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"The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby." --Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal, prior to the 1976 summer Olympics. The Olympics subsequently lost money and cost the city of Montreal over $1 billion dollars. In Canada, the 1976 Summer Olympics were referred to as "Jean Drapeau's baby" |
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
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“ I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and then many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me. ”
~ Richard Feynman; (Born 95 years ago today, May 11, 1918) |
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"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls."
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.....The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish. Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority, and are a happy folk, to be envied by the minority classes.
..........— Henry Watson Fowler (1858 – 1933), English schoolmaster, lexicographer, and author. Quoted in "Apostrophe now: Bad grammar and the people who hate it" by Tom de Castella, BBC News Magazine. |
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Everyone probably knows this one but I do love it so...
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." Tyrion - A Game of Thrones, George R R Martin. |
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Thanks for posting this! So true ...
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I wanted to share this but wasn't sure where to put it. This thread is as good as any.
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And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not" Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" |
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