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Be nice to those you meet on the way up because you will meet them on the way down.
 
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called 'the people'. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he'd never met The People.

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. It'd be people who were frightened and panicking. It was what happened when the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down. And when that happened, humans were worse than sheep. Sheep just ran; they didn't try to bite the sheep next to them.”

Terry Prachett Night watch.
 
“The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.”

– Edward Abbey

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”

– Edward Abbey
 
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"It's not that I think you're lying, I just don't believe you."

-Jim Foley, Electronics Tech, Wang Laboratories, Holyoke, MA: 1985.



"Never mind what I said, you know what I meant!"

-John Johnson, General Contractor (while dropping half of our modular home onto a foundation in 1989. He kept telling the crane operator to move left when in fact it needed to go right.)
 
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As I get older, I revisit and reminisce about my past - especially my high school and college days. I recall having a lot of anxiety and frustration, but now it all seems so trivial. I am reminded of this:

I May Live On

I may live on until
I long for this time
In which I am so unhappy,
And remember it fondly.

— Fujiwara No Kiyosuke
translated from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
 
You can't polish a turd.

(make sure you said turd with a Jersey accent)
 
The final hour's here, now grab yourself a beer
You're only king for one day - GWAR

Some say I ain't right but they can't prove I'm wrong
I know the words to the tune before you sang your song - Nat Stuckey

Maybe. I set my standards pretty low, so I'm never disappointed. - Otis B Driftwood
 
Today's Cryptoquote:

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
 
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
physicist Richard Feynman


"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ~Voltaire

 
"The central message of the Bible is that God in Christ “gave to all who believe, as their possession, everything that he had. This included: his life, in which he swallowed up death; his righteousness, by which he blotted out sin; and his salvation, with which he overcame everlasting damnation. A poor man, dead in sin and consigned to hell, can hear nothing more comforting than this precious and tender message about Christ; from the bottom of his heart he must laugh and be glad over it…” Preface to the New Testament, Luther’s Works 35, 359
 
"aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" - Mark Twain, in Huckleberry Finn
 
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"But he had been guide mentor and friend to unnumbered crops of lonely freshmen, and I suppose that with all his petty chicanery and hypocrisy he stank no higher in heaven's nostrils than any other." Quentin, concerning Deacon (Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury).
 
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"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

This is attributed to Mark Twain, but the jury's still out on that. Really doesn't matter who said it, though...still a damned deep quote.
 
"‘Whoever talks about what does not concern him will hear what will not please him.’" from "The Arabian Nights
 
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” -Albert Einstein

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” -Mark Twain

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." -The Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 13:11-12)

"True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love." -Alexander the Great

"He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." -Solomon (Proverbs 18:13)
 
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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich was a German Lutheran theologian, raised a passifist, who took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was captured and hung naked by piano wire in a concentration camp.

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Back when we were planning our wedding, my future wife asked me if I had any biblical quotes I wanted read during the ceremony.

I smiled and said "Sure!". Picked up her Mom's bible and flipped to 1 Timothy 2:12:

"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."


I got an incredibly tense dose of "The Glare", followed by a very frosty "No."

It was at that point any further responsibilities for the planning of the wedding no longer fell into my lap...all I had to do was show up on time in a tux.

And THAT, gentlemen, is known as a "win".

:):):)
 
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