I've been through this several times. All I do now is laugh at you ignorant knaves and fools.
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Posted January 15 2012 - 02:39 PM
Where are all you nimrods who were predicting Gegare/Slawson/Sheard/Pope etc., etc., ad nauseum, victories in the Election? Awfully quiet and no where to be found. Like your fearless friggin' leaders.
I've been through this several times. All I do now is laugh at you ignorant knaves and fools.
I've been through this several times. All I do now is laugh at you ignorant knaves and fools.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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Posted January 15 2012 - 06:08 PM
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
Swami Vivekananda
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
The Buddha
05-08-2012
Swami Vivekananda
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
The Buddha
05-08-2012
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Posted January 15 2012 - 08:06 PM
Shaman, on January 15 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Great quote, not real sure how it answers Real Team's "hate to gloat" gloat. Maybe you thought he meant he hated to "quote". That must be it. Thanks...Goodnight.
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Posted January 16 2012 - 10:04 AM
inthegame, on January 15 2012 - 08:06 PM, said:
Great quote, not real sure how it answers Real Team's "hate to gloat" gloat. Maybe you thought he meant he hated to "quote". That must be it. Thanks...Goodnight.
The quote is an encouragement to be real. We can gloat about how wonderful our very little box is or we can step outside. What is there to gloat about when we step outside of the box? Who is qualified to determine who is ignorant?
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“If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
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Terry Pratchett quotes (English Writer, b.1948)
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
Swami Vivekananda
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
The Buddha
05-08-2012
Swami Vivekananda
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
The Buddha
05-08-2012
