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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 25, 2012 11:29:48 GMT 11
"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."- Richard Hooker 
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Post by pim on Sept 25, 2012 16:13:46 GMT 11
This one's more controversial ...  "The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits." Engels, On Afghanistan (1857) |
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 26, 2012 8:56:41 GMT 11
"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."- Dorothy Parker 
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Post by sonex on Sept 26, 2012 12:23:28 GMT 11
This one's more controversial ... "The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits." Engels, On Afghanistan (1857) War is sometimes an excitement, but only for the males. Women do not generally find war exciting or any sort of relief from monotony, they fear for their sons and husbands, they are at risk from rape and the horror of losing their family in bombing and starvation. |
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Earl Grey
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 26, 2012 12:29:27 GMT 11
Very true Sonex.
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 27, 2012 10:32:46 GMT 11
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."- Aldous Huxley 
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Post by Freddy on Sept 27, 2012 10:37:25 GMT 11
"You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't" - the Bart Simpson paradox.
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 27, 2012 10:44:33 GMT 11
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Post by pim on Sept 27, 2012 11:57:04 GMT 11
"I told you I was ill!" - epitaph on headstone of Spike Milligan's grave - written in Irish.  Duirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite |
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 28, 2012 10:13:21 GMT 11
"A friend is someone who knows all about you but likes you just the same."
- Anonymous
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Post by Earl Grey on Sept 29, 2012 11:06:00 GMT 11
"The problem with automatic cars is that they're still driven by manual brains."
- P.K. Shaw
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Post by zombie on Oct 1, 2012 7:37:17 GMT 11
'A quote a day makes Earl Grey and others wiser and happier'...anonymous.
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Post by Earl Grey on Oct 1, 2012 10:19:37 GMT 11
"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for."- Ogden Nash 
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Post by Earl Grey on Oct 2, 2012 12:12:34 GMT 11
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."- Saki 
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Post by Earl Grey on Oct 3, 2012 9:29:06 GMT 11
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."- Thomas Carlyle 
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