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It's A Quote
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(February 7, 2022 at 11:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. —Lord Kelvin, 1895

'They'll never get that sucker off the ground.' - unnamed observer, Kitty Hawk (1903)

'They never get that big sucker off the ground.' - unnamed observer, Kennedy Space Center (1969)

It was ever thus.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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"You'll never get away with this!"
- unknown observer (extinct).

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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"Strange, but true, that those who have loved God the most have loved men the least." (Robert G. Ingersoll)  Read
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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'If you suffered in life and want other people to suffer as you did because you 'turned out fine', you did not, in fact, turn out fine.' - Daniel Swensen

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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“Rationalism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a system of philosophy and ethics verifiable by experience and independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority.” (Memorandum of the Aims and Objects the Rationalist Press Association, London, c.1895)  Read
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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‘It is not possible to “fail in the attempt”. To attempt a thing beyond your powers is victory in its own right.’ - Charles Stewart Parnell

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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(February 9, 2022 at 1:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘It is not possible to “fail in the attempt”. To attempt a thing beyond your powers is victory in its own right.’ - Charles Stewart Parnell

Boru
Try being the most recent survivor of going over Niagra Falls in a barrel.....


Big Grin
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I have never liked showoffs whom act like they are landing on the moon when all they are doing is jumping busses on a motor cycle. Not saying I could do either, but the moon landing is the beneficial risk for knowledge. The other is the narcissist.
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(February 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I have never liked showoffs whom act like they are landing on the moon when all they are doing is jumping busses on a motor cycle. Not saying I could do either, but the moon landing is the beneficial risk for knowledge. The other is the narcissist.

‘Who’.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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(February 9, 2022 at 3:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I have never liked showoffs whom act like they are landing on the moon when all they are doing is jumping busses on a motor cycle. Not saying I could do either, but the moon landing is the beneficial risk for knowledge. The other is the narcissist.

‘Who’.

Boru
It' s like having to show a carpenter the difference between a crosscut and a ripsaw - isn' t it?


Hehe
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