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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I might be able to get to some of that if/when needed.
Except the sonnet thing.
I'd prolly do better at haiku or something shorter.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Agreed. Have done most of them. I have also heard that a wise man said...nothing.
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I might be able to get to some of that if/when needed.
Except the sonnet thing.
I'd prolly do better at haiku or something shorter. Hey, if it’s got 14 lines, ya got yourself a sonnet!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Belief gets in the way of learning.
Love is that condition in which the happiness if another person is essential to your own.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Probably my favorite, No matter where or what, there will be makers, takers, and fakers. 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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I might be able to get to some of that if/when needed.
Except the sonnet thing.
I'd prolly do better at haiku or something shorter. Hey, if it’s got 14 lines, ya got yourself a sonnet! Haiku is three lines I believe. 3 is a prime number I believe. 3 is mo betta than 14 I believe.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Been quite a while since I thought of Heinlein, but he had many thoughts that the rest of us would be way better off remembering. Robert A Heinlein 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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"A desire not to butt into other peoples business is at least 80% of all human 'wisdom' . . . and the other 20% isn't very important. Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
Life - and the good sense to live it!
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Fuuuuck em if they can’t take a joke, an old plumber told me that 50 years ago
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My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...
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Illegitimi non carborundum
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"A wise monkey doesn't monkey with another monkey's monkey!"
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!
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"Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day" ~ Confuzious.
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RA Heinlein: The only author to my knowledge who gave his PROtagonist a lime pit in the middle of an escape tunnel, for which to dispose of Federal Agents.
Might have been something in there about predicted balkanization of America as well.
I think Heinlein was as prescient as was G Orwell.
This might be one of Heinlein's most poignant quotes. So obvious in this world today.
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
Robert A. Heinlein
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Sounds like some pretty easy simple stuff to me. 🙃
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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Robert A. Heinlein is my all-time favorite fiction author. Some of his "fiction" is becoming non-fiction, though.  Ed
"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell
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A wise man once said the following to me ......
"A hundred years from now, that won't make any difference at all."
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I had a school teacher tell me thats its better to make a mistake than do nothing at all
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Stay off the Campfire!...
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A wise man once said...
"Just keep your mouth shut."
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