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[Chief Joseph]

"History is not there for you to like or dislike, It is there for you to learn from, and if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not yours to erase, it belongs to all of us.". ~Unknown~

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Related: "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" -Aldous Huxley

[InFlight]

"It took me seventeen years too get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course" - Hank Aaron "You win some, lose some, and crash some" - Dale Earnhardt

[Sculpin]

[This was borrowed from a link provided by Slim on another thread] The backstory, per the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): "The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily...Unique local efforts to clean up sewage treatment in Victoria helped bring the treatment plant to completion, said James Skwarok, who became known as Mr. Floatie because he appeared at public events dressed in a brown suit that resembled excrement." And now the quote: "I thought, that's what we need, we need a seven-foot tall piece of excrement walking around singing, dancing, shaking hands, mingling with the tourists to raise awareness and to put pressure on local officials." James Skwarok, aka Mr. Floatie

[Chief Joseph]

"Are you hungry Rich?" Me, "Not Really". "Well, I'm not either but I am going to eat to keep from getting hungry". My Grandpa Lee about 1971.

[Chief Joseph]

"Rain falls because the clouds can no longer handle the weight, tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain". ~unknown~ PS...I suppose that some tears are for joy, but I know nothing of that.

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[Anne Elk]

"Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering, and it's all over much too soon." - Woody Allen

[graywolf]

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey

[Chief Joseph]

The witless man is awake all night, Thinking of many things; Care-worn he is when the morning comes, And his woe is just as it was. -Hávamál v23, Bellows translation

[CC]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Churchill. If he were around today he would probably add: "or reading five of their posts on social media."

[Sculpin]

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain

[Cyclopath]

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. RAH

[Cyclopath]

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. H.L. Mencken