Quotes You Like

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

~ Anatole France
French novelist (1844 - 1924)

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

― Rudyard Kipling

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

~ George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.

We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they are going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it’s going to leave a worse world for future generations.

There are only two industries that call their customers "users", illegal drugs and software.

Worrying is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
~ Glenn Turner

“Every morning I wake up and rush to RHP, my breath caught in my chest, wondering what excessive hyperbole Grampy Bobby will use today.”

- Raven69 (15 Jul '08)

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Read on facebook:

Humans are the only creatures on Earth that will cut down a tree, turn into paper, then write "save the trees" on it.

@huckleberryhound said
We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they are going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it’s going to leave a worse world for future generations.

Accredation, please?

@suzianne said
Accredation, please?

@huckleberryhound?

-VR

@torunn said
Read on facebook:

Humans are the only creatures on Earth that will cut down a tree, turn into paper, then write "save the trees" on it.

Good one, make it up yourself?

-VR

@very-rusty said
Good one, make it up yourself?

-VR

No, I quoted it from facebook.

@suzianne said
Accredation, please?

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If you don't shout at your kids, you don't spend enough time with them - Warren Zevon.