Tag: tftd
member name: Michael C.
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December 11, 2009 12:24 PM EST --
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest. -William Shakespeare, 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
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December 10, 2009 11:58 AM EST --
I don't believe in astrology. But then I'm an Aquarius, and Aquarians don't believe in astrology." -James R. F. Quirk
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December 08, 2009 10:01 AM EST --
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how . . .
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March 08, 2007 01:50 PM EST --
“The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and . . .
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June 19, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that
the Earth will be destroyed in the next several days. Congress is
thinking about eliminating a federal program under which . . .
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December 09, 2009 10:49 AM EST --
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. . . .
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August 28, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
A collection of my Thought For The Day emails I get...
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Thought for Friday, Aug 24, 2007
The compact disc is celebrating its 25th anniversary. That makes me feel even older . . .
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March 19, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
In my email inbox...
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Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don't know something,
for . . .
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August 29, 2007 02:52 PM EDT --
"The difference between holding on to a hurt or releasing it with forgiveness is like the difference between laying your head down at night on a pillow filled with thorns or a pillow filled with rose . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:30 AM EST --
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -Elizabeth Taylor
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December 01, 2009 10:26 AM EST --
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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December 02, 2009 01:52 PM EST --
Every solution breeds new problems.
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November 18, 2009 09:44 AM EST --
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. -Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951 (1894 - 1984)
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November 30, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
"It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle
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September 10, 2007 09:08 AM EDT --
A collection of thoughts from my inbox...
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Train a child in the way he should go,
and walk there yourself once in a while.
-American . . .
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November 17, 2009 09:20 AM EST --
... it is not enough to show that a situation is bad; it is also necessary to be reasonably certain that the problem has been properly described, fairly certain that the proposed remedy will improve . . .
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December 07, 2009 12:37 PM EST --
All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than . . .
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August 29, 2007 09:09 AM EDT --
More from my inbox...
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TFTD August 28, 2007
"Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration. However, we will forever be restricted . . .
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November 11, 2009 12:08 PM EST --
On Patience
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like . . .
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April 24, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
In my inbox this morning...
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The new system routine "produced an unexpected impact
and triggered a compounding series of interaction errors . . .
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