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It's the people that are the problem. So, if you want to do your part to reduce greenhouse gases, you must stop breathing.

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I know a few people I'd like to volunteer for this emissions reduction plan.

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True. However:

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"I�m trying to recall events that happened eighteen months ago, I�m afraid that I let myself be influenced by others� recollections, not my own.... The only honest answer is to state that try as I might, I cannot recall anything whatsoever about whether I approved an Israeli sale in advance or whether I approved replenishment of Israeli stocks around August of 1985. My answer therefore and the simple truth is, �I don�t remember, period.�"

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*shrug* In eighteen months, I'll have probably forgotten the details of my transaction with the Israeli that's buying my VDx, so who am I to judge?

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Trying to get this thread back on topic... ;)

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
- John Maynard Keynes

And from our dearly departed friend:

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Originally posted by mensachicken
Those who love us love us. Those who do not love us, may god turn their hearts. If he cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.
--i forget who said this one.

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We have that saying on a plaque on our wall. Its author just says "An old Celtic Blessing".


Here's my saying:
"If you always point out the obvious, you will never be wrong." -- Me

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Originally posted by Toby


Actually...
"Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Zappa

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While I expect he said that too, I've read at least five interviews where he said the other thing.

Including this one, from 1988.
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~pno/Music/Zappa/Interview.html

But thanks, I'm adding that to my list.


(short time later)

egad, I never expected posting a silly statement (allegedly) from a former president could engage so much debate.

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""But, I'm afraid !", Nicole Kidman
"Pretend you're starting out in life, instead of finishing up.", Tom Cruise
-from Far and Away,movie

"Straight guys don't dance.
We only dance to get in your pants."
-Tom Leykis, radio commentator

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him."

"I can find beauty in any man and let me tell you IT'S A CURSE!" - from KuKuKellie

and my favorite from a girlfriend when I asked how she was doing with her new boyfriend,
"Oh, we have a LOVE/HATE relationship, we both love him and hate me."

Oh god, she cracks me up. She has since moved on, married, started a networking company, sold it BEFORE the crash, and netted 21 million. Life's amazing ain't it?

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sorry, now you got me started...

"I can not live without books." Thomas Jefferson

"An expert is a man who has made all possible mistakes in a very small field."
-Niels Bohr, Nobel prizewinning physicist
the first to apply the quantum theory to atomic structure.

"You are the yolk of my egg."
-my husband

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While I expect he said that too, I've read at least five interviews where he said the other thing.

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If you're interested, this site has a bunch of quotes:

www.aphorismsgalore.com

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The king of all quotations

GOD LIKELY LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE, AND SAYS: "WHY CAN'T MORE PEOPLE BE LIKE BKBK"? -- bkbk

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more quotes....

"We have met the enemy and he is ours!"

Lord Wellington on having defeated Napoleon at Waterloo


"We have met the enemy and he is us!"

Pogo the Possum in Walt Kelley's comic strip "Pogo". This was actually a commentary on pollution.

"I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!!"

Curly (of Three Stooges fame)

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From "Purple Rain"
The night club owner speaking to Prince (The Kid)

"Oh buddy, what a f***ing waste".

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or is she beautiful because you love her?

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I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. - Robert J. Oppenheimer

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Originally posted by sowens
Isn't this from some Hindu text?"

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