My work software now features a quote of the day

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Somehow it more often than not manages to be something that is questionable or wrong. Today's:

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie

lol

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

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Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." --Napoleon Bonaparte

um, not exactly

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

work software quotes:

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more
for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired
it. -- Sir David Ormsby Gore, ambassador to U.S., 1962

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

Britain Friday withdrew the farthing from circulation as a coin of the realm
because after 800 years it isn't worth a farthing any more.
-- UPI dispatch, 1960

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

haha! Too bad that first one doesn't say:

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie (killed by radiation)

StanM, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
-- Nikita Krushchev, observing American model house, 1959

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem
is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside it.
-- Nikita Khrushchev, on landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon, 1961

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

Russian-Chinese friendship is as firm and industructible as the Himalayas,
as deep as the Pacific, as vast as the Yangtze and the Volga.
-- Pravda, 1961

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

well yeah Stan, that's why I loled

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - darkness and a troubled mind are a
poor combination. Frank Boyden of Deerfield Academy, 1962

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when
I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris I used to go out and riot occasionally.
-- John Foster Dulles, 1958

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

your work quotes are way better than mine

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a
club? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.
-- Whitney Griswold, president, Yale University, 1951

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yup:

Professional jargon is unpleasant. Translating it into English is a bore. I
narrow-mindedly outlawed the word 'unique'. Practically every press release
contains it. Practically nothing ever is. F.Hechinger, New York Times

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

"In the Middle West, the high school is the place where the band practices."

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

(lol)

Jordan, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

"If moderation is a fault, indifference is a crime." -- Jack Kerouac

I don't quite get it.

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” –Charles Darwin

RONG

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life ILX

snoball, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." -- Charles Kettering

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

"The world hates tautologies, yet they are self-evident."

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

what's wrong with the curie quote?

and what, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

I guess folks think that she ought have feared radiation a bit more than she did.

libcrypt, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

not wrong, just ironic

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

What the French criticize [in Coca-Cola] is less the drink itself than the
civilization...red delivery trucks and walls covered with signs, placards and
advertisements...it is a question of the whole panorama and morale of French
civilization. -- Le Monde

Jordan, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, even the newspaper in France talks like Baudrillard.

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:11 (seventeen years ago)


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