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Post by Equus on Apr 12, 2017 6:29:10 GMT
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - The Buddha
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Post by Equus on Apr 12, 2017 20:11:20 GMT
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
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Post by Equus on Apr 16, 2017 7:46:35 GMT
"If it's so healthy to work, then give it to the sick." - Danish comedian Jacob Haugaard
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Post by Equus on Apr 26, 2017 10:39:58 GMT
"Why do people always get me wrong, when they get me right?" - Equus
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Post by Equus on Apr 26, 2017 15:53:07 GMT
"This is not a pipe." - Rene Magritte
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Post by Equus on May 2, 2017 7:38:03 GMT
"We ran the race and the race was won by running slowly." - Ian Anderson from the song, We Used To Know/Bach... I wonder if Ian had this classic ancient story by Aesop in mind, when he wrote these lyrics?The Tortoise and the Hare:
One day a hare was bragging about how fast he could run. He bragged and bragged and even laughed at the tortoise, who was so slow. The tortoise stretched out his long neck and challenged the hare to a race, which, of course, made the hare laugh. "My, my, what a joke!" thought the hare. "A race, indeed, a race. Oh! what fun! My, my! a race, of course, Mr. Tortoise, we shall race!" said the hare. The forest animals met and mapped out the course. The race begun, and the hare, being such a swift runner, soon left the tortoise far behind. About halfway through the course, it occurred to the hare that he had plenty of time to beat the slow trodden tortoise. "Oh, my!" thought the hare, I have plenty of time to play in the meadow here." And so he did. After the hare finished playing, he decided that he had time to take a little nap. "I have plenty of time to beat that tortoise," he thought. And he cuddle up against a tree and dozed. The tortoise, in the meantime, continued to plod on, albeit, it ever so slowly. He never stopped, but took one good step after another. The hare finally woke from his nap. "Time to get going," he thought. And off he went faster than he had ever run before! He dashed as quickly as anyone ever could up to the finish line, where he met the tortoise, who was patiently awaiting his arrival.
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Post by Equus on May 7, 2017 9:35:47 GMT
"Live long and prosper" is an abbreviated version of a traditional Jewish religious blessing. It came to a wider public in the Star Trek TV series. It was used there by the character Mr. Spock (actor Leonard Nimoy, himself Jewish) as the greeting of the Vulcan people. The phrase was the accompanying spoken greeting/blessing to the hand gesture called the Vulcan salute. 'Live long and prosper' is translated, if that is the correct word, from the Vulcan language phrase "dif-tor heh smusma", which was so uttered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The phrase echoes the Hebrew "Shalom aleichem" and the Arabic "Salaam alaykum", which roughly translate as "peace be upon you". www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/live-long-and-prosper.html
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Post by Equus on May 18, 2017 19:22:00 GMT
"Never engage the same enemy for too long, or he will adapt to your tactics." - Carl von Clausewitz
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Post by Equus on May 19, 2017 5:10:09 GMT
"You haven't got a chance... Use it!."
This is a favorite. I don't really know where this comes from, or who wrote this... The pawn in this case is obviously awaiting swift execution, so there really isn't much of a chance in this particular case, but the interesting thing about this is that so many people are stopped, not because there wasn't a chance to win, but simply because they are convinced that they haven't got a chance in the first place.
Too often we believe that it can't be done... So, sometimes it's our own limited understanding, or our own limited convictions that stops us, and not the real challenge ahead... I used to believe that I couldn't learn to spell probably. And because of this conviction, I didn't really try to learn proper spelling... The real problem wasn't that I couldn't learn to spell... The real problem was the conviction that I didn't have a chance to learn it at all...
So, sometimes we face challenges that we believe that we can't win, but it's really just an illusion... and that why I love this quote... because sometimes we should just do it... It is incredible what the human mind can accomplish, if we can just get ourselves to take the first step, and keep on going...
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Post by Equus on May 28, 2017 19:47:14 GMT
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." - Yuri Orlov/Nicolas Cage, from the movie, Lord Of War...
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Post by Equus on Jun 3, 2017 5:50:22 GMT
"...but... where to start?" said the Joker, and the King told him to start at the beginning, and stop at the end..."
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Post by Equus on Jun 4, 2017 19:01:04 GMT
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." - Augustine of Hippo
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Post by Equus on Jun 10, 2017 14:59:29 GMT
"If we can't bring ourselves to say what's in our hearts when it really matters, then we've already given up our freedom, and with it the freedom of future generations, which is something we've no right to do. We didn't earn this freedom. It was handed to us on a plate by people who did earn it - with their lives. We don't own it. We are custodians of it. It's not ours to give away." - Pat Condell
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Post by Equus on Jun 12, 2017 11:08:34 GMT
As the priest said to the bishop: "I only go to the races in case one of the jockeys fall off."
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Post by Equus on Jun 28, 2017 0:24:51 GMT
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
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Post by Equus on Jun 28, 2017 0:40:01 GMT
"Some people start a conversation if you may, but they stop in the middle of that conversation, not allowing this conversation to unfold to the extent of all sides being fully heard." - Danish comedian Victor Borge
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 7, 2017 8:19:05 GMT
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Post by Equus on Jul 8, 2017 6:59:00 GMT
"You can't predict the unpredictable." - Equus
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Post by Equus on Apr 18, 2018 5:37:46 GMT
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Post by Equus on Jul 15, 2018 6:51:55 GMT
"Just something to think about... I still don't have the answer..." - Equus
"You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest." - Brian Blessed
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Post by Equus on Jul 20, 2018 22:15:23 GMT
...and lets have a word of wisdom... It's easy...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 21, 2019 7:48:53 GMT
Monday, January 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 in The United States of America
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Post by Equus on May 6, 2019 16:05:34 GMT
Good old Ape!!
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Post by Equus on Oct 2, 2019 8:31:33 GMT
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William blake
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Post by maddogfagin on May 10, 2021 8:38:47 GMT
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