Quote of the Day
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@unknownuser said:
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin -
"I would have understood it all, if it hadn't been explained to me" -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
- Emil Cioran
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"Whenever you're in a tight spot, try to imagine yourself marooned on a beautiful desert island."
- The Little Book of Calm
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Remember: An Amateur built the Ark, Professionals the Titanic
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@unknownuser said:
@unknownuser said:
Therefore, a theory of free speech which takes such weightless situations as being the centre of the subject seems to me to go wrong from the first. I begin from the opposite direction. I believe the situation of constraint is the normative one and that the distinctions which are to be made are between differing situations of constraint; rather than a distinction between constraint on the one hand and a condition of no constraint on the other. Another way to put this is to say that, except in a seminar-like situation, when one speaks to another person, it is usually for an instrumental purpose: you are trying to get someone to do something, you are trying to urge an idea and, down the road, a course of action. These are the reasons for which speech exists and it is in that sense that I say that there is no such thing as "free speech", that is, speech that has as its rationale nothing more than its own production."
I posted the whole quote because it is very impressive....What a great way to express the difficulties therein. Bravo...I'm going to save that piece and use it a few times with your name on it if you don't mind.
I'll give you a bowl of petunias if you manage to memorise it... - It's a speech not a quote.
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'Eat pressure, sh!t results'
Anon
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I no longer have sex with my wife. I have too much respect for her...
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@toxicvoxel said:
I no longer have sex with my wife. I have too much respect for her...
Local at the Prince Albert Pub - Bowness.
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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
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'if you don't like whats on the channel, turn over or off' - PapaKhai to Khai.
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@khai said:
'if you don't like whats on the channel, turn over or off' - PapaKhai to Khai.
Thanks for staying tuned in to my thread.
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"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."
Max Beerbohm -
“This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have stuck my dick in a Nintendo.”
Quentin Tarantino
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not exactly quote 'of the day', but very funny otherwise;
“If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come he made them out of meat?” Sarah Palin; 17th Nov 2009
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Pete, thats a quality quote if ever there was one.
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"Captain, it's enormous..." - Commander Riker.
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@khai said:
"Captain, it's enormous..." - Commander Riker.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou
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