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"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Gragg
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"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." - William Christopher Handy
-Gragg
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"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
- B.F. Skinner
-Gragg
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Global Consciousness? Seems more like an alternative messageboard!
-ragamk
it certainly can be that too...multipurpose, multi use...
-Gragg
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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.
--George W. Bush
Washington, DC
05/04/2006
-Gragg
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Good AM Madame Butterfly and Good Evening Nitin
-Gragg
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See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office -- I love to bring people into the Oval Office -- right around the corner from here -- and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.
--George W. Bush
Washington, DC
01/29/2004
-Gragg
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies
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United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."
-rjupiter (a.k.a "sassafrass")
the concept of privacy and civil liberties in the UK went away many years ago, sadly the US is catching up...
-Gragg
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I hope I--I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't--you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.
--George W. Bush
Washington, DC
04/03/2004
Press Conference - after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made
-Gragg
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton
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God's Truth. Not hate.
-Cragg
the truth of god is that is a man made creation, created in man's own image will all the super powers we wish we had to provide comfort and reassurance in times of need that an all powerful, parental figure is looking out for us. Humanity will outgrow it eventually; but it will be replaced with yet another deity and another and another...
it is in our nature to crave such reassurance even when there is no evidence to support its existence.
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"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
- Denis Waitley
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley
-Gragg
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"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes." -W. C. Fields
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We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same… any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. – Carlos Casteneda
-Gragg
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So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.
--George W. Bush
05/31/2001
in remarks to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001 national champions
-Gragg
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglass
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Keep good relations with the Greecians.
--George W. Bush
04/09/1999
as quoted in The Economist
-Gragg
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
- Craig Newmark
-Gragg
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happy New Year Madame Butterfly, Hilmar, and Mark!
-Gragg
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Happy new year everyone!
-Gragg
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"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"You’ll find that taking even a single, small step towards accomplishing a goal will motivate you to take the next step."
- Robert L. Cox
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Good Morning all and Happy New Year to everyone?
-Gragg
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Happy New Year Karen!
-Gragg
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We are fully committed to working with both sides to bring the level of terror down to an acceptable level for both.
--George W. Bush
Washington, DC
10/02/2001
after a meeting with congressional leaders
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry
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"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be."
- George Sheehan
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"My favorite animal is steak."- Fran Lebowitz
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My daughter says that the GC site is visually ugly and the most boringly bland site she has ever seen. Tasteless.....Watery.
-Knight Thyme
I would call it clean and uncluttered...but to each his/her won.
-Gragg
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Hello Michigan!
-Gragg
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Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting with us. They are near retirement -- retiring -- in the process of retiring, meaning they're very smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are retiring.
--George W. Bush
Alexandria, VA
02/12/2003
-Gragg
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...they're confident there are still Saddamists who are threatening people and carrying out attacks.
--George W. Bush
Washington, DC
09/15/2006
commenting on the Iraqi government at a White House Press Conference
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett
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I'll be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie. I've heard about it. I hope you go --you know-- I hope you go back to the ranch and the farm is what I'm about to say.
--George W. Bush
Manhattan, KS
01/23/2006
explaining that he hasn't seen Brokeback Mountain yet
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
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"How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand."
- Ovid
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"Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others."
- Harriet Goldhor Lerner
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: ) Thank you Gragg. lol, it was certainly an especially interesting one *v* Hope you enjoyed a good Christmas too : ) Congrats again on the new baby on the way. Do you know the sex of baby, or do you both want to be surprised? *v* What a sweet time you are in, now.
-Butterfly Magic
Its a boy... :)
-Gragg
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."- Confucius
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good am Madame Butterfly...hope you had a merry christmas :)
-Gragg
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There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman Mailer
-Gragg
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US Phrases That Annoy Brits
Happy holidays (just say Christmas, please)
Have a nice day (make it stop)
You're welcome (this one's just "Pavlovian" to him)
Do the math (equivalent of "work it out yourself, stupid," he explains to fellow Brits)
How are you today? (as if anybody truly cares)
Good luck with that (he translates it as "you have no chance")
Oh my gosh (fear of blasphemy, he guesses)
Not so much (he takes it to mean "you're completely wrong")
-Gragg
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