JohnKleeb
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Sat Aug-30-03 07:24 PM
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favorite quotes I have many but this is my new favorite |
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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race" Bertrand Russell
That said I have many more favorite quotes.
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Sat Aug-30-03 08:23 PM
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1. "Those who rule the symbols rule us." |
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Sat Aug-30-03 08:25 PM
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2. cool who was Korzbski? |
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thanks for responding, quotes are neat
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Sat Aug-30-03 08:27 PM
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3. "I leave symbols to the symbol-minded." |
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Sat Aug-30-03 08:58 PM
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5. I have Korzybski's General Semantics Seminar 1937 on my desk now |
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"Time-Binding: The General Theory" is a favorite.
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Sat Aug-30-03 09:19 PM
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7. I seem to recall a science fiction author writing a novel |
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based on the principles of General Semantics. This book was written in the mid-fifties or thereabouts, I believe. I wish I could remember the author and the book...
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Sat Aug-30-03 09:31 PM
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10. A.E. van Vogt or Robert A. Heinlein? |
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In the 1940s and early 1950s General Semantics was used in the Science fiction works of A.E. van Vogt and Robert A. Heinlein. I hope that helps jog your memory.
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Sat Aug-30-03 08:45 PM
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4. My favorite is from the movie Hud |
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said by Melvyn Douglas: Little by little this country is changing because of the men it admires.
How true, how true.
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Sat Aug-30-03 09:14 PM
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1."I'm telling you that girl could be a bigger fucking germ farm than that monkey in "Outbreak" - Chasing Amy 2."I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' Maxi- pad." - Pulp Fiction 3. "Geez Lois, whoat do you expect me to do with all these ideas, put 'em in a tub and clean myself with them? That's what soap's for Lois." - Family Guy 4. "You see, the Israelis they have a man who can take his own left leg off and swallow it with every alternate step..." - Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. 5. hmmm.
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Sat Aug-30-03 09:22 PM
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8. John I am a lover of quotes. Here is my current favorite: |
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"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"--Catherine Aird
Unfortunately I think that I fall into the horrible warning category.
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Sat Aug-30-03 09:24 PM
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9. I had to look up "expostulated" |
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So that no one else has to, here's the definition from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=expostulatedTo reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.
Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. --Jowett (Thuc. ).
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Sat Aug-30-03 10:32 PM
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"Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life."
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Sun Aug-31-03 09:05 AM
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Come on, let's have some more. I love quotes. Let's keep it going. I have a million of 'em.
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Sun Aug-31-03 12:23 PM
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13. "the only thing we gotta fear is fear it self" |
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and would you look at that my Kucinich picture changed.
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