This week's fun lines, sayings or quotes.

[pommystuart]

• "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way."
  ---Daniele Vare
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  "What is moral is what you feel good after."
  ---Ernest Hemmingway
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  "The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money."
  ---Joey Adams
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  "It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
  ---Mignon McLaughlin
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  "Ignorance is the mother of research."
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  "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
  ---Alfred North Whitehead
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  "Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing."
  ---Irene Peter
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[Randi]

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

• "Immortality--a fate worse than death."
  ---Edgar A. Shoaff
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  "Spring---an experience in immortality."
  ---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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  "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he actually knows."
  ---Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  "Every child ought to be more intelligent than his parents."
  ---Charles Darrow
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  "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
  ---Albert Camus
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  "A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."
  ---Herbert Spencer
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  "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
  ---Robert Frost

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Sorry, missed a few weeks so here i a double up.

• "Justice is incidential to law and order."
  ---J. Edgar Hoover
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  "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
  ---Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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  "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."
  ---Ethel Watts Mumford
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  "To know all things is not permitted."
  ---Horace (65-8 B.C.)
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  "Automatic" simply means that you cannot repair it yourself.
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  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
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  A child's ability to endure likely stems from his ignorance of
  alternatives.
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  A conference is simply an admission that you want somebody else to join you in your troubles.
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  A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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  A fellow who is always declaring that he is no fool usually harbors suspicions to the contrary.
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  A good listener not only is popular everywhere but also, after a
  while, knows something.
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  A fool and his money are some party.
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  A great deal of money is never enough once you have it.
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  A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there
  himself.
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  Every human social structure has developed to ensure the survival of that structure...to the detriment of its human inhabitants.
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[pommystuart]

• Murphy's Law predicts the extinction of Gremlins...when it's least expected.
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  Computers run on faith, not electrons.
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  Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
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  Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
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  Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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  Its not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves.
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  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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[pommystuart]

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of {overtly public} intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
  • {Words changed for decency}
  — J. Edgar Hoover
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  It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
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  Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
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  The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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  If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
  
  Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are ain't no good.
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  You can't underestimate the power of fear.
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  Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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[Michael]

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Not the Americans!

As of 2023, the biggest mall in the world is the massive Iran Mall. Located in Northwest Tehran, Iran, this gigantic mall occupies a gross leasable area of around 21 million square feet. The Iran Mall is one of the biggest commercial, cultural, and social hubs that also includes economic spaces, retail outlets, cultural facilities, recreational areas, a hotel, and some parking spaces. There are about 708 retail stores in the mall, which spans about seven floors. The mall's traditional bazaar has been inspired by the traditional markets of some well-known Iranian cities such as Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, etc

[pommystuart]

Thanks. I obtained My Quotes quite some time ago.
Will delete that and add another.

[pommystuart]

• Anyone can afford hate. It costs you to love.
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  In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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  Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
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  The most incomprehensible thing about the world is......that it is comprehensible, at least in part.
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  Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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  A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.
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  Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are ain't no good.
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  Please don't lie to me, unless you 're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
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[Michael]

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.

[pommystuart]

[Michael]

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty told Alice, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

I read this this morning, and I thought it was so appropriate for this in which we are living.

[pommystuart]

This is also a repeat post.

[Michael]

Internet problems here. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I came back here sometime after I thought I submitted the post, just to see that the form was still open, so I clicked Submit again. In the meantime, I'll go back to watching the little blue circle carry on spinning round and round..