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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML Growing old is something you do if you're lucky It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are ingenious Before I speak I have something important to say Groucho Marx You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither Steve Martin When choosing between two evils I always pick the one I haven't tried before Mae West There are a number of mechanical devices which increase the sexual arousal of women, a Ferrari is one of them P J O'Rourke A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it Bob Hope All I ask is a chance to prove that money won't make me happy Spike Milligan A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time Robert McCrum |
MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-03 08:33:22Copy HTML But in their prime before the pressure of fame took over they were gorgeous.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-03 11:39:41Copy HTML But in their prime before the pressure of fame took over they were gorgeous.
No argument there. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-04 08:39:14Copy HTML Science flys you to the moon, religion flys you into buildings
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-04 10:50:11Copy HTML Science flys you to the moon, religion flys you into buildings
Richard Dawkins And less than 25 years after 9/11 NYC elects a Muslim Mayor who puts prayer rugs in city hall. Forget the "Never Forget" thingy. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-04 11:18:10Copy HTML Sometimes it’s hard not to think that western civilisation has a death wish. Certainly, the left side of it does |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-07 06:21:32Copy HTML "Never show up uninvited, you're not that important." |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-08 08:04:17Copy HTML Kale tastes like I want to be fat
John Kennedy |
shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-08 10:53:19Copy HTML Kale is not my choice for the green.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-09 07:33:57Copy HTML I don't think I've ever tried it, don't particularly want to either. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-09 10:19:34Copy HTML Kale is considered a super food. I'll settle for mediocre lettuce.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-10 07:31:55Copy HTML I like that dark green leafy cabbage, that's good enough I'm sure. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-10 08:25:48Copy HTML "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." P.J. O'Rourke. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-13 06:47:00Copy HTML "As world-historical figures": brash "heroes of the Epoch" who rip apart the established order and push history on to its next stage through sheer force of will. G.W.F. Hegel 19th century philosopher.
Hegel was referring to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, & Napoleon Bonaparte. I wonder if Trump reads Hegel? Nah, Trump is a visual learner from two minute sound bites. |
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MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-13 08:32:01Copy HTML He likes to impress people with talk of US power, in China with a war he can't get away from he might find that a little more difficult. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-14 07:31:26Copy HTML He’s landed in China with a small army of the most important businessmen in the US. He obviously means business. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-20 08:49:42Copy HTML The British used to deal with crime by sending them to Australia. Now they deal with crime by moving to Australia.
Konstantine Kissin |
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-21 12:06:58Copy HTML Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist Socrates himself was permanently pissed John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram And Rene Desdartes was a drunken fart "I drink therefore I am" Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker But a bugger when he's pissed Monty Python Bruces' Philosophers Song What's not to love about philosophy? "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-21 12:29:55Copy HTML Seems spot on to me. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-21 03:12:48Copy HTML "Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
H.L. Mencken |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-21 08:41:34Copy HTML I am not interested in the possibilities of defeat, they do not exist.
Queen Victoria |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-21 11:47:24Copy HTML I am not interested in the possibilities of defeat, they do not exist.
Queen Victoria Now that is confidence befitting the times. |
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-22 05:30:06Copy HTML She used the Royal "We" rather than I. The precise origin is disputed though; one version is that it was in a letter to Arthur Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury in December 1899 after a series of losses in the Boer War. However one source says she spoke the words rather than wrote them. Margaret Thatcher used a similar phrase over the Falklands War in 1982. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-25 11:39:13Copy HTML Police officer misconduct is common, what is very rare is the government doing something about it.
Steven Magee |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-05-25 11:52:12Copy HTML Police officer misconduct is common, what is very rare is the government doing something about it.
Steven Magee Example of police misconduct. |
