Actually my favourite quote is from John Lennon "Life Is Something That Happens While You Are Making Plans For Other Things"

I bet he wasn't thinking about being shot dead by that Chapman Lunatic when he wrote those imortal words

RIP John, you were my hero!

Another of my favourites is :

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change

The Power to change the things I can

And the WISDOM to know the difference.

Cheers

TP

No misery can long be kept secret.

--Welsh Proverb

"We try to seek out good things, even when everything seems bad,"

Johnson once said in explaining the magazine's purpose. "We look for breakthroughs, we look for people who have made it, who have succeeded against the odds, who have proven somehow that long shots do come in."

----Publisher John H. Johnson----

CNN

R.I.P.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

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And Hunter S. Thompson was definitely over the edge...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

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And Hunter S. Thompson was definitely over the edge...

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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places -- mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe." -- Michael Barone

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places -- mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe." -- Michael Barone

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Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places -- mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe." -- Michael Barone

Sorry... got half way through the first line and got bored...

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Well, to put it in laymans terms, the author was talking about Hunter S. Thompson ain't go no credibility!

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

Spike Milligan

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

--Mahatma Gandhi

Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948

I used to live by this. Ran up one he11 of a credit card bill.

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

--Mahatma Gandhi

Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948

I used to live by this. Ran up one he11 of a credit card bill. 

cv

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

--Mahatma Gandhi

Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948

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...and what did you learn from that?

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Sounds good in theory, very impractical in reality. Why would anybody go to work otherwise.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

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Sounds good in theory, very impractical in reality. Why would anybody go to work otherwise.

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Does this mean you do not think your work would be a satisfactory occupation for your last day?

Perhaps it's time for a change of job?

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"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better."

--Samuel Beckett

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

--Lao Tzu

Chinese taoist philosopher, b.600 BC

ooh eee ooo aah aah

ting tang walla walla bing bang

ooh eeh ooh aah aah

ting tang walla walla bing bang

ting tang walla walla bing bang

c 1962 don lang (of don lang and the frantic five)

and how true those words still are today.

ooh eee ooo aah aah

ting tang walla walla bing bang

ooh eeh ooh aah aah

ting tang walla walla bing bang

ting tang walla walla bing bang

c 1962    don lang (of don lang and the frantic five)

and how true those words still are today.

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Nice lyrics.

Although, I prefer these:

I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign

A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain

She spills with compassion, as that young child’s

Face in her hands she grips

Can you imagine all that greed and avarice

Coming down on that child’s lips

Well I hope I don’t die too soon

I pray the lord my soul to save

Oh I’ll be a good boy, I’m trying so hard to behave

Because there’s one thing I know, I’d like to live

Long enough to savour

That’s when they finally put you in the ground

I’ll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down

When england was the whore of the world

Margeret was her madam

And the future looked as bright and as clear as

The black tarmacadam

Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn’t

Haunted by every tiny detail

’cos when she held that lovely face in her hands

All she thought of was betrayal

And now the cynical ones say that it all ends the same in the long run

Try telling that to the desperate father who just squeezed the life from his only son

And how it’s only voices in your head and dreams you never dreamt

Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt

Try telling me she isn’t angry with this pitiful discontent

When they flaunt it in your face as you line up for punishment

And then expect you to say thank you straighten up, look proud and pleased

Because you’ve only got the symptoms, you haven’t got the whole disease

Just like a schoolboy, whose head’s like a tin-can

Filled up with dreams then poured down the drain

Try telling that to the boys on both sides, being blown to bits or beaten and maimed

Who takes all the glory and none of the shame

Well I hope you live long now, I pray the lord your soul to keep

I think I’ll be going before we fold our arms and start to weep

I never thought for a moment that human life could be so cheap

’cos when they finally put you in the ground

They’ll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down.

--Elvis Costello

Pop singer.

Guess the Falklands don't mean much to folks like Elvis Costello...

Guess the Falklands don't mean much to folks like Elvis Costello...

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Is that Falklands as in hegemony over the oil resources of the South Atlantic?

Guess the Falklands don't mean much to folks like Elvis Costello...

Is that Falklands as in hegemony over the oil resources of the South Atlantic?

Hegemony!

Tell that to the brave SAS boys that took it back from those evil Argintines!

Guess the Falklands don't mean much to folks like Elvis Costello...

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Is that Falklands as in hegemony over the oil resources of the South Atlantic?

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Hegemony!

Tell that to the brave SAS boys that took it back from those evil Argintines!

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British servicemen do what they are ordered to do.

We who are no longer commited to the complete Code of Honour, are allowed the luxury of being able to question the motives of those who issued those orders.

It is the nature of democracy.

Thought for the day? How about the lyrics to "Kill for Peace" by the Fugs?

...or '51st State of America', by New Model Army.

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

-Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man

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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

--Orson Welles.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

All by Albert Einstein.Great thinker and a man of many quotes

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzche, German philospher

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

--Orson Welles.

"If it wasn't for women, money would have no meaning"

--Malcom Forbes