X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=8f40b180c247a65d75417dedd072aec8711a15c0;hp=1b06e7c5b798377e48390d4b7977d121e96d14a1;hb=HEAD;hpb=e36f482ef663beab1c0ca1646bbf2b6681433033 diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 1b06e7c..8eacf74 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ that I've chosen to pick up and carry with me... On Life ------- +

+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the +right thing at the right moment to push us forward." +
-- Jon Meacham

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+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We +spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If +during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate +with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate." +
-- Gene Roddenberry

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+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes... + but because he hits all the right emotions." +
-- Will I Am

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"Taste your words before you spit them out."
-- Andy Card

@@ -35,6 +52,20 @@ and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics +

+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed +on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some +other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science +were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure +it all out again." +
-- Penn Jillette + +

+"A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees light at the end of the +tunnel. A realist sees a train coming. The train's engineer sees three +idiots standing on the track..." +
-- Unknown +

"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson @@ -54,6 +85,10 @@ commit resources, or nothing new will ever be created." "Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
-- Will Henry +

+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know." +
-- William Shakespeare +

"Kids are more nimble than wise..."
-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece @@ -191,6 +226,11 @@ is what will endear him to the locals." is traded for a worthy price."
-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch

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+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that +what life is?" +
-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House +

"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
-- Alfred Hitchcock

@@ -293,6 +333,10 @@ than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."
-- John Walter Wayland

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+"A lady is never unintentionally rude." +
-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree +

"If ever a World Government should come into existence, it had better be a government designed to be run by crooks rather than a government designed to