Great Quotes

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OK, I read this today in the NYT's retrospective of their op-ed page (so it takes me a couple of days to make it through the Sunday Times).

From then-NYC mayor Edward Koch, written in 1987:

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest.

He was writing about the 1986 Howard Beach Incident, and he's referring both to whites and blacks (the piece makes it clear).

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.

-Geddy Lee

Peace, love and hoppiness

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What? Racial tensions run high in NYC? Say it isn't so!
Of course, one could point out how 2007 was handled differently by the DA than the earlier two, but then that one would probably be called all sorts of ugly names.

But yeah, educating the morons is a sure way to beat ignorance. The problem is there are too many fuckwits on every group that don't want to be educated. And then there are the professional race baiters who don't want "their people" educated (like the KKK, Al $harpton, fanatic jihadis, etc).

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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tawana brawley !

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My personal favorite quote is one I use regularly. Last time I recited it, I was called a racist.

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I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Of course I have to change "my four little children" to "we all" and "they" to "we" but I keep it accurate. I've been called a racist twice for saying that. Funny old world we live in.

witty subliminal message
Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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the greatest discovery of our time is,
if you change your mind
you can change your life ! -William James-

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What? Racial tensions run high in NYC? Say it isn't so!
Of course, one could point out how 2007 was handled differently by the DA than the earlier two, but then that one would probably be called all sorts of ugly names.

But yeah, educating the morons is a sure way to beat ignorance. The problem is there are too many fuckwits on every group that don't want to be educated. And then there are the professional race baiters who don't want "their people" educated (like the KKK, Al $harpton, fanatic jihadis, etc).

Saw this one in the paper the other day and cut out for a keeper.

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Whinston Churchhill

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done.
Louis D Brandeis

Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

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My personal favorite quote is one I use regularly. Last time I recited it, I was called a racist.

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I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Of course I have to change "my four little children" to "we all" and "they" to "we" but I keep it accurate. I've been called a racist twice for saying that. Funny old world we live in.

I take it you mean funny as in wierd. For me, all it takes is watching little kids play together in mixed racial groups. They do just fine until some racist adult "educates" them.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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What? Racial tensions run high in NYC? Say it isn't so!
Of course, one could point out how 2007 was handled differently by the DA than the earlier two, but then that one would probably be called all sorts of ugly names.
But yeah, educating the morons is a sure way to beat ignorance. The problem is there are too many fuckwits on every group that don't want to be educated. And then there are the professional race baiters who don't want "their people" educated (like the KKK, Al $harpton, fanatic jihadis, etc).

Saw this one in the paper the other day and cut out for a keeper.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Whinston Churchhill

never give up
never in the course of human history have so many owed so much to so few !

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest.

I don't know - those people that seems to obsess over perceive complexities in life seems to absolutely wallow and embrace stereotypes.

The world is rather simple when you reject stereotypes and just take people one on one.

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

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all it takes is watching little kids play together in mixed racial groups. They do just fine until some racist adult "educates" them.

this really states it best - children see things simply


stereotypes are a result of lazy people that have overwhelmed themselves by over complicating things

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

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My personal favorite quote is one I use regularly. Last time I recited it, I was called a racist.

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I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Of course I have to change "my four little children" to "we all" and "they" to "we" but I keep it accurate. I've been called a racist twice for saying that. Funny old world we live in.

I take it you mean funny as in wierd. For me, all it takes is watching little kids play together in mixed racial groups. They do just fine until some racist adult "educates" them.

you get extra credit for your Aldous Huxley quote !

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What? Racial tensions run high in NYC?

No, not really. I took my family downtown on Sunday to see a show, and a street fair. Rode the subways. It was really quite civil. Granted, we were in and out before the sun went down.

We are all engines of karma

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Winston Churchill was pretty quick on the uptake. Two of my favourite putdowns are attributed to him, both to the same woman MP who hated him, and I think the feeling was mutual.

One time she berated him loudly with: "Mr Churchill, you are disgusting, you are drunk".

To which he replied: " And you madam, are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober"....

Another time she said, "Mr Churchill, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee".

His reply: " Madam, if I was your husband, I would drink it".

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....

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I grew up outside NYC. Overall the whole things works well. But remember NYC is more than just Manhattan, and even Manhattan has Harlem and Washington Heights, and the ground zero Arab/Muslim issue, and so on and so forth. Yeah, thanks largley to Rudy Giuliani crime is down and streets are safer, is not always safe. So while it's not exactly the Israeli-Gaza border, things can be tense at times.

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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Saw this one in the paper the other day and cut out for a keeper.

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Whinston Churchhill

never give up
never in the course of human history have so many owed so much to so few !

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Brilliantly quotable man, both on and off the record. Whatever 'it' is, he definitely had it.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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you cleaned me up nicely jakee , thanks
the woods are lovely ,
dark and deep
but i have promises to keep
and miles to go before i sleep
robert frost
made popular in the movie telefon starring charles bronson !

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"These go to eleven."

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

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"These go to eleven."

"Life is tough, but its tougher when you're stupid."

- John Wayne.

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....

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A couple of quotes I like:

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"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." Albert Einstein

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

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"The mind is everything. What you think you become." Buddha

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

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"so you gotta ask yourself - 'Do I feel lucky?' - well....do ya.......punk"

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

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"so you gotta ask yourself - 'Do I feel lucky?' - well....do ya.......punk"

good 1

right turn clyde !
gotta be one of the worst !
how about " row well and live " ?

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Small minds discuss people.
Average minds discuss events.
Great minds discuss ideas.

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....

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This one makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

"I appeal for cessation of hostilities ... because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans. The only difference is that perhaps yours are not as thorough as the Germans ... I venture to present you with a nobler and a braver way, worthy of the bravest soldiers. I want you to fight Nazism without arms or ... with non-violent arms. I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them ... I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majesty's Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal."

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This one makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

"I appeal for cessation of hostilities ... because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans. The only difference is that perhaps yours are not as thorough as the Germans ... I venture to present you with a nobler and a braver way, worthy of the bravest soldiers. I want you to fight Nazism without arms or ... with non-violent arms. I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them ... I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majesty's Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal."

Ghandi???.

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....