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Boston Lad

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Thought for Today

1) "At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page
and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." ~ Patrick Moore

Fun, fun fun!!

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Thought for Today

1) "At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page
and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." ~ Patrick Moore[/b]
And what do you do it you are there?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Thought for Today

1) "At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page
and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." ~ Patrick Moore[/b]
The great Patrick Moore!

He inspired me as a child and continued to do so in adulthood.

Boston Lad

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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." —A. A. Milne
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My thanks to each of you for your interest. Please feel free to contribute your own
quotations by published authors which you find entertaining or memorable.

Read a book!

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
My thanks to each of you for your interest. Please feel free to contribute your own
quotations by published authors which you find entertaining or memorable.
"If I were you, orangutan, I'd ignore him." ~Boston Lad

Doug Stanhope

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Ignore the troll, particularly when it opens its millionth copy paste thread.
Alexander The Great

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keep your fiddle tuned---Nero

edit: ignore this post...improper understanding of thread topic

Boston Lad

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2) "We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." ~Robert Wilensky [lol]

Boston Lad

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3) "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." —Aristotle

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
"If I were you, orangutan, I'd ignore him." ~Boston Lad
... I try.

chemist

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Originally posted by orangutan
... I try.
Do or don't; there is no try.

Boston Lad

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4) "I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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5) "To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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6) "Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

—Lao-Tze

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7) "To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." —Abraham Maslow