CAMELOT FANTASIES
CAMELOT FANTASIES => EMMA'S CAFE => Topic started by: Emma on December 08, 2013, 06:31:45 pm
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-----Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchals
I love this because it's so true. What do we really know? TBH.
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I spoke with her this morning.
she was sipping tea and working on her art at the time.
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Oh you meet with people all sorts of ways. That's pretty cool.
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this one is attributed to lady Skylar Blake. she is a cool lady I met on twitter:
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One who knows himself, knows God.
- Prophet Muhammad
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. - Muhammad Ali
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -
Albert Einstein
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
Life is either a great adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
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Hey guys, have you ever heard of the great Sufi Rumi?
Here's a couple of poems I am in love with but all of them are just as brilliant and out of this world. I hope you like it. I am forever in love with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVBGv2hpQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwJm-RPhNE
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“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."
The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"
The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
absolutely brilliant stuff.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants
tags: bossypants, tina-fey
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The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
--------Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
That's awesome!
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“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."
The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"
The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
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Some great quotes, CD.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
------J.B. Priestley
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Human reason is like a drunken man horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
----------Martin Luther
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
-------Stephen Leacock
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The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
--------Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
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Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
------Josh Billings
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
-------Edward Gibbon
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
-----Robert Quillen
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-----Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchals
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Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
Really? I think that some people are unlovable. Someone may love them, even the serial killer is defended by someone, but the ordinary human does not love everyone, even if that is the goal. TBH, some people can rub you the wrong way, sometimes without reason. You just know that this person is looking for your destruction, and it's hard to love someone that way.
But then, it begs the question, what is love, besides a vague term? Love means different things to different people. For the abused individual it may mean affection, for the independent person it may mean trust.
Although I bear no one any ill will. I cannot say that I love everyone, some people never touch my heart, in this case politeness will do.
I was talking in terms of love vs politeness. Love is the fundamental truth or reality. Politeness is just an aspect of the human mind. For example, relationships are expressed through love and not politeness. I don't think a mother loves her children because she's trying to be polite to them but the fact that, she loves them and often times, their love is unconditional. As in, it doesn't attach any condition to it - like for example, conditions like, if you are polite to me, in return I'll be polite to you. Anyway, that's how one defines the term of love and it's never vague as I have clearly defined it.
Didn't Jesus love all even his enemies btw? In fact, all the great ones past or present talk about love and almost never politeness.
Also, how do you define politeness? I can be polite to you but in truth I may not even like and probably cursing in my head? I don't think you can fake love that way. Also, a loving person is typically polite.
You can be polite to everyone if you choose it I suppose and not necessarily love everyone, but that doesn't mean you are being true to your feelings. Love means being true to your feelings. Even if you love only two people, you truly love these people; therefore, you are being true to your feelings. On the other hand, you can be polite to everyone but you are most probably not being true to your feelings. You probably hate most of them. lol (nothing personal just thought that was funny!). Everything is a matter of perception anyway. The person you hate is probably loved by many. Anyway, there's only one fundamental truth or reality out there and that's love. But of course it is also the greatest mystery of all.
Anyway, we can definitely agree to disagree as well. :)
We need jesse james here, herc!
well we can always send him a pm at tennis4you emma.
I don't think he will listen to me. I think you can invite him to Emma's café for a cup of coffee and a little friendly chat.
and hopefully he will warm up to this place.
lets face the facts: tennis4you is like a graveyard. it is nearly dead.
at least we have a few people here that can one can interact with.
we also a hell of a lot cleaner than other forums. this place is simple to navigate and easy on the eye.
there is something for everybody here.
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I love this.
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Can someone repost these? They're awfully beautiful and it gets lost in text only.
I can do this from home and will do it. My work pc doesn't allow any proxy servers.
Thanks, Emma. You're such a sweetheart.
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Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
Really? I think that some people are unlovable. Someone may love them, even the serial killer is defended by someone, but the ordinary human does not love everyone, even if that is the goal. TBH, some people can rub you the wrong way, sometimes without reason. You just know that this person is looking for your destruction, and it's hard to love someone that way.
But then, it begs the question, what is love, besides a vague term? Love means different things to different people. For the abused individual it may mean affection, for the independent person it may mean trust.
Although I bear no one any ill will. I cannot say that I love everyone, some people never touch my heart, in this case politeness will do.
I was talking in terms of love vs politeness. Love is the fundamental truth or reality. Politeness is just an aspect of the human mind. For example, relationships are expressed through love and not politeness. I don't think a mother loves her children because she's trying to be polite to them but the fact that, she loves them and often times, their love is unconditional. As in, it doesn't attach any condition to it - like for example, conditions like, if you are polite to me, in return I'll be polite to you. Anyway, that's how one defines the term of love and it's never vague as I have clearly defined it.
Didn't Jesus love all even his enemies btw? In fact, all the great ones past or present talk about love and almost never politeness.
Also, how do you define politeness? I can be polite to you but in truth I may not even like and probably cursing in my head? I don't think you can fake love that way. Also, a loving person is typically polite.
You can be polite to everyone if you choose it I suppose and not necessarily love everyone, but that doesn't mean you are being true to your feelings. Love means being true to your feelings. Even if you love only two people, you truly love these people; therefore, you are being true to your feelings. On the other hand, you can be polite to everyone but you are most probably not being true to your feelings. You probably hate most of them. lol (nothing personal just thought that was funny!). Everything is a matter of perception anyway. The person you hate is probably loved by many. Anyway, there's only one fundamental truth or reality out there and that's love. But of course it is also the greatest mystery of all.
Anyway, we can definitely agree to disagree as well. :)
We need jesse james here, herc!
Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
Really? I think that some people are unlovable. Someone may love them, even the serial killer is defended by someone, but the ordinary human does not love everyone, even if that is the goal. TBH, some people can rub you the wrong way, sometimes without reason. You just know that this person is looking for your destruction, and it's hard to love someone that way.
But then, it begs the question, what is love, besides a vague term? Love means different things to different people. For the abused individual it may mean affection, for the independent person it may mean trust.
Although I bear no one any ill will. I cannot say that I love everyone, some people never touch my heart, in this case politeness will do.
I was talking in terms of love vs politeness. Love is the fundamental truth or reality. Politeness is just an aspect of the human mind. For example, relationships are expressed through love and not politeness. I don't think a mother loves her children because she's trying to be polite to them but the fact that, she loves them and often times, their love is unconditional. As in, it doesn't attach any condition to it - like for example, conditions like, if you are polite to me, in return I'll be polite to you. Anyway, that's how one defines the term of love and it's never vague as I have clearly defined it.
Didn't Jesus love all even his enemies btw? In fact, all the great ones past or present talk about love and almost never politeness.
Also, how do you define politeness? I can be polite to you but in truth I may not even like and probably cursing in my head? I don't think you can fake love that way. Also, a loving person is typically polite.
You can be polite to everyone if you choose it I suppose and not necessarily love everyone, but that doesn't mean you are being true to your feelings. Love means being true to your feelings. Even if you love only two people, you truly love these people; therefore, you are being true to your feelings. On the other hand, you can be polite to everyone but you are most probably not being true to your feelings. You probably hate most of them. lol (nothing personal just thought that was funny!). Everything is a matter of perception anyway. The person you hate is probably loved by many. Anyway, there's only one fundamental truth or reality out there and that's love. But of course it is also the greatest mystery of all.
Anyway, we can definitely agree to disagree as well. :)
We need jesse james here, herc!
Yeah, we probably disagree. I do think there is an unconditional love, the one you have for the person who rears you, and for your child, because you can't turn that kind of love off...
But, when it comes to others we seem to fall out of love with those who disappoint us. Then, you wonder did you love the person if you were able to leave them and move on?
I know Jesus is love, but Jesus is also perfect. I am not. I have many limitations of which I am well aware.
Personally, I think some things substitute for love, for example, look at the reasons that people marry, many times it's external things, physical appearance, lust, economic stability, etc.
I say this because I have been fond of people, but love? I'm not so sure. So for me, politeness suffices.
These are the questions that plague me.
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I love this.
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Can someone repost these? They're awfully beautiful and it gets lost in text only.
I can do this from home and will do it. My work pc doesn't allow any proxy servers.
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Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
Really? I think that some people are unlovable. Someone may love them, even the serial killer is defended by someone, but the ordinary human does not love everyone, even if that is the goal. TBH, some people can rub you the wrong way, sometimes without reason. You just know that this person is looking for your destruction, and it's hard to love someone that way.
But then, it begs the question, what is love, besides a vague term? Love means different things to different people. For the abused individual it may mean affection, for the independent person it may mean trust.
Although I bear no one any ill will. I cannot say that I love everyone, some people never touch my heart, in this case politeness will do.
I was talking in terms of love vs politeness. Love is the fundamental truth or reality. Politeness is just an aspect of the human mind. For example, relationships are expressed through love and not politeness. I don't think a mother loves her children because she's trying to be polite to them but the fact that, she loves them and often times, their love is unconditional. As in, it doesn't attach any condition to it - like for example, conditions like, if you are polite to me, in return I'll be polite to you. Anyway, that's how one defines the term of love and it's never vague as I have clearly defined it.
Didn't Jesus love all even his enemies btw? In fact, all the great ones past or present talk about love and almost never politeness.
Also, how do you define politeness? I can be polite to you but in truth I may not even like and probably cursing in my head? I don't think you can fake love that way. Also, a loving person is typically polite.
You can be polite to everyone if you choose it I suppose and not necessarily love everyone, but that doesn't mean you are being true to your feelings. Love means being true to your feelings. Even if you love only two people, you truly love these people; therefore, you are being true to your feelings. On the other hand, you can be polite to everyone but you are most probably not being true to your feelings. You probably hate most of them. lol (nothing personal just thought that was funny!). Everything is a matter of perception anyway. The person you hate is probably loved by many. Anyway, there's only one fundamental truth or reality out there and that's love. But of course it is also the greatest mystery of all.
Anyway, we can definitely agree to disagree as well. :)
We need jesse james here, herc!
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I love this.
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Can someone repost these? They're awfully beautiful and it gets lost in text only.
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that is great stuff lady TT. keep them coming.
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Click the link to read: I can't post images on this site. I have to look into that.
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Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
Really? I think that some people are unlovable. Someone may love them, even the serial killer is defended by someone, but the ordinary human does not love everyone, even if that is the goal. TBH, some people can rub you the wrong way, sometimes without reason. You just know that this person is looking for your destruction, and it's hard to love someone that way.
But then, it begs the question, what is love, besides a vague term? Love means different things to different people. For the abused individual it may mean affection, for the independent person it may mean trust.
Although I bear no one any ill will. I cannot say that I love everyone, some people never touch my heart, in this case politeness will do.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
--------Rabindernath Tagore
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The heavens call to you, and circle around you, displaying to you their eternal splendours, and your eyes gaze only to earth.
--------Dante
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The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.
-------William Blake, Night.
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I thought this was good.
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excellent stuff.
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Can't agree with Amit Kalantri there. Love triumphs all. It's the purest, strongest, strangest and the most mysterious emotion of all. In fact, it is said that God is made of unconditional love.
Politeness, on the other hand, can be fake. There are quite a few people in history who were very polite on the outside and a serial killer on the inside. Had they had love for other people they wouldn't have gone on mindless killing.
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“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
― George R.R. Martin
“You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.”
― Amit Kalantri
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I love my Krishnamurti stuff. I would have married him if had any interest in me but then again, he's waaaaaay too old for me, dead even. lol Perhaps in another life.
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Best of the bunch.
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Iz beautiful, no?
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I simply love solitude. It's very beautiful and peaceful - away from all that mundane daily stuff. By solitude I don't mean loneliness - two very different things. Loneliness is a product of the mind that contains fear, hate, unhappiness, neediness etc. It has this constant desire for others' love, affection, attention etc. And when it doesn't get it, it falls into depression. And the more it seeks all those, the severe the depression becomes.
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The seasons....are authentic; there is no mistake about them, they are what a symphony ought to be; four perfect movements in intimate harmony with each other.
---------Arthur Rubinstein
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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
-----Herodotus
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that is great stuff lady TT. keep them coming.
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
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If it is to be, it's up to me. Williams H. Johnson
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“I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: ‘Who are You?’ He said: ‘You.’"
-- Mansur Al-Hallaj
Mansur Al-Hallaj was one of the most controversial Sufis in the history of Sufism. He was brutally tortured and executed for saying, "Ana al Haq" which means "I am God" or "I am the truth".
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attention.
-------Oscar Wilde
That's very true. It seems to hold true in most cases, except for me. I'm charming, but never been spoiled.
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Fortune favors the brave.
-------Terence, Phormio
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Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
-------Anonymous Arab Proverb
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The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
------Bertrand Russell
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attention.
-------Oscar Wilde
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-------Victor Hugo
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You can't shoot an idea.
------Thomas E. Dewey
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excellent stuff.
I keep forgetting to make my contributions. I will add some tonight before I hit the sack.
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this is an awesome thread. I have been enjoying it.
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From Ramana Maharshi ...
--All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
--Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
--If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
--The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Some more from Krishnamurti...
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Nationalism is a disease.
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Some very meaningful quotes from George Bernard Shaw.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
-------Ben Hecht
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
-------Jules Renard
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
--------Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing his mind.
------Somerset Maugham
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
-----Prince Klemens von Metternich
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
-----James Russell Lowell
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
----Oscar Wilde
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Some of the most profound quotes in my opinion:
Know thyself. - Socrates
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Shakespeare
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Einstein
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. -Krishnamurti
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -Plato
What we think, we become. -Buddha
outstanding stuff.
keep it coming.
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
I love the second one. People think they're so wise, when in reality they're not very wise at all, because if they were, they wouldn't think they were so wise in the first place.
great stuff.
you folks have made this thread a super thread.
keep it coming.
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
------William Jennings Bryan
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
-----Robert Quillen
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The fool always reveals themselves, through words and deeds, but they don't realize it, because in their own mind they are wise.
The Truth
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some great stuff here.
keep it coming. I will also make a contribution shortly.
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
I love the second one. People think they're so wise, when in reality they're not very wise at all, because if they were, they wouldn't think they were so wise in the first place.
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Some of the most profound quotes in my opinion:
Know thyself. - Socrates
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Gandhi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Shakespeare
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Einstein
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. -Krishnamurti
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -Plato
What we think, we become. -Buddha
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Being too kind is not a weakness, because it exposes those who are deceitful. He is smart to not go against his own nature and retaliate, because he has used those things which are in his control (himself, his feelings, and his temper) by using his racket to show them who he is, as opposed to who they tried to tell the masses he was.
From day one, they painted Nadal as a villian, a cheater (on trumped up charges), 1. his coach talks to him, like 99% of the other coaches on tour. 2. He takes too much time, a "rule" that has never ever been enacted, just look at any old match and you'll see that not once was a player called for ever going over twenty seconds. His OCDness, his bottles, his bum picking, etc. Yet, no one noticed Agassi blowing snot rockets all over the place? Give me a break.
In spite of their veiled attacks, Nadal is one of the most beloved athletes on the planet. His "clay-court only" claim denied by five off clay majors, more than Hewitt, Rafter, Safin, and other non clay courters too numerous to mention.
And now, in the reign of Roger, their golden child, he has shown us what true greatness is.
No. He did it right, and the finale has not yet been written. It just goes to show you how people who think they know so much, in reality know very little, because no one has all the answers to the mysteries of life, and if they think they do, they are only putting their own ignorance on display for the world to see.
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“The secret of the tremendous appeal [Nadal] has worldwide is that you can see he is as passionate as [John] McEnroe was, but he has the self-control of [Bjorn] Borg, the cold-blooded killer. To be both in one is a contradiction, and that’s what Rafa is.”
Carlos Moya
but I also think he is too damn kind.
that has to do with the way he was raised.
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“The secret of the tremendous appeal [Nadal] has worldwide is that you can see he is as passionate as [John] McEnroe was, but he has the self-control of [Bjorn] Borg, the cold-blooded killer. To be both in one is a contradiction, and that’s what Rafa is.”
Carlos Moya
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Adversity is the first path to the truth.
This is good too. Great finds, CD.
------Lord Byron, Don Juan
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If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no spring.
------St. John Chrysostom
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A wounded deer---leaps highest.
-------Emily Dickinson
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Adversity is the first path to the truth.
------Lord Byron, Don Juan
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
-----Henry J. Kaiser
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
----Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, IV, ii
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it is pretty cool. I like it too.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
---Jonathan Swift
My personal favorite!
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A dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
---Jonathan Swift
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
---Alexander Pope
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
---Mark Twain
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Good merchandise, even when hidden, soon finds buyers.
----Plautus
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart; What jailer so inexorable as one's self.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
by G.K. Chesterton
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"Music washes away from soul the dust of everyday life".
**I have no idea who said this first.
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I am enjoying this super thread.
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is such a true quote!
"Ignore the world whose wisdom comes from mere mortals, who themselves have but a minute here on earth."
The Truth
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -Plato
Plato there completely grasped it. There's no evil or darkness in the sense people tend to think about it. Just like darkness is the absence of light - evil is the lack of awareness. You don't fight darkness with light; you just bring light into darkness. Therefore, you make it aware.
And good or light consists of awareness, love, truth, justice, beauty, innocence, understanding etc. Darkness or evil is the absence of all these archetype values. This Universe purposefully consists of good and evil and your free will is the access to each of this. In other words, you get to choose. And you become what you choose, so choose carefully my friends.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
Thomas Sowell
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. -
Socrates
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. -Wayne Dyer
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.- Plato
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And I will compliment yours with a quote from the great Plato.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -Plato
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul! ;D
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
Hola my dearest Propstoart. It is so good to see you here. I hope all's well with you and you are dandy. :)
See, I've always found Socrates to be slightly naughty as well because of the comments he had made re: marriage but if you look into his life, you'll see he had reasons for those comments. It turns out, his wife would send him off to do some groceries, but Socrates - the philosopher that he was, would often find himself in a group of people telling them to ask the bigger questions in life and then he'd go on to lecture about those questions and their possible answers. And all this would make him forget why he was out on the road in the first place. So as a result, he would always find his wife standing at the door with a broomstick giving him very cold and long looks, because sure enough, once again, Socrates had forgotten to do the groceries. But in retrospect, Socrates after all, wasn't he marrying kind and neither him nor his wife, who btw thought he was quite incompetent when it came to household stuff, realized that. It makes me sad because all my life I have looked for a guy like him and all I can find is one hard materialist after another, alas. I would have worshiped Socrates had he been my husband! heck, he didn't have to even marry me. lol.
Hey, Emma! Yep, I'm enjoying learning about the great Socrates and his marital woes!! : )
I must admit, it feels good to chat about such deep stuff, after a week of mind-numbingly uninspiring work.
I got a quote for you by Maya Angelou:
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
I love this!
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Your God Is Not God - by Krisnamurti
A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs! So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army; yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness. As long as belief exists, there can never be the unknown; you cannot think about the unknown, thought cannot measure it. The mind is the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday, and can such a mind be open to the unknown? It can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your god is not God, it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification. There can be reality only when the mind understands the total process of itself and comes to an end. When the mind is completely empty-only then is it capable of receiving the unknown. The mind is not purged until it understands the content of relationship -its relationship with property, with people until it has established the right relationship with everything. Until it understands the whole process of conflict in relationship, the mind cannot be free. Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still -only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being.
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I'd like to get Jesse (james) here but he argues with me a bit much. Very argumentative his nature but still, he's knowledgeable and I respect that. We do have some threads for him to thrive on but chances are, he will probably go after me first. lol.
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Socrates teaching was quite radical and advanced for the people in his time hence the authority felt the need to remove him altogether from the picture. He was given hemlock based poison to drink and that's when he made this great remark, "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."
Notice how he mentions just God but not Gods though one of the accusations against him was that he introduced new deities and did not acknowledge the old ones. I thought that was interesting.
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul! ;D
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
Hola my dearest Propstoart. It is so good to see you here. I hope all's well with you and you are dandy. :)
See, I've always found Socrates to be slightly naughty as well because of the comments he had made re: marriage but if you look into his life, you'll see he had reasons for those comments. It turns out, his wife would send him off to do some groceries, but Socrates - the philosopher that he was, would often find himself in a group of people telling them to ask the bigger questions in life and then he'd go on to lecture about those questions and their possible answers. And all this would make him forget why he was out on the road in the first place. So as a result, he would always find his wife standing at the door with a broomstick giving him very cold and long looks, because sure enough, once again, Socrates had forgotten to do the groceries. But in retrospect, Socrates after all, wasn't he marrying kind and neither him nor his wife, who btw thought he was quite incompetent when it came to household stuff, realized that. It makes me sad because all my life I have looked for a guy like him and all I can find is one hard materialist after another, alas. I would have worshiped Socrates had he been my husband! heck, he didn't have to even marry me. lol.
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul! ;D
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
-Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
-Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
- Socrates
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-----Andrew Lang
This is exactly how I feel about statistics. They tell you everything, but the most important data...the context in which such stats are accumulated and what was going on in the acquisition of those stats.
My quote for the day:
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
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Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people--which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
----Dick Beddoes
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-----Andrew Lang
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
---Chinese Proverb
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he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
Wow!
I love this quote. I think this is spot on.
You can act like a fool, when you know you're not. It's only when you're acting like a fool and don't know it, is when it's bad.
Here's mine for the day:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
good one there.
keep them coming.
I will try to add more each day also.
quotes are cool. I use them in real life all the time.
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he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
Wow!
I love this quote. I think this is spot on.
You can act like a fool, when you know you're not. It's only when you're acting like a fool and don't know it, is when it's bad.
Here's mine for the day:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-----Eden Phillpots
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-----Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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he dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
---James Gibbons Huneker
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only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
---Allan Goldfein
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it is far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to be put out on the troubled seas of thought.
---John Kenneth Galbraith
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change your thoughts and you change your world.
--Norman Vincent Peale
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3tjIiWIkAQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3tjIiWIkAQ)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpf0y2Ezd0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpf0y2Ezd0)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2WJd5bXFg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2WJd5bXFg)
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He said, "All men are created equal" and that was the most important part of the speech.
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I love this speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8)
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Thank you! I love Oscar Wilde's quotes. Here's another one and I think it's a gem.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
That's a great one. I thought about that today.
Here's one I saw today.
Poverty is not an accident.
Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
Love Mandela. What a great person. May he live in our heart forever.
Here's one by the great Martin Luther King:
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
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Hey, my Quote thread is taking off. Good deal.
Hola Propstoart. Very good to see you here. Long time no talk.
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I like it general propstoart. excellent stuff.
I will post a few this evening.
well here is one for you general propstoart:
"unknowingly we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind
and we drink the universe in a glass of rain".
I cant remember who said this but it is one of my favorite quotes.
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a critic is a legless man who teaches running.
by Kenneth Tynan
Brilliant quote, General! Plenty of food for thought here :)
My humble contribution:
"Bondage to the land was the basis of villeinage in the old regime; bondage to the job will be the basis of villeinage in the new."
- William J Ghent, ‘Our Benevolent Feudalism’ (1902)
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there is no greater lie than a truth misunderstood.
---William James
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a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting is putting on its shoes.
by Mark Twain
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the essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
by David Storey
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a critic is a legless man who teaches running.
by Kenneth Tynan
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this is a great thread.
I will start contributing tomorrow.
here is one for starters:
"to escape criticism---do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing".
by Elbert Hubbard
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Thank you! I love Oscar Wilde's quotes. Here's another one and I think it's a gem.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
That's a great one. I thought about that today.
Here's one I saw today.
Poverty is not an accident.
Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
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Thank you! I love Oscar Wilde's quotes. Here's another one and I think it's a gem.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
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Great thread, Emma.
I love quotes. Here's mine.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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I'll start with a funny one.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. -Spike Milligan