A lie can go right around the world before truth has got its boots on.
J.K. Rowling in evidence to the Leveson Enquiry.
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 07:53 am
"I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), in 1933, a true conservative
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edgarblythe
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 07:59 am
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks
- Clive James
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Letty
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 08:06 am
ah, neco. The laconic Coolidge. "I do not choose to run"
edgar, don't know your quotable fellow, but that was funny.
Plato, In vino veritas
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spendius
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 12:10 pm
"They've been going at a married man gallop."
John Francome on the very steady pace in a race at Newbury today.
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Butrflynet
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 09:56 pm
"If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959
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edgarblythe
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Sat 26 Nov, 2011 10:08 pm
A Platypus is a duck designed by a committee
- anon
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edgarblythe
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Sun 27 Nov, 2011 10:01 am
Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it
Harry (Breaker) Morant - executed soldier and poet
Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it
Harry (Breaker) Morant - executed soldier and poet
I don't know if you're aware of this, edgar, but there was a film made about Breaker Morant. (Australian, of course! ) Good film, too.
Those words you quoted where the last spoken in the film, just before the execution is about to take place ...
& just a bit before that, a bit of Breaker's poetry.
Capitalism without debt is like Christianity without Hell. Insane!
Max Keiser.
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edgarblythe
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Mon 28 Nov, 2011 06:13 pm
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
You've really gotta stay on top of things, edgar. That fillum was a big hit in the States just a few years back.
You would likely be amazed at how ignorant I am of most new films. I have lately been catching up with some films I missed since I was a kid. By the time I get to most of today's films they will no longer be new.
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jcboy
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Mon 28 Nov, 2011 07:48 pm
While at the gym the other day and while I was on the treadmill my friend David told me " You're faster then a whore at a prison rodeo".
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George
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Mon 28 Nov, 2011 08:03 pm
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel
no one else has a right to blame us.
~Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
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edgarblythe
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Tue 29 Nov, 2011 05:40 am
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
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George
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Tue 29 Nov, 2011 06:39 am
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a
damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper
hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from
deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's
hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
) Good film, too. 