@Debacle,
Thank you, Mr. D. Seems, at least, I wasn't the only one wondering about what that meant. (I'm sure the explanation is accurate as far as it goes. But it seems to me that if one comes up with an epigram which then needs to be explained by someone else, one has been less than successful in one' endeavors.)
@Lustig Andrei,
It's possible you're right, but please don't quote me on it.
I'm happy enough to stake my reputation on advancing a notion I know nothing whatsoever about, but not on someone else's having done likewise.
@Lustig Andrei,
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; -
as a drug addict you almost certainly will go nowhere.
as great as your dominant aspiration. -
if you work hard at a particular thing, say, real estate, you someday can own the Miss Universe Contest and wear a fox pelt on your head.
Martin Niemoeller wrote:First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.
"Stand Your Ground" laws:
A problem for "the Blacks" to worry about ???
@Kolyo,
Quote:"Stand Your Ground" laws:
A problem for "the Blacks" to worry about ???
Not at all. Blacks can get armed and get sweet revenge for the hundreds of years of being brutalized.
Weeeeeeeee doggies, it'll be the wild west once more, only wilder!!
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
@edgarblythe,
that made me smile edgar...
@Rockhead,
“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.”
― Steve Maraboli,
Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either. About the Rebellion and its results he would express no opinion. When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
@blueveinedthrobber,
Don't you want to credit George Orwell with that quote?
I thought it was obvious. I certainly wasn't taking credit for authorhship. I figure the only people who wouldn' recognize it are republicans and so what's the point? They wouldn't understand something from a book unless it was written by Ayn Rand or maybe Hannity or O'Reilly.
@Lustig Andrei,
Merry the gigantic hypocrite.
Where were you for,
http://able2know.org/topic/217676-1#post-5383744
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
.... Richard P. Feynman
@Debacle,
They certainly have been in my experience with the woman problem.
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
.... Bob Marley
NB: This wasn't a sentiment fully shared by Marley's business partner, who, on one occasion, said, "I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish sir, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have named (prisons and union work houses); those who are badly off must go there." .... Ebenezer Scrooge
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
—Arthur C. Clarke
@blueveinedthrobber,
"Men, who when they can have a fine woman for a Guinea, will not give themselves the trouble of addressing where it must cost Time and Protestations. and perhaps more money too."
Alexander Pope.
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
--Elbert Hubbard
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
.... Isaac Asimov
