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allenb12 · 08-16-2022, 04:06 PM

Happiness comes in small pieces. Stop looking for it, before you’ll get lost. Don’t expect too much, or you’ll make room for disappointment. Take life as it is and you’ll enjoy it!
– Cristian Andrei Nica

AnotherMike · 08-16-2022, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhody_Chris

‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.’

~ George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’

And a co-worker added these...

Those who can't do or teach consult.

Those who can't do, teach or consult go into politics.

Mike

AnotherMike · 08-16-2022, 07:43 PM

Benjamin Franklin on the Constitution, in Philadelphia, 1789:

“It will give us, for a course of years, good government and then only end, due to the corruption of the people, in despotism, which will be the only form of government suitable for them.”

Sounds like what is happening now.

TandW · 08-17-2022, 05:10 AM

5% do. The rest are just along for the ride.

TexasJeff · 08-17-2022, 08:12 AM

"A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could."

~ Greg Gutfeld

MSHappyCampers · 08-17-2022, 02:04 PM

Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don't care!

allenb12 · 08-17-2022, 04:13 PM

Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Mzbrandi · 08-18-2022, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhody_Chris

‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.’

~ George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’

And those that can’t teach, evaluate. Learned that in the Air Force.

TexasJack · 08-18-2022, 07:02 AM

"The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions."
- James Baldwin, writer

Rhody_Chris · 08-18-2022, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TexasJack

"The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions."
- James Baldwin, writer

If only it truly worked that way. We live in a world of (over?) educated sheep.

dbircky · 08-18-2022, 07:57 AM

Those that watch are retired.

TexasJeff · 08-18-2022, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhody_Chris

If only it truly worked that way. We live in a world of (over?) educated sheep.

And thus...

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

~ Teddy Roosevelt

TexasJack · 08-18-2022, 08:05 AM

From another site . . .

Many years ago, I worked with a woman (call her Magda, not her real name) who grew up in wartime Germany. She related the following story (I paraphrase):
We civilians were cleaning up after an Allied bombing raid. As people do, I was having a conversation with another teenage woman. It went along the usual lines, where are you from, what do your parents do.
She told me her parents were in Auschwitz. I asked her where that was. She replied "That's where you go in through the gate and out through the chimney." I had no idea what she was talking about.
Magda then said to me "You have to remember that we had a controlled press. Nothing the government did not want you to know was ever reported." -- Simma__vi