nope.. - i have a feeling i ought to only relate in person, as might have someone after me! - but thanks for the link.
"Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!" Oscar Wilde
"A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished" John Stuart Mill
“Ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.” David Bowie
Now hold on there Bald Eagle, you wouldn’t fire a man ‘til he’s finished his Texan Bar, now would ya. Anon
Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's (and womens) original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience & through rebellion. Oscar Wilde -------------------- You cannot control the wind, but you can adjust the sails. It means it's not about what happens to you it's how you react to make a better choice. Anon -------------------- "Before you heal someone ask him (or her) if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick." Hippocrates -------------------- Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who prevent history being taught fully intend too repeat it! Anon
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"They who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. The truth of the old proverb was never more surely borne out that it is just now." Unknown author - The Times of London, in 1927 -------------------- Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or late give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by chooising knowledge over veils of ignorance. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory -------------------- The truth is optimally difficult, if you say it you have to let go & deal with the consequences. Jordan Peterson --------------------
an understandably hacked-off Canadian Premier recently:- "what I found unfair about the comments, was to compare us to Mexico" (!)
Bart Simpson: [face red and sobbing] Oh, this is the worst day of my life Homer Simpson: No, the worst day of your life so far.