Musings
Miscellaneous Stuff
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When bankers get together for dinner they discuss art. When
artists get together for dinner they discuss money. |
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I thought I was learning to
live; I was only learning to die Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 [67 years] |
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Human will cannot be called a 'free' cause,
only a 'necessary' cause Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677 [MY COMMENT] |
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly
useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang |
| The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer |
| The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a
word for 'entrepreneur'. [On-tray-proo-noowur] George Bush |
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A reasonable man adapts himself to his
environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw |
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task
of the sculptor to discover it. Michelangelo |
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. Michelangelo |
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man
be "discovered" by an election. Adolf Hitler |
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A work of art is the unique
result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde |
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Constantin Brancusi |
| And remember, no
matter where you go, there you are. Confucius |
| In a well governed
country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a badly governed country, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius |
| We hang the petty
thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop |
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not
understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I
believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford |
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is
not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what
he is. I like this quote but it implies the existence of some intelligent force in control of man, a view I do not subscribe to. Same quote below, so I take no credit for it, says the same thing but without the 'god' implication.
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Artificial Intelligence will not hate you, nor will it love
you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for
something else. Eliezer Yudkowsky |
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A baited Banker thus desponds, From his own Hand foresees his Fall; They have his Soul who have his Bonds; 'Tis like the Writing on the Wall. Jonathan Swift |
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Frank Zappa |
