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Ivan Seeking
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We are the universe trying to understand itself - a buddy of mine, original source unknown
- Barack Obama, October, 2002I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.
Astronuc said:The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.
a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)
Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".
lisab said:Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
Same idea; a lot more words.
ShawnD said:Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.
"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"
Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.
Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad
Ah I love that movie![]()
O! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,
A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.
But should it be- that dream eternally
Continuing- as dreams have been to me
In my young boyhood- should it thus be given,
'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.
For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright
I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light
And loveliness,- have left my very heart
In climes of my imagining, apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen?
'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour
From my remembrance shall not pass- some power
Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night, and left behind
Its image on my spirit- or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was
That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass.
I have been happy, tho' in a dream.
I have been happy- and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
Praise no day until evening, no wife before cremation, no sword till tested, no maid before marriage, no ice till crossed, no ale till it's drunk.
Tend the oak if you want to live under it.
Great deeds and ill deeds often fall within each other's shadow.
Confide in one, never in two. Confide in three and the whole world knows.
Only a fool lies awake all night and broods over his problems. When morning comes he is exhausted. And his troubles are the same as before.
~ Elizabeth Edwards on someone's health care planPoliticians consider a collection of platitudes a plan.