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TarJak 10-22-13 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2131817)
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Ich bin ein Berliner - JFK

Also los, Augen zu, und hinein! - General Fritz Bayerlein ("OK, let's go! Shut your eyes and go in!")

Jimbuna 10-22-13 06:35 AM

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Platapus 10-22-13 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2131817)
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Crikey, these are good words for everyone to learn.:yep:

It should be engraved on congress. Literally... on their foreheads. So that when they are having their tantrums, they will be forced to read these words.

If we can't get this wisdom through their heads, perhaps the best we can do is get this wisdom on their heads.

Platapus 10-22-13 09:41 AM

Since all the cool kids are quoting JFK...

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Jimbuna 10-22-13 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2131909)
Crikey, these are good words for everyone to learn.:yep:

It should be engraved on congress. Literally... on their foreheads. So that when they are having their tantrums, they will be forced to read these words.

If we can't get this wisdom through their heads, perhaps the best we can do is get this wisdom on their heads.

Something similar should also be hung above the entrance to Parliament.

Tribesman 10-22-13 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2132065)
Something similar should also be hung above the entrance to Parliament.

Politicians heads?

Bilge_Rat 10-22-13 01:39 PM

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

-JFK.

Platapus 10-22-13 04:20 PM

Here is a good un

Superbus est, qui loquitur in prouerbiis Latinis.


Translation: Snobby is he who quotes Latin proverb :D

Jimbuna 10-23-13 05:33 AM

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

fireftr18 10-23-13 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 2132071)
Politicians heads?

Yes, by all means!

:k_rofl:

On second thought, let's not, it would make a big mess.

Armistead 10-23-13 07:33 AM

I would rather have an enemy that tells me he hates me to my face rather than have a friend that talks behind my back.

Jimbuna 10-23-13 09:50 AM

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

Tribesman 10-23-13 11:08 AM

Before you criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes, that way you put a good distance between you and you have their shoes.

Jimbuna 10-24-13 03:37 PM

Someone owes me a sum of money....I was spot on the mark.

Me

Kptlt. Neuerburg 10-24-13 11:14 PM

More Mark Twain and one other
 
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Mark Twain

"Do you know that in the Navy one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?!" Captain John "Lucky Jack" Aubrey from the book, The Fortune of War


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