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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 21:52:37 GMT
We do well to recommend books and authors to one another. However, one should be able to celebrate particularly well sculpted individual ideas. Offered toward this end, is Francis Wheen's description of a bombastic and vitriolic speaker, who occasionally inserted tender sentimentalities into his ranting.
"It was as if one of the four-horsemen of the apocalypse suddenly dismounted to stroke a passing cat." |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 18:04:30 GMT
Theres this saying in Greek my grandmother used to spew forth the few times she actually got mad.
That's why I remember it. The translation loses its impact, but.....
Go to hell and there even farther.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2013 3:08:50 GMT
"The end had come. It just wasn't on the horizon yet."
JK Galbraith, on the crash of 1929, from "The Liberal Hour."
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Post by Stumour on Dec 17, 2013 3:07:14 GMT
From Catch 22... a fav book o mine
"Be thankful you're healthy."
"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way"
"Be glad you're even alive."
"Be furious you're going to die."
"Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for."
"And everything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 20:16:47 GMT
"The sheer complexity of the industrial revolution and associated finance was a dog that could fatten many fleas."
Joe Bageant - Tortillas and the Corporate State
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 20:33:09 GMT
"By leaps and bounds, over time and space, touching each of the earth's inhabitants and untold future generations."
Karl Polanyi on the rise of global capitalism, from "The Great Transformation." (1932)
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Post by cobtact on Dec 23, 2013 19:55:23 GMT
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Post by Stumour on Dec 24, 2013 2:57:50 GMT
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka.... he musta been in a light mood for a few seconds!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 6:03:09 GMT
"There is that ominous eye of the needle, through which one must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, as a purely practical consideration, camels and rich men should enjoy life now."
"In central banking, as in diplomacy, conservative tailoring and an easy association with the affluent count greatly, and results for much less."
JKG - The Good Society.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 21:15:29 GMT
"No matter what anyone tells you, words and Ideas can change the world"- Robin Williams (John Keating),
Dead Poets Society
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Post by Stumour on Dec 25, 2013 23:08:53 GMT
You are lots of different people through your life. Don't forget those you've already been.
paraphrased from the Xmas Dr Who that was on tonight.... now we get ANOTHER Scots Dr
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2013 21:19:14 GMT
"No man can create or lay up land. If the Astors had all remained in Germany, or indeed, if there had never been any Astors, the land of Manhattan Island would remain all the same."
Philip Wheelwright 1932
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 1:16:49 GMT
I know! I love Dr. Who!!! Too bad silly Americans don't have it on a major network.
My brother and I have been watching reruns on BBC America for two days.
We even heard the Queens address for Christmas yesterday.
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Post by Stumour on Dec 27, 2013 1:35:26 GMT
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
both by Douglas Adams.
ps... Meow, the new Doctor is the 3rd Scot to take the role. Damn high percentage.
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Post by Stumour on Dec 27, 2013 1:45:40 GMT
another Adams.... a belter this time:
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
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