Quote Of The Day
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@silvermouse said:
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
--SocratesMy first wife's dad had that one on the wall in his restaurant.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
Never wrestle a pig, you both end up covered in mud, only the pig enjoys it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain5 -
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
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"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few."
-- Shunryu Suzuki"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain3 -
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.~ John McCrae
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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^^ What a great Memorial Day poem!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain6 -
_ ....It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...._ - A. Lincoln, 1863
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — “Self-Reliance” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's such a gray, gloomy day."
"Aye, but dinna ye see the patch of blue?"
Scottish shoemaker
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
Baltasar Gracian
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@silvermouse said:
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.Baltasar Gracian
I read a lot of stuff from Oswald Chambers. He was around in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and he uses a phrase that the above quote reminds me of: "the band of finality". It was probably a colloquialism from that day, and he used it to warn people not to be too firm in their opinions.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis0 -
"the band of finality". Much more creative and concise. I will look up Chambers.
I tried looking for the quote but it stumped the search engine, a rare occurrence. Best it could do wasMeet The Band: Finality
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LOL. Typo. Should've been the "bane of finality" with the word bane implying a curse or the cause of harm or ruin.
Google AI says it like this: If you are referring to the conceptual phrase, the "bane of finality" refers to the suffocating nature of rigid, closed-minded perspectives—where absolute certainty shuts out the possibility of growth or spontaneity.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis0 -
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
- Voltaire
From 1440
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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@peter4jc said:
LOL. Typo. Should've been the "bane of finality" with the word bane implying a curse or the cause of harm or ruin.Google AI says it like this: If you are referring to the conceptual phrase, the "bane of finality" refers to the suffocating nature of rigid, closed-minded perspectives—where absolute certainty shuts out the possibility of growth or spontaneity.
Thanks for the correction. Bane is more direct but band is also interesting implying a group of the inflexible.
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From 1440:
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
- Muhammad Ali
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.'
--Sextus Empiricus5 -
"It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to resolve problems without violence."
~unattributed
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5
