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zoe
Citizen
Username: Zoe
Post Number: 313
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 2:56 pm: |     |
The common good comes before the private good.
-- Nazi slogan
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
-- Hillary Clinton
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
-- Thomas Sowell
Have a great weekend MOL'rs |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 674
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 3:19 pm: | |
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
---Oscar Wilde
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
---Ronald Reagan
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
---Eric Hoffer |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1120
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 3:56 pm: | |
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."
--Matthew 19:21
"Christmas should celebrate reason, selfishness and capitalism."
--Leonard Peikoff, The Ayn Rand Institute
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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5016
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:01 am: | |
'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!' (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol) |
fringe
Citizen
Username: Fringe
Post Number: 154
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 9:07 am: | |
* "I have (had) higher political ambitions" or variant. DeLuca & Huemer
* It's fascinating to watch liberalism being ground to conservatism in the crucible of self interest." Jim Nathenson on the Maplewood experience
* "This District has reached the point that it can no longer financially sustain its educational programs." SO-M Superintendent Ralph Lieber, 1997 (before the Horoschack expansions).
JTL |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 942
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 9:24 am: | |
"Amateurs are always short."
--Tibor Jurich
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steel
Citizen
Username: Steel
Post Number: 330
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 10:27 am: | |
"The future ain't what it used to be"
-Yogi Berra
"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."
-Gary Trudeau
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
-Groucho Marx
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michael
Citizen
Username: Michael
Post Number: 347
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 10:58 am: | |
quote:I would never make a "deal" to become a ‘New Independent Democrat’ after the election. How would I live with that hypocrisy, after having promised the voters of Maplewood that I have no ties to any party? – Fred Profeta on Friday, October 26, 2001 - 10:59 pm on Maplewood on Line
quote:In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to the other.
-Voltaire
quote:I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln
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deborahg
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 635
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:01 pm: | |
Every blade of grass has its angel hovering over it, whispering, "Grow, grow." -Talmud
If you can't juggle with knives, why juggle at all? -Anon
And speaking of Oscar Wilde, these are reputed to be his last words:
"One of us has to go--me, or this wallpaper." |
anon
Citizen
Username: Anon
Post Number: 761
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:41 pm: | |
"What, me worry?" Alfred E. Newman
Deborahg: Thanks for qouting me. |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1031
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 3:02 pm: | |
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1973
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 3:36 pm: | |
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
-- John Lennon |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 424
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 9:13 pm: | |
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
--Oscar Wilde (again)
Call me crazy |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 950
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 5:54 am: | |
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Shelley Long
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden
That's it Strawberry, you're suspended.
Dave Ross
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1985
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 8:35 am: | |
3 for Straw:
There are no second acts in American lives.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 951
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 6:28 am: | |
1 for Nohero:
"Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."
-DW |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 680
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 7:35 am: | |
Straw..
"Plus ca change Plus ce la meme chose"
"Assume a virtue, if you have it not"
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
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REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 953
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 8:56 am: | |
2 for Duncan
"Time to make the donuts."
"In every actor you'll find something of the missionary-the feeling that he must get his message across to everybody."
--Julie Harris |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1987
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 9:08 am: | |
Straw, thanks for the inspiration:
I'm fat, but thin inside.
-- George Orwell
Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-- Winston Churchill (in reply to Lady Astor's comment "Sir, you're drunk!")
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 700
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 9:37 am: | |
"When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is noone to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago."
- Strawberry (Darryl)
"When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic."
-Roger Clemens
"The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader"
-Casey Stengel |
Dr. Strangelove
Citizen
Username: Dr_strangelove
Post Number: 19
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 9:42 pm: | |
smell the glove |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 427
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 10:31 pm: | |
damifido
damifiwill
damificare
Call me crazy |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 308
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:35 pm: | |
I'm still stuck on Straw quoting Shelley Long!!
Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 960
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 1:22 am: | |
Three more for Nohero...
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
Lyndon B. Johnson
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
Don Imus |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5040
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 1:28 am: | |
I would like to point out that my uncle, who bears a striking resemblance to Jack N., would phrase that quote differently. Not much, but somewhat. |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 962
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 1:56 am: | |
One for dave Ross
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5043
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 2:08 am: | |
Hmm. But I think you just separated the text from its historical background, thus subverting the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
More importantly, what should I have for breakfast? |
REBORN STRAW
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 963
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 5:46 am: | |
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
--Steven Wright
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jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3088
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 11:58 am: | |
"To the man that only has a hammer in his tool kit, every problem looks like a nail."
Abraham Maslow |
OK, it's Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 385
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 5:05 pm: | |
"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time." -John Maxwell
Tom Reingold
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 1894
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 5:11 pm: | |
"If you let Strawberry "offend" you, or if you seriously bother to get inflamed by his posts, or if he scares you away from MOL, then you need to get out in the world more often."
Mem. |
mike
Citizen
Username: Mike1
Post Number: 5
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 9:35 pm: | |
"If life's not fair what's the sense of living?"
My daughter at age 7 |
OK, it's Straw Man
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 970
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 8:34 am: | |
I'd rather be a poor winner then any kind of loser.
--George Kaufman
You can stroke people with words.
--F Scott Fitzgerald
and one for Mr. Rheingold...
Unless you've been in the ring when the noise is for you, there's no way you'll ever know what it's like.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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bella
Citizen
Username: Bella
Post Number: 334
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 3:26 pm: | |
"The time to make up your mind about people is never."
-Tracy in The Philadelphia Story
"It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of the people who are weak."
-Gene (or maybe Phinny) in A Seperate Peace
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-FDR |
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