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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Speaker: Niels BohrPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Speaker: SantayanaPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
Speaker: Russian ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Speaker: Navajo ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Speaker: Edward R. MurrowPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Well, when the only thing left for you is to insult others over their choice of words/terms, then you’ve lost the plot.
Early on in this life, my Mother instructed me to be possessing of both a dictionary and a thesaurus, in order that I not bother her so often with questions regarding the words and terms I might happen upon in the books I would be perusing.
One simply develops good habits early on in life! The remedial happens later …
And, no, I possess no such thing as a “Word of the Day” calendar, inasmuch that I have no need for such.
If my vocabulary offends you, then perhaps you should think about taking it under your advisement to acquire several new words and terms daily, in order that >YOU TOO< will come to appreciate communicating with others, using an economy of words.
Why waste a page of space, when one might communicate the whole of an essential idea in perhaps a mere paragraph?
And besides: The ability of a man to cogitate at length about any particular subject, requires that he be as fully assessed of the lexicon of his native language as possible, in order that his thought processes are fully enabled to incorporate whatever thought might be introduced.
You see? What you miss here is just this: The man with the smallest vocabulary also has least ability to think about things, inasmuch that he has not the ability to express his thoughts, save through the most primitive of ways.
The extent of a man’s intellectual capital is enriched through his acquisition of knowledge: The more he knows, the more he understands what he doesn’t know.
Speaker: HighlanderPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 11:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!
Speaker: G. RomneyPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
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I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Speaker: Andy FinkelPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 10:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing it happened.
Speaker: Normon M. ThomasSource: Campaign Speech 1948Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Can you see the potential for madness and fun? We can. People are using Garry’s mod to make movies, cartoons, or even to answer the age old question of what happens to 350 chairs if you stack them on top of each other and throw a grenade into the middle.
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For me, as soon as money enters the picture, the fun is (mostly) gone; with money comes responsibility, whoever is providing the money buys the right to demand answers and project deadlines. It’s no longer “because I enjoy doing it”, but “because he tells me to”.
Speaker: JustKiddingPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 4:17 PMComments: 1 -
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Speaker: Bernard Mannes BaruchPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Speaker: Vince LombardiPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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