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“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Cogito ergo sum
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Political language is designed to make lies sound reasonable and murder respectable, and to give an illusion of substance to pure wind.
George Orwell
George Orwell
What manner of creature's this, being but half a fish and half a monster
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If someone has no enemies, there might be something not quite right with them
Swedish saying
Swedish saying
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My 23 stone colleague speaking to 10 stone me:
“Inside every thin bloke there’s a fat bloke trying to get out”.
“Inside every thin bloke there’s a fat bloke trying to get out”.
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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peetee wrote:My 23 stone colleague speaking to 10 stone me:
“Inside every thin bloke there’s a fat bloke trying to get out”.
I used to work with a very jolly fat woman who said to me;
"Inside the body of every fat woman there is a slim woman screaming to get out. I always shut the bitch up with chocolate"!
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Don McLean wrote and sang 'American Pie', a long complicated song with lots of words
'Please, what does the song MEAN?', earnest journalists used to ask him
'It means that I never have to work again', he chortled
'Please, what does the song MEAN?', earnest journalists used to ask him
'It means that I never have to work again', he chortled
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Cyril Haearn wrote:Don McLean wrote and sang 'American Pie', a long complicated song with lots of words
'Please, what does the song MEAN?', earnest journalists used to ask him
'It means that I never have to work again', he chortled
I went to see Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel) at the Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow years ago and he introduced 'Come Up and See Me, Make Me Smile' by saying, "This is my pension..."
In a similar vein, when Dylan was asked back in the sixties what his songs were about he replied that some of his songs were about three minutes while he once wrote a song ('Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands") that was about eleven minutes.
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"Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter parliament with honourable intentions"
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Members of a group should be different from one another, should not have too much in common
- After Aristotle
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Whatabout the group on these fora? We are surprisingly diverse in some ways, but fairly homogeneous: mostly male, white, quite rich one imagines. Standard of formal qualifications might vary a bit more
Whatabout groups of friends, clubs, societies in real life? In my Wobbley Wheelers there was some diversity, enough well-to-do people
- After Aristotle
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Whatabout the group on these fora? We are surprisingly diverse in some ways, but fairly homogeneous: mostly male, white, quite rich one imagines. Standard of formal qualifications might vary a bit more
Whatabout groups of friends, clubs, societies in real life? In my Wobbley Wheelers there was some diversity, enough well-to-do people
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Football without heading would be like cycling with only fixed gears
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pjclinch of this parish
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pjclinch of this parish
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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." Ray Bradbury
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The stupidest teacher has more questions than the smartest pupil
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Cyril Haearn wrote:What about the group on this forum? We are surprisingly diverse in some ways, but fairly homogeneous: mostly male, white, quite rich one imagines. Standard of formal qualifications might vary a bit more
All the same:
What we ain't got two of, we've got one in the middle.
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Work without a vision is slavery. Vision without work is a pipe dream. But vision with work is the hope of the world.
--GNU Fortune (no other source credited).
--GNU Fortune (no other source credited).
Everyone's ghast should get a good flabbering now and then.
--Ole Boot
--Ole Boot
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On the other hand, I remember Janick Gers out of Iron Maiden telling me Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter paid for a new kitchen for Sandie... hey hoI went to see Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel) at the Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow years ago and he introduced 'Come Up and See Me, Make Me Smile' by saying, "This is my pension..."
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(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)