Ways of thinking

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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:27 am

Bodhidharma;
"If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past."
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:17 pm

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:32 am

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:02 am

Quote from Lau Tsu;
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:24 pm

...schools of love are taught by fate, we never learn till it's too late

Willie Nelson
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:07 pm

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:59 pm

Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime, if ya don't lay 'em down.

The Grateful Dead
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:37 pm

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Baltasar Gracian
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:16 pm

...he not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:26 am

Confucius;
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:53 am

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
John Wooden
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:42 pm

sometimes the lights all shinin' on me
other times I can barely see
lately it occurs to me, what a long strange trip it's been

Grateful Dead
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:49 pm

"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member"

Groucho Marx????
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:29 am

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”
Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:55 am

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."
Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:26 am

"All Bibles are man made"

Thomas Edison
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:37 pm

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

Nikita Khrushchev
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:06 am

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:58 am

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Muhammad Ali
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby brer_momonga » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:56 am

"Since there is no condition in beast, in the heavens, or in the earth
that cannot be found in man, the philosopher calls man the little world."

From a Middle English version of the Secreta Secretorum (my translation)
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