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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:50:42 GMT

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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz

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Quotes 20080905 10:10 AM

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:10:31 GMT

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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
- Jack Benny

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell

The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

Motivating

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:08:35 GMT

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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quote: relevant veg & famine

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:03:50 GMT

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Tolstoy syndrome

The behavior of confirmation bias has sometimes been called "Tolstoy syndrome", in reference to Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), who in 1897 wrote:^[8]

“

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their life".

”

A related Tolstoy quote is:

“	"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."^[9]

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Bushisms

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:43:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If Bush didn't hold such a position of immense power he'd be a lot funnier. :-/

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Top 50 Bushisms and Dumb Bush Quotes

50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." —at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." —Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' —Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

47. "We both use Colgate toothpaste." —after a reporter asked what he had in common with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Camp David, Md., Feb. 23, 2001

46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

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The Most Delicate Art

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:26:23 GMT

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'Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Enseña a Escreuir Perfectamente' (The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand), 1550 by Juan de Icíar (Juan de Yciar) with (?wood) engravings by Jean de Vingles from Lyon is available online from Biblioteca Complutense at the University of Madrid. [click on 'Láminas' in the margin for links to the illustrated pages]

Juan de Yciar was the first in Spain to publish a copybook, the Recopilacion subtilissima (1548; “Most Delicate Compilation”). Two years later he published his Arte Subtilissima (1550; “The Most Delicate Art”)

Basque painter and mathematician and the most important calligrapher of the Spanish Renaissance

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a couple of small quotes by Icíar

"There are some letters so unforthcoming that they refuse to enter into any sort of friendship or conversation with others" [..]
"other letters are naturally amiable and of good concord and do not deny their intimacy to any other letter".

Favorite Programming Quotes

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:52:51 GMT

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Favorite Programming Quotes

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
Tom Cargill

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Larry Wall

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian W. Kernighan

Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

The hardest part of design … is keeping features out.
Donald Norman

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:08:36 GMT

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Inaleinable Rights For Nature

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:58:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Every Country Should Grant Nature By Definition Its Inalienable Rights, Ecuador may just be on to something here

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Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature

Ecuador's proposed constitution includes an article that grants nature the right to "exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution" and will grant legal standing to any person to defend those rights in court.

A sea lion pup on Santiago Island, one of Ecuador's famed Galapagos Islands. (MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN/STAFF/FILE)

Voters will get to decide on Sept. 28 whether to adopt the new constitution, which would allow the president to run for reelection, to dissolve Congress, and to exert great control over the country's central bank. According to Reuters, 56 percent of Ecuadorans approve of the proposed document.

The blog Green Change quotes the five articles that acknowledge rights said to be possessed by nature, or "Pachamama," a goddess revered by indigenous Andean peoples whose name roughly translates into "Mother Earth."

Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:43:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A wonderful thing, this....Good for Ecuador and we could take example.

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A sea lion pup on Santiago Island, one of Ecuador's famed Galapagos Islands. (MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN/STAFF/FILE)

rights to nature may represent a larger shift in how humans view their place

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:26:18 GMT

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“I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries”

Theodore Isaac Rubin quotes (American Writer and psychiatrist

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How to make your romantic dreams come true?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:21:23 GMT

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Are you having the romantic life you have forever craved in your thoughts? Romance is constantly simple and lighthearted when it is performed in your imagination. We often come up with awesome and incredible ideas to create that amazing romance. Romance is always developed in the flight of the imagination and in fact stays there without actually taking place in our life. If ever you want to create the romance please produce that love in your mind for your partner. Take one step further and convey your emotional sentiments with the help of romantic love quotes.

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Internation News Reviews:VP candidate Palin speaks:

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:14:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Moscow was bewildered to hear McCain claim that Palin living in Alaska gave her foreign policy understanding and experience with Russia, at:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/370604.htm

Al_Jazeera mentioned: anti-abortion, pro-gun, at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/20089421032852646.html

A must read is a UK presentation of the US election as a Hollywood movie, at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/chris_ayres/article4656307.ece

A somewhat dry German political analyses got it 90% right, at: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3607679,00.html (got Hilary connection wrong, IMO)

An Israeli newspaper suggested she was a Nazi-sympathizer (!!?), at: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3590992,00.html

Others realized her appeal as Christian conservative, pro-oil and Obama attacker.

& ? More personal "scandals"?

Good USA quotes, at: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/2008/09/gop_convention_awaits_g

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Palin touts small-town roots, rips Obama

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Sarah Palin touted her small-town roots and lashed out at Democrat Barack Obama during a highly anticipated speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday, ridiculing her critics as out-of-touch elitists who do not understand everyday life in America.

Palin was sharp in her criticism of Obama, reminding the Republican crowd of his comments at a San Francisco fundraiser in April about bitter small-town residents. Continued...

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The Simpsons Quotes

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:54:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hilarious!!

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Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
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Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
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Homer: [drunk] Look, the thing about my family is there's five of us. Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn't talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him.
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Scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes. (lie dectector blows up)
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The Democratic Dossier on Palin: 62 Pages of 'Oppo Research' Revealed

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:52:53 GMT

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The McCain team may not have vetted Sarah Palin with boots on the ground in Alaska, but the Democrats sure did -- two years ago when she ran for governor. The oppo-research, compiled in a 62-page document with countless summaries or direct quotes, largely from local newspapers, covers all of the important issues you would expect to see, from her views on abortion and abstinence to tangled oil pipeline questions. But it also gets into some quirky, if revealing, areas as well, such as Palin founding a company called "Rouge Cru" -- what she called a "classy" way to say redneck -- in case her political career didn't work out a few years ago.

These included serious matters such as her use of the mayor's office in political campaigns. But it also posted a PDF of the entire document which, I'd wager, few have examined. I have completed that task and present here some of the more outrageous, or surprising, revelations.

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