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Old 02-20-2021, 10:25 AM   #2251
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Ah jamison20000e,
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If only you had a personality instead of an attitude
 
Old 02-20-2021, 01:30 PM   #2252
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Chipmunks can't beat Elephants.
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Old 02-21-2021, 04:03 PM   #2253
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BizBoy, searching for yourself and not others would make you a true Guru but we digress...

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_software
 
Old 02-22-2021, 06:37 AM   #2254
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:p

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m@n:~$ fortune
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.  Every class
is unfit to govern.
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One opinion is you're a d!ck if you want to be a boss but if not?
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Different Strokes for different folks
...that's why the world smokes.
 
Old 04-27-2021, 08:01 PM   #2255
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https://professorbuzzkill.com/einste...-knowlege-qnq/
 
Old 05-30-2021, 12:16 PM   #2256
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"There's only three kinds of statistics and they're all for morons" or something like that.
 
Old 05-30-2021, 12:17 PM   #2257
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Joseph Poore: "A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth."
 
Old 06-06-2021, 12:18 PM   #2258
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-o     Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms.  The -o option is ignored if a fortune directory is specified.

              Please, please, please request a potentially offensive fortune if and only if you believe, deep in your heart, that you are willing to be  offended.
              (And that you'll just quit using -o rather than give us grief about it, okay?)
 
Old 06-08-2021, 10:47 AM   #2259
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You know, I mean, uh, kids don't want to do anything. You know, in my experience, Paula? Kids are always like "I don't wanna do that!" I consider my job to kinda twist them in the direction of doing stuff. I mean that's what coaching's all about.
"—Coach McGuirk"
 
Old 06-08-2021, 12:07 PM   #2260
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One from Billy Connolly, and you have to imagine it being said in his thick Scottish Accent:
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Who discovered you could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
 
Old 06-12-2021, 03:22 AM   #2261
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I know that the people are impatient and want fast answers but fast answers are often the wrong answers.
(German Chancellor Angela Merkel)
 
Old 06-12-2021, 04:02 AM   #2262
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^ Mama Merkel, we will miss you!
 
Old 06-13-2021, 04:39 PM   #2263
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^ Mama Merkel, we will miss you!
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I won't
(Michael Uplawski)
 
Old 06-14-2021, 05:01 AM   #2264
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When laws of right or wrong aren't defined from birth.
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The greatest deception suffered is opinions.

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Old 06-14-2021, 12:14 PM   #2265
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I know that the people are impatient and want fast answers but fast answers are often the wrong answers.
(German Chancellor Angela Merkel)
Wasn't that said before, by someone whose views I don't always agree with?
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Originally Posted by H.L.Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, plain solution -- and it is always wrong.
 
  


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