“I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.” ~Daniel Boone
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
@edgarblythe,
That's pretty vacuous ed. And if the class being addressed went away determined to stick to the truth goodness knows what would happen.
"Truth" is a word commonly used by phonies to give themselves a gold star. As soon as somebody mentions the word I take a hold of my wallet.
“We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.”
― George F. Will
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
If the illusion of knowledge is of no value research is pointless.
I think you are arguing a false meaning of the quote.
If you think you have established the truth you stop investigating.
You continue to research when you have a sneaking suspicion that you don't have the full picture.
@spikepipsqueak,
Spendius just looks to be an obstructionist.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
- Hunter S. Thompson
“Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”
― Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
@Germlat,
A striking quote. Almost unbelievable.
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
― Charles Bukowski
@edgarblythe,
There are few things so crass as a chap asserting that others are wasting their lives as a backdoor method of claiming he is not wasting his own.
The Dance is a poem of which each movement is a word
- Mata Hari
@vonny,
That's why I kike a classic
pas de deux vonny.
@spendius,
Please do tell how much you kike it.
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” ~Redd Foxx
