Quote for the Day!

“"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."
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“attempting to pull head from oven”

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�� Let the notes fall where they may.

� � � � � � Ron Carter

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� � � What do we do now?

� � � � � �� Bill McKay
� � � � � � �(Robert Redford)
� � � � � � �The Candidate (1972)

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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
~Sydney J. Harris
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“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)”

“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles
Patrick Henry”

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� � � Any Tory moles at the Palace?

� � � � � � � � Mr. Dennis Skinner

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I'm doing my autobiography seriatim�in Latin that means sequentially.

And in Latin, sequentially means Gwyneth Paltrow.


� � � � � Harlan Ellison
� � � � � � http://harlanellison.com/text/amaz_int.htm

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No man gives himself up to his enemies like
a drunken apple woman! � What�s afoot?

� � � � � Sir Front De Boeuf
� � � � � Francis de Wolff
� � � � � Ivanhoe (1952)


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“I heart Ellison!!!

my children are starting to read him”

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Interview from.... 1997?

Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman

Edgeworks

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“I'm sure it's been quoted before (don't have time to read the last 72 pages of this thread) but my personal favorite is James Taylor:

"With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go"”

“That's a good song, too.”

“The secret to living a long life is trying to die and failing.”

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1931 Phantom II Barker Sedanca De Ville 9JS PU65


In retrospect, being normal is not all that important.

� � � Neal Kirkham
� � � Owner and Restorer (1989-2004, ground-up)�
� � � "The Yellow Rolls-Royce"


http://www.rrocncr.net/technical/YrrBumper/TYRR.htm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059927/

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“Waaaaaaaaaaaay cooler.............

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“Sound advice!”

“More handy household tips................

Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.”

“It�s 90% of lawyers who bring discredit to the other 10%.”

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Cogito ergo bibo

� � � � Bearmagnet

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“It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“To the people you matter to
You will matter to NO MATTER what you have DONE.
To those you don't matter to
you WON'T matter no MATTER what you DO”

“say that REALLY fast three times!!!”

“Living the adventure

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

-- Martin Buber”

“A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood.


Say that real fast.”

“try this....
red buick
blue buick”

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The Pale Blue Dot


Taken by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 at a distance of 3.76 billion miles.
It registered as less than an eighth of a pixel on Voyager�s camera.


Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, very "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there � on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

� � � � � Carl Sagan
� � � � � � May 11, 1996


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“Carl Sagan and Jacques Cousteau were my first crushes!”

“You guys ever read Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds? I recommend it.”

“Jacques Cousteau was The Man. I couldn't wait to get scuba certified.


ooh.... That Guy.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku

He turns up a lot ---- most recently on the History Channel's series The Universe. He also made numerous appearances in the Nova adaptation of The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.”

“Yeah. I saw him in the film "What the @*%!#$ Do We Know". That's something else I recommend. Although it must be taken with a grain of salt.”

“Never saw that one ---- I like that title, though, � LOL”

“http://www.whatthebleep.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877

Check it out. It talks about physics and metaphysics and sort of a life application for them. That's why a say 'grain of salt'. Fascinating stuff either way; based in mind-blowing facts too.”

“"It's difficult to overstate the importance of this historical event, but we'll do our best."

All the media all day today and for the last few days (my rough translation).”

“...what suprise gear ya going to bring me this trip???...I loved my lantern!!!!...and my weiner thingy...lol...hahahahahaaaaa�
divinity
5:24:25 PM
1/23/09”

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Do be careful! Don't lose any of that stuff. That's concentrated evil.
One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.

� � � � � Supreme Being
� � � � � (Sir Ralph Richardson)
� � � � � Time Bandits (1981)

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It's just about a hat, man.

� � � Bob Dylan


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““Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible”
Javier Pascual Salcedo”

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I�d like to think that oysters transcend national barriers.

� � � � � Roger Waters

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“Dammit! � My Stalker just Grunted on my Twitter!

� � � � � Samantha Bee”

“Libbies are so Silly.

- Stovie”

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PISTOL � � � � � � � � � � � � � � My name is Pistol call'd.

KING HENRY V � � � � � � � �It sorts well with your fierceness.


The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Act IV., Scene i.
Wm. Shakespeare

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Time is the only element that you can't withdraw
from a situation, and still have it exist.

� � � John Hartford (1937�2001)

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“tilt sure it talking a bunch about guys "pulling stuff out or withdrawing"....something you need to get off your chest or out of your.....(LOL)?”

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You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est que c'est?

� Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth



Stop Making Sense (1987)
Talking Heads

and/or

The Bobs (1983)
Sing The Songs Of� (1991)
The Bobs

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“If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.”