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Post by bigwalleye on Feb 12, 2021 15:09:03 GMT
You must have been lucky to sit in one of Feynman's lectures. More like 2 years. Wine from a firehose! What I quoted was the way he wrote it. He usually said something like: "What one fool can figure out, another fool can figure out bettah." Words to inspire, and words to whisper to your ego. Kind of along the line of another fav of mine. I don't know the original source, but I've heard it attributed to Elvis, of all people: " No one is any better than me. And I'm no better than anyone else."
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Post by atomicfloozy on Feb 12, 2021 16:06:11 GMT
Kind of along the line of another fav of mine. I don't know the original source, but I've heard it attributed to Elvis, of all people: " No one is any better than me. And I'm no better than anyone else." That one might be a little older than Elvis, President Biden quotes it a lot & says his parents said it to him. I've also seen this quote attributed to Carlos Santana & John Wooden. I think John Wooden could be the probable source, but it definitely sounds like something from post-WWII America. It almost sounds like something Harry Truman would have said! Lol
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Post by Shon Maxx on Feb 12, 2021 17:44:43 GMT
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake
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Post by bigwalleye on Feb 12, 2021 18:37:51 GMT
Kind of along the line of another fav of mine. I don't know the original source, but I've heard it attributed to Elvis, of all people: " No one is any better than me. And I'm no better than anyone else." That one might be a little older than Elvis, President Biden quotes it a lot & says his parents said it to him. I've also seen this quote attributed to Carlos Santana & John Wooden. I think John Wooden could be the probable source, but it definitely sounds like something from post-WWII America. It almost sounds like something Harry Truman would have said! Lol Older than Elvis? Yeah, I just googled it, and goodreads.com says it's from Thomas Jefferson! No source given, of course. Whoever said it first, it's worth remembering.
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Post by blacksmith on Feb 12, 2021 20:02:54 GMT
"I started drinking because of a woman. I never thanked her" (free translation from Les Luthiers)
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Post by paulcollins on Feb 13, 2021 0:13:28 GMT
Okay blacksmith, that made me laugh.
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Post by blacksmith on Feb 13, 2021 8:42:54 GMT
Okay blacksmith, that made me laugh. That is what Les Luthiers is all about Cheers,
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Post by bigwalleye on Feb 13, 2021 14:31:42 GMT
"I started drinking because of a woman. I never thanked her" (free translation from Le Luthiers) I think this one, too, is a little older. WC Fields (Remember him? Yeah, me too.) used this line in movies and radio shows in the 1930s.
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Post by blacksmith on Feb 13, 2021 18:16:47 GMT
"I started drinking because of a woman. I never thanked her" (free translation from Le Luthiers) I think this one, too, is a little older. WC Fields (Remember him? Yeah, me too.) used this line in movies and radio shows in the 1930s. You'll probably right, and maybe it is even older than that, but I first heard it from those guys. Here's a few ones from them, again freely translated by me: - Laziness is the mother of all vices but as a mother she has to be respected. - All issues have two points of view: wrong and ours. - Avoid accidents, do it on purpose. - To err is human but to blame somebody else is even more human (I specially like this one). - Whoever is able to smile when everything is going wrong is because they have already thought who to put the blame on. Please excuse my poor translation skills.
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Post by bigwalleye on Feb 14, 2021 1:30:43 GMT
And to push the cynicism to the max:
"The man who laughs has not yet been told the terrible news." - Bertolt Brecht
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Post by infierno on Jul 23, 2021 0:45:30 GMT
Another great quote from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy:
"The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, nor ghost nor scribe, to tell to any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place died."
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Post by watti on Jul 28, 2021 17:24:25 GMT
"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." BLackAdder
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Post by BROODE on Jul 30, 2021 15:43:19 GMT
A quote from the "Klingon Dictionary" by Marc Okrand, that I think of every time I eat at Taco Bell- nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e' ?
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Post by karl on Aug 5, 2021 20:21:21 GMT
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
More applicable to real life than to our hobby.
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Only just noted the discussion of Richard Feynman. I am impressed - I am a physicist and he was a big name.
Greetings Karl Heinz
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