Grand-children are the reward you get...for not strangling your teenagers
Things Learned Along the Way
by blondie 431 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
Get yer ass to bed Craig.....ya hear me?!!!
Gumby, you forgot your attribution line............Bikerchic
At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.Italian Proverb
Only a fool tests the water with both feet.African proverb
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Dan-O
If your hands & armpits are bleeding, the beer bottle probably doesn't have a twist-off cap.
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blondie
- If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb
- The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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blondie
I was just thinking about this.
Of course, Bush is accused of being controlled by fundamentalist Christians.
If isn't one thing, it's another.
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blondie
Bureaucracy
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- -- Dean Acheson
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
- -- Fred Allen
- We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- -- Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
- Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- -- Milton Friedman
- If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
- -- Hyman Rickover
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Badger
Football combines the two worst things in America: Short committee meetings followed by a brief period of violence -- George Will
Badger, of the KC Chiefs class.
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blondie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken
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Dan-O
There are phrases you must learn to avoid like "That badge looks stupid." or "I can prove these shoes are fireproof."
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