Memorable & Meaningful Quotes

[Revoltingest]

Wolfgang Pauli reviewed a young physicists paper, & made the greatest insult ever.
English translation.....
This not only isn't right.....it isn't even wrong.

 

[Deidre]

 

[Deidre]

''In life, we never lose friends. We only discover who the true ones are.'' -- unknown author

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

Men reject their prophets and slay them,
but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Deidre]

Men reject their prophets and slay them,
but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've reread this a few times, what does this mean?

 

[Deidre]

You know, these wise men from the past could be pretty hot if they had different hair styles, and sported beards.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

You know, these wise men from the past could be pretty hot if they had different hair styles, and sported beards.

Sorry, I can't grow a really good beard for some reason.

 

[Jedster]

"Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature." Hans Ji Maharaj.

 

[MARCELLO]

If I would, you would not.

 

[Deidre]

Sorry, I can't grow a really good beard for some reason.

But, you are at least wise.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

But, you are at least wise.

Gratuitous flattery with no apparent basis will get you...err...well...everywhere.

 

[Wirey]

"Dad, do you love me as much as I love you?"

"Yes. Maybe more."

"Does it make you all jumpy, too?"

Conversation with my then 6 year old daughter.

 

[Deidre]

lol

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

I've reread this a few times, what does this mean?

I suppose you could read it from many angles. It seems to point to a deep irony that is in human behavior, especially on the population level.

 

[Deidre]

 

[ShivaFan]

Opps! Just noticed this thread ...

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer still" - Mobutu Sese Seko (Dictator of Zaire) in 1972, two years before the "motto" appeared in the book The Godfather Part II in 1974. Niccolo Machiavelli never said this.

And neither did Lau Tzu even if all over the internet - I have never found the proof from The Art of War.

Also Mobutu met Richard Nixon in DC about a year later and said it again. Nixon liked the advice, but didn't follow it very well.

 

[Revoltingest]

If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the others
Anton LaVey

 

[Deidre]

 

[Deidre]

''When you no longer care what anyone thinks of you, you've reached a dangerous level of freedom.'' -- Unknown

 

[Corthos]

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

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