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Favorite Deep Quotes

Favorite Deep Quotes
"Everything in life is just for a while." - Philip K. Dick
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“Millions of men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.” (Thomas Jefferson)   Consider
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Marie Shear.

PS: have a nice thought about this one on this international women's day.
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OK, I went through 100 famous quotes looking for one I liked. Most seemed idiotic: "The wind howls, but the mountain remains still". Well, Duh... I'm going to go with a personal thought. "The time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, you dipstick"!
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
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"Well, I think that old cuss of a preacher lied like Dixie when he said that God had fought all our battles and won all our victories──for if that was true, why was it not in the papers, and why has He not been promoted?" (Sgt. Albinus Fell, CSA)  Hmm
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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"The truth is out there." —Dana Scully
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"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man." (Jack Handey)  Consider
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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"They couldn't hit an Elephant...." Major General John Sedgwick

Corollary: Sometimes your subordinates DO know what they are talking about.
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"Aside from that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
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"I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church." (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)  Consider
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.


Vivekananda
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(05-31-2023, 02:24 PM)Dānu Wrote: [Image: quote-it-is-now-quite-lawful-for-a-catho...-68-07.jpg]

This sounds like an awesome quote, if I could figure out what it means.

I really like stuff like this.
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"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis." (Jack Handey)  Huh
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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(05-31-2023, 02:24 PM)Dānu Wrote: [Image: quote-it-is-now-quite-lawful-for-a-catho...-68-07.jpg]

Ah...be fruitful and multiply.

edited to add:

Oh, never mind...that's not it.

I'm still confused.
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(05-31-2023, 02:24 PM)Dānu Wrote: [Image: quote-it-is-now-quite-lawful-for-a-catho...-68-07.jpg]

Catholics are now allowed to use chemistry as well…ovulation testing, etc.  it’s still abstinence on fertile times, though.
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"And then Logicians entered the field in their usual role, as spoilers."

(From the preface of some math book. I forget which one.)


The Logical Song

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