Memorable Quotes

[Insidious Von]

My favorite Einstein quote: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

Films have been going downhill since Oppenheimer, Tom Conti was brilliant as Albert.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another - Charles Dickens

God made only so many perfect heads, the rest he covered with hair - Telly Savalas

 

[trm]

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

Will Rogers

A quote from the 1930s that applies to the Southern states attempts to teach school children that slavery was beneficial. Gov. Desantis actually believes that.

 

[Adamxx]

Cant recall where I read this.

“ One must learn how to UNLEARN things they learnt “

 

[jazzbox]

Prediction is difficult… especially about the future. Yogi Berra.

As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken

 

[Big Rig]

Culkin was a Jesuit priest who helped create Sesame Street

Let me take this great aphorisim ( pithy observation that contains a general truth ) further

This is my metaphysical concept of why there is a universe, indeed, an illusion of a universe



We are the same way with consciousness as fish are with water

Because fish are born and die in water they do not understand the concept of not water.
We swim in consciousness like fish swim in water.
The illusion of a universe makes consciousness aware of itself because there is now
something other than consciousness. Without the illusion of the universe there would still be consciousness
but consciousness would be unaware of its own consciousness the same way fish are unaware of water

 

[SchlongConery]

But who put the Ram in the Ram-A-Lama-Ding-Dong?

A funny headline Editor at the Orillia Packet and Times writing about a chinese man who got hit by a Dodge truck fleeing the scene at the Casino?

 

[Zoot Allures]

Love this prose from " The Cigarette Smoking Man " from X Files

 

[Zoot Allures]

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Culkin was a Jesuit priest who helped create Sesame Street

Let me take this great aphorisim ( pithy observation that contains a general truth ) further

This is my metaphysical concept of why there is a universe, indeed, an illusion of a universe



We are the same way with consciousness as fish are with water

Because fish are born and die in water they do not understand the concept of not water.
We swim in consciousness like fish swim in water.
The illusion of a universe makes consciousness aware of itself because there is now
something other than consciousness. Without the illusion of the universe there would still be consciousness
but consciousness would be unaware of its own consciousness the same way fish are unaware of water

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[opieshuffle]

I think about this a LOT when I see all the male and female "Karens" on the web.

 

[Zoot Allures]

 

[Knuckle Ball]

 

[MorganStanley1]

 

[xmontrealer]

Tell me your troubles, I have none of my own...

 

[xmontrealer]

Stephen Hawking: "The Afterlife Is A Fairy Tale For People Who Are Afraid Of The Dark"

 

[Robert Mugabe]

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So why not go out there and enjoy? with a gun

 

[Robert Mugabe]

I never drink water. Fish fuck in it.
W.C Fields

 

[jalimon]

1 person out of 3 forms one third of the population

jalimon

 

[wigglee]

As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Donald J Trump .