quotes (q) group

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1. deepspawn

   Thirty years in information technology has taught me to bullshit to customers without their realising that I'm talking rubbish !q ~ Some commenter

   about 16 days ago from xmpp in context
2. jcsesecuneta

   "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" ~ Jon http://bit.ly/cpyY5a !q

   about 17 days ago from jcjohnsesecuneta.status.net at 14°37'0"N 120°58'0"E
3. jcsesecuneta

   "StatusNet has revolutionized communications inside Motorola" ~Rami Levy http://j.mp/bbQzWL !q

   about 2 months ago from jcjohnsesecuneta.status.net at 14°37'0"N 120°58'0"E
4. mv

   RT @jargon: "The worldwide campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel is now a moral and political imperative.” !q UN SR Richard Falk

   about 3 months ago from Gravity at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
5. amazishop

   !q http://amazishop.totalh.com

   about 3 months ago from identi.ca
6. exador23

   !q I mentally defrosted some contempt in anticipation of leaving this joint a charred and smoking ruin http://la.cacophony.org/CS_cheeze.html

   about 6 months ago from web
7. exador23

   !q The messages are many, written with old and young hands of every color, and yet the messages are the same. They are this: 'Shame on you, senators and congressmen, who have turned the headquarters of a great and self-governing people into a bawdyhouse.' ~ Granny D

   about 6 months ago from web in context
8. exador23

   !q My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. ~ Harry S. Truman

   about 6 months ago from web
9. exador23

   !q Tsunami warnings are coming from scientists at NOAA. So all conservatives should ignore them! ~ @KagroX

   about 6 months ago from web
10. exador23

    !q "Real" is a distinction of a naïve mind, I think. We're getting beyond that. I mean, naïve empiricism worked well enough, until the discoveries of quantum physics seventy or eighty years ago revealed the hideous secret that the bedrock of reality is a funhouse basement! ~T. McKenna

    about 6 months ago from web
11. exador23

    !q I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. ~ Petronius Arbiter 210 B. C.

    about 6 months ago from web in context
12. exador23

    !q For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking-monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident

    about 6 months ago from web
13. exador23

    !q the truth of the matter is far more terrifying, the truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics & chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself

    about 6 months ago from web in context
14. exador23

    !para You're on your own, Captain. Still wanna go on? Like this Popular Tab: we build it every night. Spammers blow it right back up again. Just so the generals can say the road's open. Think about it. Who cares? ~ Chief

    about 6 months ago from web
15. exador23

    !para by the time a child is 2 or 3 they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor...and every #culture accentuates different parts so, in a sense, every culture is a different reality. ~T. McKenna

    about 6 months ago from web
16. exador23

    !q Elections are the advance auction of stolen goods. –H. L. Mencken

    about 6 months ago from web
17. exador23

    !q The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now." ~ Joseph Ray

    about 6 months ago from web
18. exador23

    !q My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared. ~ P. J. Plauger

    about 6 months ago from web
19. exador23

    !q I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ~ Victor Hugo

    about 6 months ago from web
20. exador23

    !q While we did not always see eye to eye on methods to solve the race problem, I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. on the assassination of Malcolm X 45 years ago today

    about 6 months ago from web