”
    Sejal Badani

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”

    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

  • peter4jc
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    When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Pray twice as much as you fret. Listen twice as much as you speak. God has forgiven you; you’d be wise to do the same. Once a week, let a child take you on a walk. Only harbor a grudge when God does. Never let the important be the victim of the trivial.

    Just some ideas on my list. Why don’t you compile your own?

    Max Lucado

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

  • Rdp77
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    Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams. ~Victor Hugo

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2023

    "People who go around saying 'Words hurt' have never been punched in the face."
    --Chris Rock

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    ‘The beautiful is that which we desire without wishing to eat it.’

    --Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1947):

    False. Beef is beautiful.

  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    False beef is beautiful.

    --TrayB

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Stubble, punctuation matters!

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ^^If I could, I'd hit insightful, agree, like, vote up, and awesome^^

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"

    • Martin Luther

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hobbes86 , did he say anything about bourbon?

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:
    He is not here…

    Matthew 28:6, right?

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.> @peter4jc said:

    @Rdp77 said:
    He is not here…

    Matthew 28:6, right?

    Russell 4:9

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives

    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:

    @Rdp77 said:
    He is not here…

    Matthew 28:6, right?

    Yes sir

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    from an opinion post here:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opinion/walking-hiking-spring.html

    Hippocrates proclaimed that “walking is man’s best medicine.” The good doctor also knew that walking provided more than mere physical benefits when he suggested: “If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.”

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “The reason why conspiracy theories are so psychologically attractive is because they use clever tricks that the mind is partly predisposed to want to accept.”
    Psychologist Sander van der Linden