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Re: Real Life Quotes
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:40 am
by Heid the Ba
C18th rebel?
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:21 am
by Lianachan
C19th gunfighter.
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:37 pm
by Arneb
Billy the Kid?
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:57 pm
by Lianachan
Arneb wrote:Billy the Kid?
Yup.
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Sat May 02, 2015 7:22 pm
by Arneb
Politics is to drill hard planks, slowly and with a strong arm, with passion and prudence at the same time.
(My own translation: Here is the original German:)
Die Politik bedeutet ein starkes langsames Bohren von harten Brettern mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß zugleich.
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Tue May 05, 2015 2:50 pm
by Arneb
[/crickets]
He wasn't a politician but someone who investigated politics scientifically.
[crickets]
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Thu May 07, 2015 2:19 pm
by Arneb
[/thundering silence]
He is considered to be the father of modern sociology]
{thundering silence]
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Thu May 07, 2015 2:44 pm
by Lianachan
Henri Bergson.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Thu May 07, 2015 3:05 pm
by Heid the Ba
Max Weber?
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Thu May 07, 2015 4:02 pm
by Arneb
Max Weber it is.
I was tempted to throw that quote at our esteemed Scottish Nationalists: To encourage them to enter the next round and resume play. Then I thought, who likes a smartass?
BTW, happy voting today!
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Thu May 07, 2015 4:04 pm
by Lianachan
Arneb wrote:Max Weber it is.
I was tempted to throw that quote at our esteemed Scottish Nationalists: To encourage them to enter the next round and resume play. Then I thought, who likes a smartass?
BTW, happy voting today!
Thanks! I enjoyed voting. Hopefully the "jockalypse" that the Tories are so afraid of is now underway.
My guess, Henri Bergson, wasn't serious by the way - it was a subtle Monty Python hint that I had no idea:
Michael Miles: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?
Woman: I don't know that!
Michael Miles: Well, have a guess.
Woman: Henri Bergson.
Michael Miles: Is the correct answer!
Woman: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Thu May 07, 2015 6:58 pm
by Arneb
Oooh, Pythons. How appropriate for tonight. I just played
Election Night Special to my son, who had collapsed laughing at the dinner table when I told him of the super long super silly name with the gunshots in it. He, never having watched any election coverage and unable to understand English, found it only mildly funny. I predicted to him that this was going to change.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Wed May 13, 2015 3:59 pm
by Heid the Ba
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Re: Real Life Quotes
Posted:
Wed May 13, 2015 6:04 pm
by Arneb
Could be any old ATM/CT nut, but I suppose it was someone who could afford to say such a thing.
Feynman, manbe? (If not: Did s/he at least get a Nobel Prize?)
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Wed May 13, 2015 6:36 pm
by Heid the Ba
S/he did get a nobel prize.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Sun May 17, 2015 8:51 am
by Heid the Ba
She got two.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Sun May 17, 2015 8:55 am
by Heid the Ba
A wee bonus:
Conspiracy theories are
how idiots get to feel like
intellectuals" - David Baddiel
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Sun May 17, 2015 9:07 am
by Arneb
Heid the Ba' wrote:She got two.
Then it's Marie Curie
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Sun May 17, 2015 12:29 pm
by Heid the Ba
Indeed it is.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Mon May 18, 2015 8:43 am
by Arneb
Nothing makes sense in biology, except in the light of evolution.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:09 pm
by Arneb
Evolutionary biologist, of course. Drosophila.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:46 pm
by Heid the Ba
Darwin? Guessed in hope rather than expectation.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:47 pm
by Arneb
Not, 20th century. Russian by birth, IIRC, but worked in America.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:53 pm
by Lianachan
My guess sack is bereft of guesses.
Re: Real Life Quotes
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Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:04 pm
by Heid the Ba
My guess sack makes Lianachan's look positively bulging.