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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by uncle phil, Aug 15, 2011.

  1. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson​
     
  2. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."
    -Philip Crosby​
     
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  3. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The investigation of Nature in the unbiased light of reason is our only guide to truth."
    -Giordano Bruno​
     
  4. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
    -Nietzsche​
     
  5. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
    -Henry David Thoreau​
     
  6. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "A very popular error, having the courage of one's convictions. It is rather a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."​

    -Friedrich Nietzsche​
     
  7. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."
    -Anthony J. D'Angelo​
     
  8. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
    -Dale Carnegie​
     
  9. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy."
    -Dean Koontz​
     
  10. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."
    -Lao-Tzu​
     
  11. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."
    -Robert P. Vanderpoel​
     
  12. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
    -Chinese Proverb​
     
  13. Zweiblumen

    Zweiblumen Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Iceland
    "Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!"
     
  14. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
    -George E. Woodberry​
     
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    β€œDon't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

    Dr. Seuss...
     
  16. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

    He who asks is a fool for five minutes. He he never asks remains a fool forever.

    --Chinese Proverb
     
  17. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
    -William Clifford​
     
  18. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
    -Justice Louis Brandeis​
     
  19. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "You point your finger at the moon, the fool stares at your finger."
    -Chinese Proverb​
     
  20. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

    It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights β€” the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery β€” hay and a barn for human cattle.

    --P.J. O'Rourke