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Meaningful ideas and quotes
RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(May 27, 2023 at 6:27 am)Carl Hickey Wrote:
(May 27, 2023 at 6:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why would anybody steal a groundhog?

Boru

Okay, a bunch of good boys and girls who are ashamed of being good boys and girls.

Girls like bad boys. Bad means power/FREEDOM. Girls like power.

Every bird instinct I have says don’t follow a dog on wheels.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(May 27, 2023 at 6:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 27, 2023 at 6:27 am)Carl Hickey Wrote: Okay, a bunch of good boys and girls who are ashamed of being good boys and girls.

Girls like bad boys. Bad means power/FREEDOM. Girls like power.

Every bird instinct I have says don’t follow a dog on wheels.

Boru

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Monsieur l’abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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While lovers of liberty in all lands have urged the necessity of freedom of speech, none put the case more pointedly than Voltaire when he said: “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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Let me say "what": I don't care who said what.

Julius, let me tell you something about America: Nobody likes a smart ass, all right?

Twins (1988 film)

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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
But let’s be frank here…you never wanted my friendship. And you were afraid to be in my debt.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(May 27, 2023 at 8:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But let’s be frank here…you never wanted my friendship. And you were afraid to be in my debt.

Boru

People can be friends if they have a common enemy. My mother is not a friend of mine. (she's my boss)

No-one wants to be in debt (one has to pay); 

no-one wants to be guilty (one has to pay).
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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(May 27, 2023 at 12:28 pm)Carl Hickey Wrote:
(May 27, 2023 at 8:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But let’s be frank here…you never wanted my friendship. And you were afraid to be in my debt.

Boru

People can be friends if they have a common enemy. My mother is not a friend of mine. (she's my boss)

No-one wants to be in debt (one has to pay); 

no-one wants to be guilty (one has to pay).

One day (and that day may never come), I will call upon you to do a service for me.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(December 15, 2022 at 11:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(December 15, 2022 at 11:24 am)brewer Wrote: I can't read thru all these pages. How many Hunter S Thompson quotes have been posted?

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

Here’s another: 

‘I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.’

Boru

bold is mine... 

Preventing a hangover:

- about 900 to 1000 mg aspirin per 100 ml 40% alcohol;

- aspirin is to be taken before or during drinking;

- dilute alcohol 1:1;

- start drinking in mornings.


p.s.

some may need a pill or two of a proton pump inhibitor
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RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
(June 3, 2023 at 12:26 am)Carl Hickey Wrote:
(December 15, 2022 at 11:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Here’s another: 

‘I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.’

Boru

bold is mine... 

Preventing a hangover:

- about 900 to 1000 mg aspirin per 100 ml 40% alcohol;

- aspirin is to be taken before or during drinking;

- dilute alcohol 1:1;

- start drinking in mornings.


p.s.

some may need a pill or two of a proton pump inhibitor

Rubbish.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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