Quote Of The Day
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Amazing how pertinent that is today.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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JFK, the last good Democrat. 😉
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Yeah, you can lead a horse to water but u=you can't make him drink.
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@Rdp77 said:
Concern should drive us to action and not into depression.
~PythagorasI’m not depressed, just in a square root.
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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At the start of Homer’s Odyssey, Zeus laments: ‘See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.’
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"The past is history, the future a mystery, and the present is a gift"
--Eleanor Roosevelt.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain5 -
"Discpline is only a rabble-rouser's shout from anarchy!"
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"Certain things really do belong to Caesar, and other things most emphatically do not. One of the things that does not belong to him is defining what things belong to him."
Douglas Wilson"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis8 -
“Bridge, what bridge”
Ted Kennedy
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Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.
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"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens
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@silvermouse said:
Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.That almost makes it sound like beliefs are bad, and being bound is something to be avoided.
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@peter4jc said:
@silvermouse said:
Beliefs are self-imposed. To accept or deny them binds us further.That almost makes it sound like beliefs are bad, and being bound is something to be avoided.
Or they are neither good or bad, our actions will force them into a category
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"I wish people would be consistent in their beliefs about issues regardless of which party supports or opposes it, as opposed to just rooting for their side to win, by any means necessary."
Amen
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain5 -
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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"We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows."
--Bertrand Russell
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." --Marcus Aurelius
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain5 -
We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.
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"There is nothing more confining than the prison we don’t know we are in.” I
--Shakespear
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"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
--Origin unknown, traced back to the Wycliffe Bible, but not as Gospel. Interesting.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
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"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
“Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.”
— Roger Scruton
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