Notable quotes - Page 5

TheMercenary · 08-22-2009, 11:18 PM

I guess that is not much different from here. I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your understanding as I try to understand.

DanaC · 08-22-2009, 11:22 PM

There are a lot of very wealthy youngsters at my university (the girlfriend of one of the Princes was a student a year above me). They pay the same £3.k a year tuition fees that I pay. The only difference is that they probably didn't apply for a loan to pay it and they would only be entitled to the mimimum maintenance loan.

dar512 · 08-24-2009, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

The wealthy don't get wealthy because they managed to sneak themselves a bigger piece of pie. Most wealthy get wealthy because they find or build a bigger pie.

And sometimes they cheat their workers and customers to make their piece of the pie.

Let's not get all dewey-eyed over the rich. Most rich are rich because their parents were rich and the initial money gave them leverage. It is not a level playing field.

BTW, don't assume that this post means I favor punitive taxing of the rich. But I suspect that the rich are not taxed as much as the middle class due to having a lot more options in loopholes and tax shelters.

Datalyss · 08-25-2009, 12:39 AM

Quote:

Time is the fire in which we burn.

From the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz.

DanaC · 08-25-2009, 11:06 AM

Quote:

War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretense must be made for expenditure. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Thomas Paine (my favourite 18th century writer and thinker)

Datalyss · 09-01-2009, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Dumb is not knowing any better. Stupid is knowing better, but doing it anyway.

Pamela Brewer

classicman · 01-26-2011, 08:11 PM

Lawrence O'Donnell last night asking a political aide how it felt to be inside the First Lady's box.

Griff · 01-26-2011, 09:09 PM

Quote:

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Spock

Pete Zicato · 02-09-2011, 12:36 PM

Time takes time - which sucks but there you go.
-- Brianna

Vitale · 02-11-2011, 11:37 AM

My family toast:

I wish to myself
that I could talk to myself
As I knew him just one year ago
I'd tell him alot
That would help him alot
About the things he'd aught to know

Griff · 02-12-2011, 05:05 PM

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions. -Miyamoto Musashi

ZenGum · 02-13-2011, 06:10 AM

Miyamoto Musashi is now a chain of cheap but fairly good diners throughout Japan. I ate there often.

Sundae · 02-13-2011, 07:07 AM

Cannibalism?!

Trilby · 02-13-2011, 08:45 AM

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

George Eliot

infinite monkey · 09-26-2012, 12:22 PM

Perfect quote for work:

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

I made a sign. I hung it up. On the inside of my cubey.

08-22-2009, 11:18 PM	#61
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I guess that is not much different from here. I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your understanding as I try to understand. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-26-2011, 08:11 PM	#67
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Lawrence O'Donnell last night asking a political aide how it felt to be inside the First Lady's box. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

02-09-2011, 12:36 PM	#69
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Time takes time - which sucks but there you go. -- Brianna __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

02-12-2011, 05:05 PM	#71
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions. -Miyamoto Musashi __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-13-2011, 06:10 AM	#72
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Miyamoto Musashi is now a chain of cheap but fairly good diners throughout Japan. I ate there often. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-11-2011, 11:37 AM	#70
Vitale Recruit or Something Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 4	My family toast: I wish to myself that I could talk to myself As I knew him just one year ago I'd tell him alot That would help him alot About the things he'd aught to know

02-13-2011, 07:07 AM	#73
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cannibalism?!

02-13-2011, 08:45 AM	#74
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." George Eliot __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-26-2012, 12:22 PM	#75
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Perfect quote for work: *Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.* --Napoleon Bonaparte I made a sign. I hung it up. On the inside of my cubey.

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