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Message 867138 - Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 19:48:47 UTC - in response to Message 867087.  
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If all the world is a stage, I want better lighting.

(I think that's from a Firesign Theatre LP)

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Message 867577 - Posted: 21 Feb 2009, 5:02:45 UTC

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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Message 867908 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 3:51:29 UTC

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain
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Message 868186 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 19:51:26 UTC

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. - Alvin Toffler

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Message 868242 - Posted: 22 Feb 2009, 21:53:40 UTC

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes
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Message 868617 - Posted: 23 Feb 2009, 17:43:12 UTC

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).

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Message 869178 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 2:01:07 UTC

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
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Message 869185 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 2:40:36 UTC - in response to Message 869178.  

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Light a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a night. Light a man afire and you'll keep him warm the rest of his life.
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Message 869329 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 14:50:33 UTC

Who speaks many languages, can talk into many languages Nonsense...


With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.
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Message 869343 - Posted: 25 Feb 2009, 15:16:27 UTC

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
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Message 870075 - Posted: 27 Feb 2009, 15:54:14 UTC

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers


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Message 870127 - Posted: 27 Feb 2009, 18:19:13 UTC - in response to Message 870075.  

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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Message 870148 - Posted: 27 Feb 2009, 19:59:21 UTC

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Message 870478 - Posted: 28 Feb 2009, 16:02:26 UTC

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Message 870646 - Posted: 28 Feb 2009, 23:07:56 UTC

"Dostoyevsky? You dont have any Stephen King?" - Ben Linus posing as Henry Gale
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Message 870890 - Posted: 1 Mar 2009, 10:23:12 UTC

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus

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Message 870992 - Posted: 1 Mar 2009, 16:18:31 UTC

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Message 871386 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 17:34:48 UTC

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
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Message 871789 - Posted: 3 Mar 2009, 17:15:50 UTC

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
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Message 872493 - Posted: 5 Mar 2009, 15:54:59 UTC

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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