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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: ReardenSteel on November 02, 2008, 07:17:53 PM
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Last chapter of the "Thoughts on the Eve of War" chapter of P.J. O'Rourke's book Peace Kills.
"And France is a treasure to mankind. French ideas, French beliefs, and French actions form a sort of lodestone for humanity. A moral compass needle needs a butt end. Whatever direction France is pointing- toward collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists, existentialism, Jerry Lewis, or UN resolution veto- we can go the other way with a quiet conscience."
:rotf:
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I love PJ!
"There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages."
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I love PJ!
"There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages."
:-)
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Oh I found another one that is brilliant in all its simplicity....
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Is Heinlein in play? I would go as far as saying most of his quotes are pretty famous. But if he is, then:
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever fope to have both at the same time."
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Oh I found another one that is brilliant in all its simplicity....
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Sounds like Boortz, or someone he would quote, lol. Good one.
Is Heinlein in play? I would go as far as saying most of his quotes are pretty famous. But if he is, then:
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever fope to have both at the same time."
It's good and it counts to me. H5's to you guys.
These need not be political but all quotes you like are fair game.
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Obscure movie quote (and paraphrased at that) I use in place of "diversity" as a private joke...
"It takes all kinds of critters to make Uncle John's fritters"
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It's the first time I have ever heard the word "fope" in a famous quote. :lmao:
I agree H5 to all.
Rearden, that was another PJ quote.
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We must destroy and rid ourselves of the "Nanny State" mentality.
From Me..... definitely "non-famous"
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It's the first time I have ever heard the word "fope" in a famous quote. :lmao:
I agree H5 to all.
Rearden, that was another PJ quote.
D'oh. Should have known that but some of his stuff I have not read since High School. :p
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D'oh. Should have known that but some of his stuff I have not read since High School. :p
I found a site with some of his quotes. Now you must think less of me. :lmao:
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Blazing Saddles:
Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers ... and Methodists!!!!
Taggart: [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
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I found a site with some of his quotes. Now you must think less of me. :lmao:
Nah. I quoted straight from the book as I was thinking of turning it into a sig line. Plus I have THIS (http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~568~0) in my favorites for handy quote grabbing or a laugh.
:-)
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and I think this quote is still not fully understood -- in fact, I would go as far as to say it is understood less now than when Marshall McLuhan published it in The Medium is the Massage in 1967:
Media, by altering the environment, evokes in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. The extension of any one sense alters the way we think and act--the way we perceive the world. When the ratios change, men change.
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A toast...
"Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!"
Anonymous
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My favorite philosopher, John Stuart Mill:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Heinlein:
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that "violence never settles anything" I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom."
And of course, the anonymous:
"Payback is a bitch."
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One of my favorite quotes is not from a famous person, but a fraternity brother in college.
"You know how they teach you in drivers ed to look left, right, left when you're at a stop sign? I've been looking right, left, right and it's working very well for me."
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I used this one as a sig line for a while (and "might could" again)
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night wake in the day to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
--T.E. Lawrence
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My Platton Sergeant in Basic, SFC Ed Garcia in 1975: "Men, don't never count on nuthin' in the Army 'til it actually happens!" Truer words were never spoken.
A saying attributable to many cranky old tool-and-die men, shop foremen, and head machinists for the past hundred years at least: "You can have it fast, cheap, or accurate. Pick any two."
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This one's pretty rough, and one a buddy of mine used often:
"If you can't f*ck it, or eat it, kill it."
Same buddy while out duck hunting, and pointing at a clump of tules: " I woulden't go over there. There's a big, brown Tule Rat over there with my name on it".
Prior to this he would announce he had a issue with "squirrel heading". :lmao:
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And of course, the anonymous:
"Payback is a bitch."
"But revenge is a muther****er."
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We are never going to get rid of war because it is too much fun to drive tanks through buildings and kill foreigners.
P.J. O'Rourke
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"I'm gonna hit you so hard your Mama's gonna feel it"
TI Senior Airman Weed - Lackland AFB, TX 1981
She scared the Hell out of me. :o
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"I'm gonna hit you so hard your Mama's gonna feel it"
TI Senior Airman Weed - Lackland AFB, TX 1981
She scared the Hell out of me. :o
OK then....if you're gonna quote bootcamp language.
Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot: Parris Island, S.C., 1965.
drill Instructor (never, never call them DI's) was holding a recruit up by his ears, jerking his head violently from side to side, just the tip toes of the recruit were touching the ground. Drill Instructor yells in the recruits face, "I'm going to unscrew your head and shit in it so you'll have some brains." ......well it looked like he was going to do it and I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen or heard.....never, never laugh when a Drill Instructor is having a father/son discussion with one of his recruits.........which brings to mind another quote. Drill Instructor, "When I call you son, it's not because I feel fatherly toward you. It's because I think you're a son of a bitch."
Me and a Seminole Indain from south Florida stayed in trouble for laughing..... :rotf: ....and I have the scars to prove it. Oh, what a learning experience that was. :rotf: 90% of American kids could benefit greatly from it. ....if they lived..... :rotf:
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Senior Chief Nelson, Great Mistakes Recruit Training Center:
Rick--everyone has a right to be stupid, but you're abusing the privilege. DROP!