Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[Ivan Seeking]

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I have often wondered why it is that the warriors see things more clearly than the peaceniks.

I suppose, they are more aware of the wolves.

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

 

[0Thomas]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

 

[Hobin]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

Did you, by any chance, mean to post this in this thread?

 

[OmCheeto]

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

Perhaps, but I haven't thought logically since my brain damage, and cannot take responsibility for anything I've said over the last 10 months.

But I find the thoughts of many an old warrior, that I've seen over the past few years, to be way ahead of their time:

Two years before I was born:

One final thought I should like to leave with you. High-energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power. The tendency is for political power to be concentrated in an ever-smaller number of countries. Ultimately, the nation which control - the largest energy resources will become dominant. If we give thought to the problem of energy resources, if we act wisely and in time to conserve what we have and prepare well for necessary future changes, we shall insure this dominant position for our own country.

Two years after I was born:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

At least 12 years before I was born:

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

But then again, I suppose it's all about which basketball team you rooted for during your childhood.

 

[fletch-j]

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite!
- Paul Dirac

 

[Infinitum]

One man's meat is another man's poison.

 

[fletch-j]

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
- Werner Heisenberg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

... And Mitt Romney is criticizing the president. He said Obama should not politicize the death of Osama bin Laden. Mitt Romney made that announcement on the anniversary of bin Laden's death, standing next to Rudy Giuliani, in a fire station, in New York City, at 9:11 in the morning...

- Jay Leno

 

[Borg]

That's why this is one of my favorite quotes:

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

 

[davenn]

my fave is from the late Prof Richard Fyenman...

" It's the way nature is!
If you don't like it, go somewhere else...
To another universe, where the rules are simpler
Philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy"

Dave

 

[daveb]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote

 

[davenn]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote

This is from the musical "Man of La Mancha", not the original book by Cervantes.

 

[Borg]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave

It's much easier to search threads with Exploded view.

 

[payalarora833]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad .... By William Shakespeare

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad .... By William Shakespeare

Thy overflow of good converts to bad. It's in The Life and Death of Richard the Second. It refers to the bad child of a good parent.

 

[Whovian]

"And you are forgiven, always and completely forgiven."

Uttered by Matt Smith in Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat.

 

[Char. Limit]

"And out of Zion shall come forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Nation shall not raise sword against nation, and they shall not learn war anymore, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken."

- David 2:2

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.

I don't know about this mother/father stuff. Sounds risque to me. Oh, and there's the hypocrisy too.

 

[OmCheeto]

Just so are these preachers and scholars holding various views blind and unseeing... In their ignorance they are by nature quarrelsome, wrangling, and disputatious, each maintaining reality is thus and thus.

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carrying on...

 

[lisab]

If you get something for free, you aren't the consumer. You're the product.

--variations of this all over the innerwebs

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Big-time football has no business on college campuses because it is inherently corrupting. We have grafted a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry onto higher education. It is inherently discordant with the mission of the university. It is inherently corrupting. And you’re going to get this and elsewhere different forms of corruption, but always forms of corruption, because big-time football has no business on college campuses.

- George Will commenting on Penn State
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...ng-penn-state-football-is-a-really-dumb-idea/

 

[CowedbyWisdom]

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous."

-Captain Beefheart

 

[member 428835]

great minds think alike and so do ours

 

[romsofia]

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be
but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!"
- Bob Marley

 

[FizixFreak]

"guess what chicken butt"
From The Family Guy

 

[Whovian]

$\ \ \ \$"'Nice knowing you, Becky,' Drake said to the Styx twin as they left the void and burst into the zero-gravity belt, still moving at phenomenal speed.
$\ \ \ \$"She saw he was smiling.
$\ \ \ \$"Then she saw his finger was poised over a button on the detonator.
$\ \ \ \$"Her lips began to form the word no, but she never uttered it as Drake pressed down.
$\ \ \ \$"There was a blinding flash, as bright as a thousand suns."

--From Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams in book 5 of the Tunnels series. Or, quite possibly,

"In her last moments of life, Sarah was smiling."

 

[dydxforsn]

"It is almost impossible for me to read contemporary mathematicians who, instead of saying, "Petya washed his hands", write "There is a $t_{1} < 0$ such that the image of $t_{1}$ under the natural mapping $t_{1} \rightarrow$ Petya$(t_{1})$ belongs to the set of dirty hands, and a $t_{2}$, $t_{1} < t_{2} \le 0$, such that the image of $t_{2}$ under the above-mentioned mapping belongs to the complement of the set defined in the preceding sentence..." - V.I. Arnol'd

 

[greyhame]

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

 

[Tadd]

"All life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single part of it."

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Abraham Lincoln responding to his opponent who called him "two faced" during a debate:

"If I had two faces, do you think I'd be wearing this one?".

Lincoln told a story about a woman he met while out walking who said he was the homliest (read "ugliest") man she'd ever met. Lincoln apologized but said he really couldn't do anything about it. The woman said she understood but told him he really should stay inside.

 

[mikelepore]

"Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature."

Karl Marx, _Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844_, Chapter 7

 

[jobyts]

"God didn't mean for women to have birth control or abortions because it ain't natural but God makes an exception for our Viagra." ~ GOP Sentiments

 

[Whovian]

"He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and dæmons. Why he had run away from us and hid. He was being kind. He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star. He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, to be imprisoned there forever. He still visits my sister. Once a year. Every year. I wonder if one day he may forgive her. But there she is. He trapped her in a mirror. Every mirror. If you ever look at your reflection and see something move behind you, just for a second, that's her. That's always her. As for me, I was suspended in time. And the Doctor put me to work, standing over the fields of England as their protector. We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure we did."

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Salmon Rushdie was describing his reaction when informed by telephone that the supreme leader of Iran had just issued a kill order against him. He said the first thing he did was run downstairs and lock the front door!