Quotes

[The shadow]

From Ian to his GF.

 

[nivek]

 

[The shadow]

 

[The shadow]

"We are all visitors to this time, this place. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home." - The Queen

 

[nivek]

 

[Dejan Corovic]

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Actually I red on the BBC's own site something similar said by the late Queen Elizabeth, but for life of me I can't find that page or URL.

 

[The shadow]

This!.. Rikki and I know this is true after 21 years of marriage it's like we 1st met

 

[Dejan Corovic]

 

[nivek]

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

- Mark Twain

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[Dejan Corovic]

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

- Mark Twain

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If I may add to that, stupid people have angles that are so uninformed and misinformed, that you'll have to go back to the dawn of mankind to just untangle these misconceptions. Not that it will take you a lifetime, but most likely you'll end being beaten up.

 

[pigfarmer]

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so,
you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting
to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from
experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time
and annoys the pig.

- Lazarus Long

 

[pepe]

Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

 

[nivek]

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/akheriaty/status/1597384706697273344


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[nivek]

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[nivek]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell

1984

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[pigfarmer]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell

1984

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Ah. I see. CNN

 

[nivek]

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[nivek]

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[nivek]

"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness."

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[nivek]

"There is a difference between the 'being-in-the world' of the scientist and the 'being-in-the-world' of the layman."

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