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Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: michael [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:07:39 01/18/05 Tue In reply to: Mom 's message, "Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know" on 13:49:58 01/17/05 Mon I like that one by MLK (sort of). My question would be this: How do you learn to ride a horse before you have one to ride? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: Mom [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:09:51 01/20/05 Thu Here's some more quotes. See what thoughts they inspire and share them with us. Thanks Mike for the above - anybody got anything to say about Mike's response? Anyway, here are some more: When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always. - Mahatma Gandhi There is no reality in the absence of observation. - The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent. - J.S. Bell [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: michael [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:01:15 01/20/05 Thu Not to be a downer but Gandhi only got half of it with that one because all things pass in time whether good or evil. On the upside however, history does reveal a case of three steps forward and two steps back. That is, progress is made but slowly with setbacks and difficulties. the Gandhi quote reminds me of one I occasionally use for my sig line on email by Siddhartha Guatama (on his deathbed); "Everything that is made of parts eventually comes apart" [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: michael [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:04:26 01/20/05 Thu While in College Station last weekend I bought a zen calendar and today's offering is this: "No matter how much I contemplate this tea bowl It is still -- a tea bowl! Thus I arrive in San Francisco." Soen Nakagawa [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: mom [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:53:00 01/21/05 Fri Good quote! A koan, no doubt, but I love things that make me think. At least you are replying. Does no one else read the posts here? Well, I know everyone is busy. I'll keep trying. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Sayings from What the Bleep Do We Know Author: Beth [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:08:25 01/22/05 Sat I am reading them, but am too brain-dead (no comments) to post anything intelligent right now. I did like the Ghandi quote. Here's a good quote from a different source: "So there I was in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at 3:00 in the morning, and I was looking for 1,000 brown m&m's to fill a brandy glass or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the corner and mentions there's a lit'l sweet shop on the edge of town. So we go, and - it's closed. So there's me and Keith Moon and David Crosby breaking into this lit'l sweet shop, eh. Well instead of a guard dog they've got this bloody, great big, Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace . . . but the shopkeeper and his son . . . that's a different story all together. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But sure enough, I got the m&m's, and Ozzy went onstage and did a great show." Wow. I remembered all of that, but I can't think of a single quote from anyone real. Going to sleep now. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]