The quote thread.

RBeckom

Amos Umwhat

I finished his autobiography, Volume 1 last fall, and damn near everything in it still applies today. I remember many comments like the one above. What a mind, voice of American Truth. Those interested should pay special attention to his remarks regarding Jay Gould, and think closely on the phenomenon of todays Neo-Conservative point of view.

RBeckom

I've always enjoyed his works. A brilliant mind way ahead of his time, even to the point of being misunderstood in his day.

RBeckom

RBeckom

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing, but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

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phobicsquirrel

I have enjoyed a lot of Mark Twain's work.

xmacro

The better to stay on-topic, comment withdrawn

RBeckom

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xmacro

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. - by Marcus Manilius, Roman poet

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beatnic

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xmacro

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want? - - Sigmund Freud

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phobicsquirrel

I call for a thread name change, we'll call it, the QUOTE Thread.

xmacro

Nah, leave it. If it needs to change, Dueling quotes is better - the quote that follows needs to reference the one before it

RBeckom

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xmacro

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. - Isaac D'Israeli

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Russ55

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

beatnic

Remember. Where ever you go. There you are.

0patience

Ken Light

Russ55:

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

I love this. I'm using this is my statistics class when we talk about the normal curve.

bigjohn125

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” ? Heraclitus

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