It's a game... I will start with a quotation, and you follow it with another quotation that has a word in common with mine... For example: "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists" - Abbie Hoffman "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - HL Mencken I'll start with a fairly easy one with a lot of words to choose from: "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt- From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910:
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. Larry Hardiman
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - Henry Louis Mencken
Perhaps we could highlight the word we are using? “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”-Oscar Wilde
"In my youth, I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. The great orators who rule the assemblies by the brilliancy of their eloquence are in general men of the most mediocre political talents: they should not be opposed in their own way; for they have always more noisy words at command than you. Their eloquence should be opposed by a serious and logical argument; their strength lies in vagueness; they should be brought back to the reality of facts; practical arguments destroy them. In the council, there were men possessed of much more eloquence than I was: I always defeated them by this simple argument-two and two make four." - Napoleon I
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw
You realise that people could just use quote search etc.. "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Drucker
All the quotes I have used so far come from the quotes file I keep on my computer. It's more challenging and meaningful to me that way.
Hamlet: I'll have grounds More relative than this—the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss
I take it that's not an actual quote ?. Thats okay, Einstein was talking in the context of frontier physics, when things such as the aether still existed in the minds of the many.
"Some people are like slinkys, they don't serve much of a purpose in life, but they sure as hell make you smile when you push them down the stairs." - Unknown
