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Sglass
 
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 11:30 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Better check with Josh Miller
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 11:43 am
Men are like carrots--cheap and plentiful and easily cooked.

Professor Germaine Greer.
Shapeless
 
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 11:54 am
@spendius,
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never gone to bed with a mosquito.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 10:00 pm
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, 1st Century BC
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 01:27 am
Most people believe that we are HUMAN BEINGS with occasional spiritual experiences,
but we are actually SPIRITUAL BEINGS with occasional human experiences.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.




David
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 01:43 am
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It's for the superfluous we sweat.
Seneca, Epistles, 1st CenturyAD
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 01:50 am
@hingehead,
"We are game-playing, fun-having creatures;
we are the otters of the universe. ..."
Richard Bach
Illusions





David
hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 01:56 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Much will have more.

Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870

I read IllusionsDave, but it doesn't stick in my mind as much as JL Seagull.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 02:04 am
@hingehead,
I loved it: I truly did;
loved both of them





David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 02:05 am
@hingehead,
Quote:
read IllusionsDave, but it doesn't stick in my mind as much as JL Seagull.

That sounds like a good excuse
to read it again: CONGRATULATIONS !





David
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 03:55 pm
Possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Nietzche, The Gay Science, 1882-7
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 03:58 pm
@hingehead,
Quote:
Possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Nietzche, The Gay Science, 1882-7

Yes.
Will u agree that this is a variation on the theme
of the idea that familiarity breeds contempt ?
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 04:02 pm
"This is like deja vu all over again."
Yogi Berra
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 04:27 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
I don't think so Dave - I think it's more about desire. The idea that once you have attained something it loses value.

Hope you don't mind me calling you Dave.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Tue 16 Sep, 2008 02:02 am
@hingehead,
Quote:
I don't think so Dave - I think it's more about desire.
The idea that once you have attained something it loses value.

Well, the issue is whether when u have what u wanted
and become familiar with it, then your desire to get it is reduced
and u can forget about it safely (unless it requires maintenance).
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 10:16 pm
"Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof." Jesus
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patiodog
 
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 11:12 pm
He who owns little is little owned.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Thu 18 Sep, 2008 02:01 pm
Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Thu 18 Sep, 2008 02:05 pm
A stitch, in time, is worth 9 stitches later on after its too late.
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existential potential
 
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Reply Fri 19 Sep, 2008 07:26 am
@hingehead,
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”-Bertrand Russell
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