Quote of the day

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borg number one said:
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Bagumbawalla said:
I don't normally comment on the various quotes, but this one made me realize that what I really need now is
my own nuclear submarine complete with atomic ICBMs and not some old musket- yea, sort of like Captain Nemo.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
-Captain Nemo
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The problem with that Washington quote is that is spurious, as said in the link below. It was manipulated. I had suspected it.

www.mountvernon.org

Spurious Quotations

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount?
www.mountvernon.org www.mountvernon.org

The article comments on many others with the same fate.

"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."​

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This quote is partially accurate as the beginning section is taken from Washington's First Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union. However, the quote is then manipulated into a differing context and the remaining text is inaccurate. Here is the actual text from Washington's speech:

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
 
Sudacafan said:
The problem with that Washington quote is that is spurious, as said in the link below. It was manipulated. I had suspected it.

www.mountvernon.org

Spurious Quotations

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount?
www.mountvernon.org www.mountvernon.org

The article comments on many others with the same fate.

"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."​

​

This quote is partially accurate as the beginning section is taken from Washington's First Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union. However, the quote is then manipulated into a differing context and the remaining text is inaccurate. Here is the actual text from Washington's speech:

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
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Interesting, makes sense. Be armed to protect oneself and be independent from military supplies. The Second Amendment of the US Constitution reads as follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
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This is “the final, handwritten original of the Bill of Rights as passed by Congress, with the rest of the original prepared by scribe William Lambert, is preserved in the National Archives. This is the version ratified by Delaware[31] and used by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller:”
 
One should, perform karma (action) with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely get the fruits. – Rig Veda
 
borg number one said:
Interesting, makes sense. Be armed to protect oneself and be independent from military supplies. The Second Amendment of the US Constitution reads as follows:



This is “the final, handwritten original of the Bill of Rights as passed by Congress, with the rest of the original prepared by scribe William Lambert, is preserved in the National Archives. This is the version ratified by Delaware[31] and used by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller:”
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This has become too long. The relevant take is this:

Free people should be disciplined
- George Washington
 
Sudacafan said:
This has become too long. The relevant take is this:

Free people should be disciplined
- Sudacfan
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Logic fail. The second amendment will not be abridged. There is a reason why it comes just after the First Amendment, the right to free speech. The two go hand in hand. The second amendment will not be abridged in the US. Where do you reside and what are your laws there? Where I live, almost every homeowner is armed and it is quite safe. I can explain why places where they try and restrict gun ownership turn out to be more dangerous if you want to gain a better understanding of the issue. Certain reasonable restrictions are useful, yet Government overreach will be defeated.
 
The non-existent was not the existent was not at that time. The atmosphere was not nor the heavens which are beyond. What was concealed Where In whose protection Was it water An unfathomable abyss. – Rig Veda

There was neither death nor immortality then. There was not distinction of day or night. That alone breathed windless by its own power. Other than that there was not anything else. – Rig Veda
 
borg number one said:
Logic fail. The second amendment will not be abridged. There is a reason why it comes just after the First Amendment, the right to free speech. The two go hand in hand. The second amendment will not be abridged in the US. Where do you reside and what are your laws there? Where I live, almost every homeowner is armed and it is quite safe. I can explain why places where they try and restrict gun ownership turn out to be more dangerous if you want to gain a better understanding of the issue. Certain reasonable restrictions are useful, yet Government overreach will be defeated.
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I believe that the places on Earth where nobody is armed are the safest.
 
Politics

Under every stone lurks a politician.
-Aristophanes

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-Frank Dane

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
and there is some evidence they can't read them, either.
-Gore Vidal

In order to be come the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-Charles de Gaulle

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
-Thomas Jefferson.
 
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”
― Jack Vance

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”
― Jack Vance

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.”
― Jack Vance
 

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''They say the best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.''

― William Shakespeare
 
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
-WS


From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 
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More than any other time in history, man faces a crossroads. One path leads to
despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray
we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

a. Camus b, Sartre c. Nietzsche d. Carl Sagan e. Woody Allen f. Andy Warhol
 
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind.
I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think what I have to say has
more lasting value.
-Robert Maynard Pirsig

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before.
It's millions are socially invisible to the rest of us.
-Michael Harrington

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us
-Ronald David Laing
 
Some oldies

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
-Socrates

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there there are atoms and space.
-Democritus

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
-Pericles

Take, for instance, a twig and a pillar, or the ugly person and the great beauty, and all the strange and monstrous
transformations. these are all leveled together by Tao. Division is the same as creation; creation is the same as destruction.
-Chaung-Tzu

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
-Alexander the Great
 
...In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed,
but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-
and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-From the movie The Third Man- screenplay Graham Greene and Carol Reed

...The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,​

mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,​

the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn​

like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars​

and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”​

-Jack Kerouac
 
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned
obsolescence of people that is a piece with the planned obsolescence of the
things they make. Or sell.
-Studs Terkel

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from
the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
-Albert Camus

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.
-Richard Nixon
 
When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.
-Sara Teasdale

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.​

-John Maynard Keynes

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
-Franz Kafka

As long as you know that most men are like children you know everything.
Coco Chanel
 
''Slowly by slowly.''

― Patrick Sang, coach of Eliud Kipchoge
[The key to Kipchoge's speed is that he makes progress slowly by slowly.]

@Sentinel , do you adhere by ''slowly by slowly'' or do you stick to what suits you best?
 
What did he say?

Industrialized communities neglect the very objects for which it is worth while to acquire riches
in their feverish preoccupation with the means by which riches can be acquired.
-Richard Henry Tawney

Really?

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out
by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and preoccupation of an individual.
-Sir Alexander Fleming

Hmmmmm?

Unemployment as a mass phenomenon is the outcome of allegedly "pro-labor" policies of the governments
and of labor union pressure and compulsion.
-William Temple

Okaaaaaaaaaay?

Learn how to be a policeman.........As regards being pope, you will see later. Anybody can be pope; the proof
of this is that I have become one.
-Pope John XXIII
 
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different;
they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to be like each other.
-David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Nature, Mr. Allnut is what we are put int this world to rise above.
-James Agee, The African Queen (spoken by Katharine Hepburn)

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
-John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)
 
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