"First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
-- Mark Twain
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:"First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
Here are two fine examples from Merry. He just forgot to get the facts.
http://able2know.org/topic/203981-1
http://able2know.org/topic/203331-1
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
--Charlie Chaplin
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
--Lillian Hellman
@Lustig Andrei,
Yeah, that's really you, ain't it, Merry?
“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know whyI look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.”~Will Rogers
@edgarblythe,
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
Richard Dawkins
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
"I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage."
--Laura Kightlinger
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Brontë
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!”
― Auguste Rodin
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ”
― Garrison Keillor
“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
― Libba Bray
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson
I need to take this more in heart.
You have to have life to love life and love life to have life.
Thornton Wilder: Our Town
