whats your fav saying or quote?

[Tom Bomb]

The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

—Arundhati Roy
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[Tom Bomb]

Social media has been eroding society for such a long time. Social media’s such a misnomer. I mean, it could be used for so much good but so much bad comes out of it. I mean, it’s already pretty much torpedoed civil discourse. It has no respect for the law or defamation or sub judice. You know, they don’t mind posting snuff videos. It’s just a law unto itself. Where we’re up to now, it’s completely desensitising a whole generation that lives on it, completely desensitised to it. And it operates in parallel to the operations of all of us here and the organisations in which we work. We can’t publish any of the stuff they do. We’re bound by defo-rules and everything else. And basic decency.

—Phil Coorey, insiders, 04/21/24
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[fig]

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. --Shakespeare' "The Tempest"

The "dream within a dream" that E. A. Poe mentioned in his poem, I suppose.

When you clean out a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner. --unknown, but it's funny LOL. After cleaning the vacuum cleaner, then take a shower, is the shower a vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner? And then you clean the shower, does that make...nevermind, my head's starting to hurt...

 

[Tom Bomb]

Apologies for the mistake! I'm just a large language model, I don't have experiences or children.

—amped-up AI agent
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[Tom Bomb]

I am just going outside and may be some time.

—Invalid Link Removed

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[Nedmundo]

Many years ago, a close friend of my parents said: "Ned, many things in life are overrated. Being a grandfather is not one of those things." That's stuck with me, and with a 25-year-old daughter who appears to be on the cusp of getting engaged, I might attain grandfatherly status in the not-too-distant future.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Some say, you know, you were brilliant. You were an absolute genius. I was neither. I was just a child.

— Frank Abagnale
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[E2942]

Mine would be from Frank Zappa, but I can't use that one here, so I'll use my second choice:

Modern U.S. citizens behave as if intelligence is some sort of hideous deformity

There are also some zingers from Carlin that I love, but they're not safe for work, or sensitive people.

 

[matti777]

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Catfish Hunter

and

Life is not fair

my mother

 

[FilterFunk]

"The grass is greener where you water it." - Author unknown

 

[Tom Bomb]

My thing is, I really don’t need my refrigerator to talk to my toaster. They’ve gotten along for a long time without ever having a conversation.

— Frank (Catch-Me-if-You-Can) Abignale

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[Tom Bomb]

What sort of a man hides in a hedge while his friend is facing death?

—Basil Shaw

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[WRM]

I like to sign E-mails w/"Vincit Omnia Veritas". Not sure who said it first?

 

[STRMan]

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching.

 

[Fishheadjoe]

You're not as young as I used to be.
Fishheadjoe

 

[WillysWildcat]

A wise friend of mine many years ago said the most prophetic thing I have ever heard. It can be applied to MANY situations in life

“Some folks just aren’t blessed with self awareness.”

 

[Tom Bomb]

Pants is overrated. So is grammar, too.

—Elizabeth Cook
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[Tom Bomb]

You speak my language.

—Mark Sandman
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[Tom Bomb]

The day it is cold. The light is dim. This vellum is hairy. Something is wrong.

—a scribe, the name of the rose

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[Iridescentone]

"light a fire for a man, he's warm for a day...light a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life."