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bahman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:24 pm We are minds covered by stuff.

commonsense wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:47 pm “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” A.Einstein

-1- wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:58 am You can always live without a lover, but you can never love without a liver.

- Myself.

... it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Greta wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:35 am It's as over-repeated as Stairway to Heaven but I find Carl Sagan's pale blue dot one of the more grounded and grounding quotes I've heard or read.

I always loved this from Douglas Adams:

... it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:42 am

Greta wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:35 am It's as over-repeated as Stairway to Heaven but I find Carl Sagan's pale blue dot one of the more grounded and grounding quotes I've heard or read.

I always loved this from Douglas Adams:

... it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Men with broad shoulders hear that.

Greta wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:35 am It's as over-repeated as Stairway to Heaven but I find Carl Sagan's pale blue dot one of the more grounded and grounding quotes I've heard or read.

I always loved this from Douglas Adams:

... it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:05 am From what I hear about the broad hips, these days with the pain relievers it’s as easy as falling off a log. Not like the old days, when women were women, and men were men.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:28 am Attributed to Groucho is "Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana,” but he may have heard it somewhere.