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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor
He's got a ton of great quotes.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis5 -
"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy...I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
--George Bernard Shaw
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. (Albert Einstein)
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"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
— Oscar Wilde
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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho
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How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.
Steve Maraboli
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I like it. I'd probably exchange Beyonce for Einstein and Oprah for Chuck Norris, but I like it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
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The Man On The Middle Cross Said I Could Come
Never Attribute To Malice What Can Be Attributed To Incompetence7 -
I wasn't quite sure where to put this, so here it is. In the past few weeks I've watched numerous Netflix and History Channel documentaries about the American Revolution and WW2. Somewhere in that mix was the comment about military thinking:
"Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics."
Made me think about Ron @Diver43 's signature line. How true!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
"He who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
Seneca
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis3 -
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They neglected to mention plain old good luck.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain3 -
Regarding the iceberg, good luck should have been mentioned, but it is above the water line and part of what everyone sees.
Regarding the Thomas Sowell quote, I'd argue the stupidity is real, not artificial. Although, perhaps only ignorance is real and can be corrected by education, while stupidity is indeed artificial in this particular instance.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain0 -
From 1440...
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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^^^ except when it comes to cigars.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis7 -
The great thing is to suffer without being discouraged.
Fenelon
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If you pick something up and then it slips out of your hand, you weren't meant to have it.
--mother bear
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Time the Devourer: Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.234-6“Time, devourer of everything, and you, hateful old age, you destroy everything and bit by bit you consume all those things which have been mangled by the teeth of the passing age.”
tempus edax rerum, tuque, invidiosa vetustas,
omnia destruitis vitiataque dentibus aevi 235
paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte!6 -
I feel that mangling, too.
It's a real paradox in my head: the effects of mortality in the here and now - the unwillingness to give in to it, the futility of fighting against it, and the realization that we're only pilgrims on this Earth.
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he
did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
- Muhammad Ali
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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"One half of the ills of Life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts."
Pascal
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis6 -
I deed!, also this:
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller0
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