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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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Originally Posted by Half Smoke
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"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, 1995
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I like this one...my critics would call that irony...I would reply double irony
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05-29-2023, 04:14 PM
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#227
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Educated Speculation
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Where Palm Trees Sway
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"Suppose you were an idot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself."
- Mark Twain
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"Horse Sense" is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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05-29-2023, 04:19 PM
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#228
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Unreconstructed
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Appalachia
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
― William Faulkner
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Deo Vindice
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06-04-2023, 05:56 AM
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#229
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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"it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken"
Frank Perdue
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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06-06-2023, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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"Money don't get everything it's true
But what it don't get I can't use"
The Temptations
"What good is Happiness___?
It can't buy money"
Mad Magazine
"But I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love"
The Beatles
"Whoever said that money can't buy Happiness
Doesn't know where to go shopping"
Bo Derek
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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06-10-2023, 03:07 PM
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#231
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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06-10-2023, 04:58 PM
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Librocubicularist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
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Sapere aude
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06-10-2023, 06:19 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
Posts: 112,787
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Quotes from the future
Donald Trump, January 2025, right after taking the oath of office for his second term
'Pardon ME!"
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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06-11-2023, 05:18 AM
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"If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in shapes of your own choosing.
Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself"
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George Orwell in his book 1984
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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06-15-2023, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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Everybody wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants to die
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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06-27-2023, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: May 2020
Location: New Jersey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Half Smoke
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Everybody wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants to die.
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I am not afraid of dying.
I just don't want to be around when it happens.
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06-27-2023, 07:55 PM
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Spot Player
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 259
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08-03-2023, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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Jack Dempsey was nicknamed "the angry hobo"
before becoming a legit pro he fought anytime, anywhere - for as little as $5.00 - mining camps, bars, and boxcars
he said:
"When you haven't eaten in two days you'll understand
You could have hit me on the the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars"
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
Last edited by Half Smoke; 08-03-2023 at 06:50 AM.
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08-05-2023, 05:11 AM
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#239
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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"I'm like King Midas in reverse - everything I touch turns to sh**"
Tony Soprano
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believe only half of what you see.....and nothing that you hear..................Edgar Allan Poe
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08-07-2023, 03:59 PM
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#240
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.
And neither do we."
George Bush
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