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Jack Torrance

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@shallow-blue said
Jerome Lawrence didn't realise that he himself needed a psychiatrist, badly.
OK, interesting. I don't know much about him to be honest. I just came across the quote recently.

Jack Torrance

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@kevin-eleven said
"Bad money drives out good."
Very true. Greshams law.

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In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

The best of the Perlisisms, I think.

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“Bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than s**t”

Anon.

chemist

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Do not correct a fool, for he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

Jack Torrance

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Arguing with a fool is like mud wrestling with a pig. You look stupid, you get dirty and the pig enjoys it.

Gothenburg

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In her own words:
Judi Dench
"Don’t prioritize your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritize the uniqueness that makes you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better."

Gothenburg

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“Some day, we will all die, Snoopy.
True, but on all the other days, we will not.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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"History will be kind to me — for I intend to write it."
— Winston Churchill

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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet, just because someone captioned a picture." Abraham Lincoln

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@divegeester said
“They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”
- Criss Jami
Thanks for the explanation, finally.

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@shallow-blue said
But... what we do, what influence we have on the world - that does define us! It's all very well to say that you are so much better in your own mind than in what the world thinks of you, but the only thing anyone you knew will remember of you is not what you thought about him, but what you did to him.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

-Maya Angelou

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“When it comes to the RHP forums, never forget what people say”

divegeester ~ from the book “30 Minutes Of Not Posting”

Jack Torrance

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'Be careful who you let on your ship because some people will sink the whole ship just because they can't be captain.'

Jack Torrance

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As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.

Chuck Prince, CEO Citibank, 2007. Just before the great financial crisis.