Showing posts with label Post your quote. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Topic: A Self Evident Truth


Edward R Murrow: "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

Phil: " What is the likelihood, if eternity is the only possibility, that there is only one odd, statistically speaking?"

Steve Allen: I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."

Phil: "Existence rules out the possibility of Non-existence. Non-existence already ruled itself out."
A. True or False
B. True

Will Rogers: Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Phil: "If I were to give you a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and asked you to represent "All Things" and "Nothing," what would you do?"
A. Nothing
B. Something Else. Anything. Please.
B. What's the alternative?

Robert Prechter: “There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.”

Phil: "Alright, the first rule of Real Estate: Location, location, location! So, The Big Bang! Did you get the spacetime? Well let's not forget the rest of the 5 W's.

Albert Einstein “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Phil: "Once I tried to count to infinity. Then I realized that by the time I got half way I'd still have another infinity to go. So I stopped. I figured I didn't have enough time for this. And there was probably something else I should be doing. Talk about spinning your wheels and getting nowhere fast! Boy, was I glad I stopped. Then I heard about Einstein's rocket thought experiment. Maybe with the right technology, though, it might be possible after all. I was further encouraged by the knowledge that infinity to the infinite power is still only infinity."

Galileo: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Phil: "Then I became a playboy."

Church Lady: "Well isn't that special!"

Phil: And by the time I was 37, I actually had my own subscription.

George Washington Carver: "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

Phil: "Google is to the world wide web as the Collective Consciousness of Life on Earth is to_______?"
A. Sex
B. The Universe
C. The Multiverse
D. God
E. Adam's apple

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Topic: A Self Evident Truth



Phil: "One may wish to ascribe a greater purpose to Life."

Sam: "Protons must have their quarks. That no one can deny."

Charles Darwin: "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

Walter Kornbluth: "She's a fish!"

Beach Boys: "Help me Rhonda, get her out of my heart."

Phil: "Happiness starts with a smile."

Dalai Lama: "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Thomas Jefferson (with Ben Franklin editing): “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Gloria Steinem: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Carrie Nation: ““Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

Al Capone: "Speak easy, but carry a baseball bat."