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“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
- Irish quote

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

But it's in English.

It was originally in Latin but . . .

@George,

"Keep a clean head and always carry a light bulb".

Bob Dylan whilst holding an industrial light bulb at a press conference.

Was nobody impressed by my trashing of A.N.Whitehead.

But I only say "trashing" because I chose to exclude the possibility that Alf was boasting of his sexual prowess to his neurotic academic colleagues. The question hinges on what he meant by "important operations".

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

. . . Was nobody impressed by my trashing of A.N.Whitehead. . .

I didn't understand that you'd trashed him.
I'll pay closer attention next time.

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“My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.”
Nikos Kazantzakis

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"You need to know what life you want (as well as what life you don't want), then you have to muster up the will and the drive to go after it."~ Bob Greene

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Verily I say unto thee... if you lie with a whore and she gives you the clap...do not lie with her again -Steve Quinney (also a litany)

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@blueveinedthrobber,

Likely a painful litany.

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“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.”
― Lisa St Aubin de Terán, The Palace the Palace

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
Mark Twain

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“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”

Ramsey Clark

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“Awesome ends with me; but Ugly starts with u...”
― Stephan

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"Don't be too hard on yourself. There are plenty of people willing to do that for you. Love yourself and be proud of everything that you do. Even mistakes mean you're trying."~ Susan Gale

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“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
― Yogi Berra

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the
thing he was educated in."

~Will Rogers

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The problem with internet quotes is that it's difficult to verify their authenticity

-Abraham Lincoln

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"You wouldn’t worry half so much about what other people thought about you if you realized how seldom they did.”
-Benjamin Franklin

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@edgarblythe,

I love it!

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“‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!”
― Stephen Colbert

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“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
― William Shakespeare (or Bob Dylan)

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