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11-27-2004, 11:25 AM
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| | | Wise sentences
Write a wise sentence you think could help everybody.
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." Marcus Aurelius
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Wizard's First Rule:
People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. |
11-27-2004, 11:34 AM
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| | | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Take that all you common sense possessing people!
edit; here's another one:
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
-George Bernard Shaw
__________________ Vicsun, I certainly agree with your assertion that you are an unpleasant person. ~Chanak 
Last edited by Vicsun; 11-27-2004 at 11:51 AM.
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11-27-2004, 11:43 AM
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| | | Don't eat the yellow snow.
Good soup is tasty, bad soup..well, it's also tasty, but not in a good way. |
11-27-2004, 12:06 PM
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(1.) Listen, before you speak.
(2.) Beware of people called Weasel.
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"Vile and evil, yes. But, That's Weasel" From BS's book, MD 20/20: Fine Wines of Rocky Flop. |
11-27-2004, 12:25 PM
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| | | (3.) Beware of weasels called People. |
11-27-2004, 12:41 PM
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| | Marcus Aurelius: good choice for a start, Nar. 
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." -Andre Gide
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To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe. |
11-27-2004, 12:54 PM
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| | | "The meaning of life is to live it." - Unknown
__________________ CYNIC, n.:
A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -The Devil's Dictionary |
11-27-2004, 01:12 PM
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| | | "To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradign of social spending is the public rest room."
"Democrats are... the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -P.J. O'Rourke
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"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson |
11-27-2004, 01:35 PM
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Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight.
-Horace
It is not goodness to be better than the worst
-Seneca
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11-27-2004, 01:43 PM
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| | | "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire
"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." - Voltaire
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu |
11-27-2004, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jopperm2 Right-wing propaganda | I see you and raise you!
"A witty saying proves nothing!"
-Voltaire 
__________________ Vicsun, I certainly agree with your assertion that you are an unpleasant person. ~Chanak |
11-27-2004, 01:59 PM
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| | | No that was Right-wing humor, for propaganda, see my other posts..
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"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
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11-27-2004, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Vicsun I see you and raise you!
"A witty saying proves nothing!"
-Voltaire | Another Voltaire fan, I see.
One of my favorites:
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge." |
11-27-2004, 02:05 PM
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| | | He who go to bed with itchy bottom, wake up with a smelly finger! |
11-27-2004, 02:12 PM
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| | You need whole life to learn how to live.
To live means to fight.
<Lucius Annaeus Seneca>
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
<chinese proverb>
(thx Fable )
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Wizard's First Rule:
People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
Last edited by Nar; 11-27-2004 at 03:19 PM.
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